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Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... ability to repay it on a timely basis. Debt is wrong when it prevents you from giving to God what He demands. Debt is wrong when the burden is so heavy you cannot save for the future. Debt is wrong if it puts your family under financial pressure. (Financial Counselor, Larry Burkette, says that credit is the motivating factor behind perhaps 80% of all divorces.)13 Debt is wrong if it is used to pay for the luxuries of life. Debt is wrong if it is generated by co-signing a note. (See Prov. 6:1-6; 11:15; 17:18 ...

2. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... may own guns and you may even own tanks; You may be somebody's landlord you may even own banks; But you're gonna have to serve somebody. [9] What is so very sad is that so many people in the church wind up serving money anyway. Larry Burkett said that materialism is running rampant in the American church. Quoting this 24th verse he said, "Christians are trying to serve God and mammon. Christians pay more in interest (9.8% of their income) than they give to the church." (Southern Baptists give 2.3% of their ...

3. Balancing Act

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... many people are just now discovering--balance. Workshops are being given in major corporations on how to balance one's life--work and family, income and spiritual well-being. And it's time we were paying attention to what modern life is doing to us. Larry Burkett, in a recent magazine article, used the analogy of the Pony Express. As you know, for a few years in the Wild West, mail was dispatched across this country by a relay system known as the Pony Express. Occasionally an express rider would be attacked ...

4. America in the Mirror

2 Kings 17:5-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... it all up when it says, they "sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord." In other words, this was a nation that had "sold out." They had sold out to sin, self, and Satan. We are living in the midst of a "sold out" generation. Larry Burkett said it well: Even a casual observer of American history has to be shocked at how far the American concept of right and wrong has degraded in just one generation. Abortion is legal, "safe sex" is taught as being normal in our schools, drugs now dominate life in ...

5. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... Brook, IL.: Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, Inc., 1983), 226. 8 R. C. Sproul, Pleasing God (Wheaton, IL.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1988), 179. 9 The Atlanta Journal, September 2, 1996. 10 Gothard, 229. 11 Ibid. 12 Pat Williams, Go for the Magic (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995), 137. 13 Larry Burkett, "Retirement Goals," Moody Monthly, February, 1995, 34.

6. Science and the Bible

John 17:17, 1 Timothy 3:16

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James Merritt

... Answers to Tough Questions about Christianity, p. 48. 5 "God Versus Science," Edward J. Larson, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sunday, February 7, 1999. 6 Hans Elias, "Three-dimensional structure identified from single sections," Science, 3 December 1971, p. 993. 7 Larry Burkett, Whatever Happened to the American Dream, p. 107. 8 Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth, Summit Books, New York, 1986, P. 130. 9 Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America-The ...

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