Eternity Church Podcast

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. Have you ever had a lightbulb moment? That second in time when the complex unsolvable challenge before you seamlessly fell into place. It’s the “AHA!” that breaks the silence and confusion with enthusiastic joy. It’s the cartoon of a cat downcast and under a cloud when his face brightens, his arms shoots into the air and a lightbulb appears illuminated above his head! Lightbulb moments didn’t begin with the invention of electric light. People have had epiphanies for as long as there have been people! For the mathematician Archimedes it was “Eureka!” as he shot from his bath and ran through the city shouting “Eureka!” (meaning I found it!” in Greek) when he finally found out how to solve the question that plagued him. Before the lightbulb, which could bring illumination into the darkest nights, people had to wait for dawn. We still use this language. “I was really wrestling with this situation, and then it dawned on me!” At times like this, when we find ourselves