Gospel Light Minute X with Daniel Whyte III

He is a motivational speaker who was born with a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs. Growing up, he struggled mentally, emotionally, and physically, but he eventually learned to accept his disability. At the age of 17, he started his own non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs. He gives motivational speeches to schools, churches, and corporate audiences around the world on living with a disability, hope, and finding meaning in life. He also speaks about his belief that God can use any willing heart to do His work and that God is big enough to overcome any and all disabilities, problems, and difficulties. Along with speaking and writing, he starred in the short film "The Butterfly Circus", which won the Doorpost Film Project's top prize of 2009, and the Best Short Film award at the Method Fest Film Festival, where he was also awarded Best Actor in a short film. Born into a Serbian family in Brisbane, Australia, he says his parents struggled with accepting him and trusting God after he was born. As years passed, he too struggled with trusting God for himself. He said, "I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably have peace until You're in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn't You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.' At age 8, he tried to commit suicide by drowning himself in a bathtub, but his love for his parents wouldn't let him do it. Soon after, his mother had him read a story about a severely disabled man. That man's story made a huge impact on him. He says, "I gave my life to Jesus Christ when I read John chapter 9 at age 15, where a man who was blind from birth was coming through a village. Jesus saw him. People said, 'Why was this man born that way?' Jesus said, 'It was done so that the works of God may be revealed through him.'" It was in Jesus Christ where he found the strength to do what many thought would be impossible. He says of his faith in God, "I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation...I thank God that He didn't answer my prayer when I was begging him for arms and legs at age eight. Because guess what? I have no arms and no legs, and He's using me all around the world...I didn't need my circumstance to change. I don't need arms and legs. I need the wings of the Holy Spirit. I'm flying, because I know Jesus is holding me up. Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you." His name is Nick Vujicic (vor-chick).

Nick Vujicic: No Limbs, but No Limits through Jesus Christ! (Gospel Light Minute #59)

Break Up Your Fallow Ground: It is Time to Seek the Lord (Part 4)

GLMX #104: God Cares for You

He qualified for the PGA Tour after his tie for seventh place at the 2008 PGA Tour Qualifying School. In 2011, he won the PGA Tour at the Wyndham Championship and the FedEx Cup playoff event at the Deutsche (Dou-ch) Bank Championship. He was also a member of the United States' victorious 2011 Presidents Cup team. After his win at the 2012 U.S. Open, he was quick to give God the glory. He said, "I’d be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because it was tough out there and I was nervous, but I felt God's presence all day." Ryan Carson, the student pastor at Forest Hills Church in Charlotte, NC, where he and his wife are members, said of him, "He knows that his hope is not in golf. He knows that his hope is in the Lord, and that perspective has really kept him grounded. He is not someone who just calls himself a Christian then just attends church. He's got a passionate pursuit of Jesus going on. It's something that is really contagious. He steers conversations back to the Lord, back to Scripture, back to experiences that he's had with the Lord or that other people have had. He's passionate about it. He's not just a nominal Christian. He's truly got a life that wants to honor and serve Jesus." He described how his faith directly plays into golf ethics by saying, "Our deposit of the Holy Spirit living inside of us, more than anything, has allowed me to make those tough decisions. It’s happened probably 10 times in my life where I had to make certain calls and call penalty shots on myself. For me, it’s not as much the nature of the game but the fact that the Holy Spirit is prompting me to call a penalty on myself. Within our own nature, we don’t want to call a penalty on ourselves. We want to see how much we can get away with. That’s been a part of every tough decision I’ve made in golf." His name is Webb Simpson.

So many people often think that salvation through Jesus Christ is complicated and difficult to gain. However, the Bible tells us of an event in the Old Testament that shows us how simple and easy salvation through Christ really is. Numbers 21:5-9 states: "And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." In this passage from Numbers, God beautifully illustrates the wonderful story of salvation through Jesus Christ to Moses and the children of Israel. The serpent was a representation of the curse that God had placed upon Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden when they sinned against Him. This curse is the curse of sin and it remains on the earth to this very day. But when Jesus died, he was made a curse for us so that through Him we can experience freedom and eternal life. Galatians 3:13-14 tells us, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ." Because the curse of all of our sin was laid upon Jesus Christ and He took it to Calvary, we can receive the promise of eternal life in Heaven with God if we believe on Jesus through faith. The pole in this passage is a representation of the cross. Just as the serpent was put on the pole for all of the Israelites to look upon and live, Jesus Christ was put upon the cross for all of the world to look on, believe in and have eternal life. When the children of Israel looked at the serpent on the pole, they were actually believing that if they just looked at the serpent they would be delivered from the plague that had come upon them. My friend, you can do the same thing today. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins, and all you have to do to make sure you have eternal life and will live forever with Jesus in Heaven is to look to Him and trust Him, depend upon Him, and believe in Him for salvation. Isaiah 45:22 says, "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." You can look to Jesus and be saved right now, today for "today is the day of salvation". It may have been difficult for God and Jesus, but he made it easy for us -- all you have to do is look and live. + Plus, listen to The Michael Fletcher Chorale singing "Look and Live"

Revelation 7:9: "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands." On last Sunday, June 17, we heard the sad news that Rodney King, the man at the center of the infamous Los Angeles police beating died. Because of the racially charged nature of the case, when four white police officers were acquitted of brutally beating him, Los Angeles erupted in riots and violence. By the time the riots ended, 53 people had died; 2,383 people had been injured; there had been more than 7,000 fires; 3,100 businesses had been damaged; and there was nearly $1 billion in financial losses. Smaller riots had also been sparked in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and other cities. In the middle of the mayhem, Rodney King appeared on television, and offered his now-famous question: "Can we all get along?" Just this past week, however, America saw a tremendous example of unity and harmony at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans, LA. The Southern Baptist Convention, an organization which was formed largely to protect the rights of Southern slave-holders in 1845 and is still majority white, enthusiastically elected a black pastor, Rev. Fred Luter, to serve as its president. Many ministers expressed that this was a God-ordained move and one that would be of great benefit to the Southern Baptist Convention. Here we see two very different examples: one of people not being able to get along with each other, rioting, looting, and damaging other people's property. The other is an example of people putting their differences behind them and coming together in unity and harmony. Allow me to point out three observations from these events.

Sunday Evening Evangelistic Message #66 Scripture: Hosea 10:9-13 Last week, based on a list of sins which Charles G. Finney gave in his classic sermon titled "Break Up Your Fallow Ground: It is Time to Seek the Lord", we began pinpointing some of the sins which we as the church need to confess and repent of. We discussed the sins of 1. ingratitude 2. a lack of love for God 3. neglect of the Bible 4. unbelief 5. and a neglect of prayer. If you missed that sermon, I want to encourage you to go online to sundayeveningevangelistichour.com and listen to it when you get the chance. This week, we are continuing this series by addressing the next three sins in our list. 1. The first sin we will address today is a neglect of Christian fellowship. 2. The second sin we will address today is not having the right attitude when doing God's work. 3. The third sin we will address today is having a lack of love for our fellow human beings and the souls of the lost. + Plus, listen to The Jackson Southernaires singing "Lord, I'm Coming Home" and Israel Houghton singing "I Surrender All"

He qualified for the PGA Tour after his tie for seventh place at the 2008 PGA Tour Qualifying School. In 2011, he won the PGA Tour at the Wyndham Championship and the FedEx Cup playoff event at the Deutsche (Dou-ch) Bank Championship. He was also a member of the United States' victorious 2011 Presidents Cup team. After his win at the 2012 U.S. Open, he was quick to give God the glory. He said, "I’d be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because it was tough out there and I was nervous, but I felt God's presence all day." Ryan Carson, the student pastor at Forest Hills Church in Charlotte, NC, where he and his wife are members, said of him, "He knows that his hope is not in golf. He knows that his hope is in the Lord, and that perspective has really kept him grounded. He is not someone who just calls himself a Christian then just attends church. He's got a passionate pursuit of Jesus going on. It's something that is really contagious. He steers conversations back to the Lord, back to Scripture, back to experiences that he's had with the Lord or that other people have had. He's passionate about it. He's not just a nominal Christian. He's truly got a life that wants to honor and serve Jesus." He described how his faith directly plays into golf ethics by saying, "Our deposit of the Holy Spirit living inside of us, more than anything, has allowed me to make those tough decisions. It’s happened probably 10 times in my life where I had to make certain calls and call penalty shots on myself. For me, it’s not as much the nature of the game but the fact that the Holy Spirit is prompting me to call a penalty on myself. Within our own nature, we don’t want to call a penalty on ourselves. We want to see how much we can get away with. That’s been a part of every tough decision I’ve made in golf." His name is Webb Simpson.

Break Up Your Fallow Ground: It is Time to Seek the Lord (Part 3)

Webb Simpson: “I’d be Stupid Not to Thank My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (Gospel Light Minute #58)

GLMX #103: Look and Live

Rodney King, Rev. Fred Luter, the Southern Baptist Convention, and "Can We All Get Along?"

Sunday Evening Evangelistic Message #65 Hosea 10:9-13 Today, we are going to pinpoint some of the sins in the church that we need to confess and repent of. This message will not be theoretical. This is an action message. If you are not willing to act upon what I am talking about, then you may not want to hear what I have to say. By the end of this message, I want you to examine your heart, confess all hidden sin, and have your fallow ground -- your hard, unused, unproductive ground -- broken up. It is time to break up our fallow ground because it is time to seek the Lord. You see, beloved, you don't have any fruit in your life because you have fallow ground that you have to deal with. 1. First of all, let's look at the sin of ingratitude. 2. The second sin is a lack of love for God 3. The third sin is a neglect of the Bible 4. The fourth sin is the sin of unbelief 5. The fifth sin is the neglect of prayer + Plus, listen to MercyMe as they sing "Bring The Rain" and Chris Tomlin singing "Give Us Clean Hands".

Sunday Evening Evangelistic Message #65 Hosea 10:9-13 Today, we are going to pinpoint some of the sins in the church that we need to confess and repent of. This message will not be theoretical. This is an action message. If you are not willing to act upon what I am talking about, then you may not want to hear what I have to say. By the end of this message, I want you to examine your heart, confess all hidden sin, and have your fallow ground -- your hard, unused, unproductive ground -- broken up. It is time to break up our fallow ground because it is time to seek the Lord. You see, beloved, you don't have any fruit in your life because you have fallow ground that you have to deal with. 1. First of all, let's look at the sin of ingratitude. 2. The second sin is a lack of love for God 3. The third sin is a neglect of the Bible 4. The fourth sin is the sin of unbelief 5. The fifth sin is the neglect of prayer + Plus, listen to MercyMe as they sing "Bring The Rain" and Chris Tomlin singing "Give Us Clean Hands".