The sea of wrath and the island of mercy (sermon podcast)

The sea of wrath and the island of mercy (sermon podcast) June 3, 2014

For the past several years, I’ve been working with a metaphor that I originally got from Augustine who talked about humanity being trapped in a giant ocean of sin he called the massa damnata. In an allegorical interpretation of Genesis 1, Augustine said that the separation of land and sea symbolized the creation of the body of Christ, an island where humanity could be rescued from the sea of wrath it was trapped in. So I call these two states of humanity the “sea of wrath” and the “island of mercy.” Here’s a sermon I preached a couple weekends ago on Colossians 3:1-17 using this metaphor. Sign up for the podcast to get it delivered straight to your phone!


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