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Recent Sermons
January 22, 2012 — “The Kingdom is at Hand”
  When I was a young boy, I didn’t like the nighttime. After I went to bed, I was afraid of the darkness. I was afraid that something in the darkness might pounce on me. I imagined that poisonous snakes might be under my bed or else a monster might be hiding in the closet. I hated the darkness because I thought that bad things almost always happened at night.
In the Scriptures, darkness is often associated with evil, sin, and all things bad. But 700 years before the arrival of Jesus, the prophet Isaiah spoke of a great light coming into the deep darkness of sin–infested Galilee. Regarding the Galilean regions of Zebulon and Naphtali, Isaiah says, “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.”
January 15, 2012 — Following Jesus
It was an amazing thing, really. First, John and Andrew followed Jesus. Then came Simon Peter, Andrew’s brother. The next day, Jesus said to Philip, “Follow me!”1 And he did! Soon thereafter came Nathanael (sometimes called Bartholomew). And in due time, a small band of 12 commoners became apostles of the Man who was more than a carpenter. They dropped everything to follow him.
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