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We’re going to be looking at several texts this week. First, let’s pray. PRAYER Sovereign LORD, Sure Foundation, Mighty Deliverer, Holy God - the names used for you throughout Scripture remind us again and again that you are our Creator God. We need a touch of your healing this morning. We need a word…

We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves…

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. 1 Now there…

In 1973, Warner Brothers released a movie called the Exorcist that set the standard for the way we have seen demon possession for the past fifty years. The studio did not expect the movie to perform that well, but it ended up being a massive success. The movie changed the way people thought about demon…

The Second Divine Rebellion Making Our Own Imagers When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever,…

Glorious Dark Night Last week we looked at the beginning of John 13 . We examined Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. And in that act we talked about the intense love and humility that Jesus Demonstrated. After Jesus had washed the feet of his Disciples he told them that their lives need to be marked…

God created the world, He said that it is very good. Then He created man, man was very good. Man walked and lived in the light of God until one day when we fell to the wiles of the devil. When man desired to be like God more than we enjoyed being with God. We fell into darkness. There was hope that was…

David’s “Night Season” ch. 27 no trust in Saul’s word living amongst the Philistines “getting by” the best he can (serving Achish- sort of) David is Rejected ch. 29 Philistines gather for war with Judah (v1-2) Philistine generals reject David as a security threat (v3-5) Achish send David home (v 6-11)…

1 Samuel 27:1-12 Fear - “I will perish one day by the hand of Saul” Escape - “I should escape to the land of my enemies God told him to stay in Judah (22:5) he tries Achish again (21:10-15) last time they started to turn on him so he pretended to be insane Getting by - “give me a place to live” : Ziklag…

Darkness can be teh Doorway to Great Measures of Grace.

Read 1 Sam 31 Depth of Despair v. 4 Spread of Despair v. 5 v. 7 Trophies are taken Saul’s head (Goliath’s head) Saul’s armor (Goliath’s sword) The Judgements of God are Sure banishment from the garden plagues of Egypt punishment of the rebellion against Moses 70 years captivity for 490 years without…

When You See Darkness... Back in the day, when we had Bibles that had paper pages, it was not difficult to see the personal Bible of fellow Christians. What I mean by that is that if you were to take a person’s Bible and hold it up, it would be easy to see what their personal canon was, that is the books…

LIGHT… it is just fitting around this time of year. In the winter months we seem to miss the light more than ever. In our home we have a tradition where we load up in the car, sometimes we pack hot chocolate, we turn on Christmas music and we go driving around looking for Christmas lights. Sometimes…

Paul challenges Christ's followers to recognise the gulf between the darkness of the world around them and the light of Christ in them. If we recognise the difference, and the dangers of the dark, then we will cherish the light in ourselves and one another. But how do we live as children of light?

Introduction: Transition: Any small thoughts that we may have of God are magnificently transcended by this psalm; yet for all its height and depth it remains intensely personal from first to last. God sees it all Vs. 1-6 He see it all. He see all of you. Like a giant search light, nothing has escaped…

Esther 2:1–18 (CSB) 1 Some time later, when King Ahasuerus’s rage had cooled down, he remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what was decided against her. 2 The king’s personal attendants suggested, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. 3 Let the king appoint commissioners…

To Him Who Sits on the Throne Our theme verse today is Revelation 5:13 . 13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the…

Introduction Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Bat show at dusk. Going out to eat! 1,200 mosquitoes per hour - 6 - 8,000 per night! Each bat! You might think that there is not life in caves other than the bats that sleep their during the daylight hours. Troglobites. Spiders, crickets, mites, and scorpions…

Crepuscular Light Beautiful What do you call it? systematic, scientific explanation for why light behaves in this way we can box it away, explain it away, maximise our intelligence and minimise teh mystery, but we cannot escape the beauty Patterns & control human beings are funny kind of people. We think…

Christ turns darkness to light and this message must be told.

For several weeks, we have been singing that great song from Andrew Peterson and Ben Shive, Is He Worthy? We have explored each of the three verses through the lens of a series of messages “Out of the Darkness...” The 1st verse : Do you feel the world is broken? Do you feel the shadows deepen? But do…

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Light plays an important role in our world.... Have you ever been to a Broadway play? Or, A play of any kind… you know… highschool… college… whatever....? One pastor relates the time she had the privilege of attending a broadway…

Hope in the Darkness Ruth 1:1–10 “During the time of the judges, there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.(Now the man’s name was Elimelech, his wife was Naomi, and his two sons…

As the 2nd Coming approaches, we should shine as light in a dark world.

The Bible tells us that the gentle actions of those who follow Jesus shine like stars in a dark world.