Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermons Illustrations for Proper 24 | OT 29 (2022)
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Jeremiah 31:27-34
We are often trapped by our past, like generational poverty keeps families poor, for even when their members are ambitious the lack of inherited wealth easily keeps them out of college and traps them into a lifetime of expensive renting fees. Famed New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann speaks of the “enslaving chains of the past” from which faith frees us, a faith which makes us open to the future and gives us the courage to break with the past (Jesus Christ and Mythology, p.78).
We are often trapped by our past, like generational poverty keeps families poor, for even when their members are ambitious the lack of inherited wealth easily keeps them out of college and traps them into a lifetime of expensive renting fees. Famed New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann speaks of the “enslaving chains of the past” from which faith frees us, a faith which makes us open to the future and gives us the courage to break with the past (Jesus Christ and Mythology, p.78).
