Having preached from the Gospel of Mark through year-end, Parkview Church of Christ Minister Denny Wilson says the Apostle Mark wrote “to show the power and strength of Christ, that he was not only a man but also the Son of God.”
Coached by the Apostle Peter and inspired by the Holy Spirit, Wilson said, Mark emphasizes the immediacy of Jesus’s miracles to prove that he is the Messiah. “The keywords are ‘straightaway’ in the King James Bible and ‘immediately’ in the New King James,” he said.
“Mark’s purpose was to prove to the Romans, the world leaders and the governments of the world that Jesus was deity and that he gave his life so we could be saved and go to Heaven.”
Wilson is a 53-year-old native of Shattuck, Oklahoma, who lived in Winfield and Stafford, Kan., while his dad Joe Dale pursued a career in the ministry. He also lived at Plainview and San Angelo and graduated from high school in Vernon, 50 miles west of Wichita Falls.
Minister of Parkview Church of Christ for four years, Wilson has also worked in the restaurant business and he is a verification and validation specialist at the technipFMC Co. He and his wife Robyn have three children and three grandchildren. His father preaches at the Fargo Church of Christ near Vernon. His mom’s name is Ann.
“We want to bring glory to God and call others to Christ so they can be saved,” said Wilson, whose 1700 Park Blvd. church is attended by an average of 35 people at 10:30 a.m. Sundays. “We want to be faithful unto death.”
Along with working as an executive for the El Chico, Golden Corral and Furr’s restaurants, Wilson was a minister in Lubbock, at Eisenhower Church of Christ in Odessa, Wellington, Westbrook, DeLeon, Knott and Carlsbad, N.M. He attended Lubbock Christian University for three years and studied at a series of preaching schools.
Wilson preaches on gospelradionetwork.org in a program called “Take Aim” at 7 p.m. Thursdays and in a recording of his church service at 2:30 p.m. Sundays.
Eugene Lopez, one of his members, said Wilson “is a man of God who is knowledgeable in a lot of things.”
“He is a good teacher,” Lopez said. “Every time I’m around him, I learn something. The lessons he brings are directly from the Word of God. Denny dwells in the Word more deeply than most people.
“I admire him a lot for the dedication he has to learning and teaching, not only in God’s Word but also his general knowledge of science and the physical things of the world. He is a strong preacher. He doesn’t mince words. He speaks directly from what the Bible says and doesn’t change anything from it.”
