Merkel Church Of Christ

The Kingdom: Ordinary People Given an Extraordinary Message Listening carefully (Luke 8:18), we heard Luke give Theophilus evidence that the kingdom begins with God using people, who are seemingly unimportant, an aged priest, a barren wife, a young virgin, a man waiting to die, and an elderly widow! However, they were not merely unimportant people. They were real people, who were upright, humble, faithful, and obedient. They were looking for, praying about, and submitting themselves to God’s kingdom and His ...

Luke has mentioned five people by name in chapter 1-2 that the world and even God’s own people would not have highly valued as of great importance: Zechariah, an aging priest, Elizabeth, his barren wife, Mary a virgin girl from Nazareth, Simeon, an old man waiting for God to keep His promise, and Anna, a prophetess and aging widow. We will not have the opportunity to do some of what these people did like personal addresses from angels concerning our ...

  Luke writes his first letter to Theophilus as an orderly account, so that Theophilus might know the certainty of what he has been taught (Luke 1:1-4). This account gives from the beginning God’s preparation of His people for His Son, the Messiah, the Christ, and His kingdom. Luke gives Theophilus more than just a list of facts concerning the birth of His prophet, John the baptizer. Likewise, Luke gives more information about the birth of Jesus, the Son of ...

Have you ever changed your mind about something, not just vegetables, athletes, or sports teams but something really important? Much of our struggle, as Christians, is to do that very thing, change our minds! As Christians we are not trying to get away with anything, we are trying to get away from something, sin and its selfish thinking. In fact, we are changing our thinking, changing our mind, from a mind set on the flesh and its desires to a ...

The lies we face today are not new, they are not some recent invention or temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13). The devil is the liar that he has always been, he is the father of all lies (John 8:43-47). He is the ancient serpent from the garden, the deceiver who leads the whole world astray (Revelation 12:9). Truth is not relative. We are not the final authority on who God is, what He wants, what really matters, and in the end ...

Sunday morning sermon Jay Don Poindexter

2 Kings 6:17 Hebrews 3:6-f

The power of God to save us and transform us is the  Gospel (Romans 1:16). The gospel brings is God’s power for salvation and for living a faithful life. There is no other way for us to be saved from the practice or the penalty of sin. There is no other way for us to be transformed into the likeness of Christ, the Son. The next time we face sin or temptation, let us lean not on our own understanding ...

Romans 2: 1-4   Bible Class discussion.

This is a new year, 2015. None of us have ever seen or lived the year of 2015 before. We do not even know what tomorrow brings, if it should come (James 4:13, 14). We do not know in this new year what we will find employment or unemployment, sickness or health, friendship or loneliness, profit or loss. What we do know is that God is the eternal God and Jesus Christ has already been wherever will may journey in ...

Revelation 1:14-17

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.  16 If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does ...

Jay Don Poindexter

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,  and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.  For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.  Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all ...

Luke 10:25-37 The essence of the kingdom in the lives of Christ’s followers is that they are imitating Him. They give themselves to showing mercy and kindness as He has shown it. Imitating Christ does not come naturally in a world filled with selfish motivations, and it most surely does not come from trying to justify our selves while hiding behind privilege or duty. This imitation of Christ comes when we ask the right questions. For a certain lawyer in ...

John 18 :15-18 Peter’s First Denial 15 Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard, 16 but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the servant girl on duty there and brought Peter in. 17 “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” she asked Peter. He replied, “I ...

Jesus is the Christ: Believing That, You May Have Life in His Name Any teaching that will lead us away from the saving power of Jesus as the Christ will lead us to our own flesh. It will bring about a self-imposed worship of the same flesh and sever our connection with the Head (Col 2:16–19). The devil does not care what we believe and how we live, as long as we do not believe and live lives that proclaim ...

Extended periods of darkness in our lives are difficult to understand much more to deal with. But the reality of the love of God is that he is always light, even in the tough times. This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.  1 John 1:5 NASB Sermon by Greg Chaney