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  • Doug Johnston avatar

    Light In The Darkness Series

    Contributed by Doug Johnston on Jun 7, 2001
    based on 29 ratings
     | 4,232 views

    Instead of hiding our eyes from God’s light, we should approach it and take it for our own use and to light the lives of others.

    Living in darkness: Seen by unclean acts [here, primarily immoral] (1-5) Makes one an object of God’s wrath [active punishment] (6) Joining with disobedient people (7) Is a description of a believer’s former condition (8) We must light the darkness we live in. Approach God’s Light (8-13) As a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jeff Strite avatar

    The Night Of Darkness Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 12, 2004
    based on 61 ratings
     | 9,168 views

    1st Person portrayal of Peter during his imprisonment by Herod and his angelic deliverance.

    (Setting: Peter is kneeling. His wrists are in chains - plastic chains wrapped twice around the wrists with the end held in the palm of each hand. The stage is dark and the lights are bro’t up to half power on this section of the stage.) (These first words are mournful, reflecting the despair that ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Bruce Gebbeken avatar

    A Walk In The Dark

    Contributed by Bruce Gebbeken on Nov 11, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,997 views

    A camping trip opens up to me the powerful insight of the opening words of John.

    A Walk in the Dark John 1:1-9 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Ralph Andrus avatar

    Darkness & The Dawn

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Nov 11, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,188 views

    ❶ Darkness Smoothers Us ❷ Light Transforms Us

    - Photo from space of Earth at night - Where artificial light is and is not - Astronomers hate light around them - They call it Light Pollution John 3:19KJV And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Gordon Curley avatar

    Darkness Or Light

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,209 views

    Jesus & Beelzebub. (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    Reading: chapter 11 verses 14-36 Ill: Dedicated on March 13th 1904 a large statue of Christ; • Was erected high in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. • It is called “Christ of the Andes,” • The statue symbolizes a pledge between the 2 ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Ajai Prakash avatar

    Holes In The Darkness

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 22, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,213 views

    You are the light of the world. As you live out this goodness visibly in front of the people of the world, your life will point them to Jesus where they too can find life that is real life.

    Opening illustration: Robert Lewis Stevenson, peering out of the window saw a workman come by and light the gas lights along the street. When asked what he was watching, the young boy said, “I see a man making holes in the darkness.” Let us turn to Matthew 5 and see how we as believers can make ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    "Heart Of Darkness"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Aug 7, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,286 views

    A sermon about overcoming fear with faith.

    Matthew 14:22-33 “Heart of Darkness” By: Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, Soddy Daisy, TN www.graceumcsd.org Exactly two weeks ago I was cutting the grass in the backyard, when, before I knew what was happening—I was literally covered with about 150 or more yellow ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Thomas Bowen avatar

    Dark Christmas Series

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Jan 21, 2008
     | 3,638 views

    The Magi - gentile are invited to be a part of the family of God.

    Dark Christmas Matthew 2:1-12 Well, like Christmas, this “perspective series” is coming to an end. I hope that won’t mean that you feel like you can put what you have heard away in a box, like decorations, until next Christmas. The Christian point of view is just not that way. Christians ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

  • Sam Evangelista avatar

    Brightness In Darkness

    Contributed by Sam Evangelista on Jun 29, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,289 views

    Born-again believersof Jesus Christ have all the reasons to rejoice even in the midst of hardship and trials of their lives as they continue to love and serve Him because they are assured of the Lord’s unfailing promise: "And surely I am with you always,

    God can bring brightness in the darkest moment of our lives when... 1. Our adversities are God’s opportunities...(vs.12,13) a. For our salvation b. For spiritual maturity c. For mission and evangelism 2. Our situation becomes others’ motivation. (vs.14-18) Paul’s zeal in the ministry ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Decker avatar

    Promises In The Darkness Series

    Contributed by Paul Decker on Dec 9, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,006 views

    Jesus is the Messiah as promised in the Hebrew Scriptures.

    PROMISES IN THE DARKNESS S: Incarnation C: Prophecies fulfilled Th: I Love It When a Plan Comes Together Pr: JESUS IS THE MESSIAH AS PROMISED IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES. ?: How? How do we know? KW: Proofs TS: We will find in our study of Scripture eight proofs that Jesus is the Messiah as promised ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • James Lee avatar

    A Light In The Darkness Series

    Contributed by James Lee on Nov 11, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,659 views

    "A saint is a person who lets the light shine through."

    A young boy went with his parents touring around Europe one summer. Part of their tour included visits to the great old cathedrals of the past. As he visited each cathedral he was impressed by the massive stained glass portraits of the disciples and of other saints. He stood amazed, as the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Christopher Holdsworth avatar

    Darkness And Light

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 28, 2013
    based on 6 ratings
     | 7,034 views

    We must be careful whose image we reflect in our lives.

    DARKNESS AND LIGHT. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6. The Apostle Paul likens the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to a perfume, which to some people - “the saved” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) - is a source of sweetness, light and life. To others - “the lost” (2 Corinthians 4:3) - it is the poignant poisonous ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Candle In The Dark

    Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Nov 23, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,378 views

    A sermon the encourages Christians to be a witness.

    "A Candle In the Dark" Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Introduction: If you want to be a light for Jesus to shine in the dark then you must: ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Chris Appleby avatar

    Darkness Into Light Series

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on Dec 15, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,290 views

    We're the light of the world and children of light. Allow that light to shine brightly in our lives to light up those around us. Let’s expose their deeds as we seek to shine brightly for Jesus, so that they may be quickened and made light themselves.

    This is an image from my childhood that has just stuck with me. It’s from one of those movies that we used to watch over and over again, at least every holiday. It’s from the last of the original, and good, Star Wars movies. In my mind, it’s one of the pivotal scenes from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Out Of The Darkness

    Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Jan 26, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,640 views

    Jesus calls us to bring light into the darkness 

    Matthew 4:16-22 When we proclaim our profession of faith, we say: ‘We believe on One God. . . God from God, Light from Light’. . . I imagine that all of us have been afraid of the dark at some time in our lives. . . afraid of the monster under the bed, . . . the creature in ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal