The Light in the World
Two millennia ago, Jesus Christ was credited with saying “You are the Light of the World." This phrase was not limited to only a few but meant for each and every person in attendance. Yet, after all these years, we still endeavor to hide our Light from the World.
This Sunday, Russell Jackman, our ministerial intern, reflects on how we can more deeply see God in and as ourselves and in and as one another, allowing us to throw off our self-imposed limitations and reveal the fullness of our Light in the World.
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Sermon Notes
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
—Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Some years ago a famous novelist died. Among his papers was found a list of suggested plots for future stories, the most prominently underscored being this one: “A widely separated family inherits a house in which they have to live together.” This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu—a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr. in The World House
“Resistance brings pain and problems. But agreement with the good in any person or situation is the beginning of harmony and well being.”
—Rev. Winifred Hausman, A Guide to Love Powered Living
“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.”
—Matthew 5: 14-15
“No matter what shortcomings seem to be manifested in your life, by keeping your mind on the Christ perfection you will bring the true conditions into manifestation.”
—Lowell Fillmore
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
—President Jimmy Carter
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
— C.S. Lewis
“As we establish an enduring consciousness of good, evil disappears as darkness before light.”
—Charles Fillmore, The Revealing Word