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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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All About Demons Mark 5:1-20 Dr. Jim Denison Halloween comes in nine days. Orange and pumpkins are everywhere. As you may know, “Hallowe’en” or “Hallowed Eve” is the eve of All Saints Day, the annual church holiday which honors the saints and heroes of Christian history. However, Halloween also has connections which are anything but […]
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Demons and the Power of God Mark 9:14-29 Dr. Jim Denison When I graduated from high school I made plans to attend Baylor University, as all good Baptist boys do. But then my girlfriend and I broke up; she was going to Baylor, so I couldn’t go there after that. Houston Baptist University offered me […]
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Final Preparations Joshua 5:1-12 Dr. Jim Denison Thesis: We can win spiritual battles only when we are prepared spiritually. Goal: Identify disciplines by which we are prepared for spiritual warfare today. In John Bunyan’s classic Pilgrim’s Progress, the main character is appropriately named Christian. Early in his pilgrimage, Christian arrives at the House Beautiful, where […]
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Gideon’s Deception Joshua 9:1-27 Dr. Jim Denison Thesis: We must refuse all worldly covenants if we would belong fully to God. Goal: Choose Christ as your only Lord, and identify specific changes this decision will require. Jennifer Johnson banged her hands on the steering wheel. “I can’t believe it!” she screamed out loud. She’d run […]
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God Fights for Israel Joshua 10:1-12:24 Dr. Jim Denison Thesis: We must attack the enemy to win spiritual victory. Goal: Identify a ministry initiative to attempt. The scene is one of the most dramatic locations on earth. Standing 1150 feet above sea level, the massive rock outcropping is the largest I’ve ever seen, gray with […]
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How to Face Your Fears 2 Timothy 1:5-12 Dr. Jim Denison I learned this week that there are 628 kinds of phobias in our country, ranging from anuptaphobia (fear of staying single) and dromophobia (fear of crossing the street) to verbaphobia (fear of words), pantaphobia (fear of everything) and phophobia (fear of fear). I wanted […]
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Making Holes in the Darkness Acts 2:1-14 Dr. Jim Denison Robert Louis Stevenson, then a child of six or seven years, was standing at his window one night watching the lamplighter at work. One by one, the lighter would light the streetlamps as he walked down the road. Young Stevenson watched with fascination. His nurse […]
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The War Room of the Soul Ephesians 5:15-20 Dr. Jim Denison In 1940, with German bombs raining down on London, Winston Churchill and his Cabinet and staff practically lived in their Cabinet War Rooms. This fortified basement provided the prime minister a bedroom, and his cabinet a room for meeting and a map room for […]
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This Is a Spiritual War Zechariah 4:1-7 Dr. Jim Denison America faces a war unlike any we have ever fought. This war is not for land, money, or power, though all will be involved. This war is not with a nation, though nations will be sorely affected. This conflict pits us against a spiritual opponent […]
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