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1426. Me - A - Missionary?

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... can go to hell." May I close with this question? Are you willing to invest your life in the only thing that is going to last for all eternity and that is the souls of people? I've said it and will continue to say it. The single most important achievement you will ever have in this life is allowing God to use you in His missionary enterprise, to bring people to faith in Jesus Christ. You never know when and where God will use you as a missionary. Several months ago, I was in a restaurant here and met a ...

1427. Any Given Sunday

Acts 2:41-47

Sermon

James Merritt

... to be a spiritual giant to serve in the church. You can play in the band. Rock babies. Teach teenagers. Park cars. Visit hospitals. Greet people. Direct traffic. There are so many areas of service you can be involved in and assist the church in without achieving a high level of spiritual maturity. These people who serve and these people who minister and then "the core" of the core, who make up the leadership of the church, these are the people who form the heart of the church. VI. The Commissioned Advertise ...

1428. Why Me?

Proverbs 16:4, Colossians 1:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... is just like the bumper sticker that said, "He who dies with the most toys wins." The only problem with that is, the person who dies with the most toys still dies! Basically, they all say the same thing. Go after your goals, dream big, aim high, believe you can achieve, have faith, or never give up. Let me be fair here. These books have a lot of good advice. If you will do a lot of the things these books tell you, you will be by the world's definition a success in life. Being a success and knowing your ...

1429. The Big Picture

Romans 11:36, Ephesians 1:5, Colossians 3:18-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... , NASB) Rick Warren puts it best when he says it this way, "None of us have given God the full glory He deserves from our lives. This is the worst sin and the biggest mistake we can make. On the other hand, living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives." (1) If you want to know what your family is primarily meant to do, or if you want to know what you are primarily meant to do as a husband, or a wife, or mother, or a father, or a child, it is to ...

1430. Framing Values – Part Two

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... remember that I guarantee will help you reach your teenagers. a. Love Them Above all things your teenager has to know that your love for them is unconditional. They have to know that your love and acceptance of them is not based on good grades, athletic achievement, personal popularity, or perfect conduct. Let me let you in on a little secret. Many of you in this room will be given the opportunity one day to prove to your teen that you love them unconditionally. If that daughter comes in and says, "Mom and ...

1431. Begin With the Blueprints

Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... The answer is - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It is not only a fascinating show to watch, but it will touch even the hardest of hearts. Each episode features a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take somewhere between 3-4 months to achieve. A team of designers, contractors, and several hundred workers have just 7 days to totally rebuild and remake an entire house - every single room, plus the exterior and landscape. What you get to see in one hour is not only the unbelievable makeover of ...

1432. One Year to Live

Jeremiah 28:10-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... understand all of the Bible." Neither do I, but I can tell you that you will be blessed by reading all of it. All of it is important or God would have not written it. I don't think anyone here could deny it would be a wonderful goal to achieve to say at the end of this year that you have read your Bible completely through and perhaps a lot of God's word would have gotten completely through you. IV. I Would Be A Godly Seeker What I mean by that is this - while I spent my last year ...

1433. Which Door Should I Take?

John 10:7-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... Jesus is and who we can become. Because of who He is and who He can become to us, we can have the two things in life that every person is looking for - security and significance. The vast majority of people go through life achieving neither security nor significance. Years ago, UCLA Psychologist, James C. Coleman, wrote that as the modern-day person struggles, "With the baffling question of his own existence…science falls short of providing full answers…it can tell how, but not why." He then made this ...

1434. My Mission from God

John 17:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... without Jesus Christ. Our mission from God is to accept both the responsibility and seize the opportunity to introduce people to Him. If you even hesitate about what I am saying -think about this. The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in this life, because only people are going to last forever. We have a mission from God, let's accept it and do it together.

1435. The Climb

Joshua 14:6-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... of two groups of people. Dr. David McClellan, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University said, "Most people in this world can be divided into two broad groups. There is that minority which is challenged by opportunity and is willing to work hard and to achieve something and the majority which really does not care all that much." [1] I want to introduce you today to an eighty-five-year-old man named Caleb. At eighty-five, Caleb should have been asking for bedroom slippers. Instead, he asked for mountain ...

1436. Mary: The Promise Conceived

Luke 1:26-55

Sermon

James Merritt

... to be acted on. They are to be obeyed. You are to live as if you know that promise is true and that God will keep it. Otherwise, what good is it that God makes The Promise and what good is it if God keeps The Promise? You will never achieve God's best for your life, God's greatness for your life, and you will never ever fulfill God's purpose for your life, until you come to a point where you want to do His Will in your life more than anything else. God has a custom built plan ...

1437. Jesus: The Promise Received

Luke 2:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... I hope you will see how all of this ties together in Jesus. You are going to see in Jesus, how the promise The Promise was fulfilled. You are going to see in Jesus, how the provision was given. You are going to see in Jesus how the purpose was achieved. You are going to see how in Jesus Christ, The Promise, The provision, and the purpose of God for your life have been wrapped up in one person – the Son of God. At the very first Christmas, God gave the world the greatest gift ever. When you open up His ...

1438. A Little Dirt Is Good for You

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... good for you unless the ceremony of washing hands causes you to look down on those who don’t observe such ceremonies, and unless you have clean hands but an impure heart. Here’s the lesson for the day: The meaning to life is not what rank in life you achieve, or even how observant you are of the high, holy days of your faith. The meaning of life is to live in such a way that your life brings glory to God, and the world is a better place because you’ve been here. The goal of life is to ...

1439. The Great Divide

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... funeral. When the rich people of that day died they would actually hire mourners to cry over their coffin. They would hire great speakers who would come to give flowery eulogies at their graveside; telling how great they were, and bragging on all of their achievements. The bodies of the rich would be embalmed with the most expensive spices that money could buy, and wrapped in the finest linen, and be placed in the costliest of graves. But the bottom line still is "he died and he was buried." Once again ...

1440. Milli Vanilli Religion

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... have been news to the Apostle Paul who left Trophimus in Ephesus sick. Then there is the "See It and Be It" message. Otherwise known as the power of positive thinking. In other words, "what the mind can conceive, and the heart can believe, man can achieve." According to them there is no room for sickness, sorrow, or suffering; which would have been news to the suffering Savior. When these false preachers stand before God, He's going to say, "I never knew you." (v.23) Now the word "know" here means more ...

1441. Use It or Lose It

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... in the right direction, with the right focus, with the right purpose. The word ambition comes from the Latin word ambitio which means literally "to go around." It refers to the fact that life is to be a movement around the opportunities God gives you in order to achieve His glory and His honor. There's a great saying I heard years ago which sums it up perfectly. We ought to expect great things from God, and we ought to attempt great things for God. Let me once again tell you what success is. Success is when ...

1442. The Opportunity of a Lifetime

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... with the right purpose. The word ambition comes from the Latin word ambitio which means literally "to go around." It is true that you only go around once. It refers to the fact that life is to be a movement around the opportunities God gives you in order to achieve His glory and His honor. There's a great saying I heard years ago which sums it up perfectly. We ought to expect great things from God, and we ought to attempt great things for God. Let me once again tell you what success is. Success is when you ...

1443. James 2:1-10

James 2:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... rejects the law of love and so is a “sin” that is “convicted” by the law. The Torah declares such favoritism to be a rejection of the law, which declared “you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great.” Justice cannot be achieved under such partiality. The love the Torah demands of the faithful is not a response that can be piece-mealed or portioned out. Loving the neighbor is an all-or-nothing proposition. The law of love is either honored or discounted. This is why James can ...

1444. Finish the Drill

Nehemiah 4:1-23

Sermon

James Merritt

I want you to complete this sentence: ". It's not how you start, it's how you finish that counts." I am convinced that is true because of an article someone sent to me that said the best way to achieve inner peace is to always finish things that you start.ed. This person that sent me the article said "it is definitely working for me. I now make a point of always finishing what I start and I am well on my way toward finding inner peace. Here are the ...

1445. Finishing Strong

Nehemiah 9:38--10:39

Sermon

James Merritt

... characteristics was an uncompromising commitment to a set of core values. He quotes Tom Watson, Jr., the former chief executive of IBM about the importance of following a guiding set of principles: "I believe that any organization in order to survive and achieve success must have a sound set of beliefs on which it premises all of its policies and actions. Next I believe that the most important single factor in the corporate success is faithful adherence to those beliefs. Beliefs must always come before ...

1446. Mrs. Proverbs

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... 's Old Testament text. Although it is a highly complementary passage about a good wife, I'd be willing to bet that no woman wrote it. That's because the hypothetical wife and mother it describes is such a superwoman that no single human being could possibly achieve everything she supposedly does. Frankly, her list of attributes sounds more like a shopping list of qualities a man might look for in a wife, but it's hard to imagine any woman in her right mind who would describe the wife-mother role in such a ...

Take always into account that inevitably great love and great achievements involve great risks.

Dalai Lama

1448. Little Deeds

Mark 9:33-37

Illustration

King Duncan

John Killinger, in a sermon entitled, The Great Importance of Little Deeds, concluded by saying, "It's an exciting thought that when we die and come into the presence of God and all its fullness, it will not be our major achievements that speak for us, 'He was president of a bank. She was the first woman senator from her state. He was the author of 22 books,' but rather the small apparently inconsequential things that we long ago forgot. 'He mowed my lawn when I was sick. She cared for my ...

1449. Gratitude: A State of Mind

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... , "That's exactly my point! That's all the more reason we ought to give in thanks to God." We too often build fences around forgiveness, faith, duty, and gratitude. In passages like this one, Jesus encourages us to remove those fences in order to achieve the possibilities of the Christian life. Jesus continued his journey toward his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. This miracle is one more step in that journey. Today, each of us is asked to join in this journey of faith. Like the Samaritan, we seek him out ...

1450. Lean on Me

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... anyone here this morning to pray without at least an inkling that the prayer will be answered. Otherwise, our petitions to God fall on deaf ears and our lives are worthless and have no value in God's sight. The fact is that anything worth achieving will take a certain amount of sacrifice. The attaining of lofty goals always requires emptying yourself of yourself. Prayer, that act of standing before the judge and airing your petition, is a very human form of humility. It is a good practice because it places ...

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