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  • Joshua Blackmon

    Contributing sermons since Nov 20, 2017
Joshua's church

Springs of Life Church
Deer Park, Texas 77536
2816504924

About Joshua
  • Education: Texas Bible College B.A. in Theology Urshan College (Organizational Leadership) Houston Graduate School of Theology Fuller Theological Seminary (MDiv Student)
  • Experience: I am a licensed minister with the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). I served my local church in various capacities for about seventeen years before being elected as pastor approximately four and a half years ago. I served on the youth committee for the South Texas District UPCI and also helped in children's ministry. I facilitated groups for women and men recovering from alcohol and drug addiction and taught anger management for a number of years. I have also taught ESL in the Vietnamese community in the Houston area. Most of my preaching experience has come since I have been a pastor.
  • Sermon or series that made a difference: Justification by Faith (Rev. J.T. Pugh) Finishing the Seasons of Life (Rev. J.T. Pugh)
  • Hobbies: Reading Walking Praying
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  • Use What You’ve Got!

    Contributed on Feb 8, 2026
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    You don’t need a whole lot of faith, just trust in the faithful One!

    KEY TEXT Galatians 2:20 (CSB) “I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” BIG IDEA You do not need a whole lot of faith. You need to use what you ...read more

  • You Are Mine

    Contributed on Feb 7, 2026
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    Isaiah 43 declares that God’s people belong to Him, are not abandoned in exile, and need not fear because He is present with them. The Lord alone saves and is doing a new work that flows from His grace, not their faithfulness. For His own name’s sake, He forgives and restores them for His glory.

    INTRODUCTION Good morning. There are moments in life when the real question is not “Does God exist?” The real question is “Do I still belong to Him?” We don’t usually lose faith all at once. We lose it slowly—through disappointment, failure, exile, silence. Isaiah 43 is written to people who ...read more

  • When God Lets The Light In

    Contributed on Jan 18, 2026
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    When God lets the light in, He does not discard our brokenness but sanctifies our whole selves so that His strength and glory can shine through us. What was once sharp, fractured, and hidden becomes, by His grace, a window and a witness, reflecting Christ’s light into dark places.

    When God Lets the Light In Texts (CSB): 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Ephesians 6:10 John 1:5 2 Corinthians 4:6 Introduction — Broken Glass Church, I want to begin with a simple image. Broken glass. When glass breaks, we don’t stop to admire it. We sweep it up. We treat it as dangerous. We throw it ...read more

  • Faith That Guides, Protects, And Sustains

    Contributed on Dec 6, 2025
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    Big Idea: Faith is not a passive hope but an active trust in God that guides, protects, and sustains us through trials.

    Introduction: Good morning. I want to start with a simple question: How do you navigate life’s storms? How do you stay on course when the path is unclear, when the heat is intense, and when the pressures of life threaten to overwhelm you? Psalm 5 gives us a window into that kind of navigation. ...read more

  • Go Forward: The Exodus Path Of The Christian Life

    Contributed on Nov 29, 2025
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    The Exodus story holds a mirror up to us and reminds us that we all tend to default to our learned anxious reactivity when challenged. In the Exodus, God shows us that if we will trust him and move forward, we will inherit the promises of God.

    Exodus 14:15, “The LORD said to Moses, ‘Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.’” (CSB) Introduction: Breaking the Sound Barrier In 1947, test pilot Chuck Yeager prepared for another attempt at breaking the sound barrier. Most pilots believed it was impossible—planes ...read more

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  • The Cork And The Whale

    Contributed on Jul 6, 2025
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    2 Corinthians 4:7-18 offers a portrait of spiritual buoyancy. Paul, in other places, invites us to follow him as he follows Christ (1 Cor 11:1). His spiritual practices caused him to float above the difficulties that he faced over and over again in his life and ministry. One of the greatest things ...read more

  • Is A Blue Whale The Biggest Thing There Is?

    Contributed on Jun 16, 2024
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    Leave it to a children’s book to help us see how big our universe is. In a book entitled "Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?" Robert Wells takes us from a size we can grasp to one we can’t. The largest animal on earth is the blue whale. Just the flippers on its tail are bigger ...read more

  • Theophany

    Contributed on Jun 3, 2024
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    "Theologians have a specialized word to describe the instances when God appears to human beings. A visible manifestation of God within the Old Testament is called a theophany. The word theophany derives from two Greek words, the word for God (theos) and the word for appearing (phaino, which in ...read more

  • Power To Be The Light

    Contributed on Jun 3, 2024
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    Smartphones are amazing pieces of technology. Everything my generation went to RadioShack to purchase is now all together in the palm of our hand, including our flashlights. My grandfather loved flashlights. It was okay to get him a new one each year for Christmas or his birthday. He would take a ...read more

  • When It Was Dark

    Contributed on Apr 15, 2022
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    When It Was Dark I’m not quite sure how to say this. We have always said in the church that our faith was based upon facts. It was a faith built upon evidence that led us to the facts. My friends, something has come to light just this past week that is out now in the professional journals and ...read more