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The Gift You’ll Never Return Revelation 21:1-5 Dr. Jim Denison Once again, we flooded the stores on the day after Thanksgiving, a shopping day only to be rivaled by the day after Christmas (when we bring it all back and exchange it for other stuff). You could give the items listed in “The Twelve Days […]
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The Most Important Question on Earth Revelation 21:1-5 Dr. Jim Denison A dear friend sent me this story. A man says, “I’ve been married 25 years. I took a look at my wife one day and said, ‘Honey, 25 years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and […]
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The Peril of Lukewarm Christianity Revelation 3:14-22 Dr. Jim Denison Jim Cymbala is pastor of the world-famous Brooklyn Tabernacle Church. But 30 years ago, it wasn’t that way at all: a handful of people at the weekday prayer meeting, and not many more at Sunday worship. Their building was falling apart, their future with it. […]
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Topical Scripture: Revelation 13:8; Romans 5:8 Here are some Christmas facts I didn’t know: The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feathers. Most of Santa’s reindeer have male-sounding names. However, male reindeers shed their antlers around Christmas. Thus, the reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh are likely female. Two weeks before Christmas […]
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The Second Coming and Your Soul Revelation 22:1-7, 20-21 Dr. Jim Denison This week a friend sent me some words to live by: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: “Take two aspirin” and “Keep away from children.” “When I die, I […]
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The Thermostat of the Soul Revelation 2:12-17 Dr. Jim Denison When Janet and I were married in 1980 I became a bigamist. I was already married to a 1966 Ford Mustang coupe. From the beginning we were a marriage of three, much to my new wife’s chagrin. I had to sell my Mustang a few […]
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Thirty Minutes in Hell Revelation 20:11-15 Dr. Jim Denison I love church bulletin bloopers. Here are some recent additions to the file: “The sermon this morning: Jesus Walks on Water. The sermon tonight: Searching for Jesus”; “Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around […]
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Welcome to the Future Studies in the Book of Revelation Dr. Jim Denison Revelation 1:1-3 John, Jesus’ beloved disciples, is the human author of this book. But this is not the Revelation of John—it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Jesus wrote a book! This is it. John was on Patmos when he received this […]
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What God Looks Like Studies in the Book of Revelation Dr. Jim Denison Revelation 1:4-20 John, the writer identifies himself for the second time in verse four. He addresses the revelation from Jesus to the seven churches of Asia, which at that time was Asia Minor, the western region of modern-day Turkey. The churches are […]
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What is heaven like? Dr. Jim Denison When Ronald Reagan was running for Governor of California, a woman confronted him by his car one day and berated him severely. Finally she said, “I wouldn’t vote for you if you were St. Peter.” He smiled and replied, “No problem. If I were St. Peter, you wouldn’t […]
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