I am not good at picking out titles for my sermons. Mostly I just take a line from one of the morning’s scriptures as my title. I did not do that this morning. I was not trying to be flippant, but I did want to provoke you to think about sin, especially during this season of Lent.
A lot of people think that the Scriptures are about sin and only about sin and sometimes only about one sort of sin. Some people would have us focus on violence and war as the primary sin about which we should be concerned. There are people very concerned about sexual sins, perhaps mostly about same sex relationships which they regard as sinful. I disagree, but there are such people. There are people who want to talk about economic sins, where powerful rich people keep others poor and powerless.
Well, the Bible talks about sin. Jesus talks about sin. I am going to jump ahead in my sermon for just a second to say that I am one of those folks who thinks the Bible is basically about one sin, a sin that can show up in a variety of ways, a variety of sins. Please listen as I try to make the case for that argument. Read more…