Sin (409)
  1. I’m a life-long New Yorker, and I have the pleasure of working minutes from the neighborhood I grew up in as a boy.
  2. In the beginning, we read about the invention of religion. It begins simply enough in Genesis 3
  3. We tell our children if they work hard and play by the rules, they’ll succeed in life. Jerks, cheaters, and thieves won’t. They’ll end up in the gutter. Or jail. Or worse.
  4. I’ve had a lot of nasty things done to me in my 43 years of life. Many of which were done by church people while we were worshipping and serving Jesus together.
  5. But there is something far more serious and important: being reconciled to our Father in Heaven.
  6. The devil isn’t a popular subject nowadays. The argument is made that we’ve progressed as a culture.
  7. All of these episodes should be personal, to some extent. After all, these aren't static, other-worldly doctrines but we are dealing with the message of life itself. But there is something especially personal about taking the whole theological enterprise and focusing it on your own particular problem: sin. And not abstract sin, but the real stuff.
  8. I am often haunted by my past. I am daily haunted by what I should be doing.
  9. Jesus’ forgiveness will not collapse. Jesus’ forgiveness will take us places our legs can’t take us.
  10. Our goal is to proclaim the genuine good news—that’s what “Gospel” means—of Christ’s forgiveness for you. We do not offer you better tips, techniques or checklists. Instead, You Are Forgiven is sermons by faithful pastors who will clearly show how you cannot be forgiven by your own efforts, no matter how well you do on your homework, your checklist of tasks. But they will also show how you are actually and already forgiven because Jesus has done all that is needed, for you!
  11. The Christian sees himself or herself as one just as guilty as the rest of the world. But we see ourselves not just as what’s wrong with the world, but in the One by whom the world has been redeemed.
  12. Would you go to the church on the corner knowing that the pastor is an ex-con?
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