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  • Mary Erickson avatar

    The Darkness Before Dawn

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Mar 11, 2024
     | 967 views

    A sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent, Year B

    March 10, 2024 Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church John 3:14-21 The Darkness before Dawn Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Today is the first day of Daylight Savings Time. Early this morning we sprang forward by one hour. ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Gerald Roberts avatar

    The Dark Night Of The Soul

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Oct 15, 2024
     | 331 views

    Hard times, crisis, time loss times, are all dark times in one's life.

    The Dark Night of the Soul Job 23:1-9, 16-17 Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591): A Spanish mystic and of the Carmelite Order of friar, Saint John of the Cross wrote extensively about his own spiritual journey, which involved intense periods of doubt, despair and purification. He ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Can People Tell That We Have Been With Jesus

    Contributed by Dr. Phillip Paschal on Apr 16, 2024
     | 3,150 views

    Our Lives Should Resemble the Life of Christ.

    1. INTRODUCTION. A PERSONS CONDUCT, CHARACTER, AND SPEECH CAN OFTEN TIMES TELL US A LOT ABOUT A PERSON WITHOUT HAVING AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN TELL IF A PERSON IS FOOLISH BY THE WAY THAT THEY CARRY THEMSELVES, AND BY THE THINGS THAT PROTRUDE FROM THEIR LIPS. YOU CAN ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "Your Life As A Light"

    Contributed by Terry Brooks on Apr 10, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,611 views

    This sermon helps the hearer develop their relationship with God in order to be a light shining in this dark world.

    “Your Life as a Light” Matthew 5:14-16 Begin by playing “Waiting for the Light to Shine” from “Big River” Big River is my most favorite musical. In this story, Huck Finn is making his way through life and waiting for the “Light” to shine that will tell him what life is all about. Just as Huck is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan avatar

    A Star & A Sceptre Series

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Dec 21, 2023
     | 1,484 views

    The much awaited Advent of Messiah had already took place in History but still the Jews look for HIM. Poor and Pathetic Jews. They missed the Mark and a became people searching Messiah in a Dark place. Behold the Messiah forever.

    Text: Numbers 24:15-19 Theme: Star & Scepter Greetings: My heartfelt Christmas wishes. God bless all of you with the Christ’s Peace and favour. May the Glory of God shine on and around you. It’s a time of white gifts to the Unknown for a good cause. The joy Advent of Christ is celebrated, ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Christopher Benfield avatar

    The Light Of The World Series

    Contributed by Christopher Benfield on Sep 8, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,791 views

    Light has the ability to penetrate and permeate the darkness. When light is introduced, darkness has to flee. Darkness and light cannot inhabit the same position. There are times when barriers prevent light from reaching darkness, but once it does, the darkness is gone.

    The Light of the World Matthew 5: 14-16 We are continuing our study of the Sermon on the Mount. This is the longest recorded message we have that our Savior preached. It was given to the disciples, the followers of Jesus, and reveals much practical application to the lives we live. In our last ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rene Perez avatar

    The Light Has Come Series

    Contributed by Rene Perez on Jan 8, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,949 views

    Jesus came into the world to save the world from darkness, and he has chosen us to be the light of this world.

    Today, we are concluding our dark side revealed series. We talked about: • DS of religion & how Satan still deceives people into believing something that is not true • DS of sexuality and about God’s standards & how God’s desire is for us to be holy • DS of human ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    What Did God Do When The Lights Went Out

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Sep 19, 2011
     | 3,862 views

    I THOUGHT THAT THIS MORNING, WE WOULD FIND OUT WHAT GOD DID WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT. WE PROBABLY HUNKERED DOWN, LIT CANDLES, PULLED OUT FLASHLIGHTS, SEARCH FOR OTHER HOUSING, OR A VARIETY OF OTHER THINGS. WHILE SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURE, I FOUND SEVERAL

    WHAT DID GOD DO WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT A Survey through the Scripture concerning God and Darkness INTRODUCTION: THIS HAS BEEN SOME SORT OF WEEK HASN’T IT? THIS WEEK OUR LITTLE AREA OF THE WORLD HAS SURVIVED AN EARTHQUAKE, A HURRICANE NAMED IRENE AND A TORNADO. ALL THAT IS LEFT IS FOR A ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    People Of Light

    Contributed by John Mccormack on Nov 21, 2014
     | 4,524 views

    BELIEVERS MUST BE LIGHT IN A DARK WORLD.

    PEOPLE OF LIGHT OBSERVATION: PAUL’S LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS WAS A SUMMARY OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE TO RESCUE US FROM THE OLD LIFE AND ASSURES A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. GOD WILL EMPOWER YOU TO LIVE THAT LIFE. INTERPRETATION: EPHESIANS 5:11 (NKJV) AND HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Protecting Your Torch Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Feb 21, 2001
    based on 271 ratings
     | 13,155 views

    How to keep our light shining

    There is a sense of finality to the scene in Survivor when Jeff Probst walks over to someone’s torch, says, “The tribe has spoken” and snuffs out the persons flame. There is a sense of finality when as believers we see another believer whose life style is in direction contradiction to the commands ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    You Are The Light

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Apr 27, 2022
     | 1,628 views

    The world is in utter darkness and we need to become the light, are you listening to me? Shine bright!

    Light Matthew 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden..” Florence Nightingale, Founder of modern nursing and known as the ‘Lady with a lamp’, got saved at the age of 16; while reading a wonderful book, she experienced a spiritual new birth. A few months ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Isaac Butterworth avatar

    Reflecting The Light Of Love

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 30, 2022
     | 2,482 views

    The darkness in this world spreads, but the light of Christ shines. And it illumines us and radiates through us to the world.

    I want to draw your attention again to the beginning of this passage, where it say, “When he had gone out…” (John 13:31). Who is John talking about here? Who is it that has just “gone out”? It’s Judas, isn’t it? If you rewind a few verses in this thirteenth chapter of John, you see that Jesus is ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Stephen Funderburk avatar

    There's A Light At The End Of The Darkness

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Mar 25, 2007
    based on 24 ratings
     | 9,663 views

    Jesus is a light for people in darkness, faciing death, facing discouragement in life.

    Intro: in any service there are those who are facing difficult times, hard situations. It may be spiritual, physical, financial, a relationship where there is hurt or rejection or loss. Sometimes these things can become a cloud, an oppression, a darkness that surrounds the soul. That is why the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Bill Burnett avatar

    Jesus, The Light Of The World

    Contributed by Bill Burnett on Dec 3, 2006
    based on 37 ratings
     | 15,089 views

    How Jesus came to be a light to a dark world.

    JESUS... THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 1:4-5 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (NKJ) John 1:9 (Jesus)... was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. (NKJ) John ...read more

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    Denomination: Foursquare

  • Thomas Andrufski avatar

    Thy Light And Thy Truth

    Contributed by Thomas Andrufski on Jan 30, 2021
     | 3,319 views

    People today are telling lies and blocking truth in such a way that it has spun our world into a whirlwind of confusion (Note: Taken from the "Day's of Praise" devotion and expanded into a sermon"

    Psalms 43:3 (KJV) O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. People today are telling lies and blocking truth in such a way that it has spun our world into a whirlwind of confusion, And it’s getting to the Point that the ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God