{"id":2165,"date":"2025-12-14T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:16:17","slug":"the-transforming-power-of-light-what-child-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"The Transforming Power of Light  ::  WHAT CHILD IS THIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 12\/7\/25 by Pastor Steve Shields. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the most important thing God ever said? <\/strong>Listen as Pastor Steve discussed John 1:5-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Banquet-Sermon-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Banquet-Sermon-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Banquet-Sermon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Banquet-Sermon-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Banquet-Sermon-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Banquet-Sermon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Light is unstoppable.<\/strong>  The Light cannot be extinguished by darkness.  The Light cannot be understood by darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Light is real and genuine. <\/strong> &#8220;Stand up guys&#8221; say Jesus is the Light.  What would you do if you saw that you were going to be martyred unless you turned away from Jesus?  You and I witness for the Light&#8217;s genuineness.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Light is for you. <\/strong> John 1:11-13 speaks of this transformation which is essential.  Those who reject it don&#8217;t get it.  <strong>The transformation is here for you. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4599\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2165-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20251207TheTransformingPowerOfLightWHATCHILDISTHIS.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20251207TheTransformingPowerOfLightWHATCHILDISTHIS.mp3\">https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20251207TheTransformingPowerOfLightWHATCHILDISTHIS.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20251207TheTransformingPowerOfLightWHATCHILDISTHIS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=2165-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20251207TheTransformingPowerOfLightWHATCHILDISTHIS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20251207TheTransformingPowerOfLightWHATCHILDISTHIS.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 12\/7\/25 by Pastor Steve Shields. What is the most important thing God ever said? Listen as Pastor Steve discussed John 1:5-13. The Light is unstoppable. The Light cannot be extinguished by darkness. The Light cannot be understood by darkness. The Light is real and genuine. &#8220;Stand up guys&#8221; say Jesus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Transforming Power of Light  ::  WHAT CHILD IS THIS?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[430,428],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-unstoppablelight","tag-whatchildisthis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-yV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}