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  • Mark Aarssen avatar

    The Blind Chapter

    Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Jul 22, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,728 views

    When our eyes close in death we will no longer be able to see as we do now. Only the light of God can open our sinful eyes to our blindness and save us from eternal darkness.

    John Chapter 9 The Blind Chapter Blindness can be a physical condition as in today’s text. It can and is also a spiritual condition for many who live in a dark and sin filled world. While walking along with his disciples Jesus sees a blind man. The disciples ask Jesus who sinned, this man or ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Carl Allen avatar

    A Rose Among Thorns Series

    Contributed by Carl Allen on May 5, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
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    I want to take the first eleven verses of this chapter and show you the ways Joseph was different from his brothers. I want to show you how we can be a light in the middle of a dark and dying world.

    A ROSE AMONG THORNS Genesis 37:1-11 Introduction In our first message on Joseph, we took a hard look at his background. We discovered that his family was marked with problems of all sorts. This godly man grew up in some of the roughest of conditions. I am still amazed that God could take a young ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Richard Schwedes avatar

    God Is With Us: To Give Us Hope And To Help Us Be Hope Deliverers

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 29, 2008
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    At times life can be difficult and even dark, as we prepare for Christmas and Jesus’ second coming we gain hope not by relying on this world but on Jesus. This Advent sermon explores what it means to be a hope receiver and a hope deliverer.

    As we begin the start of the church year, our first Sunday of Advent encourages us to look at being hopeful. This week I read a story about a lady called Susan Duggan. Susan Duggan is a lady with hope. Not because she’s had an easy life or she has received great rewards. Listen to part of her ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Owen Bourgaize avatar

    The Shadow Of The Cross Over The Incarnation

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Apr 13, 2001
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    The full significance of the Incarnation is only seen when its dark side is understood - in the Sign of a Sword to Mary’s heart, the Symbol of Myrrh as an offering from the wise men and the Sorrow of Rachael over her dead children.

    If the message of the Incarnation, the coming of Jesus into human experience, had to be condensed into a single sentence it couldn’t be bettered than the words of John: "He came to his own home and his own people received him not" (1:11). In the opening verses of his Gospel, John had already ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Better Late Than Never

    Contributed by Donald Sibley on Oct 21, 2006
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     | 8,633 views

    JESUS IN HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE POWER OF PARABLES; TO BOTH TRANSFORM MENS LIVES FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND ALSO TO SET ADVERSARIES OF THE CHURCH, TO CONTEMPLATE THE ERRORS IN THEIR OWN THINKING; USES A PARABLE HERE TO TEACH, TO HUMILIATE, AND INSPIRE T

    BETTER LATE THAN NEVER MATT. 21:28-32 JESUS IN HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE POWER OF PARABLES; TO BOTH TRANSFORM MENS LIVES FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND ALSO TO SET ADVERSARIES OF THE CHURCH, TO CONTEMPLATE THE ERRORS IN THEIR OWN THINKING; USES A PARABLE HERE TO TEACH, TO HUMILIATE, AND INSPIRE ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Levi Wright avatar

    Almost Being Saved Is Not Good Enough

    Contributed by Levi Wright on Oct 10, 2007
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    Almost being saved is not god enough when God bless, He blesses altogether, not half way. When God call us out of darkness, He calls us all the way, not just half way.

    Banner of Praise Ministries Mount Pleasant, South Carolina Rev. Dr. Levi Howard Wright Pastor ~ Teacher ~ Evangelist ~ Founder "Almost Being Saved Is Not Good Enough" TEXT: ACTS 26:24-32 24 And as he spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul thou art beside thyself; much ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Part 14 - Matthew 8:28-34 - An Unhealthy Fascination With Evil Series

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 6, 2010
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,419 views

    Today, our culture seems fascinated with death and vampires and witches and ghosts and horoscopes and clairvoyants and numerous other dark pathways to evil. It is disturbing because people feel they can control it. These kinds of choices have consequences

    Part 14 - Matthew 8:23-34 - AN UNHEALTHY FASCINATION WITH EVIL He writhed on the floor while men and women gathered around him hurling their prayers. That’s the best way I can describe it. "Come out in Jesus name!" they said, and he writhed all the more as if in pain, and certainly in turmoil. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Ned Bartlebaugh avatar

    Prophecy Of Christ

    Contributed by Ned Bartlebaugh on Dec 14, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 19,673 views

    A look at three prophetic passages that Jesus Christ would be born in Bethlehem, that he would be a great light shining in the darkness, that he would be "God with us" and that he would be Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Wonderful Counselor.

    When you look at the life of Jesus, He fulfills all 322 of the prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming of the Messiah. The odds of just 8 of the major prophecies being fulfilled by one person is 1 in 10 to the 17th power, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. And this is only 8 of them! To help ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joe Rowland avatar

    A Surer Word Of Prophecy

    Contributed by Joe Rowland on Aug 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,462 views

    Peter here is speaking of the Old Testament, which is the Word of God, even more sure than his personal experience. This is saying that the Word of God is the only true light which alone can dispel the spirituel darkness.

    A Surer Word Of Prophecy 2 Peter 1:16-21 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Nathan Johnson avatar

    When You Turn On The Light

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Mar 6, 2009
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    Light reveals not only what we want to see but also what others don’t want us to see. Jesus, as the true light, does both, all for the purpose of offering freedom to a world trapped in darkness.

    When You Turn On the Light Griffith Baptist Church – 3/8/09 A.M. Service Text: John 8:1-12 (9:1-5) Key verse: John 8:12 - Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Premise: Light ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Bill Walker avatar

    Words

    Contributed by Bill Walker on Nov 1, 2016
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    Gaining inspiration and courage from the words of Jesus on the cross. In our world of darkness, Jesus calls us to be light-bearers. It is through our trials and disappointments that we are enabled to step in among those who are struggling and hurting.

    WORDS Luke 23:34 You are leaving the church building and walking to your car in the parking lot. Adults are visiting and children are laughing and playing as you and your family walk by. Then suddenly you hear shots ring out and you see three, four, and five … maybe six people drop to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Numeriano P. Galgo, Jr avatar

    Stewards Of The Light

    Contributed by Numeriano P. Galgo, Jr on Oct 17, 2017
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     | 11,647 views

    When we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, we were never the same. We became men and women with a mission. For one, we became a bearer of the light to the perishing, to this dark and dying world.

    STEWARDS OF THE LIGHT This message is about being a good steward of the light. When we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, we were never the same. We became men and women with a mission. Within us, something had greatly changed. For one, we became a bearer of the light to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Mike Fogerson avatar

    A Chain Reaction In The Manger

    Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Feb 11, 2014
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    This morning I want to look at 6 ways our world has been shaped by the divine chain reaction that was started by a baby’s cry in a dark & dirty stable over 2,000 years ago.

    A Chain Reaction in a Manger (Inspired by Rev. John Hamby’s message “What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?”) December 22, 2013 Chester FBC, Chester, IL Dr. Mike Fogerson, speaker Introduction: A In Frank Capra’s Christmas Classic “It’s a Wonderful ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Christopher Holdsworth avatar

    The Flight Into Egypt

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Mar 4, 2014
    based on 11 ratings
     | 9,453 views

    After our exile in the dark places of Egypt we are summoned to return to the place we came from, chastened and up-built by the experience which we have been through, and equipped for whatever may lay ahead.

    THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. Matthew 2:13-15; Matthew 2:19-23. We have already established that Joseph Ben-David was a dreamer (Matthew 1:20). Although his angelic visitations took place in dreams, in visions of the night (Job 20:8), they were not nebulous apparitions. A real, tangible, substantial ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • William Akehurst avatar

    From Fear To Faith - The Lord Delivers Us From Evil (Covid-19)

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Mar 24, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,393 views

    We are living in exciting times! Biblical Times NOW! In a time when darkness and despair has covered the globe, I am finding Joy, Happiness and Peace in GOD’s Salvation and take that fear to become FAITH

    FROM FEAR TO FAITH - THE LORD DELIVERS THE RIGHTEOUS William Akehurst, HSWC The LORD’s Prayer: Matthew 6:9-13 Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our (sins) ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational