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Showing posts with label Light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Light. Show all posts
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Sermon Video: The Light that was seen from afar, Matthew 2:1-2,9b-11

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  The Light seen by the Magi of the East is powerfully symbolic in Matthew's Gospel.  This astronomical phenomenon brought them on a lon...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Sermon Video: How the impending return of Jesus affects our lives now - Romans 13:11-14

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The Apostle Paul's confident assertion in the previous passage that Love is the fulfillment of the Law, is to be integrated into our liv...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Light vs Darkness and the reason why Christians should be perpetual optimists

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  John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have ov...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Ronald Reagan was wrong, America is not a "city on a hill", it never could be.

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When you ignore the context of the Bible to apply it in a way that works for you, bad things happen.  I liked Ronald Reagan as a President, ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Sermon Video: His own did not receive him - John 1:6-11

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  Following his soaring introductory paragraph, John speaks of the precursor of the Light of Mankind, John the Baptist, and his work to prep...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Sermon Video: The Light Shines in the Darkness - John 1:1-5

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 Where does the Christmas story begin?  Matthew starts it with a genealogy, Luke with the birth of John the Baptist, and Mark with the minis...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Sermon Video: The Dark Side of Church Leadership - 3 John 9-14

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Having commended Gaius for showing hospitality to the missionaries/teachers that the Apostle John had sent, John next turns his attention to...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Why "winning" as the goal ought to be anathema to Christians

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To 'win', at all cost, and by all means, whether in business, politics, or personal relationships, is an idea embedded in the human ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Sermon Video: In Him we have redemption - Colossians 1:12-14

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The 4th of Paul's examples of what it means to "live a life worthy of the Lord" (The first three were: bearing fruit through g...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Sermon Video: From Darkness to Light - Isaiah 9:2

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In a world mired in moral and spiritual darkness, with humanity hopeless to solve the fundamental problem of our own fallen nature, it was u...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

There are no racists at the Cross

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As recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia remind us, there is a segment of the white supremacist movement that insists upon following in...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Sermon Video: The Sign of Jonah - Luke 11:29-36

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How does God respond to unbelief and doubt?  While it is true that God often shows exceeding amounts of patience, especially to the Lost wh...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Christmas Eve Sermon Video: "the true light that gives light to every man" - John 1:9

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It is fitting that we surround our celebration of Christmas with light, there was much light at the original Christmas, from the brightness ...
Friday, December 14, 2012

The Light of Christ vs. the Darkness of Man's Heart

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Here I was spending my day doing Mustard Seed Missions work, trying to help those in need; polishing up my sermon for Sunday on the birth of...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Sermon Video: "walk in the light" I John 1:5-7

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How do we know the Truth?  What is our guide in the darkness to find our way to the light?  John writes that God IS light.  He has no darkne...