Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzel. Thank you for joining us today.

As we walk through life, we begin to realize that not every monster lurks under the bed.

For centuries, demons, and dark spiritual forces have been downplayed as entertaining mythical figures,

while insidious and destructive sins have been disguised as fun and freedom. This message with

Pastor Skip will expose the hidden idols and dangers of our culture and reveal the true freedom

that is found in Christ alone.

This is a series that we're calling monsters in our closet.

This morning, would you turn in your Bibles, please, to the Old Testament Book of Judges.

The Book of Judges, Chapter 17.

This is a message I'm calling Monsters Among Us.

I think you'll see why. This is a message that has calling Monsters Among Us. I think you'll see why.

This is a message that has been on our hearts for some time.

A quick announcement before we begin, and that is, with all of the appeals that we make to your generosity,

and you are so generous with all these projects,

there is another project we have been involved in for decades,

and it is now this season for Operation Christmas Child.

So those are the shoe boxes that we packed with toys

and your address, if you so wish, or with toys and your address, if you so wish,

or your picture of your family, if you so wish.

And these will go to children around the world.

Twelve million of these shoe boxes will go to countries, different languages, different distribution

sites.

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