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476. Food For Thought

1 Peter 1:13-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... with, belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. But notice also the incentive for holiness. Verse 14 tells us, "as obedient children" we are to be holy. There are three reasons people obey others: A slave has to obey his master. An employee needs to obey his boss. But a son wants to obey his father. You see, as children we are to be conformed to the character of our father, not to this world. Now let me tell you practically just what that means. We are not to drink the world's booze, we're not to smoke the world's ...

477. What Are Your Chances of Going to Heaven

John 14:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... I read surveys like that I am reminded of a teacher who was teaching her kids how to spell. So she told the class she wanted each one of them to tell what their father did for a living, and then spell his occupation. Well, a girl named Mary went first ... walked in right behind him holding on to those coattails. Those ushers were smiling at each other as they all went in together. I want to tell you that heaven is closed to everyone except the Lord Jesus and those who are holding on to his coattails. Jesus is ...

478. A Man on the Run

Jonah 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... Tarshish. Nineveh represents the will of God, and Tarshish represents the will of man. Every day we go to one of those two cities. I want to warn you. Every time you choose Tarshish over Nineveh, it's going to cost you. It cost Jonah. We are told in v.3 ... that man alive for three days?" His little boy said, "Well, if you're going to bring God into it, that's different." Well, I do want to bring God into it! Let me tell you something. Not only do I believe that Jonah was swallowed by a fish. If God told me ...

479. Put Up and Shut Up

Proverbs 18:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... a little ditty I heard years ago that perfectly summarizes what Solomon is telling our children: If your lips you would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: To whom you speak; of whom you speak; and how, and when, and where.4 As we begin this study I want to remind all of us dads that we are living in an age where saying the wrong thing can either get you sued or get you shot! You will be hard-pressed to find a greater life lesson to teach your children than how to control their tongues. I. Guard ...

480. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... you, or you are going to leave your money. III. The Managing Of Money Managing money is not so much a matter of smarts as it is obedience and sanctified common sense. You don't have to be a Wall Street broker or a financial swami to manage money. I want to give you what I call Merritt's methods of money management. They are all based on the counsel of a king who saw everything he touched turned to gold. There are basically four simple rules I have followed from the time I was married, up to the present day ...

481. What Church Is All About

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... his responsibility to provide for his family, and it is his responsibility to protect his flock. Many years ago in some parts of rural America, there would be a "hiring day" in the spring, when farmers would come to town to meet with men out of a job that they wanted to hire out for the summer. They would ask these men various questions, and try to determine the best man to hire. One farmer hired a man who gave this as his only reason for being hired. He said, "If you hire me, you can sleep on a windy night ...

482. The Greatest Place in the World

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

... the back of the store, and there against the wall, with their names on them, were two brand new ten-speed bicycles. Those boys left that store with far more than they ever dreamed. They started out with candy, and yet they ended up with expensive bikes that their daddy wanted to buy them the whole time. The greatest place in the world to be is in the center of God's will for your life. God's will begins with you being saved. For the Bible says, "God desires all men to be saved, and to come to a knowledge ...

483. Gospel Partners

Philippians 1:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... grace of God that I have given away, you have also been a part of. There is a principle that the Philippians learned that I want you to learn, and that is, you can stay right here in Snellville, Georgia; you can stay right where you are in your home, ... order. Number one, you can pray. Whether you ever give any money to this ministry or not, there is no reason why you would not want to pray for God to bless this wonderful ministry. Incidentally, if you say I'll either pray for give, keep your money, send the ...

484. Close Up Parents: Be Cheerleaders, Not Jeer leaders

Colossians 3:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... playing son, because then he conveys to both that he loves them and accepts them, because of who they are, not because of what he wants. We are to love our children the same way that God loves us. The Bible says that God's love for us is the same ... their son no spiritual leadership whatsoever. They shared with me, with a broken heart, how their son is now into Buddhism and how they want their son, now, to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as they have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. They looked at ...

485. The Dark Side Confronted

Hebrews 12:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... says in verse 11, "We can yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness." (Hebrew 12:11, NASB) Think about it. When God forces you to leave the dark side, you not only stop doing what you ought not to be doing; you start doing what you ought to be doing. I want you to listen to what the psalmist said in Psalm 119. He said, "I use to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow Your word. The suffering you sent was good for me for it taught me to pay attention to Your principles." (Psalm 119:67 ...

486. Fishing Buddies

John 1:35-42, John 1:43-51

Sermon

James Merritt

... on this earth to try to get as many people as we can to spend eternity with us and Jesus in heaven. If you are a follower of Christ, you are here today because somebody went fishing. But,, but Jesus never meant for fishing to be a solo expedition. Jesus wants us to be His fishing buddies. In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, we read how some of the very first followers of Jesus became His fishing buddies and they give us a clue on how we can be His fishing buddies as well. I. We Must Involve ...

487. WeatherProofing Your Home

Matthew 7:24-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... a baby a few years ago and a reporter asked her what type of religious training she was going to give her little baby. I want you to listen to what she said, "I am baptizing her Catholic. There are things about Catholicism that I disagree with, but there are a ... teach our youth what they should be Nor all the books on all the shelves It is what the teachers are themselves If you want to weatherproof your home, set the example. Before you tell your children what they ought to be, you've got to be what you ...

488. The Power of Purpose

Proverbs 16:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... the purpose for which God gave you life, your life becomes not just a purposeless life, but a wasted life. That is why I want to talk today about The Power Of Purpose whether it is you as an individual or a church together. When you understand what your ... heaven, I am going to come up to you and thank you for telling me about Jesus!" That is the power of purpose. I want you to understand that fulfilling these purposes in your life is more than just a responsibility. It is a privilege. Is there a greater ...

489. Operation Omega

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... end of the line. It’s another way of calling itself the “Last Baptist Church.” Being last, being the bottom of the heap, being so far out of the competition that the competition doesn’t even know you are there, is so NOT the place any of us want to be. The American dream of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps,” of homegrown grit and a gimcrack, “go-get-‘em” spirit, is the capstone of our society. The reward of hard work is to get ahead, get to the top, to be first in all you do. Second ...

490. Good News about Ambition

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” It’s a powerful story. James and John were ambitious. They wanted to be stars in Jesus’ enterprise. They wanted greatness. And that’s exactly what they got. It just didn’t happen in the way they expected. After all, here we are talking about them two thousand years later. Do you think anyone will be talking about you and me 2,000 years from now? They could ...

491. Altar Your Gifts

Malachi 3:10, Luke 6:27-42

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Care; and 12% on Education and Entertainment. If we give our Tithes and offerings as the firstfruits, if we make that the first check we write, then there's really no problem. But problem comes when we wait. Because you know, we see that new gadget that we really, really want. So, where do we get that money, Oh, yeah, we've got this little bit sitting over here. Surely God wouldn't mind if I take just a little to buy this really cool toy. Once won't matter. But it doesn't stop at once. We see something else ...

492. A Chance To Start Over

John 8:3-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... had." Monty then asks, "What's that shiny white one?" "A woman. The one. The one true love. Yep, each stone tells a story that I want to remember. All I do is put them in my hand and rub them and abracadabra, I'm back there." They walk on and Monty asks, " ... afterwards. But I've done it, inappropriate as it is for a minister of the Gospel. I've done it. We all have. This morning I want you to think about a time when you sat in judgment of someone else. Maybe you didn't realize it at the time but you judged ...

493. What's In A Name?

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... baptized me. He was the one who, when I was struggling with the call to preach, looked me in the eye and said: "Don't preach unless you have to." And I understood exactly what he meant. And I have to preach. There's nothing else that satisfies what God wants me to do. Bob is also the one who modeled what preaching should be like, lively, engaging and challenging. He was my friend. C. And then there's my wife Mary. I know, the first thing that happened is I fell in love with her. We got married as teenagers ...

494. The Third Kind of Love

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the world. You and I are new and different from anything this world has ever seen. You and I have something unique to do, something unique to offer and give and be. We can’t all be Schweitzers or Carvers or Wesleys or Mother Teresas or Pauls, but all God wants is that we use what we have, do what we can do, become what we can become. Edwin Markham said: “There is waiting a work where only your hands can avail and so if you falter… a chord in the music will fail!” You are special to God, you are ...

495. Give Yourself

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... dormitory. I didn’t suffer a concussion. I’m not living with a young man; I’m not even going with one, and not pregnant. I’ve told you all this to let you know that I made “D” in Biology and an “F” in European History, and I wanted you to keep all this in perspective. Now this is Pledge Sunday, and what we need most is perspective. The title of our sermon today is the theme of our entire stewardship emphasis: GIVE YOURSELF - LET’S MAKE TOMORROW! And it’s a crucial aspect of the overall ...

496. The Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on fire. He watched it expecting it to crumble into gray ashes. But to his amazement, it burned on. That got Moses’ attention. Do you want to read it there again? Verse two: “An angel of the Lord appeared to him out of a flame of fire out of the midst ... . And you may think it strange that I present the way that I’m about to present – the way of God getting our attention. I want to focus on the tragedies of life – for those things that we, at once look upon as tragedy, but find in them the face of ...

497. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... but something began to happen. People began to care for him, share their lives with him, never demanding more of him than he wanted to give. Finally, the power of the Spirit in that fellowship gave him the courage to share privately with another man in ... have some that have resulted from your battle for the gospel?” Or, “You may wish to be stamped as a son of Israel, I want to be marked as belonging to Jesus——and here are the markings.” A second stream of reflection flows from the fact that in that ...

498. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we went out of business and directed our time and our energies and our resources into other human endeavors? It was no use to the leper that others had been healed, that floods of blessing were pouring out in the wake of Jesus preaching journey through Galilee. The leper wanted to know if he would be blessed. Was there a healing here for him. And that’s the way the world is looking at the church. That’s the way people look at you as the church in the world, as Christ on the street and in the marketplace ...

499. Step By Step

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... we think is important. IV. Sow Love And finally one of the most important steps is that we SOW LOVE. Someone has written A Mother's Version of 1 Corinthians 13. "I can read bedtime stories till the cow jumps over the moon and sing "Ten Little Monkeys" until I want to call the doctor - but if I don't have love, I'm as annoying as a ringing phone. I can chase a naked toddler through the house while cooking dinner and listening to voice mail. I can fix the best cookies and Kool-Aid in the neighborhood, and I ...

500. Fast Forward Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... sermon was so moving and so engaging that no one noticed the time. It was 12:45 when he gave an invitation for everyone who wanted to rededicate their lives or to accept Christ as Lord and Savior to stand. I had been watching the congregation and had seen how ... different. He told the congregation that because he had preached so long, he wasn't going to make an alter call that day. Instead he wanted them all to come back next Sunday and for me to make that altar call. All week long I tried to get with Bill ...

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