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Read and Be ChangedFor thousands of years, God's word has penetrated human hearts and transformed lives. So why does the Bible often collect dust on our shelves? Why don't we mine the wisdom filling its pages?Pastor James Merritt, author of the bestselling 52 Weeks with Jesus, invites you to view Scripture afresh and fall in love with the book that changes everything. These simple weekly readings will help you...Gain a big-picture view of God's message to youApply practical life lessons from the Bible's stories and teachingsDiscover more about your destinyon earth and in eternityAs you explore the lives of Israel's wisest kings, God's powerful prophets, and your amazing Savior, you'll see how every subject and story in Scripture paints a picture of God's plan for humanityincluding the story God wants to write with you.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	27 septembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736965590
Langue	English

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version ), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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52 WEEKS THROUGH THE BIBLE
Copyright 2016 James Merritt
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Merritt, James Gregory, 1952- author.
Title: 52 weeks through the Bible / James Merritt.
Other titles: Fifty two weeks through the Bible
Description: Eugene, Oregon : Harvest House Publishers, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016023551 (print) | LCCN 2016026721 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736965583 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780736962469 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780736965590 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible-Meditations. | Bible-Devotional literature. | Christian life-Meditations. | Devotional calendars.
Classification: LCC BV4811 .M425 2016 (print) | LCC BV4811 (ebook) | DDC 220.6/1-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016023551
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Dedication
I dedicate this book to Cross Pointe Church-
for their love for God s Word,
and their desire for their pastor to preach it.
C ONTENTS
Dedication
Introduction: Going by the Book
How to Read This Book
Section One: Like No Other
1. Let s Take It from the Beginning
2. Paradise Lost
3. To the Rescue
4. Happily Ever After
Section Two: A Nation Is Born
5. Yes, God
6. In the Crosshairs
7. The Way to Freedom
8. Catch-22
9. The Need to Succeed
10. Out on a Limb
11. The Beauty of Suffering
Section Three: Wise Kings
12. How to Say Yes to the Giant
13. Just the Two of Us
14. The Way to the Will
15. Getting into Position
16. Difference Maker
Section Four: Gone But Not Forgotten
17. Seeing Clearly
18. Breaking the Prayer Barrier
19. The Devil Is in the Details
20. A Line in the Sand
21. Take the Heat
22. The Fugitive
23. For Goodness Sake
24. On the Ropes
25. On the Money
Section Five: One Solitary Life
26. Gospel Truth
27. Don t Touch That Dial!
28. Demons: The Bad Guys
29. Angels: The Good Guys
30. There s More to Life
31. Towel Off
32. The Warrior Rises
Section Six: Church Matters
33. Set on Fire!
34. Be Sure
35. You Can Know Everything Will Work Out
36. The Message That Could Change Your Life
37. No Small Comfort
38. Dying to Live
39. The Shadow
40. The Prize Is Not for Sale
41. One Thing
42. Rest in Peace
43. More Bang for the Buck
44. The Final Word
45. Amazing Grace
Section Seven: Curtain Call
46. Breathing Your Last
47. Root Canal
48. The Test of Your Life
49. Faith Works
50. Off-Ramp
51. Sure Thing
52. The Warrior Returns
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Harvest House Books By James Merritt
About the Publisher
Introduction: Going by the Book
The year was 1970. The place was Stetson University in sleepy Deland, Florida. The malady was homesickness. I was a newly minted college freshman seven hours and 465 miles from a home I had never been away from. I grew up in Georgia s version of Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show . My dad wasn t the sheriff, but I was Opie. And Opie never left Mayberry.
The mossy-backed gnarly oaks at this idyllic campus were a far cry from the Georgia pines I was used to. The humidity and heat were stifling, and except for the library, the main academic buildings lacked air-conditioning. I knew nobody and had not even seen the campus until the first day I arrived.
The first time I ever saw my gruff, rough dad cry was when he hugged his baby boy goodbye. This meant I was seventeen years old when I realized how much he loved me. I remember the knot in my stomach and the hot tears flowing down my cheeks as my dad, mom, brother, and aunt drove over the hill looking back and waving a final farewell. Mid-August and I wouldn t see them again until Thanksgiving.
I turned to walk into a dormitory that felt more like a prison and went into my room to unpack what few clothes I had. Then I sat down and looked at my roommate-a weirdo who I split from after one semester (that really is another story for another time)-and the dorm that would be my home for the next nine months and learned for the first time that no sickness is like homesickness. For the first time in my life, I also learned what it meant to cry yourself to sleep.
But God intervened that first semester and drove me to the Bible. I have never been a social animal. I didn t date in high school and was always shy around females. I went to one fraternity rush, and after seeing the biggest beer keg ever and drunk frat boys all over the floor, I rushed out the door, never to enter a frat house again. My days began at four in the morning when I rose to work the breakfast shift in the cafeteria. From there, my life was classes until early afternoon, study for a couple of hours, and then dinner.
Lost and alone.
With nothing else to do, I picked up the hardback Living Bible New Testament my mother gave me and started reading it. At first, seeing how much I could read in one sitting became a challenge. I could go for up to three hours straight. I have always been a fast reader, and it wasn t long until I had completed the New Testament.
I repeated the process until I lost track of how many times I d read it after I hit ten. But by then it was more than a game. The parables, the teachings, the lessons were encouraging me, growing me, and drawing me closer to God than I had ever been. I was amazed how I would learn something new, seeing things I had never seen before. Still, it seems odd that a college freshman would read a book two thousand years old nonstop for an entire semester.
My story is nothing compared to another young man who lived four hundred years before. William Hunter was fifteen years old when he was burned at the stake in 1555. Like me, he had an insatiable thirst for the Bible, but he had a hurdle I didn t. Possessing Bibles was illegal for commoners in England. The priests had a monopoly on this book and kept it under lock and key from nonclergy. Other than one Bible chained at the church altar, no other Bible was permitted in William s village.
So why was he burned at the stake? Because he was so determined to read this book for himself, he walked into the church, opened the chained Bible, and freed its truth into his heart and soul. William was caught, arrested, and imprisoned for nine months.
At his trial, he was given the chance to go free if he would recant his deed of evil and promise never again to attempt to read the Bible. The bishop of the church even offered him the princely sum of forty pounds and the funds to start his own business in exchange for never again reading the Bible. The brave teenager refused and accepted his fate. On March 27, 1555, William Hunter was burned at the stake for one crime: refusing to refuse to read the Bible. 1
Two teenagers, centuries and countries apart. What book would compel one to spend night after night on a college campus reading it for hours on end? What book would compel the other to give his life just trying to read it at all?
To say that out of the billions of books that have ever been published that the Bible is the greatest smacks of Muhammad Ali like braggadocio. But scholars agree that the Bible is the world s best-selling and most widely distributed book. Conservative estimates put the total number of Bibles sold at more than five billion. (The second best-selling book, the Koran, has sold eight hundred million.)
It is also by far the most read book in history. The whole Bible has been translated into 349 languages, and an astounding 2,123