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1101. Up Close & Personal: Open the Doors

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the world will sleep on dirt floors. Always enter into His presence with thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the music that brightens the face of God. It is the spark that warms the heart of God. It is the love that kisses the hand of God. I don’t care how bad off your situation is everyone has something they can always be thankful for. I heard one time about a pastor who had been facing repeated attacks from this negative, very critical woman in his church. Every week he would get at least one ugly letter ...

1102. God Will Provide the Resources

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to find? Who’ll bring the lost ones to the fold / Where they’ll be sheltered from the cold? Bring them in, bring them in . . . Bring the wandering ones to Jesus. But why should we “bring the wandering ones to Jesus?” Because he cares. He cares about their needs. My friends, He cares about your needs and my needs, too. Jesus had compassion for the crowd. And he still gazes upon us with that same compassion today. What does that say to us today about our role as a church? The measure of our success as ...

1103. Those Amazing Two Words (Thanksgiving)

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... the depot. As she watched, a mother with two crying children and an armload of packages entered the train station and sat down across from the young girl. Before the mother could get settled into her seat, the teenage girl hopped up and went over to her. “Can I take care of your two children while you go out to get something to eat?” she asked. “You look a little tired and the next train isn’t due for a while, so why don’t you let me help you? I’m very good with children.” In today’s world a ...

1104. Everything Must Go: The Treasure Principle

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... gold and silver, but there were no banks or vaults back in the day and you could only keep your money in your house, but houses were made of clay and mud and a thief could easily break through the wall and steal it. What Jesus was saying was, “Be careful that you don’t put your treasure in what can be ruined, rotted, or robbed.” You can put your money in blue-chip stocks. You can put your cash in a state of art vault, or a government backed-bank. You can invest it in the finest real estate in ...

1105. Satisfied Customer

John 6:25-59

Sermon

James Merritt

... will always want more. We all have the same experience at Thanksgiving. You sit down about three inches from the table and you start eating until you are finally touching the table. Then, you get up from the table and say, “I’m so stuffed I don’t care if I never eat anything again.” You are totally satisfied for about three hours and then you go back to the refrigerator looking for that turkey leg and it is a perfect picture of the way most people live this life trying to substitute that which is ...

1106. The Good Life

John 10:11-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... is thrown at them. You take the biggest worry you’ve got in your life right now. Take the biggest concern in your life right now. Think about what you’re most desperate about right now and you remember this: The concern of the sheep is never greater than the care of the Shepherd. There are two things that make a good shepherd a good shepherd. He always leads the sheep where they need to go and he always feeds the sheep what they need to have. And that’s why the good life is a life that follows Jesus ...

1107. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... An hour a day, 5 years of our life we will spend 6 months of our lives just waiting at a red light. I don't care how patient you are; we all hate to wait. Ask anybody, “What do you like to do for rest and relaxation?” They’ll never tell you ... to this question, verse 26, “Do you believe this?” (John 11:26, ESV) Jesus’ main concern is not Lazarus’s death; He’ll take care of that. His main concern is Martha’s faith. I don’t know what you’re going through right now, but God’s main concern ...

1108. Determining Your Destiny

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... that leads into hell. There is no road that leads out of hell. It is a one way, dead-end street. There are no missionary journeys to hell and there are no vacation trips to heaven. There is no purgatory. There is no second chance. The rich man didn’t care about anybody but himself when he was on earth, but all of a sudden, for the first time, in his existence, he starts thinking about other people. “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house for I” have five brothers—so ...

1109. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... sin we disconnected from God. Ever since that sin, the world has been filled with sorrow and death. So God sends His son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross to take care of our sin problem. Then He raised Him from the dead to take care of our death problem. One day He is coming back to restore this world to the way it was meant to be to take care of our sorrow problem. The Bible ends the same way your life can end where God looks at you and says, “It’s All Good.” [1] Eugene Petersen, Reversed Thunder ...

1110. Start at the Epicenter

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... of my mess. Listen to this verse of scripture. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1:9, ESV) Here is the 3-step process that always works in taking care of us when it is our fault. I. We Confess Our Sin Listen to the first few words of this verse, “If we confess our sins, he …” The “he” that John is referring to is obviously God. Confession does not always end with God, but it must always begin with ...

1111. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

Sermon

... may have life in his name. There is much to see in this story. First is Jesus’ concern that people’s needs be met. Jesus saw the people and their need and he felt compassion toward them. That is why he had so much to say about caring for the poor. Some of you are familiar with the work of evangelical activist Jim Wallis. Wallis once took some scissors to his Bible. This sounds sacrilegious, but that was not his intent. Wallis was a seminary student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School when he and some ...

1112. The Good Samaritan (Revised Edition)

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... exposure. Instead, he gave the victim what he needed then. He poured a medicinal mixture of oil and wine on his wounds. After tenderly applying bandages, he gently placed the victim upon his donkey and brought him to an inn to a clean room for rest and regular care. Out of his own pocket, he paid the innkeeper the equivalent of two days' wages and promised more on his return if the expenses were more. It was not required that the Samaritan love the victim the same way he might love his family. He was not ...

1113. God's Adopted Children

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... theology and science supports the proposition that this world was created in our behalf, and we are the most prized creatures in it. But, you may argue, there are so many of us for God to love. There are over seven billion people on earth. How could God know and care about each of us as individuals? Is God like the old woman who lived in the shoe, who had so many children she didn’t know what to do? Dr. Fosdick helps us here as well. He reminds us that the more you know about any subject, the less you ...

1114. Final Instructions

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... same root, prostatis, describes Phoebe, the deacon of Cenchreae, as having been “a great help” to many, including Paul (Rom. 16:2). And (returning to the description of the Thessalonian leaders) they admonish you. Like the hard work mentioned above, this was another aspect of their care. The verb noutheteō is peculiar to Paul in the NT and carries the sense of blame for wrongdoing, though more in the nature of a friendly than of a hostile warning (cf. 5:14; 2 Thess. 3:15). 5:13 Paul asks two things of ...

1115. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... firmed up and shaped around the central commitment to Christ. It does not happen overnight, for it is a process. The process needs to finish its work, or “have its complete effect,” for it is the shaping of the whole person that is at issue. One must be careful not to short-circuit it: to pull the metal out of the fire too soon, to abort the developing child, to resist the schooling—to use three metaphors often used to describe the process. James does not see a single end to the process, such as the ...

1116. The Passover

Exodus 12:1-30

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... one year.” They were to be sound year-old males, sheep or goat kids. The word “lamb” (seh, vv. 3–4) is a generic word that could refer to either one. The instruction to Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month after selecting them on the tenth day (v. 3) provided for three days of care before the day of slaughter. Commentators offer several explanations. It may be as simple as providing time to control the animal’s diet, since it would be cooked with its entrails (v. 9). Benno Jacob ...

1117. Ruth Meets Boaz

Ruth 2:1-23

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... 2:8). Now Ruth reports Boaz’s words to Naomi, repeating this word a third time (2:21). Like all patriarchs, Boaz’s instinct is to shelter those who are most vulnerable. Jacob does the same thing when he takes his family to meet Esau, carefully sheltering Rachel at the back of the caravan (Gen. 33:1–3). One Canaanite patriarch, Pabil, even tries to protect his family via economic payoffs to their enemies: Take silver and yellow metal, gold fresh from the mine, And perpetual slaves, triads of horses and ...

1118. Esther Made Queen

Esther 2:1-18

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... the concrete expression of the actions of others on her behalf. Esther benefited from a select group of palace maids as she began her preparation. Passive (Niphal) verbs reinforce the sense that Esther is not in control of her fate but is being specially cared for by others. She is taken and entrusted (v. 8), “provided” for, with maids “assigned to her,” and she is “moved” to the “best place in the harem” (v. 9). Mordecai is concerned in verse 11 about what was happening to her. Hegai shares ...

1119. Restoration of Israel

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... to preach judgment against them. Heightening the perversity of the rebellion of the people of God, is the fact that God has acted toward them like a husband toward a wife. The marriage metaphor of the relationship between God and his people emphasizes his love and caring concern for them. In spite of that, they have spurned him (see Ezek.16; 23; Hos.1; 3). While verse 32 states that the new covenant will not be like the old covenant, verses 33–34 more positively express the nature of the former. The verse ...

1120. A Call to Build the House of the Lord

Haggai 1:1-15

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... grounds for not pressing on with the rebuilding of the temple, The time has not yet come, may imply either some theological reason or rationalization. Perhaps they argued that the exile was supposed to last 70 years (cf. Zech. 1:12) and they were counting carefully from 587. Or perhaps they argued that building the temple was supposed to be Yahweh’s business, as Ezekiel implied. Haggai will soon point to another reason or two for their neglect. 1:3–4 The message thus goes on to address the community as ...

1121. The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... to every seed-bearing plant . . . and every tree that has fruit, and God assigned to all the animals every green plant for food. This beneficial word on behalf of the animals, given in the context of God’s blessing humans, confirms that God entrusted the care of the animals to humans. On the sixth day God saw that all that he had made . . . was very good. Every part of creation supported all life forms as God had made them. Everything was beautiful in a setting of complete harmony. The entire created ...

1122. Obedience Commanded

Deuteronomy 4:1-14

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... central section of the chapter, then, should be seen in the light of, and for the sake of, the positive “missionary” potential of verses 6–8. That is what is at stake. 4:9 The opening words are emphatic, and the command to watch (be careful; lit. keep, guard) yourselves is repeated in verses 15 and 23. The educational thrust of the book of Deuteronomy as a whole is reinforced by frequent instructions for parents to take seriously their own teaching role within the family network of the nation (see 6 ...

1123. The Only Place of Worship

Deuteronomy 12:1-32

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... the historical issues addressed by the chapter may be remote from us now, a number of timeless principles are enunciated regarding the worship of God’s people. There is the call for total renunciation of all other names than the saving, covenant name of Yahweh. The careful identification and rejection of idolatry is as pressing a need in the modern church as in ancient Israel, just as the temptation to yield to the seduction of the gods of our day is as real now as then. There is the rich and liberating ...

1124. The Law of the Temple

Ezekiel 43:13-27, Ezekiel 44:1-31, Ezekiel 45:1-12, Ezekiel 45:13--46:24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... ), where “I looked and saw the glory of the LORD filling the temple of the LORD, and I fell face-down” (compare 43:3). Then, in explicit reference to both 40:4 and 43:11–12, God reaffirms Ezekiel’s commission: “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations regarding the temple of the LORD. Give attention to the entrance of the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary” (v. 5). After the necessary excursus on the altar, the ...

1125. Sermon on the Mount: Praying, Not Judging

Matthew 7:7-12, Matthew 7:1-6

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... illuminates a wrong view about God (and the actions that it produces) as one who shows favoritism (5:45) or as one who is distant and prone to ignore human concerns (6:7, 32). To counter this wrong theology, Jesus affirms a knowledge of Israel’s covenant God, who cares, listens, is quick to act, and will answer prayer. Such a message is a crucial one for teaching and preaching in a culture and a world that think and act on wrong views of God on a regular basis. Part of the good news is this: God truly ...

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