Two Laws and the Gospel [Jeff McSwain]

Oak Church Sermons

07/22/2018

Romans 8:1-11

Jeff & Susan McSwain

Jeff & Susan are the founders of Reality Ministries, a community-based non-profit that offers a variety of opportunities for participants to work, play, learn and grow together. RM’s mission is to create opportunities for teens and adults with and without developmental disabilities to experience belonging, kinship and life-changing Reality of Christ’s love. The Reality Center is a place where we strive to reflect God’s heart for humanity, a place with no margins where everyone is accepted, valued and celebrated.

“The real (hu)man is not an object either for contempt or for deification, but an object of the love of God.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

“But man has become naturalized in unnatural sin. But it isn’t natural; accustomed, but not natural. A pastor told me that he had ridden his bicycle so long with crooked handbars that when somebody straightened them he fell off. He was naturalized in the unnatural.” -E. Stanley Jones, The Unshakable Kingdom and The Unchanging Person

“Baptism is supposed to have drowned the old Adam, and a joke that Barth liked to make is, ‘It turns out the rascal can swim.’ There’s a certain sense in which Adam is drowned in baptism, but in the time between the times, Adam is trying to pull us back under, and it’s a matter of hiddenness and tension that sin and grace exist in us in an ambiguous and complicated way until that final resolution.” -George Hunsinger quoting Karl Barth

Artworkby Janice Little

That Wasn’t Me by Brandi Carlile

Scripture:

Colossians 2:17

Romans 8:14-8-13

Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:

St. Patrick’s Song by St. Patrick/Alexander/Anderson

All Ye Refugees by McCracken

Your Love is Deep by Smith

Father, Let Your Kingdom Come by The Porter’s Gate Music

Abba by Anderson

I Am For You by Meek/Anderson

Doxology

Pentecost/Holy Spirit Reading:

On the Holy Spiritby St. Basil the Great

Spiritual Theologyby Simon Chan

God, Sexuality, and the Selfby Sarah Coakley

Paul, the Spirit, and the People of Godby Gordon Fee

Presence, Power, & Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testamented. Firth & Wegner

Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Humanby Steven Guthrie

The Holy Spirit: Hand-raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost(Homebrewed Christianity) by Grace Ji-Sun Kim

Pneumatologyby Veli-Matti Karkkainen

Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Lifeby Jack Levison

Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spiritby Clark Pinnock

After the Spiritby Eugene Rogers

Thinking in Tonguesby James K.A. Smith

Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testamentby Christopher J. H Wright

The Spirit Poured Our on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theologyby Amos Yong

Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighborby Amos Yong

The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium GlobalContextby Amos Yong

Who is the Holy Spirit?: A Walk with the Apostlesby Amos Yong