Christ Community Brookside
The Light - 9:00 & 10:45am
John 1:4-13 ESV
Title: The Light
Scripture: John 1:4-13
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@ChristCommunityKC.org
“I thought then, and I think now, that Osama bin Laden was a near-flawless personification of the mentality of a real force: the force of Islamic jihad. And I also thought, and think now, that this force absolutely deserves to be called evil.” - Christopher Hitchens
>> There is a darkness we cannot deny.
Isaiah 8:19-22 ESV
>> The darkness we cannot deny.
>> A light that cannot be overcome.
“This baby would be like the bright star shining the sky that night. A Light to light up the whole world. Chasing away the darkness. Helping people to see. And the darker the night got, the brighter the star would shine.”
- Sally Lloyd Jones, Jesus Storybook Bible
>> Walk in the light or we’ll be lost in darkness.
1. Receive the light.
2. Embrace the ways of the light.
3. Bear witness to the light.
“This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?” -The Thin Red Line
“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” - Madeleine L’Engle