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ISBN-10:0830752226
ISBN-13:9780830752225
Publication Date:2010-02-09
Number of Pages:256


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Big God

By Britt Merrick

What Happens When We Trust Him 

Faith is trust. It is a confidence in the power and goodness of God that leads us to make good decisions and allows us to surrender our lives to Him. As we strive to mature spiritually and lead lives pleasing to God, we all want more faith. Hebrews 6:12 says that we are to be “imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” One of the best ways to grow in faith is to imitate the lives of people who have shown great faith. Hebrews 11 guides us through the lives of men and women – like Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Rahab, David and others – who have done just that. Real people with real lives and real problems, who had faith in a great God and trusted Him at pivotal moments in their lives. By drawing on some of the greatest lives of faith in the Bible, readers will come to see that God was worthy of these men’s and women’s trust and faith during biblical times in the same way that He is worthy of ours today. 

Britt Merrick was born and raised near Santa Barbara, CA in a little town on the beach named Carpinteria. He grew up entrenched in the surf industry, working for his parents’ business Channel Islands Surfboards.  Starting by sweeping out the shaping rooms, soon he was making surfboards along side his father (Al Merrick) at the factory for some of the best surfers in the world. Britt was also handling the famous company’s advertising, marketing, and amateur surf team.  Although he received Jesus as a young child, Britt had never known what it was to walk with Him.  He had both feet in the world, using drugs, alcohol, and getting into trouble.  In his early twenties, Britt was introduced to the transforming power of the Word of God, and thus began a new life.  Shortly after re-committing his life to the Lord, with a fresh fire for the Truth, Britt began to teach bible studies at his parents’ home for the surfer kids in Carpinteria. These bible studies eventually led to Britt teaching and preaching at a Friday night college ministry at a local church in Santa Barbara. In the fall of 2003, sensing a further call to ministry, Britt laid aside Channel Islands and he and his wife along with some close friends started a church called Reality in his hometown of Carpinteria. Since that time the Reality family has grown to include churches in Ventura, Los Angeles, Stockton, San Francisco, and London, England. Reality is focused on biblical faithfulness, community transformation, church birthing, and equipping the next generation of leaders. Britt continues to pastor full time and lives with his wife Kate, and their two children in Carpinteria.


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    Christy 1/28/2011 2:23:12 PM

    http://www.biggodthebook.com/

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    Mark Smith 5/12/2010 4:06:37 AM

    How big is your God when times are tough, the mission impossible and the knees are weak? Big God is a new book by Britt Merrick on one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, Hebrews 11. "We need a bigger picture of the supremacy of Christ, the glory of Christ and the mission of Christ, and our lives should be subsumed by and submitted to Him." pg. 219 When your heart is overwhelmed with the worst possible news about life and death you better know some Bible, you better know Jesus. The central message of this book and why its worth reading in Britt's own words: "What do you do as a Christian when the doctor tells you that your five-year-old has cancer? How do you deal with that? If you're a Christian, your mind goes to Jesus." pg. 18. This book helps you along that path by exploring nine key elements of faith from Hebrews chapter eleven.
    Another book about God and faith seemed a bit of a stretch for me with all the thousands of titles written on the subject in the last decade alone, not to mention antiquity. Britt disarms those thoughts as soon as you read the introduction and sense that this man has been battle tested with Jesus, through the Scriptures, anchoring this man's soul in very rough seas. The easy to read and understand exposition of the great faith chapter, Hebrews 11 was very well done and laid out. I wish for scholarship sake that he would have been defined the origin of faith itself as coming from God Himself as a gift and actual result of regeneration. (Rom. 10:17, Eph. 2:8-10, Titus 3:3-8)
    Regardless, I was moved closer to Christ and encouraged to press on with the Gospel message and that is the benchmark for a book worth reading and recommending. You will be impressed, as was I, by his very high view of the Scriptures, Christ and the glory of God. The Solas of the reformation ring true and bright with this one. Britt, thank you for your work on this. You can warm yourself by my theological fire anytime.
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    Rich 3/23/2010 11:10:56 PM

    I love this book. It has touched my soul and brought me closer to Jesus. Britt Merrick is a modern day disciple of Christ.

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