{"id":5865,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/seeing-jesus-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:02","slug":"seeing-jesus-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/seeing-jesus-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEING\n  JESUS IN THE DARK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Challenges; Circumstances and Faith; Doubt; Experiencing God; Faith; Fear; Hope; Jesus Christ; Light; Lostness; Mysteries; Overcoming; Presence of God; Promises; Reality; Security in God; Seen and Unseen; Suffering; Trust<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Job 23:10; Psalm 23:4; 27:1; John 16:33; Romans 5:1\u20135; 8:28; James 1:2\u20134; 1 Peter 5:10<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When I was a student at Harvard Divinity School, I learned preaching from Dr. Gardner Taylor, a pastor in New York City. I\u2019ll never forget those lectures. I remember him telling a story from when he was preaching in Louisiana during the Depression. Electricity was just coming into that part of the country, and he was out in a rural, black church that had just one little lightbulb hanging down from the ceiling to light up the whole sanctuary. He was preaching away, and in the middle of his sermon, the electricity went out. The building went pitch-black, and Dr. Taylor didn\u2019t know what to say, being a young preacher. He stumbled around until one of the elderly deacons sitting in the back of the church cried out, \u201cPreach on, preacher! We can still see Jesus in the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Sometimes that\u2019s the only time we can see him\u2014in the dark. And the good news of the gospel is that whether or not we can see him in the dark, he can see us in the dark.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Timothy George, \u201cUnseen Footprints,\u201d Preaching Today Audio, no. 290<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Challenges; Circumstances and Faith; Doubt; Experiencing God; Faith; Fear; Hope; Jesus Christ; Light; Lostness; Mysteries; Overcoming; Presence of God; Promises; Reality; Security in God; Seen and Unseen; Suffering; Trust References: Job 23:10; Psalm 23:4; 27:1; John 16:33; Romans 5:1\u20135; 8:28; James 1:2\u20134; 1 Peter 5:10 When I was a student at Harvard Divinity School, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/seeing-jesus-in-the-dark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SEEING<br \/>\n  JESUS IN THE DARK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}