Following the leading of the Holy Spirit, we will enter into a new sermon series NEXT SUNDAY, “A FISHERMAN FROM GALILEE.”  We tend to focus much on the Apostle Paul, and often not much on Peter.  Our focus on Paul is understandable since he wrote so much of the New Testament.  Saul/Paul was brilliant, well-educated, zealous, and ambitious as a young Pharisee (and a Roman citizen!), comfortable among the sophisticated in big cities. Before the Lord Jesus dramatically humbled him, Paul was a man on a mission to gain a position of great influence and power in the religious/political Jewish world of the Pharisees.  It is hard to imagine two men more different from each other than Paul and Peter were.  As a young man (probably a teenager), living in a seaside village in decidedly unsophisticated Galilee, the only mission Peter was on was to put food on the table by working hard in the only livelihood he knew.  Fishing.  It was physically difficult and exhausting work, leaving little time and energy for anything else.  When Simon Peter met Jesus, Peter was doing what he always did.  Fishing.  What was he going to do the next day?  Fishing.  The day after that?  Fishing.  What could Jesus have possibly seen in this man that would lead Him to call him to His side, teach him to fish for men, and make him the leader of His disciples?  We will be looking at Peter’s life, seeking to understand what the Lord can do with us.