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1801. Easter 7

Psalm 68:1-35, John 17:1-11, Acts 1:6-14, 1 Peter 4:12-19

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... well for us, pride in our deserving such prosperity may be the very cause of our downfall. When we are convinced that we can get by on our own, unexpected reverses can drag us down with anxiety. Then we are tempted to believe that you do not care and cannot bring us through our time of adversity. Restore, establish, and strengthen us in the faith of Jesus Christ. Amen Declaration of Pardon Pastor: Friends, hear the Good News! The Spirit of God is resting upon us. People: The Spirit of God will give us cause ...

1802. Ephesians 5:15-20

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Body of Christ, often confused both camps. Establishing the unique identity of the Christian community is the impetus behind the counsel in this week’s text to “be careful how you live.” Literally this translates as “watch carefully, then, how you walk.” Each step the members of this new family take is to be precisely placed and carefully considered. On this “walk” there are footprints that should be lasting and there are steps that must never be taken. We are to present Christ’s identity to ...

1803. Eternity 101: The Final Exam

1 Corinthians 3:5-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... as Lord. Christians have already had their sins forgiven, because they have received Jesus Christ. That is why the Bible says in Romans 8:1, "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1, NKJV) What God has done for us has taken care of our sin, but what we do for God still requires God's evaluation. One day we are going to have to take one final exam before "The" professor of the universe and here is what we are going to find. I. God Is Going To Review The Way We ...

1804. Growing Up Is More Than Showing Up

1 John 2:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... ?—their own. Whenever you give them what they want, do they ever thank you?—no. Do they ever try to help someone else?—no. Do they ever give anything except what they deposit in their diaper?—no. All a little baby does is take, and all a little baby cares about is himself. We are, from the moment we are born again into God's family as a baby, to begin to move on to the next stage of maturity. John refers to the second category which is "young men." Now these are Christians who have moved from baby ...

1805. Got Milk?

1 Peter 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... God. Just as you talk to God in prayer, God talks to you through reading His word. If there is sin in your life, God won't speak to your either. He won't listen to you and He won't speak to you until you get that sin taken care of. Before we can really come to the Bible and understand it and get from it what we need to get, we must first of all lay aside anything that would hinder our relationships with other people. Malice refers to bitterness, hard feelings, and carrying grudges. Deceit refers to ...

1806. Put Me In Coach!

1 Peter 4:10

Sermon

James Merritt

... you will think a lot of these jobs are unimportant, insignificant, beneath your dignity, but the next time you are tempted to think that way listen to this verse. "God will not forget how hard you've worked for Him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other Christians." (Hebrews 6:10, NLT) I know some of you are sitting here thinking that you really can't serve God, because you are not very talented or maybe you think you only have one talent and it is not much of a talent and if you never ...

1807. Friends

1 Samuel 18:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... her than I could have ever gone without her. Her gentle spirit and love for Christ leads me to want to be closer to God. I Corinthians 15:33 says, "Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." (I Corinthians 15:33, NASB) You need to be careful who you choose as your closest friends; those who will draw you closer to God, not farther away from God. You need to be with people who will increase your potential to serve God, not decrease your potential to serve God. You may be sitting there saying, "I ...

1808. It’s Humble or the Umbles

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the Lord, and God shall lift you up." James 4:10. “Be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:5-7 You who have been robed in white, robed in righteousness, humbly go into the world. There are all sorts of dangers and infections out there. Evil is rife and rampant in our world. But God has clothed you and ...

1809. Close Up - Wives: Sweet Surrender

Colossians 3:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... you were marrying a knight in shining armor and he won't even wash the car. Perhaps you thought your husband would care about everything that happened to you as soon as he walked in the door at night and couldn't wait to hear ... Linda admit it. The only reason you married me is because my grandfather left me ten million dollars." She said, "Don't be ridiculous. I don't care who left it to you." I know some of you are sitting there thinking that you have just played right into my husbands hands, because all I ...

1810. At Your Service Lord

Ephesians 4:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... you to do the work of the ministry. That is the primary job of the staff that serve under me; to prepare you for the work of the ministry. You see some people have the idea that the pastor serves the church by doing the ministry of the church. Listen carefully. If the staff and the pastor does the ministry of the church, we won't be serving you, we will be crippling you. Because we will not only be doing what you are supposed to be doing, we will be neglecting what we are supposed to be doing. Someone has ...

1811. Name Dropping

Exodus 20:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... reverence. How do we make sure that we don't become a divine name dropper and that we don't misuse God's name? I. Be Careful In How You Treat God's Name Without question we don't really take God's name seriously in the 21st century at least not as ... of the Lord will determine whether or not your family will spend eternity in heaven together. Don't you be a divine name dropper. You be careful in how you trust God's name. You be thoughtful in where you take God's name and you be faithful in how you trust God' ...

1812. Can't Get No Satisfaction

Exodus 20:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... gave this stern warning about covetousness when He said, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." (Luke 12:15, NASB) Greed is a synonym for coveting. Listen carefully to why Jesus said coveting was so dangerous and so foolish. He said, in effect, "The quality of life has nothing to do with the quantity of life." When you covet what other people have you fail to understand two things: The material can never ...

1813. Are You A Satisfied Customer?

John 6:35-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... you are finally touching the table? Then, you get up from the table and say to yourself, "I'm so stuffed I don't care if I ever eat anything again and that's it for me." You are totally satisfied. What happens about three hours later? You are ... the word of God and eating the word of God and digesting the word of God, because even a follower of Christ if he is not careful, will try to satisfy that spiritual hunger with things other than the bread which is found in God's word. John Krakauer wrote a book ...

1814. Shame On Who?

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... But without shame, we are in a moral free-for-all freefall, because getting rid of shame is the first sign that we just don't [care] anymore. We no longer feel the need to ask ourselves: "Gee, Is this the kind of thing a human being should be doing?" Without asking this ... He said, "I do not condemn you either, go from now on - sin no more." We have got to be balanced. We not only must be careful in how we see the shame of others, we have got to be consistent in how we see the sin of others. In fact, the reason ...

1815. Get Real

John 15:1-11, 16

Sermon

James Merritt

... . The fact that God is at work in my life tells me iMatter. We sometimes get the idea that troubles, trials, heartaches and difficulties are a sign that God doesn't care. As a matter of fact, they are all signs that God does care. God is the master gardener. God will never allow anything to come into your life that He hasn't designed to be used as a means of making you maximally significant and giving you the opportunity to bear the most fruit you can in your life that will last. That ...

1816. RSVP—By Invitation Only

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... them to Jesus Christ. But I also believe we have to be wise and discerning and not cast our pearls before swine. You must be careful that you don't waste months and years on people who will never come to Christ, when there are people all around us who ... love to have all of this, but I just can't afford it." The man smiled again and he said, "Sir, your check has already been taken care of by the gentleman over there," as he pointed to a man in the front of the room. I said, "Who is that?" He said, "his name ...

1817. Survivor

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?” (vv.10-12) Now you notice that Jesus calls money “what is least?” Now hear this carefully. The least things to God are financial matters; what matters most to God are spiritual matters. Money is a little thing to God because He owns everything. He doesn’t need our money. Sometimes people get the idea that when a pastor talks about money he’s just ...

1818. Minority Report

Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... cannot get out. The reason is it is sown among thorns, weeds, briars, and brambles, and the life of it is literally choked out. Now what did Jesus mean by this? "Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful." (v.22) There are three things, according to the Lord, that can literally choke the spiritual life out of a person, and can prevent them from having a true relationship with God ...

1819. Finishing Strong

Nehemiah 9:38--10:39

Sermon

James Merritt

... we must make if we are going to finish strong. III. Support The Work Of God Beginning in verse 32 to the end of the chapter, the phrase, "house of our God" is used 9 times. Today the house of God is spiritual, not material, but the way we care for the house of worship that we call the church, still indicates what we think about God. God specially commanded the people to support His work. "Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house ...

1820. A Sense of Place

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... troubled poet John Berryman once wrote a poem in which he tried to say places were unimportant. It read: Exile is in our time like blood. Depend on interior journeys taken anywhere I'd rather live in Venice or Kyoto except for the languages, but O really I don't care where I live or have lived Wherever I am, young Sir, my wits about me, memory blazing, I'll cope & make do.4 That view is all fine and dandy, but it wasn't enough to keep Berryman, not long after writing those lines, from leaping to his death ...

1821. The View from Michal’s Window

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , but now with something other than a tirade. When we take time to look from their window, we are more likely to attack the issue than the person. Another question is: What drummer is the other person dancing to? Either Michal didn't understand or she didn't care that David was dancing to God's tune, but he was. Just because we wouldn't act as another person acts doesn't make their actions wrong by definition, and it is always possible that the other person is listening to God better than we are, or that ...

1822. A Hearing Heart

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

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... and made him an open-ended offer — "Ask what I should give you." I mean, when is the last time God made such an offer to you or me? Solomon's father, King David, 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 ...

1823. April Love

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... about the other. In that child survey I mentioned earlier, an eight-year-old boy was asked, "How can you tell if two adults eating dinner at a restaurant are in love?" He answered, "Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold. Other people care more about the food." He hasn't quite got it yet, but in essence, he is right. People newly in love see mostly the object of their affection. While the love stage of the pair in the Song of Solomon is one in which the lovers are hyper-aware ...

1824. If You Really Want to Be Number One

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... to win all the prizes. He said to his farmer friend, “I’ve never seen finer sheep. How do you do it?” The farmer answered, “They are fine sheep because I take care of my lambs.” That’s a striking statement. The farmer took care of the lambs; therefore he had prize-winning sheep. What happens if a church does not take care of its lambs? We should never have any problem finding people to work with our boys and girls, with our young people. We should never have any trouble finding people to work ...

1825. Prophet or Profit?

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... jeans that are sold by an American company for $14.95. That company made 566 million dollars in profits on those jeans in one year. One out of every five Ugandan children will not live to age five because they do not have simple, primary health care. That is not just in Nicaragua. This is not just in Uganda. There are hurts to heal in our cities. There are poor people here. There are homeless people here. There are addicted people here. There are lonely people here. There are oppressed and captive people ...

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