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Dr. James Merritt

7 months

My next book, a 40-day journey through Paul’s prison prayers, releases March 5. This material transformed my prayer life and can change yours too! Pre-order your copy today.

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3 years

In my meeting with the Lord every morning I read this in the front of my bible. I pray this will be true of me till the day I draw my last breath.

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This 91-year-old man who’s been out of church for 50 years came to my office a year ago and I shared the gospel with him and he didn’t respond, but he kept coming to hear the word. Today he walked right up to me and said “Today I trusted Jesus as my savior!“ Made my year!

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A lot of what we took for granted just two weeks ago has fallen. The stock market. Consumer confidence. The employment rate. National health. GDP growth. But one thing hasn’t and never will:God has not, cannot and will not fall off his throne. In God we trust.

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Bobby came to my house today thinking he was delivering furniture. But he actually came to hear the gospel. We just knelt together in my bedroom and he prayed to receive Christ! THAT is the 🔥🔥 that should light every Christian up!! ⁦ @whosyour1_ ⁩

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6 years

Whatever needs to be done legislatively and judicially we must stop immigrant families from being ripped apart. This is a moral and spiritual issue for followers of #Jesus . Secure the borders-yes. Immigrate legally-yes. But we are better than this.

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I believe leadership sits on a three legged stool: honesty, humility and holiness. Honesty tells the truth. Humility accepts the truth. Holiness lives the truth. I pray daily that all three mark me as a pastor and believer and God will convict me when they don’t.

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I spoke to an 83-year-old lady from Dallas on the phone for 40 minutes 2 days ago who was an agnostic and I didn’t think I got far. But she agreed to listen to the gospel of John. Today with her two daughters by her side she trusted Christ as her Lord and Savior! The Word is 🔥!

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6 years

Regardless of which side of the aisle you are on in today’s congressional hearing all believers should all pray for the truth to be known, for God’s will to be done, and for peace to reign. I Tim. 2:2.

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4 years

I went out on my back porch today and said aloud, “I confess you as my Lord and believe in my heart that God raised you from the dead!” He is risen! There’s nobody like Jesus! Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, wisdom, riches, strength, honor, glory and blessing!

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5 years

To all of my fellow pastors today who like me are Preaching online in an empty room. Remember we always really preach for an audience of ONE and he is always in the room! Let us thank God for technology and preach with Power and passion the gospel that can change anybody!

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God answers prayer! Prayed this morning as I was getting ready to fly home for God to give me a seat mate to be open to the #gospel . Lydia sat down and I asked if she would mind talking spiritually. Thru tears 15 min later she prayed to receive #Christ ! #WhosYourOne

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Two Sundays ago on Easter Sunday this 91-year-old man who I’ve been witnessing to for a year and a half gave his life to Christ. Today I baptized him as he verbally and publicly confessed his faith in Jesus. The #gospel is STILL the power of God to all who believe!

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4 years

Two of my African American neighbors watched our service dealing w/the racial situation yesterday and asked to #Zoom me today. After 1 1/2 hours they both ASKED to be born again and Jason and Toni prayed to receive Christ! Nothing like it! @whosyour1_ #best #news

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⁦ @KirbySmartUGA ⁩ w/⁦ @willmuschamp1 ⁩ at Peachtree Ridge High School. Relentless.

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4 years

Happy birthday to my precious son @JonathanMerritt . He and I and God all know we don’t agree on some things but variety is the spice of life And among the many things we agree on is that we love each other eternally and unconditionally.

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I asked a waitress how I could pray for her And She immediately broke down. Her 30 year old son has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for drug dealing and kidnapping. I shared the gospel with her and gave her the best news booklet to share with her son. Pray for both.

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6 years

Mike is a painter who is doing some work in my home. I was sitting in my study working on my Easter sermon when I saw Mike walking down my driveway. His boss told me that Mike was lost. I stopped studying about a risen Lord and went to sharing him and Mike was gloriously saved!

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Hannah was saved on a Sunday night. The next day, she told her class about it & her plans to be baptized (not a Christian school). A boy asked her what that meant. She then told her class about what baptism means. Front section today filled with her teachers & classmates.

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7 years

One thing I hope the world understands. @BillyGraham is in #Heaven not because he preached the #Gospel but because he believed the #Gospel that he preached.

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“I’m willing to compromise about many things, but not the Word of God. The SBC does not have to survive. I don’t have to be the pastor of Bellevue Church. I don’t have to be loved; I don’t even have to live. But I will not compromise the Word of God.” - @AdrianRogers Amen and Amen

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I'll change my mind when God changes his. His is the only opinion that matters and on this issue God neither stammers or stutters. #truth

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7 years

Eugene Peterson on changing his mind on same-sex relationships and marriage my latest @RNS

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This morning I asked the Lord to allow me to lead somebody to Jesus individually apart from the invitation. As I was leaving, this young man walked up to me and said “I’ve given it a lot of thought, and today I want to give my life to Jesus!” Shared the gospel. Prayer answered!

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@JonathanMerritt Unconditional and eternal.

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4 years

I am absolutely convinced the longer I live that humans only try to solve symptoms rather than the real problem we face. At the end of the day the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart and the only remedy for that problem is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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6 years

I want to make something clear hopefully to encourage others to share Christ. I led a caddy to Christ this past Thursday. But on Monday a waiter rejected God’s grace and Friday another caddy asked me not to even share. Success=sharing. Leave results to God.

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I’m @JonathanMerritt ’s dad and I approve this message. We are BFF. We do disagree on a lot but we do agree on Jesus and his death, burial and resurrection and many other important things. My love for him and all my sons is UNCONDITIONAL. I will always have my family’s back.

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@JonathanMerritt

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My dad and I disagree on a lot but he is my best friend and we always have each other’s back. If you come at one of us, you are coming at both of us.

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Clarification for those who need it: #David and #Goliath is not about a boy who killed a giant for #God . It is about the #God who killed a giant through a boy. The battle is the Lord’s. #God doesn’t need us fighting battles for him. We need him to fight battles for us.

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I don’t mind being hated, vilified or ostracized for standing for the right thing. But it is to my shame if I stand for what is right in the wrong way. Even to our most vociferous critics let’s bear the fruit of #kindness , #goodness and #self #control .

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I know David Platt well and I believe he acted scripturally and appropriately in praying for @POTUS . He simply followed what Paul asserted in I Tim. 2. Prayer for leaders know no political or party boundaries.

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John had not been to church in 10 years. Found us online came to our first service heard the gospel came to me after the service and gave his life to Christ! @whosyour1_ #Gospel #bestnews

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5 years

The #CoronavirusOutbreak gives all Jesus followers a divine opportunity to display to the world how to respond rather than react. So today I choose worship over worry. I choose faith over fear. I choose peace over panic believing in a sovereign God who gives saving grace 24/7.

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6 years

One thing I’ve been reminded of over the last 6 weeks: never try to defend the indefensible, excuse the inexcusable, or explain the inexplicable. It’s called digging deeper when you are in a hole. It never works. A humble honest admission of the failure is the path to freedom.

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5 years

Today I had the unspeakable joy of baptizing my oldest grandchild Harper and it is something I will never forget. He is the second grandchild I have baptized and what a blessing! I have no greater joy than to see my children and grandchildren walking in the truth.

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7 years

Let’s get one thing straight. @jdgreear preaches the gospel faithfully, evangelizes universally, is fully engaged denominationally and is completely Baptist theologically. Anyone who implies otherwise is like some of my golf shots out of bounds. He is in the #Jesus wing of @SBC .

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7 years

Every time the SBC can put another nail in the coffin of racism or the perception of it all Southern Baptists should say "Give me a hammer!"

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6 years

We must quit making the political personal. From the White House to the State House let our political disagreements be civil & respectful knowing that in the end we are all Americans living in a country where freedom rings.

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3 years

Could not be more proud of #SBC21 ! My wonderful family of Jesus lovers voted in some great resolutions and a President @EdLitton who will take us forwards not backwards and to a bright future not a dark past who ran for service not power! God is good!

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5 years

An encouraging word for pastors and Christ followers who are “getting” to meet online instead of in a building: this is a divine opportunity to BE the church not just GO to church. The church is not “our”building it’s “HIS” body. Rise up and BE the church tomorrow

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I don’t judge how anyone votes or tell them. We will all have to give an account to God for all our actions. But let’s not play games. To say you are pro-life but vote for a pro-abortionist is like saying you are against racism but vote for a white supremacist.

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4 years

Thankful for #Gorsuch and his brilliant and bold decision upholding the plain teaching of the #Constitution . Chief Justice Roberts take a seat and listen.

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3 years

Pray for Kendal! She is having a 12-14 hour surgery Wednesday for a serious illness. But today she was born again and couldn’t keep from smiling after giving her heart to Christ! #bestnews @whosyour1_ This is my passion.

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6 years

Today I’ve been married to the most beautiful woman inside and out I’ve ever seen or known for 43 years and more in love than ever with this Proverbs 31 wife! Thank you Lord for my precious Teresa! I’m one #blessed man. #Stilltheone

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1 year

Today I join the thousands mourning the passing of Dr. Charles Stanley. He was not just a paragon of faith and one of the great preachers of our time. He was also a friend for many decades and someone who offered wisdom and guidance for my life and ministry on numerous occasions.

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7 years

I am not a #fivepointCalvinist . HOWEVER any convention that would not have @Spurgeon_ as its leader is already off the tracks in my books. I’m not into #Calvinism or #Arminianism . I’m into #Evangelism . Not talking it but doing it.

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3 years

I don’t know what will happen in Nashville at the SBC next week from resolutions to motions to elections. But I do know God is sovereign, scripture is sufficient, and Jesus is savior. That’s all I need to know and that is enough.

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I am an unabashed theological, political, social and cultural conservative. At the same time I refuse to make the political personal. I do not demonize those who hold different views and do not allow others to do that to me. You can be kind and speak your mind.

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5 years

I want to remind every pastor that is preaching online at the end of the day we always preach for an audience of One. Believe you’re preaching to a house full of the Holy Spirit and whatever device you are preaching to see people who need Jesus and his Word!

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4 years

As our culture becomes increasingly tolerant of sin and intolerant of truth I say without equivocation or hesitation I want to be on the right side of scripture even if it means being on the wrong side of history.

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6 years

Just left #GwinnettCounty jail and led an inmate named Josh to Christ. He was a small child in the former church I pastored and made some bad decisions. He said in response to the #Gospel “This is the path of freedom I’ve been looking for!” #Mt . 25:36

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5 years

There are 2 equal dangers the #SBC faces today. Modern day Sadducees who don’t go as far as Scripture and Pharisees who go beyond Scripture. The leaven of both ruins the whole loaf. I refuse to be judged by either.

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5 years

Just for the record I want to make clear that when I share experiences of leading people to Christ it is to encourage all of us to share the gospel. I’m just the messenger. It is the Holy Spirit that does the convicting and the converting. To God Be the glory and Jesus the praise

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Invited to a meet and greet w/one of my senators @sendavidperdue . Met Erica who was tending bar. When she asked if I wanted a drink I told her Jesus was my living water. She asked if i would tell her more and she surrendered her life to #Jesus ! @whosyour1_ #best #news

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2 years

Congrats to @bartbarber on being elected SBC President. So proud of the SBC for this vote and adopting the #SATF report! Our convention is headed in the right direction and there is NO DRIFT. NONE. Ignore anyone who says otherwise. Now @whosyour1_

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Met @SpeakerPelosi today as I was walking through the @HouseFloor . She could not have been kinder or more gracious. She said she stopped what she was doing to listen to my prayer and thanked me for coming. We can be civil and kind even when on opposite sides of issues.

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3 years

For those who may have missed the last resolution submitted today and unanimously accepted by a vote of one-mine. I will always be a grateful part of #SBC but it’s time to leave the stage and go to the back of the room and cheer next generation of leaders.

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2 years

Nick a security guard at our vacation place Came by and said “Go Dawgs!” He shared that a recent family tragedy had left him struggling and lost. He said I could come to the guard house and talk to him. He just received Christ as Lord after hearing the BEST NEWS. @whosyour1_

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4 years

Today I celebrate 45 years of marriage to the best, sweetest, kindest, most beautiful person I have ever known. No husband has ever had a better wife, no sons a better mother, no grandchildren a better nana, no pastor a better helpmate. #Stilltheone #foreverandforalways #SDG

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2 years

Christmas came early to my house. So glad to have my son ⁦ @JonathanMerritt ⁩ home to celebrate Christmas with the family. He’s such a worldwide traveler now I don’t get to see him as often as I would like. I love all of my sons!

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4 years

My biggest fear in preaching has never been the fear of speaking before a large group, losing my place, making people upset or going too long. My biggest fear is preaching without the power of the Holy Spirit on me.

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5 years

From a human perspective on the #coronavirus I pray a cure will be developed, the infected will be healed and the healthy will be protected. From a divine perspective I pray that God would be glorified, the gospel would be magnified and the church would be edified. Amen.

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6 years

I am convinced that the greatest challenge the church faces today is not the decline in the culture outside of church but the discouragement, disengagement, and dispassion in the walls of the church.

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7 years

By God's grace I lead Larry from Tampa to Jesus on @Delta flt to @swbts and get this note from 2 flt attendants.

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6 years

Buckle your seat belt. The character of the #SBC and some messengers in particular is going to be tested more than since the #Conservative #Resurgence . Make up your mind now that no matter what is said or done you bear the #fruit of the #Spirit as the world is watching.

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5 years

44 years ago today I married the love of my life after proposing on the second date. Next to trusting Jesus the best thing I’ve ever done in my life! I am more in love with her today than ever before and more thankful that God gave her to me than I could put into words. Blessed!

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2 years

This is not hard people. ALL sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sinful. No exceptions. None. God’s grace is available to ALL sinners through faith in Christ and repentance. No exceptions. Two truths joined together and inseparable.

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1 year

Every pastor needs to listen to this maybe once a day for a while.

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@Craig_Lawson

1 year

This is a sermon

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3 years

THIS was the real joy of last night—being with two fantastic sons, best buds, and true #Dawg fans! Thankful to the Lord for them. #Family

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3 years

One thing I CLEARLY understood as a former chairman of the Executive Committee. The EC answers to the SBC. The SBC does NOT answer to the Executive Committee.

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3 years

I have received a few and only a few critical harsh emails related to Resolution 2 on race and racial reconciliation and I would have responded but all came from fake emails. For the record your hypocrisy and lack of integrity is exceeded only by your cowardice.

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For all you millennials and Gen X, Y and Z’ers who gave no clue what this is it was the church’s version of a database when I was a kid. In a church in Panama complete with a green Baptist hymnal.

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With two of my very best friends on the planet. Love my sons!

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At the end of the day let’s be crystal clear: the only sure knowledge we can have of God is based on scriptural revelation not any mystical experience or some personal feeling. Scripture alone is the foundation and anchor of our faith.

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4 years

I wish every ⁦ @BurgerKing ⁩ Would put this on their window! God bless the owner of this ⁦ @BurgerKing ⁩!

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3 years

This resignation caused by regeneration should ignite celebration for all Christians and consternation for all atheists. May his tribe increase in every way!

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This evening, regretfully, our Secretary Mr. Seth Mahiga made the decision to resign from his position as Secretary of our society. Seth's reason for resigning is that he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in Kenya. ---

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Regardless of what you think about @POTUS I would rather have the @POTUS signing #Bibles than a bill legalizing #Infanticide .

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I commend ⁦ @jdgreear ⁩ for this decision. I totally support this in the spirit of Christian unity and we must continue to remove any barrier to Jesus and our witness as Southern Baptists. No gavel is more important than the gospel.

Southern Baptist president wants to retire famed gavel named for slave holder

The gavel was used by a 19th-century Southern Baptist leader who was a slaveholder and led the convention to support the Confederacy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Prayers for @repjohnlewis who has just been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Regardless of your politics he is a true hero of the civil rights movement and has served his community and constituents with dignity and honor.

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The Southern Baptist Convention faces a crisis as great as any in our history. Now we must weep over the @HoustonChron article on sexual abuse and its coverup in our churches, repent and raise our membership standards to preclude churches who foment racism & ignore sexual abuse.

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I affirm both that God calls all men and women to vital ministry in the life of the local church as well as God’s clear word on a man only being a pastor, elder, overseer which is grounded in creation. These truths are not contradictory. They are indeed complementary.

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#Jesus never promised he would build the #SBC . He promised he would build his #Church -and-he will build it on his #grace not our goodness; on his Word not our works. Thanks @jdgreear for reminding us!

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Let this sink in. If you say you believe the gospel but you never share the gospel then you either don’t truly believe the gospel or you really don’t understand the gospel.

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So these men have been working on my house & the Lord led me to bring lunch today and I shared the #bestnews and 7 of them prayed out loud to receive Christ including Manuel to my right the foreman who translated for me! NOTHING like sharing the #Gospel ! @whosyour1_

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4 years

I just saw the video of Ahmaud Arbery late last night. I was sickened and shocked at what I saw. I grieve for his family and pray for justice to prevail in this situation. There is nothing more Christlike then to stand against racial injustice anywhere and everywhere.

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I know this may be unusual but if you read this tweet pray specifically for me that I will have a pure heart, a good conscience and a sincere faith (I Tim. 1:5). Prayers so appreciated.

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Southern Baptists we are not politicians and we should not handle this in a political fashion. Anyone involved should want an independent investigation if the truth is on their side and the convention deserves one.. Only the truth will set us free. NOW is the time to lead.

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A picture is worth 1000 words And this picture of my oldest grandson walking down the mall with his arm around the best Nana in the world and the love of my life is priceless.

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I honest to God do not know how Democrats sleep at night when they can’t even vote for a bill to protect babies, who survive abortions! Unbelievable.

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5 years

If a microscopic virus invisible to the naked eye can bring an entire world to its knees what do you think just one word from our creator God can do? “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”Yes indeed it is.

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The older I get and the more I walk with the Lord the more I desire to live a blameless life. I want to be full of both grace and truth. I want the Lord to be at home in my heart. I want my life to shine the light of Jesus in a dark world. I want to die climbing and finish well.

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6 years

There are 2 ditches #Satan would lead #Jesus followers into. 1. The ditch of #liberalism where we fall short of biblical truth (see #Sadducees ). 2. The ditch of #legalism where we go beyond biblical truth (see #Pharisees ). #Liberty is found in rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Yesterday Carlton was walking out of our service with his grandmother behind me visiting for the first time with her. I asked him if he understood what it means to be born again and he did not. 15 min later he was! He thanked me for the time to let Jesus change his life! #Gospel !

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Dr. James Merritt

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7 years

Let's get something straight: If the Bible isn't plain about the divine design for marriage and sex it's not plain about anything-but it is.

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@drjamesmerritt

3 years

Memo to Christians who say they will likely continue to zoom worship services and go to church online indefinitely if not permanently after #Covid : You won’t zoom Heaven. If you don’t want earthly fellowship in this life why do you desire eternal fellowship in the next one?

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5 years

We need to diligently pray for #America with all of its divisions, racial tensions, senseless killings, aborted babies, deteriorating families, & many other agonizing situations. But let us never forget these are all symptoms. The problem is #sin and the only solution is #Jesus .

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Dr. James Merritt

@drjamesmerritt

3 years

Regardless of who preaches Jesus or speaks truth I rejoice when they do because I love Jesus and truth. I can approve a message even when I have disagreements with the messenger. I agree with Paul: love rejoices with the truth. And that is the truth.

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Dr. James Merritt

@drjamesmerritt

8 years

Let's beat our partisan swords into peacemaking plowshares & our verbal spears into loving pruning hooks & pull/pray together as Americans.

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5 years

Just to be clear: 1. I am a complementarian. I am not a sexist. 2. I oppose gay marriage. I am not homophobic. 3. I fully accept God’s word in its entirety as my final inerrant authority. I am not a fundamentalist (in the pejorative sense). 4. I believe Jesus is the only way to

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Dr. James Merritt

@drjamesmerritt

5 years

3 weeks ago former marine Devin visited ⁦ @crosspointega ⁩ w/his fiancée after basically never being in church his entire life. God’s word so impressed him he was even moved to give his first offering! Tonight he gave his life to Christ! ⁦ @whosyour1_ ⁩ #best #news

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Dr. James Merritt

@drjamesmerritt

5 years

If your theology is rooted in the word of God, your identity is grounded in the son of God, and your priority is focused on the glory of God then the reality is you are at peace with God. What others say, think, or write truly doesn’t matter. Live, love and learn.

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Dr. James Merritt

@drjamesmerritt

8 years

Pray for @POTUS 2 find balance between concern 4 terrorism and compassion for refugees. Build walls of security. Open doors of hospitality.

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