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All’s Well That Starts Well Matthew 4:1-11 Dr. Jim Denison We’re all salespeople in life. We all have something we want others to “buy” or believe. According to Newsweek, Andrew Fischer is selling his forehead. The 20-year-old Nebraska man decided to auction it as ad space for 30 days, and received more than 100 bids. […]
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Death by a Thousand Chihuahuas Matthew 4:18-19 Dr. Jim Denison Do you live by a calendar and a clock, or a compass? Some of us are governed by our calendars. We keep them at our desks, hang them on our walls, or carry them in our pockets. We record them with pencils or computers. And […]
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Life’s “One Thing” Matthew 4:12-17 Dr. Jim Denison Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? It seems the Babylonians started the tradition 4,000 years ago, resolving to return borrowed farm equipment. I didn’t borrow any farm equipment this year, but nonetheless made a resolution I want to tell you about today. Most of you made […]
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Living a Type “A” Life Matthew 4:1-4 Dr. Jim Denison I want to tell you a story I’ve shared very seldom in public, about the football which changed my life. Of all my friends growing up, I was the youngest. This meant that I was picked last for the kickball games and baseball teams. When […]
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On the Treadmill Matthew 4:5-7 Dr. Jim Denison Tiger Woods is now being called the greatest golfer in history, and with good reason. I’m not surprised—I got to watch him as he won his first major championship. It was an incredible day. One of the great privileges of being pastor of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist […]
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One Fish Can Change the World Matthew 4:18-22 Dr. Jim Denison Edward Kimball was determined to win his Sunday school class to Jesus. A teenager named Dwight Moody tended to fall asleep on Sundays, but Kimball, undeterred, went to see him at his shoe store. Kimball tried to lead Moody to Christ, but thought he […]
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The Safest Place in All the World to Be Matthew 4:18-25 James C. Denison A “conundrum” is an intricate and difficult problem. For instance, what 11-letter word is pronounced incorrectly by more than 99 percent of Ivy League graduates? “Incorrectly.” Care to try again? I’m sitting at a table. Ten flies are on the table. […]
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Washing Soles and Souls Matthew 4:23, John 13:34-35 Dr. Jim Denison Houston Baptist University, my alma mater, required an identification card of every student every year. I still have mine for 1978, my junior year, with my picture complete with mustache and sideburns. Why have I kept it? Because my ID number that year was […]
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What about Faith Healers? Matthew 4:23-25 Dr. Jim Denison This week I read one of the strangest stories I’ve seen in a long time. A woman, 23 years of age, was visiting her in-laws and drove to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the […]
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What You See Is What We Get Matthew 4.20-22 / Luke 5.1-11 Dr. Jim Denison William Barclay said, “Many people saw steam raise the lid of a kettle; only James Watt went on to think of a steam engine. Many people saw an apple fall; only Isaac Newton went on to think out the law […]
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