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God Never Gives Up On Us

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Proper 5 | Ordinary Time 10 - B
1 Samuel 8:4-11 (12-15) 16-20 (11:14-15)
William J. Carl, III
Sermons on the First Readings
Series III, Cycle B
Have you noticed that no matter how much of a mess we make of our lives, God never gives up on us? We try to do the right thing, but fail over and over again. Paul talks openly about the fact that he knows the right thing to do, but just keeps doing the wrong thing. He can't seem to help himself. I guess it all started with the first Adam who got to work early one morning and parked on the line between two parking places so that everyone who came after him has parked on the line ever since. What a mess we humans keep making of things. Theologians call it sin and it touches us all.

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