Monthly Archives: May 2025

Unashamed and Uncomplicated

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Don Merritt

There are times when I wish I could have a dog’s life.  What an easy life they have! They can do pretty much whatever they want, while we kill ourselves working and dealing with the stress of life, they sleep. … Continue reading →

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God Cannot be Mocked

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Don Merritt

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in … Continue reading →

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Tell Us How You Really Feel!

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Don Merritt

These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. They are wild waves … Continue reading →

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Sunday Sermon Notes: May 18, 2024

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Don Merritt

Matthew 19:23-30 Jesus was fully aware that the disciples would be confused after His conversation with the rich young man (Matt. 19:18-22) because, He had blown up a major cultural expectation of the time that the rich were more favored … Continue reading →

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Bonus Topic: Extra-Biblical Sources in Jude

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Don Merritt

Jude does an interesting thing in his letter, he uses a non-Biblical source as though it were from Scripture, and he does so not once, but twice in a 25 verse letter.  Why does he do that?  Should that place … Continue reading →

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Live by the Spirit

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Don Merritt

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law … Continue reading →

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Woe!

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Don Merritt

Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion. Jude 11 Jude has been giving his readers a strong warning about false teachers in … Continue reading →

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Redeemed

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Don Merritt

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in … Continue reading →

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Bonus Topic: Jude and Peter

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Don Merritt

Why are Jude 4-16 and 2 Peter 2:1-18 so similar? There are many parallel passages in Scripture, but these two are more than just parallel, they are almost the same, close enough anyway, that this deserves a closer look.  Over … Continue reading →

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Rebellion

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Don Merritt

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;  idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions  and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like … Continue reading →

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