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Topical Scripture: Colossians 1:15-17 This morning we’re going to try a strange experiment. While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6” in the air with your right hand. Could you do it? Neither could I. I have no idea […]
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Disciples Are Not Religious Colossians 2:1-8 Dr. Jim Denison Today’s Super Bowl will divide the nation into two camps. Not between those who cheer for the Steelers and those who are fans of the Seahawks, but between the few of us who care and the most of you who don’t. This is Super Bowl XL, […]
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Do You Fear God? Colossians 1:15-23 Dr. Jim Denison The most famous sermon in American history was preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield Connecticut, by Jonathan Edwards. It contains these famous words: The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the […]
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Fake Faith Colossians 2:16-23 Dr. Jim Denison Some criminals need to be in jail for their own protection. For instance, I read this week about a man who attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street. However, the confused criminal plugged his hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by […]
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Fashions for the Soul Colossians 3:12-17 Dr. Jim Denison Spring Break has just ended for most of us, so it must indeed be Spring. With the new season comes the new season’s fashions, or so I hear. One website says, “This year’s look is flirty, fun and fabulously feminine. Have it both ways with trim, […]
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Gaining What You Cannot Lose Colossians 1:24-29 Dr. Jim Denison “The End of the Spear” is the current movie which retells the 20th century’s most powerful missionary story. Fifty years ago, on January 8, 1956, Nate Saint, Jim Elliott, and three other American missionaries were killed by spear-wielding tribesmen in the Ecuadorian jungle. Nate Saint’s […]
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Imagination Remixed Colossians 1:15-20 James C. Denison This morning we’re going to try perhaps the strangest experiment you’ve seen attempted in this Sanctuary. You may not feel up to this. But those of you who do: while sitting in your pew, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing […]
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It’s All In Your Mind Colossians 3:1-4 Dr. Jim Denison During the Great Depression, an impoverished widow stepped into the foyer of an insurance company. An agent asked if he could help her. “Yes,” she replied. Taking out a yellowed, weathered insurance policy, she said, “I’ve lost my job and can’t keep paying this. What […]
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Life Remixed Colossians 3:5-17 James C. Denison Tonight on the Discovery Channel a documentary will air claiming that the burial boxes of Jesus and his family have been discovered. James Cameron, director of Titanic and The Terminator, is one of the makers of the film. He’s dealing with ossuaries, burial boxes found in Jerusalem 27 […]
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Relationship Rules Colossians 3:18-4.1 James C. Denison A friend recently sent me some statements about marriage which he thought I should use only at Men’s Bible Study on Thursday morning. But since I’m not as smart as he is, here goes: Patrick Murray: “I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left […]
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