Being a Light for Christ
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | You are the light of the world. |
| 0:03.7 | Matthew 5, verse 14. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.3 | Being a light for Christ was written and read by Kirsten Holmberg. |
| 0:24.9 | Matthew chapter 5, verses 13 through 16. |
| 0:28.1 | You are the salt of the earth. |
| 0:33.4 | But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? |
| 0:39.1 | It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. |
| 0:45.9 | You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand and it gives |
| 0:52.2 | light to everyone in the house. |
| 1:00.2 | In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven. |
| 1:04.9 | Being a light for Christ. |
| 1:08.5 | When schools around the globe sent their students home for health and safety during the |
| 1:14.6 | coronavirus pandemic, their buildings and stadiums stood empty. |
| 1:20.6 | While acknowledging that many were experiencing greater afflictions from the virus, teachers |
| 1:26.6 | sought ways to show their students they missed them and to encourage them to press on through a difficult time. |
| 1:34.1 | Many schools initiated what they called the Be the Light challenge, in which they burned the empty stadium's lights each night. |
| 1:44.0 | During his earthly life, Jesus issued his own kind of |
| 1:48.5 | be the light challenge, saying that we who follow him are to let our light shine before others. |
| 1:56.1 | His charge had a loftier goal than encouragement or moral support. Instead, our willingness to reveal the light |
| 2:05.1 | he's put in us shows the watching world who God is. The way we live our lives, in both word and |
| 2:14.6 | deed, reveals the hope Jesus gives us, making it visible to all those around us, |
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