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  • Sherm Nichols avatar

    No More Gloom Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Mar 31, 2021
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    Christmas series introduction - focusing on the role of light in the Christmas story

    Intro: Light. We have a hard time even describing what it’s made out of, but we sure do depend on it. We know it’s very fast - 186,282 miles per second. We know that it’s important to our emotional and physical health. Sunshine is a source of vitamin D, and areas where the sun doesn’t shine much ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Life Lessons From The Lord Series

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Mar 27, 2021
     | 3,731 views

    Here in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus gives us some more important lessons for life. 1. Fast for our Heavenly Father (vs. 16-18). 2. Store more eternal treasure than earthly treasure (vs. 19-21). 3. Live in the light of the Lord (vs. 22-23). 4. Make the Messiah our Master (vs. 24).

    Life Lessons from the Lord The Gospel of Matthew Matthew 6:16-24 Sermon by: Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - June 26, 2013 (Revised March 27, 2021) MESSAGE: *It's getting close to summer, and little kids everywhere are learning how to swim. Did you ever try to teach your children how to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • John Gaston avatar

    The Light Of Hope

    Contributed by John Gaston on Jul 19, 2016
     | 8,366 views

    We all need hope. Here I’m touching on how Hope is like a light. It should give us optimism, transform our lives, and reminds us of our inheritance.

    THE LIGHT OF HOPE INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR 1. You always need to be skeptical when you are offered a “free ride.” If it looks too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true. Example: 2. In Zimbabwe, a bus driver was transporting 20 mental patients from one mental hospital to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    A Great Light

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 18, 2005
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    The message of Christmas is: 1. God is the sovereign ruler of the world. 2. Evil cannot win. 3. The world is coming to a wonderful conclusion.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, each year displays a twenty-foot blue spruce Christmas tree covered with angels, with a beautiful eighteenth century Neapolitan nativity scene underneath. In many ways it is a very familiar scene. There are shepherds who have been jarred awake by the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Everlasting Light

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 10, 2015
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    God’s Name defines ‘The Everlasting Light.’ There is no other name in heaven or earth or for that matter anywhere which can define this phrase. When He is the Everlasting Light, who else can be?

    Opening illustration: This is an article written in 1967 by Arnold Fruchtenbaum a Jew who converted to Christianity, “Walking outside after the war with Jordan was over, I saw a car pass by with the words ‘Rebuild the temple!’ painted on its side. One Israeli soldier told me that ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Michael Deutsch avatar

    Salt And Light

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jun 17, 2013
     | 7,524 views

    Demonstrating Christ to the world

    First Baptist Church Matthew 5:13-16 Salt and Light May 6, 2001 On Sunday, April 8, 1945, German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was taken from a worship service he had just conducted for prisoners to a concentration camp in Flossenburg. He was tried for treason and hanged just a few ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dave Kinney avatar

    Bright Hope For Dark Days, Pt. 1

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Aug 3, 2008
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    I probably don’t have to convince you that these are dark days, but my hardest challenge is to convince all of us that theses are still the brightest days! When was the last time you sensed that you were the brightest spot in someone’s darkest place? This

    For 4 weeks we will be looking at the topic, “Bright Hope In Dark Days” and how we must be looking for the best way to be the brightest person in some else’s darkest place. I probably don’t have to convince you that these are dark days, but my hardest challenge is to convince all of us that theses ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rodney Buchanan avatar

    Blindness & Light

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
    based on 104 ratings
     | 52,475 views

    This story addresses: 1. The question of suffering. 2. The reality of spiritual blindness. 3. The hope of a new world

    A recent article reported, “The blind will be able to see the light with a new bionic eye implant which is said to be available within 2 years. The development of the bionic eye will at last restore blind people’s sight. The prototype high tech implant will be fitted to approx 50 to 75 patients, ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Jason Lancaster avatar

    Rejected Light

    Contributed by Jason Lancaster on Apr 18, 2003
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    Don’t join those who rejected Jesus on this earth but receive Him for who He is before it is to late.

    CLARIFICATION: (Spurgeon once said, ‘All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.’ I in no way claim ‘all’ originality in my sermons for I look to a variety of Scholars and Pastors for help in crafting the content and structure of a sermon. At the same time I try to give credit ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Michael Deutsch avatar

    Salt And Light

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Nov 26, 2014
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     | 17,738 views

    We are called to be the salt and light of the world. Are we?

    Matthew 5:13-16 Salt and Light August 31, 2014 On Sunday, April 8, 1945, German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was taken from a worship service he had just conducted for prisoners to a concentration camp in Flossenburg. He was tried for treason and hanged just a couple weeks before the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rodney Buchanan avatar

    Blindness & Light

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Aug 6, 2012
    based on 18 ratings
     | 37,448 views

    Who is blind and has sight in the story of Jesus healing the blind man?

    A recent article reported, “The blind will be able to see the light with a new bionic eye implant which is said to be available within 2 years. The development of the bionic eye will at last restore blind people’s sight. The prototype high tech implant will be fitted to approx 50 to ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Donnie Martin avatar

    Living In The Light

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 2, 2002
    based on 38 ratings
     | 16,351 views

    This message deals with three ways in which Christians can live in the light of Christ.

    Living In The Light Text: I John 1: 6 & 7; I Pet.2: 9 & 10 Intro: In perhaps an elementary, yet practical sense, to walk in the light is to walk where one’s path is illuminated. The Christian is supposed to be one who has been illuminated, for they have received into their hearts He who is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Pointing To The Light Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 11, 2009
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     | 5,357 views

    John the Baptist knew who he was not and who he was, and accepted his task of pointing to Christ. Our mistakes are imagining that we are more than we are, or that we are less than we are. The real task is: just point to the light.

    My son and his wife live in a five-level townhouse in Reston, Virginia. You enter into a kind of combination corridor and stairwell at the second level. Typically I turn right when I arrive and go into the kitchen area. But when I leave that level to go to another one, I walk out of that kitchen ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    #3 The Wet Blanket Of Depression

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 5, 2015
     | 2,428 views

    It might be easier to turn off the light and enjoy darkness than to really change. Depression, discouragement and trials could sharpen our skills and make us better servants. We need the light to expose the dirt?

    #3 THE WET BLANKET OF DISCOURAGEMENT... By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com THIS IS THE 3RD PART... I. IS IT POSSIBLE TO DENY THE REALITY OF YOUR SITUATION? I AM NOT HAPPY HERE? John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Craig Condon avatar

    Spiritual Light From The Light Of The World

    Contributed by Craig Condon on May 4, 2016
     | 4,861 views

    Jesus shone the light on the need to repent. The same light allows us to take in the Scriptures and feast on the Word. In return, we are to preach repentance and remission of sins in Jesus’ name to all nations.

    This past Sunday I preached and led worship at the United Church in Bridgewater. During the children’s talk I mentioned that Jesus told his disciples that he would be returning to the Father, but that they would receive the Holy Spirit. I compared the Holy Spirit to the batteries in a ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican