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Can You Spot The Kingdom?

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This week my buddy Jason and I took our youth groups to West Virginia for an annual Ski Trip. He decided to theme our worship service lessons on a phrase that he heard in a North Face commercial. "Never Stop Exploring" was the phrase. We took this idea and each developed a couple of sermons to use in our worship service times on the trip. I decided to take this catchy little phrase "Never Stop Exploring" and use it to talk about the Kingdom of Heaven. It took me days of searching through my bible before I was absolutely sure which scripture I was going to use. After much debate I finally ended up deciding on Matthew 13:44   44  “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.    I started off my first sermon by talking about what I look like trying to play golf. I went on to say that most of the time I step up to the tee box I drive the ball i