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“Our Cup Overflows” Psalm 23:5-6 James C. Denison Pastoral transitions are always difficult times, for the church and for the pastor as well. For instance, Bill Austin, the former Baylor chaplain, once told me about a time when God called him from one pastorate to another. An older member of the church came to him, […]
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A lifetime spent with your Father: How to practice the presence of God Dr. Jim Denison Psalm 23 Two friends, Bill and Tom, were drinking coffee at an all-night café. They got into a discussion about the difference between irritation, aggravation, and frustration. About 1:00 AM, Bill said, “Look, Tom, I’ll show you an example […]
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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Psalm 46 Dr. Jim Denison President Bush calls the tragedy of this week “the first war of the twenty-first century.” This has been a week of horror and shock of a kind our nation has never experienced. As long as you live, you will never forget where you were […]
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Topical Scripture: Psalm 3 It’s been a hard week in the news. From a three-year-old boy attacked with acid to flooding victims on the East Coast to shootings in Canada to wildfires in Greece and bombings in Pakistan, the headlines have been painful. When we learn of such unfairness, we want to ask how God […]
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Topical Scripture: Psalm 33:12 Welcome to the Fourth of July weekend. Last year, over the holiday weekend, Americans spent $6.9 billion on food. We consumed 150 million hot dogs—that’s enough hot dogs to stretch from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. We also ate 700 million pounds of chicken. In addition, we spent $825 million on […]
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Getting a Grip on Guilt Psalm 51 James C. Denison On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, an armistice ending hostilities with Germany went into effect. Its result was the eventual end of World War I. As a consequence, “Armistice Day” was observed each November 11. In 1954, […]
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Getting real with God: How to keep the faith Dr. Jim Denison Psalm 22 Our spiritual lives are never so tested as when the hard times come. That’s when we need to walk with our Father the most, and are tempted to do so the least. How do we keep the faith when the faith […]
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God Before Us Psalm 23:1-3 James C. Denison It has been a strange week in the news. In a village in eastern India, a young girl was married to a stray dog to ward off an evil spirit. The girl is free to get married later in life to a man, without seeking a divorce […]
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God Beside Us Psalm 23:4 James C. Denison Before January 15, Chesley Sullenberger III was anything but a household name. A former Air Force fighter pilot, he is also the founder of Safety Reliability Methods, Inc., a consulting business. According to their website, their mission is “to utilize our expertise to apply the most effective […]
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Grades vs. Grace Psalm 139:1-18 James C. Denison Thanksgiving was the first American holiday. A harvest feast was celebrated by Indians for centuries before Europeans first landed on these shores. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which may have been the first Thanksgiving in the colonies. They had […]
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