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1676. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

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James Merritt

... flown in an airplane in his life, and some of his grandchildren finally persuaded him to go up in an airplane just to see what it was like. So he went up in this airplane and flew around his home and the countryside, and he was only up in the air about twenty minutes. When he landed and got out of the plane, the grandchildren raced up and said, "Grandpa, how did you enjoy the trip?" He said in a very shaky voice, "Well, it was all right, but I never did put my full weight down." That's what is ...

1677. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war by sea, land, and air with all our might, and with all the strength God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory – victory at ...

1678. The Attitude of Gratitude

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... government was charging houses for the use of the sun when they had more than six windows in the house. Now when I think about the cost of electricity, I shudder to think what would happen if God were to start charging for sunlight. Aren't you grateful that the air that you breathe is free? Aren't you grateful that you don't have to pay an admission to see a sunset, or to hear a bird sing, or to smell a rose? Oh how grateful we ought to be just for the benefits of life. When is the last ...

1679. Confronting a Christless Culture

2 Timothy 3:1-17

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James Merritt

... . We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and know our hearts today. Try us and see if there be some wicked way ...

1680. Body Building at Its Best

1 Corinthians 12:13-27, Ephesians 4:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... circulatory system daily in search of wounds); centralized and outlying governments that argue with one another (the stomach and the brain, for example, never agree on taking that second helping of chocolate cake); and motors, pumps, compressors, vacuums, regulators, air conditioners, furnaces, plumbing, filters, strainers, thermo-stats, alarm clocks, timers, and more.1 Now to go from the telescopic to the microscopic, think about your eyes. Your eye muscles get the greatest day-to-day workout, moving some ...

1681. The Greatest Ability Is Dependability (Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... . It is not the largest geyser, nor does it reach the greatest height. Yet it is by far the most popular geyser. Its popularity is due to one thing—its dependability. Because once every sixty-five minutes it shoots a stream of boiling water over 170 ft. into the air. You can practically set your clock by it. They call it "Old Faithful." There are many things in life that you could call faithful. The sun is faithful to rise every morning and to set every night. The tide is faithful to come in and to go out ...

1682. Never Let Them See You Sweat (Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control)

Galatians 5:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... this young man was as cool as the other side of the pillow. The instructor thought to himself, "I cannot believe how calm this young man is. He will make a great pilot." But then the plane hit the runway with a thud, bounced fifty feet into the air, hit and bounced again, ran off the runway and landed upside down in a cornfield. The instructor, still strapped in his seat upside down, looked at his student and said, "Son, that was the worst first landing any student of mine has ever made." The student said ...

1683. The Loss of the Harvest

Jeremiah 8:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... ago that has stuck with me and it really is haunting. I want you to listen to it: When the choir has sung its last anthem, and the preacher has prayed his last prayer, When the people have heard their last sermon, and the sound has died out in the air. When the Bible lies closed on the altar, and the pews are all emptied of men, And each one stands facing his record, and the great Book is open, what then? When the actor has played his last drama, and the mimic has made his last fun, When the film ...

1684. The Right Connection

John 15:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

Larry Walters was a truck driver. But his lifelong dream was to fly. When he graduated from high school, he joined the Air Force hoping to become a pilot, but his poor eyesight disqualified him. When he finally left the service, he had to simply be contented with watching others fly fighter jets over his backyard. One day, sitting in his lawn chair, he dreamed about the magic of flying. Then one day ...

1685. No Excuses

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

James Merritt

... that when you follow Jesus there will always be a crown, never a cross; always a gain, and never a loss. Well, Jesus, to His credit, pulled no punches. He gave this man a rude awakening. "And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." (v.58) One thing I love about the Lord Jesus was he never painted an overly rosy picture about discipleship, commitment, surrender, or the ministry. You won't find any health and wealth gospel on ...

1686. Like a Good Neighbor, Jesus Is There

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... like Jesus. I read a story one time about a man who was working in a shoe store in Nova Scotia. He noticed a barefoot little boy outside the baker shop next-door to the shoe store. He was trying to keep warm by standing on a grate blowing hot air outside the bakery. The man watching was uncertain about what to do about the little boy, when a middle-aged lady came by. She spoke to the child and then brought him into the shoe store and bought shoes and socks for him. The child said to the lady, "Are ...

1687. Why Were the Wise Men Wise?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... had to cross the swirling Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They had to fight the hot desert sun, serpents, vipers, gnats, and locusts just to get to Jesus. I think about today how we have to make everything just right for people to come to church. The building has to be air conditioned, the pews have to be padded, the floor has to be carpeted; and if it is a little too hot, or a little too cold, people stay home. If they are a little too tired or a little too sick they will stay home. If it's a little ...

1688. Put Up and Shut Up

Proverbs 18:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... , and what is not acceptable to say, and keeps in mind that God hears every word. When George Bush was running for President in 1988, he admitted that he had made inappropriate remarks about Dan Rather and CBS White House Correspondent, Leslie Stall, after an on-air confrontation. Bush referred to Rather in an unprintable term and also took God's name in vain in speaking about CBS. When confronted with what he had said, listen to his response: "If I had known the microphone was on I would not have taken the ...

1689. How to Turn the Ballot into a Blessing Box

Proverbs 29:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... what is politically correct. To put it simply, this is a man guided by principle and not by polls. I tell you, a person who governs by polls and leads by opinion, is nothing more and nothing less than a coward. I am reminded of a World War II American Air Force pilot who was vacationing in Hong Kong, and he met a Japanese man who claimed he had been a Kami Kaze pilot in World War II. The Japanese man said, "War all over now—we be friends. My name Chow Mein." The American said, "Wait a minute. Kami Kaze ...

1690. Seeing the End from the Beginning

Numbers 13:1-2, 17-33

Sermon

James Merritt

... Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, said the agency should be closed because "everything that can be invented has been invented." In 1895, Lord Kelvin, noted physicist and president of the Prestigious Royal Society said, "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Marshall Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy at a major French military institution said, "Airplanes are interesting toys, but will never be of any military value." In 1876, a Western Union internal memo said, "This ‘telephone ...

1691. There's God In Them There Hills

Psalm 19:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... million miles away from earth. Scientists now know that if either one of these astronomical bodies was one hundred miles closer or further away from earth, life on this planet would not be possible.3 Forty miles above the earth there is a thin layer of air called the ozone layer. If you compressed it, it would be only a quarter of an inch thick, and yet without it life could not exist. Eight kilo rays fall upon this planet continuously from the sun. Without ozone we would be burned, blinded, and broiled ...

1692. Why Every Christian Should Be an Optimist

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Yet that massive star could not even cause one drop of sweat to fall from the brow of God in heaven. Take for example just a single bolt of lightning. Did you know that the lightning flash you see across the horizon is caused by the lightning bolt heating the air molecules in its path to 30,000 degrees Celsius, five times the temperature of the sun's surface? That bolt is only two inches wide. You can only see it for 300 millionths of a second. But there can be up to 40 strokes in the same channel of ...

1693. The Law of the Harvest

Psalm 126:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... father said, "Son, what is the matter with it?" He said, "Dad, I think the ‘go' is broke." Well, I believe that is what is wrong with many of our churches. Many people think that if we robe the choir, carpet the floor, pad the pew, pay the preacher, air condition the building, and advertise the time of the services, we have done our job in getting people to come and hear about religion. The problem is, we've not been given a "come here religion," we have been given a "go tell salvation." Did you know that ...

1694. Team Work is Dream Work

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... have a saying here in America that "It is as fresh as the morning dew." You can get up in the morning and you can see that dew on the grass sparkling like a million diamonds in the sun. It is so refreshing you can almost smell it in the air. I want to tell you in this day of disgruntlement, division, dissention, disagreement, unity and harmony are like the morning dew on a parched and thirsty land. Back in the days of David, and even still today in some parts of Israel, farming is done on a dry basis. As ...

1695. Our God Is an Awesome God

Psalm 139:1-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... ) Distance cannot take you from the presence of God. "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me." (vv.9-10) David said if you fly in the air, you'll find God soaring with the birds. Every time I get into an airplane and we fly above the clouds, and I look out at those white billowy cushions floating on nothing, cutting through the wind at hundreds of miles an hour, I think about Ps. 104:3 that ...

1696. The Greatest Place in the World

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

... do you think is the worst place to live in America? You don't have to wonder because we now have the answer from Money magazine. Money magazine recently conducted a poll, using 41 factors ranging from a low crime rate, to future job growth, to clean air and water, and rated the best places in America to live, and the worst places in America to live. According to their scientific survey, the best place in America to live is Gainesville, Florida; and the worst place to live is Yuba City, California.[1] Well ...

1697. Foundations for the Future

1 Corinthians 3:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... I am learning things that I never knew before and never realized. But there is one thing that I did know, and that I have seen, and has been confirmed. The single most important part of the house; more important than the carpet, the lighting, the painting, the air conditioning, the heating, the brick, is the foundation. Jesus knew that. He said in Mt. 7:24-27: "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended ...

1698. Faithful Fathers Fortify Families

Deuteronomy 6:1-15

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James Merritt

... it plain from the beginning of Scripture that He holds the dad responsible for decisions in the family, and for the destiny of the family, just as a quarterback is responsible for his team on the field, and the airline captain is responsible for his plane in the air. Even though Eve sinned first, God went to Adam first, because as the man he was in the headship position and ultimately accountable for that choice. God knew what He was doing when he put the man at the head of the home. When the father is an ...

1699. Focus on the Finish

Galatians 6:7-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... of his brow. The same thing is true for God's work. God often compares his work to farming and to sowing and to reaping, and it's hard work. God's army is no place for a weak-hearted candy-leg soldier who had rather be back in an air-conditioned barrack than on the front lines of the battlefield. I want to tell you up front Christianity is not for the faint of heart; it's not for the lazy and it's not for the weak. A lady complained to her maid one time. She said, "You are ...

1700. Put Your Best Foot Forward

Isaiah 52:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... we still need every foot available to go across the street and around the world to take the gospel message of Jesus Christ. In the last century A. W. Milne visited a part of New Guinea that was inhabited by cannibals. Darkness was thick in the air, but through his preaching one after another these fearsome cannibals became humble servants of Jesus Christ. When he finally ended his ministry and was buried in their midst, they placed a marker on his grave with this inscription: Here lies the remains of A. W ...

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