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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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409 Reasons to Trust God Revelation 3:7-13 Dr. Jim Denison Do you know why Formula 409 is so named? Its developers experienced 408 failed attempts before their final product was created. Edmund Mcilhenny operated a sugar plantation and saltworks in Louisiana before the Civil War. When Yankee troops invaded his area in 1863, he fled. […]
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The Cure for Complacent Souls Revelation 3:1-6 Dr. Jim Denison The church we’ll visit today was located in the most ideal city for Christianity in all of Revelation. If any church should have been alive and exciting, it was this one. And that was indeed their reputation, with everyone but Jesus. Sardis was located thirty […]
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The Cure for Restless Hearts Revelation 2:18-28 Dr. Jim Denison Jesus wrote the longest letter in Revelation to its smallest church, proof that the issue we are studying today is crucial. Thyatira was located 40 miles due east of Pergamum. Its major importance was as a textile manufacturing center. Purple dye, the most coveted in […]
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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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When It’s Not Your Fault Revelation 2:8-11 Dr. Jim Denison I read this week about two men who tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the panel off the machine, they pulled the bumper off their […]
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Hezbollah of the Heart Revelation 2:1-7 Dr. Jim Denison The lions got fat, the baboons got stressed, and zoo officials worry that the antelopes might have heart attacks. It’s been rough to be an animal in the zoo at Haifa, Israel the last few weeks. The carnivores, bears and monkeys had to be moved inside […]
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