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Dancing With the Devil Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 James C. Denison You may know that Miller Cunningham, our Pastor of Worship, drives a pickup truck. I read in this week’s Dallas Morning News that it’s a good thing our church isn’t located in Frisco. They have a city ordinance prohibiting all trucks from parking overnight in […]
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Defeating Your Dragon Revelation 12:1-9 Dr. Jim Denison A woman rubbed a magic lamp, and out popped a genie. The amazed woman asked if she got three wishes. The genie was indignant: “Three-wish genies are a storybook myth. I’m a one-wish genie. So, what will it be?” The woman did not hesitate: “I want peace […]
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Demons and the War for Our Souls Revelation 12:10-17 Dr. Jim Denison This Tuesday we will observe an ominous day, not to be repeated for a hundred years. It will be June 6 in the year 2006; by numeric identification, the date will be 6-6-6. The number brings back bad memories. My junior year at […]
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Topical Scripture: Acts 9:36–43 You’ve made it to Spring. Not officially, of course—the first day of spring is March 20, which is when the sun crosses our equator (the Vernal Equinox) and the day contains twelve hours of sunlight and twelve hours of darkness. But most of us think of March as the first month […]
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Topical Scripture: John 5:1-9 Dr. David Fite went to be with the Lord last August. He was a former missionary to Cuba and a colleague of mine when I served on the faculty of Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth. Dr. Fite and his father-in-law were both imprisoned in Cuba for preaching the gospel there. They […]
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Topical Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17 You and I are fallen people living in a fallen world. Success is not the avoidance of problems but learning how to redeem them. It is not a race run without stumbling, but a race completed by those who get up when they fall down. A famous CEO said on the […]
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For Whom Should You Vote? John 3:1-8 Dr. Jim Denison My title may have caused some of you to wonder if I’m going to endorse a presidential candidate today. I could do that if I wanted our church to lose its non-profit status, and if I wanted to violate the church-state separation essential to Baptist […]
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Getting Ready for the Final Exam Studies in the Book of Revelation Dr. Jim Denison Revelation 15-20 Overview of Revelation 1-14 I. The revelation of Jesus Christ (ch. 1) II. The letters to the churches (chs. 2-3) III. The revelation of heaven (ch. 4) IV. The scroll and the Lamb (ch. 5) V. Seven seals […]
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Getting real with God: How to keep the faith Dr. Jim Denison Psalm 22 Our spiritual lives are never so tested as when the hard times come. That’s when we need to walk with our Father the most, and are tempted to do so the least. How do we keep the faith when the faith […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 8:1-17 It has been a stressful week in the news, to say the least. I flew back from Israel last Saturday night, the day after a US drone killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. We were all a bit relieved when we landed safely in the US. Airstrikes against our troops on […]
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