Sinful
Bad Apple, by Monster Lections: The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 13 ), AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sin. For St Paul, sin is more than a matter of poor choice. Sin is a power in the universe, an enslaving power, that exists somehow beyond himself and yet within himself. Paul is at war with sin and therefore at war with some twisted part of who he is. “The good that I would do, I do not do,” he writes to the Romans. “And the evil I would not do is exactly what I end up doing. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” Sin is our word for all of those powers within us, around us, and beyond us that separate us from the Goodness, Truth, and Beauty of God; powers that pull us away, that divide us, from the harmony intended by God for the flourishing of all Creation. But appearances to the contrary, ...
