Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 28, 2005
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Illustration: “In the Dark”
A young soldier and his commanding officer got on a train together. The only available seats were across from an attractive young lady who was traveling with her grandmother. As the four engaged in conversation, the soldier and the young lady kept eyeing one another, as
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
Phillip Brooks wrote in 1837, "Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride, deep in the darkness of crushed despair, in the fretting and dusty atmosphere of little cares, in the hard cruel contacts that man has with man; wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever
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Contributed by Steven Angus on May 19, 2013
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LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Some of you may be familiar with the name Catherine Marshall. She was a wonderful Christian author who wrote such classics as Christy, which became a television series.
There was an occasion in her life when she felt as if the flame of God’s love had gone out. It started
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United Methodist
Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Feb 13, 2011
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THROUGH THE DARKNESS
(John 1:1-14)
It’s a dark night and even though your car headlights are on and shining brightly, you notice how dark it is outside: it’s a dark night.
You have been driving through the night, a long way from your home, but you will soon be home.
Even after your long drive
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
In 1963, my grandfather was serving as the Senior Minister of West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. West End is situated right across the street from Vanderbilt University, and has always been a wealthy, predominately white church.
One communion Sunday, a black
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"Embraced By the Light" or is it more like.... "Embraced By the Darkness?"
The idea of Hell and judgment are nowhere to be found in Betty Eadie’s bestseller, Embraced By The Light, on the N.Y. Times bestseller list. In November 1973, Eadie allegedly died after undergoing a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Have you ever been in on one of those guided tours of any of a number of caves around our country ... like Ruby Falls, or Carlsbad Caverns or another one. Our family went to the Carlsbad Caves in New Mexico years ago. And as they do in so many places, they’ll turn out the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Apr 14, 2022
When It Was Dark
I’m not quite sure how to say this. We have always said in the church that our faith was based upon facts. It was a faith built upon evidence that led us to the facts.
My friends, something has come to light just this past week that is out now in the professional journals and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Nov 5, 2006
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CHILREN’S SERMON
I once heard about a confrontation between a young boy and his mother.
The mother asked her son, "Young man, there were two cookies in the pantry this morning! May I ask how it happened that there’s only one now?"
The boy didn’t flinch but said, "It must’ve been so dark I didn’t
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
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Hell is described as a place of darkness or blackness. The only way I can imagine the total isolation broght on by such complete darkness is the blackness felt deep inside a cavern. I have toured a number of caverns in the United States. Almost every tour I have been on will at some point bring the
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 17, 2000
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*The captain of the ship looked into the dark night and saw faint lights in the distance. Immediately he told his signalman to send a message" "Alter your course 10 degrees south." Promptly a return message was received: "Alter your course 10 degrees north."
The captain was angered; his command had
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Mccoy on Feb 7, 2006
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In the dark of night, a Bedouin in the sands of Arabia was eating dates as he lay in his tent.
As he took a date & bit into it – he found a worm inside.
He bit into another & discovered a worm in it, too.
He tried another…& saw a worm in the next one as well.
There was a worm in
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Baptist
Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 3, 2006
Illustration of Light and Darkness
Somebody has got to tell the world about Jesus and the worlds eternal fate.
Imagine walking into a cave and seeing all of the pit wholes and drop-offs and seeing the danger and possibilities of death and then some one turning off all the lights and imagine the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
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"Immortality is not darkness, for God is light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
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EVEN IF IT’S DARK
He was a strong man facing an enemy beyond his strength. He young wife had become gravely ill, then suddenly passed away, leaving the big man alone with a wide-eyed, flaxen-haired girl, not quite five years old.
The service in the village chapel was simple, and heavy with
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