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1851. The Big Picture

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

Sermon

James Merritt

... 's purpose for the family is the same purpose He has for everything on this planet. What is that? "Everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by His power, and everything is for His glory." (Romans 11:36, LB) God created the stars, the planets, the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, the animals in the wilderness and the jungle and you and me for one reason - for His glory. The reason why God sent Jesus Christ to planet earth was to save us from the greatest sin of all which is failing to give God ...

1852. The Revolution Against Evolution

Genesis 1:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... the watch. Don't blame the artist if you don't see him behind the portrait. Don't blame the photographer if you don't see him behind the picture. Is this planet in this universe just accidental? Is it accidental that the inexhaustible envelope of air only 50 miles deep has exactly the right density to support human life or that water expands when it freezes while other substances contract which makes ice lighter than water and keeps it floating on the surface? Otherwise, lakes would be solid ice down to the ...

1853. Every Member Matters

Hebrews 10:24-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... me. Do not ride in automobiles—they cause 20% of all fatal accidents...do not stay home—17% of all accidents occur in the home...do not walk on the streets or on the sidewalks—14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians...do not travel by air, rail, or water...16% of all accidents happen only by these types of transportation...but only .001% of all deaths reported occur in the worship services of a church, and these are related to previous physical disorders...therefore the safest place for you to be at ...

1854. What Child Is This?

Isaiah 9:6-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... the greatest tragedies in mountain-climbing history took place on the slopes of Mt. Everest. In a quest to stand on the top of that 29,028 ft. summit, twelve climbers lost their lives. Jon Krakauer wrote about this in his best-selling book, Into Thin Air. On their final climb to the top, several climbers violated clear instructions not to be on the summit after 2:00PM. This delay caused the entire group to remain in a dangerous sector of the mountain far too long. A murderous storm blew in on the climbers ...

1855. In God We Trust – Or Do We?

John 4:46-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... that has worked without any safety net whatsoever. He is so good at his trade that movie companies use him for consulting all over the world and he has become an expert on stunt coordination and aerial awareness. He once described what it was like to be suspended in air, hurtling through space, waiting for the right split second to grab his partner so he would not fall to his death. He said, "When I fly to my partner I have simply to stretch out my arms and hands and wait for him to catch me and pull me ...

1856. Are You A Satisfied Customer?

John 6:35-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... 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 entitled Into Thin Air which was the story of an expedition that took place to Mount Everest during the spring of 1996 that resulted in a great loss of life. One of the most unfortunate stories was about a young man named, Andy Harris, who was one of the expedition leaders. He ...

1857. No Need to Worry

John 10:11-18; 27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... if there is an Achilles heel in my life - it is worry. The truth 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. Potato chips have too many carbs and too many vitamins can be toxic. Think about this - why do they have to call an airport a terminal? Why is it the pilot has to say just before ...

1858. Which Door Should I Take?

John 10:7-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... significance in this life is to make sure you walk through the door named Jesus Christ, because... II. Through Jesus You Can Exit A Meaningless Life Go back to those people in the TwinTowers right after those planes had hit. Smoke is everywhere. Debris is floating in the air. You are choking on the dust and the toxic fumes. You rush out into a hallway and you've got to make a decision - "Do I take the elevator or do I take the stairs?" Unfortunately, only one door leads to life, any other door leads to ...

1859. Are You In The Know?

John 10:27-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... in a briefcase and packs of bomb-sniffing dogs. They had a $350 million dollar state of the art nerve center linking 105 sub-command stations using sonar devices, motion sensitive forces and 1400 cameras to analyze everything from traffic flow to air currents. They even had "echo-location" devices to scan for suicide swimmers in the port and $18 million dollars worth of mechanical sniffers for nuclear, biological and chemical bombs. Yet, with all of these extraordinary measures, Dave Tubbs, who was project ...

1860. My Mission from God

John 17:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... the world who will never be assimilated into the life of our church. Just two weeks ago, I got this email from a medical doctor in Durbin, South Africa. He said, " I am a 55 year old medical doctor from Durbin, South Africa, and Touching Lives airs on our satellite network on Sundays at 5:30am in the morning (now that guy is a real fan!) My spiritual life has been greatly uplifted by the anointed messages which are delivered so adeptly and I want to send my deepest, heartfelt appreciation to Dr. Merritt ...

1861. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... know who the "they" is in that sentence - It is you and it is me. I have never seen Jesus. I've never touched Jesus. I have never felt Jesus, but I want to tell you I know Jesus. I love Jesus. Jesus is more real to me than the air that I breathe and the skin on my flesh, because I have examined the evidence and to me there is no doubt about it - He is who He said He is and He did what He said He did. A lawyer by the name of Frank Morrison, was an atheist ...

1862. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Luke 2:8-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... than $8,000 in today’s dollars. Today, it is $28,000 meaning that we are over three times as wealthy as we were in 1957. Today, we have almost three times as many cars and in addition we have microwave ovens, color TV's, DVD's, air-conditioning, and answering machines that we didn't even have almost fifty years ago. So are we happier today? In 1957, 35% of Americans told the National Opinion Research Center they were, "Very happy". A little over four decades later, with triple the affluence we had then ...

1863. The “Gratitude Salute”

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... body, mind, and spirit more equally — and snap the whole person into attention and participation. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican traditions still use “smells, bells, and chants” which punctuate the worship with the sharp scents of incense wafting through the air and wake-up bells announcing the divine presence. Kneeling to pray, making the sign of the cross, dipping fingers into holy water — all are up-and-down body movements that step outside the ordinary and step up our souls to ...

1864. How to Make Heaven Happy

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... old little girl who had dropped twenty-two feet through an eight-inch opening in an oil pipeline at a daycare center. For fifty-eight solid hours over two and a half days, drilling experts, highway construction equipment, pneumatic drills, special air vents, high pressure hydraulic drills, an unbelievable herculean effort were expended to rescue this one little girl. When she was finally pulled from that hole, an entire world cheered. Now that is absolutely nothing compared to the hallelujahs in heaven that ...

1865. Smooth Out Your Day

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... ? If you don't, you would be rather unusual. You see if you are an adult of average weight, here is what you accomplish in 24 hours. The heart beats 103, 689 times. Your blood travels 168 million miles. You breathe 23,040 times. You inhale 438 cubic feet of air. You eat 3 1/4 qtr. lbs of food. You drink 2.9 quarts of liquids. You lose 7/8 lbs of waste. You speak 25,000 words. You move 750 muscles. Your nails grow .000046th inches. Your hair grows .01714 inches. You exercise 7 million brain cells.[1] Now ...

1866. Everyone's Talking about Him

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... want to know that Christ has time for us. Would you mind a silly story from years gone by? At the end of their first date, a young man takes his favorite girl home. Emboldened by the night, he decides to try for that important first kiss. With an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and, smiling, he says to her, "Darling, how about a goodnight kiss?" Horrified, she replies, "Are you mad? My parents will see us!" "Oh come on!" he says, "Who’s gonna see us at this hour?" "No, please ...

1867. The Passion of the Christ – The Rest of the Story

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

James Merritt

... hips were at a maximum. Once in the crucified position, the victim would begin to die a slow death by asphyxiation. The reason is the stresses on the muscles and the diaphragm put the chest into a permanent inhaled position so that while the victim could draw air into his lungs, he was powerless to exhale. This is where the real torture began, because in order to exhale the individual had to push up on his feet and pull up with his arms, just so he could exhale. The pain was absolutely unbelievable. Then ...

1868. Houston We Have a Problem

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... /6th of the way to the moon, 55 hours into their flight when disaster struck. A mysterious explosion rocked the ship and left it less than two hours from becoming a permanent tomb in space. The crew watched in horror as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner and instruments went blank. Then Captain Jim Lovell got on the radio and uttered those famous words - "Houston, We Have a Problem." Yet these words marked what would become in the annals of American space travel our finest hour. That is the title ...

1869. With The End In Mind

Philippians 3:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... up that car. I only have one horse, Dusty. He is blind and he is old. We will bring him over to the ditch though and see what he can do, but don't expect too much." The farmer hitched Dusty to the car, snapped a whip in the air and said, "Pull Jimmy pull!" Dusty never moved. The farmer snapped the whip again and said, "Pull Sammy, pull!" Dusty still didn't move. The farmer snapped the whip the third time and said, "Pull Charley, pull!" Dusty remained still. The farmer snapped the whip the fourth time and ...

1870. Things Change

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

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... change. Life in the meantime, however, has persuaded me that few human inventions are permanent, and that things in fact do change. To cite another example, how many of us in my age bracket ever thought that Communism would suddenly collapse? We were raised on air raid drills in our grade schools, and heard time and again about the "Red Menace." We lived through the Cold War. Then, all at once, we learned that the Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was breaking up, and the threat of Communist ...

1871. The Spiritual Gateway

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... experience a kind of melancholy when we are touched by beauty. For some it is in the surge and thunder of the ocean. For others, the quiet of a late summer evening. Still others are moved by poetry, music, or the smell of wood smoke in the crisp autumn air. These yearnings say to us, "this is what life should always be" and that is intimation of God. You see, we may try to dump God out of our lives, but there is something, something that we cannot get rid of. That something is the yearning planted within us ...

1872. The Underlying Mercy

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait with muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. Whittier was convinced that greater than the reality of evil is the goodness and mercy of God that underlies our lives. That's not an answer; that's a response. My heart went out to Robert Rogers of ...

1873. Mark 8: 27-38

Mark 8:27-30

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... . And in the final accounting, men and women do not have anything that can approach the ultimate value of “their life.” Only God can write that check. Jesus and his disciples have only started out “on the way.” But there is already an air of urgency in his final words. Jesus once again invokes the Son of Man identity, this time with the more scripturally recognized eschatological connotations. The scene is of the Last Judgment, with Jesus as the Son of Man. Whenever that eschatological event occurs ...

1874. Feeding Sin

Mk 9:38-50

Illustration

King Duncan

... Then they ran out of the food. Unfortunately, the polar bear hadn't run out of appetite, so he proceeded to board their vessel. The men on ship were terrified and opened the fire hoses on the bear. The polar bear loved it and raised his paws in the air to get the water under his armpits. We don't know how they did it, but eventually they forced the polar bear to return to his ice pad but not before teaching these seamen a horrifying lesson about feeding polar bears. No coast guard team has made that mistake ...

1875. First Things First

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... experience recently with another college student. It led me to wondering when from this pulpit the issue of "The Last Things" had been addressed. I have no idea what level of interest some of you bring to this subject, but because it is very much in the air — Hal Lindsey's book has been made into a commercial movie — and the subject is often discussed on television, I decided to share with all of you some of what I shared with those concerned college students about this whole issue of the end of the ...

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