Sermon: The Dreams of a Boy Who Would Be King
Sermon Series: Echoes  of Jesus in the Life of Joseph
First Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Second Reading: Genesis 37:1-11
Preacher: Pastor David Stancil

"If the heart of ‘meaning’ is a human story, a story of growth, conflict and death, every human story, with all its oddity and ambivalence, becomes open to interpretation in terms of God’s saving work. Once we have stopped drawing a distinction between ‘compromising’ activities and spheres (the family, the state, the individual body or psyche) and ‘pure’ realities (the soul, the intelligible world), the spiritual life becomes a much more complex, demanding and far-reaching matter.

‘Spirituality’  becomes far more than a science of interpreting exceptional private experiences; it must now touch every area of human experience, the public and social, the painful, negative, even pathological byways of the mind, the moral and relational world. And the goal of a Christian life becomes not enlightenment but wholeness – an acceptance of this complicated and muddled bundle of experiences as a possible theatre for God’s creative work."

-ROWAN WILLIMS, The Wound of Knowledge

 

"Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”

-THOMAS MERTON

 

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