Sermons on Bear Witness To The Light:

Be Filled With The Holy Spirit... Submitting To One Another (Ephesians 5:15-24) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Oct 1, 2025

Focus is on being filled, and on what it means to "submit to one another"-- we all "put ourselves under" one another.

Today's verses build directly off last weeks, so I'm going to go ahead and start reading from 5:3. Hopefully, as I read them, you'll find yourself thinking, "Hey, I understand these verses." (3) Now, sexual immorality and all uncleanness or greediness must not even be ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-24

25 Stories Down

Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 6, 2025

Even twenty-five stories down, the faith of hidden believers still shone—reminding us that God’s light endures, even in the depths.

It was the summer of 1994 when my wife and our children and I traveled through central Türkiye. The road carried us across the dry plateau until we reached Cappadocia—a landscape so strange and beautiful it looked as though it had been shaped by another hand. Wind and rain had carved towers ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:14-16, Psalm 139:8, John 1:5, Ephesians 2:19, Isaiah 32:2  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Stories With Purpose!

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 22, 2024

Stories With Purpose! - sermon by Gordon Curley (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

SERMON OUTLINE: Why did Jesus speak in Parables? Parable #1. The Sign Of Jonah (vs 29-30 & 32) Parable #2. The Queen of The South (vs 31). Parable #3: The Lamp of The Body (vs 33-36). SERMON BODY: Ill: • (1). A teacher tells this story in Readers Digest magazine. • Performing Mozart should ...read more

Scripture: Luke 11:33-36

Denomination: Brethren

Imitating The Way God Walks

Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Jun 5, 2023

Walking with God can be a really good thing! Have you noticed that many people have their own peculiar way of walking. Perhaps you smiled if you happened to see a boy walking with his father, trying to walk the same way as his dad. They say that imitation is a form of flattery.

Alba 6-4-2023 IMITATING THE WAY GOD WALKS Ephesians 5:1-21 Did you know that God took walks? The Bible says that when Adam and Eve sinned, “they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-21, John 8:12, James 1:5-8, Hebrews 11:5

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Misunderstood Messiah Series

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Apr 2, 2024

There are four misunderstandings in particular that we are going to look at.

Throughout the history of the world, we have misunderstood the Messiah. There are four misunderstandings in particular that we are going to look at this evening in John 12: 20-36. READ 20-22. You might remember from last time that Jesus had just been hailed as the coming King and Messiah by ...read more

Scripture: John 12:20-36

Denomination: Baptist

Sermon On The Golden Mean

Contributed by William Meakin on Apr 2, 2024

Ethics are defined as the principles of conduct governing an individual or group. It can include a consciousness of moral importance or principles.

Potter Stewart, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States once remarked: “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 reminds us: “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 13:8-10, Proverbs 11:1, Matthew 7:12

Replacement Tablets (Exodus 34)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Sep 12, 2024

Does God sometimes make us do things over? As Moses face shone, do our lives shine? Let's look at Exodus 34.

Does God sometimes require a do over after we have broken things? How great is God’s mercy? Do we let our light shine from within? Let's look at Exodus 34. Were the previous tablets “the work of God?“ Was Moses to chisel a copy of the stone tablets himself this time, for God to write on? The ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Reason Loses Its Power Series

Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 17, 2025

Reason regains strength when pride surrenders to grace—light returns, humility restores power, and truth warms the heart again.

(Finding Faith Beyond Logic) --- 1. The Rise of Certainty For centuries, humanity believed that knowledge could save us. The Enlightenment declared that reason, not revelation, would be our light. If only we could think clearly enough, observe accurately enough, experiment long enough, we would ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:21, Proverbs 3:5-6, John 1:4-5, Psalm 36:9, 2 Corinthians 4:6  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Life From The Son

Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 17, 2025

Worship is the soul turning toward Christ’s light—adoration that becomes transformation, joy that becomes service, life aligned with divine love.

The Flower and the Smile: What Worship Really Is There are moments when a question feels too obvious to ask and yet too heavy to ignore. One of those questions has followed me for years: Why does God want our worship? If He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-sufficient, why would He want—much ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:24-25, John 4:23-24, Isaiah 1:15-17, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 100:1-2  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

The Season Of Love And Forgiveness Series

Contributed by Joel Bernardino on Dec 17, 2025

You can see Christmas lights everywhere, but sometimes there is darkness in the heart. That is why the message of Christmas is not only about gifts, carols, and celebrations—it is about love and forgiveness.

THE SEASON OF LOVE AND FORGIVENESS Pastor Joel Bernardino – December 19, 2026 This Christmas Season promotes love, joy, and peace. But for many people, this is also a season of: • Unresolved conflicts • Broken relationships • Silent treatment • Deep hurts that were never healed You can see ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:10-11

The Thrill Of Hope

Contributed by David Dunn on Dec 21, 2025

Christmas reveals God’s unstoppable light, breaking chains and restoring hope through unlikely people, unexpected places, and redeeming love.

There are certain songs we hear so often that they begin to fade into the background. They become part of the seasonal wallpaper—pleasant, familiar, predictable. Christmas music, especially, can do that to us. You hear it in grocery stores. In elevators. On hold with customer service. Played ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:9-11, Isaiah 9:2, John 1:5, Galatians 3:28, 2 Corinthians 5:19  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

The God Of Order PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 27, 2023

As believers, we are called to let God's light shine through us, stepping into the realm of the impossible and bringing glory to our heavenly Father.

Good morning, beloved family. Today, we're going to dive into a profound conversation about light, both the light that God created and the light He calls us to be. We'll be looking at two key passages of Scripture: Genesis 1:16-18 and Matthew 5:16. Genesis 1:16-18 says, "God made two great ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:16-18, Matthew 5:16

Topics: Letting Light Shine, All The World

The Glorious Face Of God: A Sermon For Transfiguration Sunday

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Feb 10, 2024

We all want to see the face of God. Someday we shall see Christ in all of His glory who is the face of God we shall see. In the meanwhile, the greater glimpses of the glory of God is only rarely revealed to certain selected persons such as Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Transfiguration.

The Glorious Face of God 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, 2 Corinthians 12:1-2

Denomination: Independent/Bible

"Keep Crying Kids You're Almost There"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on May 12, 2010

There is a meanness stalking about, an evil; the devil himself who is devouring souls. And these are the souls of people who live next door to us, work with us, shop beside us, go to school with us or our children. The world is filled with tears, and the

Acts 1:1-11 “Keep Crying Kids You’re Almost There” By: Ken Sauer, Pastor of East Ridge United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, TN If you have ever driven on Interstate 95 between South Carolina and North Carolina you are most likely familiar with a strange and funny kind of place ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:1-11

Denomination: United Methodist

The Blessing Paradox Part Ii: Persecution, Preservation, Illumination, Series

Contributed by Pastor Jeff Hughes on Jan 9, 2014

Part II of the series

Last week, we started this two part "mini-series" of messages in the first part of the Sermon on the Mount, commonly known as The Beatitudes. To the unsaved, they would seem to be insane at first glance: you will be happy if you are poor, if you weep, if you are a 98 pound weakling, if you give ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:9-16

Denomination: Bible Church