Hearing The Sermon Again

[Busy day. Church in the morning, my daughter's birthday dinner at Olive Garden in the afternoon, purchasing a new TV technologically compatible with the new DVD recorder we bought a week ago that still doesn't work, just like the digital answering machine we got along with it that doesn't work either. Then I surfed past Blue Collar Comedy Tour III: One For The Road, followed by a new Bill Engvall special and I was done.

Forgive my blogging indolence, though I did know what I was doing. Otherwise I might have to start asking you to take off your shoes upon entering.]

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12 When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He returned to Galilee. 13 Leaving Nazareth, He went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— 14 to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: 15 "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, along the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles — 16 the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned." [a]

17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."

-Matthew 4:12-17