Sermon Topic: Light

To Shine in a Dark Place

Date: October 30th, 1966  |  Scripture: Matthew 6:19-27  |  Topics: Downtown Church, Light, Ministry, Missions

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. IfContinue Reading


The Signs of the Times

Date: October 30th, 1966  |  Scripture: Matthew 16:1-3  |  Topics: Guidance, Light, Symbols, Witness

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?


Jesus the Light of the World

Date: December 25th, 1966  |  Scripture: John 1:4  |  Topics: Incarnation, Light, Nativity

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.


The Knowledge of the Glory of God

Date: March 12th, 1967  |  Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:6-17  |  Topics: Christ, Glory, Light, Regeneration, Spirituality, Symbol

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the lContinue Reading


The Knowledge of the Glory of God

Date: March 12th, 1967  |  Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:6-17  |  Topics: Creation, Eternity, Glory, Human Effort, Light, Nativity, Spirituality, Suffering, Word

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the lContinue Reading


The Light of the Lord

Date: June 13th, 1976  |  Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-3  |  Topics: Jesus, Kingdom, Light, Millennium

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.


The Light of the Lord

Date: June 13th, 1976  |  Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-3  |  Topics: Jesus, Kingdom, Light, Millennium

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.


Jesus: The Light of the World

Date: December 14th, 1986  |  Scripture: John 1:1-5  |  Topics: Islam, Jesus, Life, Light, Love, Rejection, darkness

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.


Jesus: The Light of the World

Date: December 14th, 1986  |  Scripture: John 1:4  |  Topics: Islam, Jesus, Life, Light, Love, Rejection, darkness

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.


Jesus, the Light of the World

Date: October 25th, 1987  |  Scripture: John 9:1-41  |  Topics: Blindness, Deity, Islam, Jesus, Light, Miracles, Signs

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the groContinue Reading