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Marching Orders Joshua1:1-18 Dr. Jim Denison Thesis: God calls us to fulfill his highest purposes by faith. Goal: Identify and embrace God’s highest calling for your life. Oswald Chambers lived one of the most extraordinary Christian pilgrimages of the 20th century. A native of Scotland, his ministry of preaching and teaching took him to the […]
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Measuring Success As God Does 2 Samuel 12:24-25 Dr. Jim Denison The Pythagorean theorem in mathematics can be stated in 24 words. The Model Prayer takes 66 words to recite in English. Archimedes’ Principle requires 67 words. The Ten Commandments (in the King James Version) comprise 179 words. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was composed of 286 […]
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Men of Courage A Study of Nehemiah Dr. Jim Denison Nehemiah 4 Every day in America: 40 Americans turn 100; 5,800 become 65; and 8,000 try to forget their 40th birthdays. The U.S. government issues 50 more pages of regulations. 20,000 write letters to the president. 13,000 get married, while 6,300 get divorced. Dogs bite […]
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Men Seeking God A Study of Nehemiah Dr. Jim Denison Nehemiah 1:10-11 The Book of Nehemiah opens and closes with prayer. This is the first of 12 instances of prayer recorded in the Book of Nehemiah, and the most crucial. If God does not answer this prayer, the story of the Hebrew nation ends. So […]
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My Hardest Sermon to Preach Galatians 5:22 Dr. Jim Denison During the Korean War, two American soldiers were stationed a long distance from the conflict, and were allowed to rent an apartment off base. They hired a local Korean boy to do their housekeeping, and were immediately impressed with his positive, joyful spirit. So they […]
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Nevertheless Isaiah 9:1-7 Dr. Jim Denison A friend sent me these actual airplane in-flight announcements. On one flight with a “senior” flight attendant crew, the pilot said: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight […]
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Our Utmost for His Highest Joshua 1:1-9 James C. Denison A young nun who worked for a local home health care agency was out making her rounds when she ran out of gas. Fortunately, there was a gas station just a block away. She walked to the station, only to learn that their one gas […]
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God’s Power for God’s Purpose Peter’s Miracle Ministry Dr. Jim Denison Acts 9:32-10:48 A study in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that talking on a cell phone while driving increases the risk of accident fourfold, the same risk as driving while intoxicated. It doesn’t seem to matter if the phone is hands-free or […]
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Playing Theological Scrabble Acts 13:16-23 Dr. Jim Denison I have an article written by someone with too much spare time. This person has played Scrabble in an unusual way: by rearranging the letters, “George Bush” becomes “He bugs Gore,” “dormitory” becomes “dirty room,” “the Morse code” spells “here come dots,” “slot machines” is “cash lost […]
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Putting God First Matthew 6:25-34 Dr. Jim Denison On Saturday morning, August 30, I read these words from Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest: “Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, […]
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