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1251. Parenting 101

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... from church the little boy was crying in the backseat of the car. His dad said, "What's wrong son?" After wiping his tears and clearing his throat, the little boy said, "Well, the preacher said we ought to be reared in a good Christian home, but I'd rather stay with you and mom." Well, I believe every child ought to be reared in a good Christian home by parents who love the Lord, who read the Bible and pray with their children, and who model the life of Christ before them. Though I do not claim to be an ...

1252. We Are At War

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... , what kind of a player are you looking for?" He said, "Well, there's a kind of guy that when you knock him down he just stays down." He said, "We don't want him do we, coach?" The coach said, "No, we don't want him. But then there's the kind of guy ... that when you knock him down, he gets up. But if you knock him down the second time he just stays down." The man said, "We don't want him either do we coach?" The coach said, "No, we don't want him either." He said, "But there's ...

1253. A Cure for the Workaholic

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the ... there is nothing wrong with work, hard work or a good work ethic. God had a job to do when He created this world and He stayed at it until it was finished and He made sure it was done right. Adam had barely been created and was still a newlywed when God ...

1254. Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Genesis 5:21-24, Hebrews 11:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... that is exactly what happened. The moment Methuselah died, God sent the flood on the earth. Now how do we know that? This is fascinating, so stay with me. In Genesis 5:25, we are told at the age of 187, Methuselah became the father of Lamech. Then we are told in verses ... and afraid. I said to this man, "Do you think my aunt will go to bed before I get there?" He said, "Oh no, she will stay up for you. When we get out of these woods, you will see her candle shining in the window." Soon, we did ride out into a ...

1255. In God We Trust – Or Do We?

John 4:46-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... :51-52, NLT) Now don't miss that. The boy was healed yesterday afternoon. This man was only twenty miles from his home. That was either a five-hour walk or a two-hour chariot ride, but instead he had stayed in Cana and spent the night. What was he doing? Did he go to Six Flags over Cana? Did he stay to hear Peter's "How to turn water into wine" seminar? I don't know. Conducting business? Sight seeing? Hanging out with his friends? The point is he didn't immediately go home to check on his son. Do you ...

1256. No Need to Worry

John 10:11-18; 27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the matter is, if you just look around you, you realize that we all do have reasons to worry. I mean you have to stay out of the sun, because it can cause skin cancer. Air vents in public places can cause lung clotting molds to form in your body ... ?" Why can't he say, "We are about to make our semi-final approach?" Think about this - the flight attendant will say, "Stay seated until the airplane has reached a complete stop." What other kind of stop is there? Do you have fractional stops? Partial stops ...

1257. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... where Jesus had met with His disciples earlier, but eight days had passed. For more than a week, everybody believed, except Thomas. He was the one doubter in the room, but do you notice what he did? He hung around. He stayed to investigate and that is what doubt does. Doubt says, "I will stay and investigate the facts." Unbelief walks away and says, "You believe what you want, but I am out of here!" I don't want to know whether I am right or wrong." There is nothing wrong with doubt, but there is something ...

1258. Broken Pieces

Matthew 1:3, 5, 6

Sermon

James Merritt

... and lusted after her. He sent his servants to bring her to him and then had (what he thought) was a secret one night stand with her that no one would ever discover. It didn't stay secret very long, because she became pregnant. Bathsheba really didn't have to go when the king asked her to come and she really didn't have to stay when she got there. She didn't really have to do what she did, but she completed the trifecta of sin of these three women from incest, to fornication, to adultery. She then became an ...

1259. I Didn't Know How to Teach Until I Met You

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Illustration

Keith Wagner

... from Teddy. He then wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things had been tough at times, he stayed in school, had stuck with it, and would soon graduate from college with the highest of honors. He assured Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favorite teacher he ever had in his whole life. Then four more years passed and yet another letter came ...

1260. Anxiety Alert – The Fear of the Future

Matthew 6:34

Sermon

James Merritt

... advice. Leave tomorrow alone. When tomorrow comes, God will give you the grace and strength you need for it. For today, you already have the grace and the strength that you need. Your calendar gives each day its own number. Live them in that order, just as God arranged them. Stay in one square at a time. Live one day at a time. Don't get the impression that I have told all of you not to worry, because if you do not know Jesus Christ, there are two things you had better be worried about and there is a future ...

1261. The King and His Castle

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... way out; it's on the way up. But the truth is, if you're going to be rightly related to God, you must be rightly related to the church. God never intended for Christians to live in isolation from the church. Just as sheep are to stay with a flock, and sons are to stay with the family, so Christians are to be intimately involved in their church. The Lord Jesus Christ gave his life for the church so that we could give our life to the church. I want to share with you how to be rightly related to the ...

1262. Handling Objections

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... the offense Questions and objections, whether intentional or not, can sidetrack the conversation and the main focus which should be on the Gospel and Jesus Christ. It is one thing to defend a position; it is another thing to get defensive. Never get defensive. Do not stay in defense very long. d. Avoid the proverbial "rabbit trail" Ninety-nine percent of the time, you can tell whether an objection is truly real or simply an attempt to get off the subject. One of the first things you do when an objection is ...

1263. Jesus, The One And Only

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... to Jesus, and to want to be like Jesus. I encourage you, as I leave you, to emulate the life of Jesus. II. Exercise The Love Of Jesus What was the purpose of Jesus coming to earth as a man? Verse 8 says, "Having become human, He stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, He lived a selfless, obedient life, and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion." (v. 8 Msg.) The reason why Jesus left heaven and ...

1264. Know Fear: The Fear of God

Proverbs 1:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... in making a decision you are facing? "Who are those who fear the Lord? He will show them the path they should choose." (Psalm 25:12, NLT) Do you want protection from your enemies? "The angel of the Lord stays close around those who fear Him, and he takes them out of trouble. (Psalm 34:7, NLV) Do you want to stay away from temptation and have victory over sin? "The fear of the Lord keeps one away from sin." (Proverbs 16:6, NLV) Do you want to have the best quality of life that you can possibly have on this ...

1265. Good for the Soul

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... doesn't bother the other one. I remember when I was in the 3rd grade, my mother operated a beauty salon and I used to stay after school and every Saturday with a lady named, Mrs. Gunter. Her son, Scotty, had a Confederate cap and I wanted that Confederate cap. Rather ... way of putting it is - you've come clean. I love that way of putting it, because when you don't come clean, you stay dirty. I believe the average person doesn't have clue on how to really confess sin. When God convicts you of sin, He gets very ...

1266. Things Change

1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... of rapid alterations taking place in his life when he wrote the hymn, "Abide With Me." In one verse he wrote, "change and decay in all around I see." (But he went on to write, "O thou who changest not, abide with me.") In reality, some things do stay the same, or relatively so, for a long time, but eventually most things change in some way. God does not change but he often works through the changes in our lives. We have a perfect example of that in this story of Samuel. God took the initiative and broke ...

1267. What’s So Amazing about Grace?

2 Samuel 7:1-14a

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... Africa in which this rhythm is begun even before birth. They count the birth date of a child from the first time the child is a thought in its mother's mind. Once a woman decides to have a child, she goes off to sit alone under a tree. She stays there and listens until she can hear the song of the child she hopes to conceive. Then she returns home where she teaches it to the intended father so that they can sing it together as they become intimate, and thus invite the child to join them. Once the child ...

1268. A Hearing Heart

1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , had died, and now Solomon assumed the throne. Solomon started out very well, ruling carefully and obeying God. In fact, in those days before the temple had been built at Jerusalem, Solomon was faithful in visiting the shrine at Gibeon to worship God. It was while staying overnight during one of those visits that God came to Solomon in a dream and made this carte blanche offer, saying in effect, "Name what you want, and it's yours." Talk about hitting big on the lottery! Well, what would you have asked for ...

1269. Bethlehem: Where Extremes Meet

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... all this time in a public inn, which was a far cry from the kind of motels we have today. For one thing, there was absolutely no privacy in Palestinian hostelries. They consisted of an open courtyard where the animals and baggage stayed. Off this courtyard were little stalls where the people slept, and this was obviously a poor place for something like a birth to occur. Dr. Hull suggests that our familiar verse ought to read: "There was no appropriate place for them in the inn," and further suggests that ...

1270. More Time

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... drawn to it. In worship, study, and prayer we sense these are ways not only to come to his kingdom but to stay in it all our days. It is a magnificent scene that never ever loses its magnetism. The lure of its lovely gardens and ... God's justice reigns and rules. Why refuse the magnetic impulses that come to us? We are his sheep and lambs. The Shepherd invites us to stay close by. Near him we will not spiritually want for anything. Our restless hearts find his abode to be exactly what we need. Indeed, so much ...

1271. A Tax Collector Becomes Rich

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... see Jesus? Are you ready to run to him? In verse 5, we see that while Zacchaeus may have been searching for Jesus, Jesus was also looking for him. "When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.' " We are not told why Jesus noticed Zacchaeus. We really do not know why he stopped. We do know that he stopped, looked up, called him by name, and told him that he must come to his house. Again, we see that while Jesus has set ...

1272. Father, Forgive Them!

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... and no one there had ever been able to see. A lost and weary traveler stumbled into this country of the blind, and stayed with them for a while. As he lived among them, he found himself falling in love with a blind maiden, and began ... of the sunrise, the mist rising from the valley floor, the dew glistening on the petals of the flowers, and he realized that he could not stay in the country of the blind. He climbed out of the valley and returned to the world of sight. The way in which Jesus forgave allows ...

1273. The Prodigal Father

Romans 8:14-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... the perfect lesson to be learned in the process, because they all knew exactly what was going to happen. And the father knew as well. The law was quite clear on this kind of thing. He really had no choice in the matter. The older brother, the one who had stayed home and minded his p's and q's, also knew the law, and on his way out of the house grabbed the big bullwhip hanging by the door, clearly in his eagerness his father had forgotten it. According to the law, if and when the runaway boy returned home ...

1274. God’s Grammar

Galatians 3:23-29

Sermon

John Jamison

... 't mix with non-Jews. Most despised among the Gentiles were the Samaritans. Now living in the area just below the Sea of Galilee, the Samaritans were descendants of the Jews who stayed in the land of Israel during the Babylonian exile many years before. While the rest of the Jews were sent off to live in Babylon, the Samaritans stayed behind, and worked with, and intermarried with the non-Jews who moved in. Their offense would be carried down from father to son, and was cause for the breach between the two ...

1275. Whose Inheritance Is It?

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... non-saint ourselves is to start taking credit for the gifts that God has given us by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Saints are different from normal people in that they understand this. By the power of the Holy Spirit, they remember God's creation in each moment. They stay alive to it. We will not always be on the right path. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. We will forget the source of our inheritance and take wrong turns. What the Holy Spirit gives to saints is like a map ...

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