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God’s Power for God’s Purpose A Church on the Move Dr. Jim Denison Acts 8 Think back to your personal conversion experience. What was the setting? Who was involved? Were your parents engaged? A Sunday school teacher, perhaps? Your pastor? A spiritual friend? Who then would have predicted that you would be teaching your class […]
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God’s Power for God’s Purpose Beware of the Serpent Dr. Jim Denison Acts 4:32-5:16 One of Aesop’s fables tells the story of a lion who tailed a herd of oxen but could find no way to attack the young calves he saw as prey. Each time he drew near, the full-grown oxen circled around their […]
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Topical Scripture: Acts 9:1-6 Delivered: April 19, 2020 On the first Good Friday, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. Two days later, he rose from the grave and the rest is history. History we continue today. But so much has changed since then. One expected result of the coronavirus pandemic is that more people than ever […]
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God’s Power for God’s Purpose Deacons Dr. Jim Denison Acts 6:1-7 The date was Monday, March 11, 1991, and the president of the United States was desperately trying to prove that he was somebody. President Bush was visiting Anthony Henderson’s school, and sat down beside Anthony to read him a book. Suddenly Anthony asked, “Are […]
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Dining With God Acts 2:42-47 James C. Denison Alan Greenspan has called the current economic situation “the type of wrenching financial crisis that come along only once in a century.” The National Debt Clock in New York City, created in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $1.2 trillion debt, now marks the […]
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Topical Scripture: Acts 9:36–43 You’ve made it to Spring. Not officially, of course—the first day of spring is March 20, which is when the sun crosses our equator (the Vernal Equinox) and the day contains twelve hours of sunlight and twelve hours of darkness. But most of us think of March as the first month […]
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Everybody Can Be Somebody Acts 6 Dr. Jim Denison Everyone wants to be somebody. I do, and so do you. Somebody who matters, somebody who’s important to someone else. The day was Monday, March 11, 1991, and the president of the United States was desperately trying to prove that he was somebody. President Bush was […]
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God’s Power for God’s Purpose God Arrests Saul Dr. Jim Denison Acts 9:1-31 On April 17, AD 29, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. The cross was not the end of the story, praise God. On Easter Sunday Jesus rose from the grave, and the rest is history. History we continue today. But so much has […]
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God’s Power for God’s Purpose Acts 1:1-8 James C. Denison Have you ever run out of gas? I don’t mean figuratively but literally. These days our cars tell us how many miles we have left in the tank, and all kinds of lights and bells go off when we get close. It wasn’t always that […]
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God’s Power for God’s Purpose Acts 1:8; 2:1-4 James C. Denison These are some of the hardest days I can remember. Hurricane disaster relief continues in Galveston and the Gulf Coast, where more than a thousand Baptist churches were destroyed or affected and millions of people are still displaced. The hurricane’s economic impact is currently […]
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