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1976. Great Expectations

1 Peter 1:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... begins with a personal relationship with a risen Savior. One of my favorite verses in all of the Bible is Ps. 138:8 which says, "The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me." How is that all tied to the resurrection of Jesus Christ? If God can bring His Son through the ... keep is that part of a castle into which people under attack can run for survival? Prov. 18:10 says, "The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe." If you ever doubt God's power look at the resurrection ...

1977. Decoding the Da Vinci Code (Part Two - Explaining the Facts)

1 Peter 3:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... Bible to be the Word of God that Jesus is the Son of God and that there is such a thing as truth. "But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet ... . "Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?" (I Corinthians 9:5, NASB) It is extremely obvious that if Paul was trying to prove it was alright to marry, the greatest ...

1978. A Cure for the Workaholic

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... was finished and He made sure it was done right. Adam had barely been created and was still a newlywed when God put him to work. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." (Genesis 2:15, NIV) God gave ... the first hour out of every day, we need to give God the first day out of every week. When you take the time to observe the Lord's Day and you take that as your Sabbath and you not only rest your body and refresh your soul, but replenish your spirit, you are ...

1979. The Dark Side Confronted

Hebrews 12:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... speaks and if we don't listen then God spanks. God has all kinds of ways that He can discipline us when we enter into the dark side. For example, He can refuse to listen to our prayers. Psalm 66:18 says, "If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear." (Psalm 66:18, NASB) When you cross over to the dark side, God just shuts down the communication line. He is not going to hear your prayers until you get out of the dark side, back to where you belong. Sometimes God can just make you miserable ...

1980. The King and His Castle

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... a matter of human reasoning. It was a matter of heavenly revelation. You don't come to Jesus by figuring, you come to Jesus by faith. I make no bones about it. We are to express the faith of the church. We are to be telling other people about the Lord Jesus Christ. But I want you to learn a principle here that Jesus teaches us that takes all the pressure off of us when it comes to bringing people to Jesus. Only God can open the eyes of the spiritually blind. Only God can open the ears of the spiritually ...

1981. Finishing Strong

Nehemiah 9:38--10:39

Sermon

James Merritt

... face said, "We just want you to know today we became covenant members of Cross Pointe." I don't mind telling you that is music to my ears. I love to hear that phrase because that tells me they understand their membership means something. It is a commitment before the Lord that they are going to live up to. These people were driving a written stake into the ground. They were saying in effect, "God's word is going to be our constitution. We are going to live by it. It is going to have the final say in our ...

1982. You Can Know What to Do With Your Life

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... principles beginning with those four letters that can tell us how we can know what to do with our lives. You can take it to the bank. I. Look To God's Leadership Completely Here is the first step in knowing what to do with your life. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart." (Proverbs 3:5, NASB) The first step to knowing what to do with your life begins with trusting in God. You may be here today and you have no relationship with God and yet you are wondering how you can discover your purpose in life. How ...

1983. Testing Time

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... the way it is! Before we begin on a non-productive negative binge, let's recount the times our testing has led to blessings untold. Our Lord has not abandoned us and, in fact, he makes a point of reminding us of the harshness of his own testing that came upon him ... alone? To live in this world is to be engulfed in the material side of it. To be hungry is to be hungry! Yes, our dear Lord must have been famished. It would not take nearly forty days for you and me to reach that stage. Could we even go one week ...

1984. A Frightening Friday

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... powerful sense he belonged to her. In a way she died, too. Her baby, little boy, teenager, and adult man was gone. She is the blessed Virgin Mary to much of Christendom. What an appealing and magnificent name! She was a sublimely favored one and full of grace. The Lord was with her. She was blessed among women. The fruit (Jesus) of her womb was blessed. She is defined as the mother or bearer of God. Many ask her to pray for them at their deaths. Wow, that really was and is some extra special lady! Why is it ...

1985. Recognizing His Disciples

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... can be seen and measured. Their view is one of being fully adult and mostly mature. Dependence is not only guaranteed to make you eventually fail, it is a handle for weaklings. Isn't it intriguing how we can become so professional and self-sufficient, that our dear Lord appears to bring failure upon us? Of course, not everyone would agree with that! Doesn't God want us to succeed? Well, we are now in some murky water. My experience is that God is apt to do anything to make us grow, but the intended growth ...

1986. What Is Man?

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the crib was an innocent gift from God. Thank God for parents and teachers and Sunday School workers. Think what we might be without them. Some people have a dark view of human nature that we are at heart brutes, savages. Then we come to Psalm 8: “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth . . . When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You ...

1987. The Unforgivable Sin

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and had gone so far as to declare that Jesus was possessed by the prince of demons. They had rejected God Himself. So, underscore that. The power of Jesus’ ministry was the Holy Spirit. Two, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to enable us to say that Jesus is Lord. Now I don’t mean that that’s the total ministry of the Holy Spirit, but that is a big part of the Spirit’s work in our life. Paul put it clearly in I Corinthians 12: “Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit ...

1988. Household of Faith

II Timothy 1:3-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... it might even be me, but I'm going to serve somebody. The choice we have as human beings, as responsible adult human beings, is that we can choose our gods and I urge you to choose your God well. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. It hung on a tiny little plaque in the little five-room house where I was raised. It had silver lettering against a blue velvet background. As a decoration it was worthless; as a declaration it was priceless. Christ is the Head of this house. What that meant was that ...

1989. The One in Whom We Glory

John 12:12-19

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... same? A.W. Tozier said, “Anything God has ever done, He can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, He can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, He can do for you." Why not join the great parade of those who believe and crown him Lord of all? What the Church needs most is not a marketing strategy but a prayer strategy. Karl Barth said, “To clasp our hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." Instead of the Church at play, we need a Church at prayer ...

1990. Ezekiel: The Problem of Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to preach in the most unlikely place of all the earth and to proclaim hope when all hope was gone. Do we? III. LIFE IS ESSENTIAL Verse 9—Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.'" Verse 10—So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet — a vast army. Let me tell you a secret ...

1991. Greed or the Gospel?

Acts 8:9-13, 18-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... shouldn't Simon be forgiven, even though his reputation haunts him for a lifetime? All we know from the Bible is this prayer of a magician whose business has been interrupted by the Gospel and all we know about him is the last plea, “Please pray for me." Did the Lord hear his prayer? I can't prove that he did, but I am on Simon's side at this point. At the height of his stardom, Mel Gibson realized he was empty. He had achieved everything he ever hoped for except a sense of purpose. Gibson felt he was ...

1992. The Prayer Life of Highly Effective Christians

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... could not move; he could not swallow; he could not breathe; he had to stay in an iron lung. He wanted to die. He even prayed, “Lord, I’m so helpless that I can’t take my own life. Please take it for me.” But God chose to ignore that prayer. Then he ... not to ask for any more favors.” And he became able to swallow, but he was not able to stop asking God for favors. So he prayed, “Lord, let me be able to breathe a little bit on my own. Let me be able to get out of this iron lung just for a little ...

1993. A Career in The Kingdom

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... Jr. documented the leaching power of evil well in Not the Way It's Supposed to Be (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). He called his "breviary of sin" a reflection on life. Like a stranded motorist in the wrong part of town being hustled by ominous turf lords brandishing Saturday night specials, we feel the creeping cancer of a world coming undone. But the way of the disciple takes its first step with prayer. She cries for help. He confesses that he cannot make it on his own. This was the call and invitation ...

1994. Nations on Trial

Matthew 25:31-46

Drama

Chris Ewing

... me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. 1: Then the righteous will answer him, "Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that ... inherit eternal life?" He said to him, 3: What is written in the law? What do you read there? 4: He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as ...

1995. Stop, Drop, Cover, and Roll!

Isaiah 7:10-16

Sermon

Tony Everett

... to stop everything; drop to your knees; cover your face in humility, and roll with pleasure in God's glory! Amen! Bring it on Lord! Show me your sign! Sadly, this wasn't for poor Ahaz. Let's look at his situation. Ahaz had been crowned King of ... God persists and provides a sign that we all are ready to affirm and to celebrate. Look again at verse 14 in our text. "Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel." Now, that' ...

1996. The Proof Is in the Pudding

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... you to your face" (Job 2:4-5). Job did not sink to Satan's expectation, but the Israelites in the wilderness often did. Faced with a physical need, they asked a question that cut to the very core of God's faithfulness. How shall we determine whether the Lord is among us or not? How does one measure or judge or prove such a thing? For the Israelites, it was a matter of hunger and thirst — whether their needs were met. The proof was in the pudding. For as long as their tummies were full, they were willing ...

1997. Showing Up

Ephesians 3:1-12

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... lies beyond the realm of human reason: It can only be made known by God. Once again he assumes his audience remembers the events on the Damascus Road, how Jesus said to him in a vision, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" He asked, "Who are you, Lord?" The reply came, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting" (Acts 9:4-5). This revealing showed Paul at least two things, one of which everyone always notices, the other perhaps not. First, that he, Saul, had got it wrong and had been on the wrong side. Rather ...

1998. Small-Minded Christians in a Big World

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... , but how exciting it is to see how others have experienced God, how Jesus Christ is made real in a whole variety of ways! The apostle Paul calls all of us "to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours" (1 Corinthians 1:3). If you feel too alone, he reminds us, it may be that you are not counting correctly. There are, of course, those who fall into the equal but opposite error, individuals who are more than glad to be part of a ...

1999. The Elephant in The Living Room

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

John Smylie

... beyond our human capacity, things that don't appear natural to us, things that stretch us beyond our limits, things that our Lord himself will assist us with through the presence, power, and indwelling of his Holy Spirit. Jesus even shows us the way ... wills is for our own salvation. As we move deeper into the Lenten season, let us move deeper into the place of surrender to our Lord. Pray that the Holy Spirit will give us grace to face the elephants in our living rooms. Pray that, like Jesus, we will be able ...

2000. We Wish to See Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

John Smylie

... respond by keeping his laws. It is the means of keeping that covenant which Jeremiah prophetically saw would be transformed. No longer would the law be written on stone tablets, but on the heart. No longer would there be a need of intermediaries; each one would know the Lord for himself or herself. But that is a very scary transformation to imagine — to have surgery done upon one's heart, to have to face God on a one-to-one intimate level is an awesome proposition. It is much easier to view God's law as ...

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