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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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God Deals With Us As Gently As He Can— Or As Harshly As He Must The life and legacy of Moses Dr. Jim Denison Exodus 7-10 A group of missionaries was forced to travel through a dangerous part of their region, an area where bandits had been active for weeks. When they camped for the […]
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God Knows Who You Are—Wherever you Are The life and legacy of Moses Dr. Jim Denison Exodus 1-2 The Book of Exodus stands in stark rejection of such spirituality. In Exodus, it’s all about God. He is the sovereign ruler of the world, not Pharaoh. His people are the chosen race, not the Egyptians. He […]
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God Knows Your Name—Be Sure You Know His The life and legacy of Moses Dr. Jim Denison Exodus 3-4 There is a story about the Methodists in Indiana holding their Annual Conference in 1870. At one point in the proceedings, the president of the college where they were meeting said, “I think we are living […]
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God Will Give the Victory— But You Must Fight the Battle The life and legacy of Moses Dr. Jim Denison Exodus 14-15 A commitment to the cause of freedom was made by those we will remember in this study. They risked their lives, their families, their entire nation and its survival. And our Judeo-Christian faith […]
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God Will Lead—But We Must Follow The life and legacy of Moses Dr. Jim Denison Exodus 11-13 Ronald Reagan’s death was a national event, as it should have been. What was it about him which made such an obvious and enduring impact on our country and people? His role in ending the Cold War and […]
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God Will Meet Your Needs—But First You Must Ask The life and legacy of Moses Dr. Jim Denison Exodus 16-18 As I write this commentary from my study in Dallas, Texas, I have just been to church in England. The Methodist Church of Great Britain has started the Internet’s first virtual church: churchoffools.com. I was […]
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Good News for Skeptics Isaiah 55:8-11 Dr. Jim Denison I read this week that no piece of paper can be folded more than seven times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. Walt Disney, the inventor of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. Women […]
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Introduction to the Book of Joshua Dr. Jim Denison Joshua before Joshua The man known as Joshua was first named Hoshea (Numbers 13:8, 16), which means “salvation.” Later Moses changed his name to Joshua, meaning “the Lord saves” or “the Lord gives victory.” “Joshua” and “Jesus” are both derived from the same Hebrew word Yehoshua. […]
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Love Letters from Home Luke 24:25-32 Dr. Jim Denison Billy Graham was thirty, and already a well-known evangelist, when he came to a crisis of faith. Could he believe the Bible to be the word of God? His friend Chuck Templeton and others were raising doubts in his heart. In his autobiography, Just As I […]
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