“Jesus came into his own country.”  He’s has now left the place where he healed Jairus’ daughter and the hemorrhaging women and has returned to Nazareth. It’s the place where he grew up and spent the first thirty years of his life. He’s come home, back to His hometown.

I have often spoke about the little town I grew up in.  I knew most everyone there.  I had the same friends year after year after year.  I graduated high school with many of the same kids I had known since first grade. I knew everyone and everyone knew me. There’s was a closeness. We had a history; a common bond. I wonder what your hometown experience was like.

But today I want to talk about more than a geographical location. More than old memories from a scrap book.  This hometown I speak of tonight isn’t something outside of us, it’s within us. It’s the place we form our routines and habits, attitudes, beliefs, opinions, prejudices, assumptions, and values.  This hometown is a lens through which we see the world, one another, and ourselves. This is our internal hometown and it shapes who we are and how we live.  It’s our place of comfort and familiarity.  It is that place inside your own skin where you feel you belong; your internal hometown.

Join Dr. T. D. Worthington for this week's message "My Hometown."