Sermon: The Betrayal of Brothers
Sermon Series: Echoes  of Jesus in the Life of Joseph
First Reading: Luke 4:31-41
Second Reading: Genesis 37:12-36
Preacher: Pastor Vito Aiuto

"If to love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal."

-C.S. LEWIS

"Whether or not one believes in [God’s redeeming glory], or has faith in its final advent, or can in fact “see” it even now through the veil of death and our estrangement from God (though, I suspect, that all of us see it at times, whether our internal dispositions permit us to recognize what we see or not), one should be able to grasp that it is not a glory immediately revealed in cosmic or human history, but is rather one that appears before, alongside, within, and beyond that history, always present, yet also for now deferred, and so visible to us only “through a glass, darkly” (I Cor. 13:12).  This glory is not simply the hidden rationality of history, but a contrary history that pervades and that will finally overwhelm the world of our fallenness. It is not the sublime or sacred logic of nature, but what shines through the promise of nature's loveliness, a beauty of which nature as we now know it is only a spectral remnant or a delightful foretaste."

-DAVID BENTLEY HART, The Doors of the Sea

 

 

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