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2026. Bad Form and Bad Jesus

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... really curse and swear. After all, who says a curse or swear-word needs to be vulgar, or take the name of the Lord in vain? In the not too distant past minding one’s manners could become a full-time job. Language was decidedly less explicit, yet the ability to crush an enemy with a single phrase was honed to a fine point. For example, one of the sharpest cuts a Victorian gentleman could jab at another was to accuse him of being in “bad form.” To be in “bad form” inferred one had bad-breeding, bad ...

2027. Pentecost

Numbers 11:24-30, Psalm 104:1-35, John 7:37-39, Acts 2:1-21, 1 Corinthians 12:3-13

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... your many and varied gifts to the church; for gifts of wise speech, putting deep knowledge into words; for gifts of faith and healing of mind and body; for the gifts of prophecy and discernment of truth and falsehood; for ecstatic speech and music and the ability to interpret it. We rejoice in the unity that is possible when these gifts are received willingly and coordinated by the Spirit as the activity of the one Body of Christ. We celebrate that unity of one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one work. May ...

2028. Proper 25

Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Psalm 90:1-17, Matthew 22:34-46, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... believers and turn to you. May all church members remain faithful to you with steadfast devotion, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. Make us worthy to be called "Christians." Like the early church, may we support the church according to our ability, sharing our resources and sending relief where it is direly needed. Christ our king, your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Extend your dominion through all generations in all places. You are faithful in all your words and gracious in all your deeds. Not ...

2029. What Are We To Do About This?

John 6:1-15

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J. Dudley Weaver

... friend with the addiction, for the child with the bruises and burns, but when you add it all up all you have to offer are five little loaves of bread and two scrawny fish. There is nothing that you can do. The task is simply beyond the scope of your ability, the limits of your time and energy, and so what you do is nothing. Jesus, though, keeps asking "what are we do to about this?" Why can't he leave well enough alone?

2030. Can The Church Count On Me?

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... about the church, members of the church or you are thinking about becoming members of the church. The question is "What do you contribute to this church over and above a person who doesn't come at all?" I am not talking primarily about money. Listen, we have the ability now to give money to the church and never come to the church. You can go to a computer and give money to this church and never show up. You can stick an envelope in the mailbox and give money to the church and yet never serve the church ...

2031. A Certain Word in an Uncertain World

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... your life. He has been from the time you drew your first breath. You didn't choose where you were going to be born. You didn't choose when you were born. You didn't choose who you were born to. You didn't choose your nationality, your talents, your abilities, your gifts, your interests, or your personality. We are all literally filled with "designer genes." I don't mean the kind you can find in the GAP or J. Crew. I do not know of a more certain word in an uncertain world that I could give you than those ...

2032. Eternity 101: The Final Exam

1 Corinthians 3:5-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... she could she pre-anointed my body for burial." (Mark 14:8, MSG) That is the real question that Jesus is going to ask all of us when our life is over. Did you do what you could have done when you could have done it? Some people have more ability than others. Some people have more money than others. Some people have more gifts than others. If you were simply judged according to what you did, or what you gave that would be unfair, because some can do more than others and some can give more than others. That ...

2033. The Lord’s Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... grape juice in a moment, as a symbol of the blood of Christ. Research has revealed benefits to drinking grape juice. There is a compound in grapes called "quercetin" that has been found to have preventative agents against cataracts. Quercetin enhances the body's ability to keep the lenses of your eyes clear. This physical benefit reminds us of the spiritual benefit when we observe the Lord's Supper. It enhances our spiritual sight to see ourselves through the body and the blood of Christ to help the things ...

2034. God's Christmas Tree

1 Peter 2:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... is not His birth that saves us; it is His death that saves us. Remember this tree was known as the Christ tree. A tree represents life. A tree takes carbon-dioxide out of the air and through a process known as photosynthesis it produces oxygen which gives us the ability to live. Likewise, the cross, "the Christ tree" gives us the spiritual oxygen that we need to live. I want to say it again. When you look at the life of Jesus, it is all about the tree. He was born in a manger made from a tree. He was ...

2035. What Do I Do - When I Don't Know What To Do?

2 Kings 4:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... realized what she really had. You know so often we forget what we already have in our possession that God has already given to us. We forget sometimes that we have friends that will help us if they simply know our need. We forget sometimes that we have abilities and we have connections and we have opportunities. We have possibilities that we don't even think about until we are forced to really take note of the resources God has placed into our hands. I will never forget a story about a man who was wandering ...

2036. How to Preach a God-Sized Message to a Media Filled World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... you prepare a God-sized message. There are going to be times you are going to labor over the hot stove of preparation; going to pour your blood, your sweat, your tears, your prayer, your study, your hard work into that message and preach it to the best of your ability and people will not receive it, but that is not your problem. Finally, Paul goes on to say in verse 4 "And will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." (II Timothy, 4:4, NASB) Here is why it is so important that we ...

2037. Fish Bites

Acts 17:32-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... signal information to earth. Using triangulation, these signals can be used to calculate the user's exact location. What does all of this have to do with fishing? Before I can answer that question, I've got to talk to you about sonar. Sonar is the ability to send sound waves electronically through water to detect obstacles. It was developed for use in submarines in World War II. Are you ready for this? Fishing boats now have units that combine sonar with GPS in order to precisely locate fish in any water ...

2038. Framing Values – Part Two

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal family and of the nobles, youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king's court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. Then the commander of the officials assigned new names ...

2039. Member Means Minister

Ephesians 4:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... ) Every Christian is gifted. We all have spiritual gifts. We don't all have the same gifts, but we all have certain gifts that God has given us so we can do what He wants us to do for other people. God never wastes anything. Every spiritual gift and natural ability that you have, God gave it to you to be used in service and ministry. "Each of you has received a gift to use to serve others." (I Peter 4:10, NCV) The good news is that there are more than enough gifts in the church to do everything that ...

2040. Parenting 101

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... is also disclosed by the fact there is no singular word in Hebrew for "parent." The word horim only exists in the plural. You see, an individual can be a mother or a father, and an individual can try to fill both roles to the best of his or her ability, but being parents is possible for only a couple. You know in a real sense we really should not speak of "single parents." You can be a single mom or you can be a single dad, but it is foolish to think that you can really be a single parent ...

2041. A New Beginning for Everyone

Exodus 35:4-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... which would be the devil's way, and everybody would lose. Or we can pull together, which would be God's way, and everybody wins. Steven Covey in his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, said, "One of the habits that an effective person should have is the ability to "see the end from the beginning." Well let's fast-forward a year from now, or two or even three, I want to ask two questions: First of all, what will God say about us as a people? I will tell you what I know He wants to say ...

2042. Why Me Lord?

2 Corinthians 9:6-8, Exodus 35:4-5, 10-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... , for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day." Now think about that. If everything you have is a gift from God, and if it is God that gives you the ability to make the wealth that you have obtained, then when you tithe you're not really giving God 10%. God is letting you keep 90% because without God you wouldn't have anything. Every time you give a tithe or an offering you are really saying, "Thank you, Lord." You ...

2043. Live and Let Die

Galatians 2:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... lives in me. You see the first discovery a Christian needs to make as soon as he becomes one is this: He cannot live the Christian life. It is "Christ living in me." You see the Christian life is not your responsibility; it is your response to His ability. Just think about that word Christian. It is actually a combination of two words: Christ “in", or Christian. Now I hope you are beginning to see it. The Christian life is not you living for Jesus; it is Jesus living in you. Martin Luther once said, "When ...

2044. The Revolution Against Evolution

Genesis 1:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... that transforms light into electrical impulses that go to the brain. Every second, 1,000 million of those impulses are zipped to the brain through the optical nerve system. That eye can handle 1.5 million simultaneous messages. When exposed to darkness, it can increase its ability to see by 100,000 times and 137 million nerve endings pick up every message the eye sends to the brain. DNA just happened by chance? Your eye just happened by chance? I like what one man said, "If you came into the kitchen and saw ...

2045. It’s All About Him

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... of worship is surrender. When you surrender your time by coming to church on Sunday morning, or ministering to a friend that is hurting, or visiting someone who is sick in the hospital, that is worship. When you surrender your talents by taking whatever gifts and abilities God has given you and using them in the service of others, that is worship. When you surrender your treasure by giving back to God financially a portion of that which He has given to you, that gift and that giving is an act of worship ...

2046. Get Real

John 15:1-11, 16

Sermon

James Merritt

... from the branch. If sucker shoots are not pruned and cut away, the branch becomes malnourished and it won't bear fruit. The gardener will take shears and scissors and very gently, but firmly, cut away anything that takes sap away from the branch and impedes its ability to do what it was designed to do and to fulfill its purpose, which is to bear fruit. God has His shears. We call them the circumstances of life. Oftentimes, God uses these circumstances to cut away sucker-shoots from our lives, so that we can ...

2047. God’s Guidance System

John 16:12-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... God has written, but we cannot understand it. It is amazing to realize that in a river lies the incredible power of electricity. Rivers have been dammed up, and through the genius of engineers, dams have been built that has, in an incredible way, the ability to store electricity that can send hundreds of thousands of volts of power into households everywhere. If you were to go to the plant which is the source of this power, and follow the lines that come into the city, you would come to various transmission ...

2048. Don’t Be a Hypocrite

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... he wasn't any of these in reality. He intentionally was a fake and a fraud and a pretender. He realized early in his life that he had the uncanny gift to convince people that he was "somebody" just through the way he came across with confidence and acting ability. He turned life into a game and made a living at it and soon found himself addicted to role playing. Before it was over, he had helped to perform surgery in an operating room, conned banks out of thousand of dollars, flew an airplane as a pilot and ...

2049. How to Make Heaven Happy

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... go through; they challenge other males for the right to mate. They stand several feet apart, and they run full speed at each other and butt heads. Now that mature male sheep has major horns on his head. Can you imagine what that kind of head-butting does to the ability of that sheep to think at all? Did you know that two male sheep will butt heads for as long as 20 minutes until one will finally back down? If you've ever seen this on television they say you can hear the sound of these two sheep butting ...

2050. Survivor

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... to be stewards of our talents. 1 Peter 4:10 says, “God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through you.” (NLT) Every one of us have different gifts and different abilities, and God expects us to use our God-given gifts for His glory. We’re also to be stewards of our treasure. As Jesus says in verse 9, “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you ...

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