Sermon in Audio: Bondage and Awakening

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This past Sunday I preached a sermon on St. Paul's Letter to the Romans (eighth chapter).  

You can listen to the audio of my sermon here

You can find the text of my sermon here.

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The Biblical text that I was expounding upon is this one (Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 8 verses 1-11):

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law--indeed it cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

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  • Comment Link Gerard McDonough Friday, 15 July 2011 18:26 posted by Gerard McDonough

    Chris -

    Your sermon made an impression on a new parishioner (Margaret Ferguson), who linked it to me. I read it and have been mulling over your description of "sarx." Here's a result of my ruminations:

    "Contracted Bodymind"

    Body-bound brain
    Depraved cave
    Inbred instinct
    Innate animality
    Impulsive implosion
    Seductive obstruction
    Corporeal captivation
    Banal stimulation
    Distraction reaction
    Contraction attraction
    Conditioned attrition
    Addictive fiction
    Alienated degeneration
    Seashell self-deception
    Echoing skull-hull
    Concave conscious
    Headlong short-sightedness
    Illusioned dissolution
    Gross engrossment
    Petty pull of meager mind
    Thought-less-ness
    Care-less-ness
    Consumer tumor
    Corpus derelicti
    Reflex simplex
    Reduction seduction
    Shabby habit
    Mundane brain drain
    Alienated sameness
    Homeless aloneness
    Stranded driftwood
    Private prison
    Confined ferality
    Gravity of depravity
    Circumscribed vibe
    Closed meeting
    Voluntary mind-slaughter
    Thus far - no further
    Soul murder

    Curve outward
    To convex complexities.
    Start acting as if;
    Shades of gray matter.
    Shake the hateful weight.
    Surmount the surface-us:
    Transcend the transient.
    Reach through the breach
    Beyond the be;
    We the me.

  • Comment Link Chris Dierkes Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:03 posted by Chris Dierkes

    Gerard,

    thanks for this. Very cool. Seashell self-deception might be my favorite.

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