Big God: What Happens When We Trust Him - Hardcover

Merrick, Britt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0830752226 ISBN 13: 9780830752225

Publisher: Baker Pub Group, 2010

Synopsis

By drawing on some of the greatest lives of faith in the Bible, the founder and pastor of Reality demonstrates that by having faith in God at pivotal moments in our lives, we will make good decisions and lead a life pleasing to God.

About this title

About the Author

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 alongside his father (Al Merrick) 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 and 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 Channel Island Surfboards aside and he and his wife, along with some close friends, started a church called Reality in his hometown of Carpinteria. Since then, the Reality family has grown to include churches in Ventura, Los Angeles, Stockton, San Francisco and London. 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.

From the Back Cover

Faith is trust. It is confidence in the power and goodness of God. But how can you know that He is trustworthy, that He is big enough to deserve your faith? By seeing how He has shown Himself faithful in the lives of people just like you. The stories of men and women who put their trust in God at critical, pivotal moments of their lives fill the pages of the Bible. These people were not perfect, but when it really mattered, they chose to trust the big God who knew and loved them. And once they did, these men and women of faith found out exactly what happens when God s people put their faith in Him.
The Bible issues this challenge to anyone who longs for a closer walk with God: Be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Heb. 6:12). Big God will introduce you to some everyday people who trusted God s promises and saw those promises fulfilled. By looking at their lives you will see that throughout history God has shown Himself faithful to His promises and His people time and time again. You will learn that He is worthy of your trust today, and that no matter how overwhelming your problems, heartaches and circumstances appear to be, God is bigger.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Pub Group
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830752226
• ISBN 13: 9780830752225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237