Redemption: Something More Than a Repair Job

Last week we began our new series, "broken," with a sermon on sin: what it is, how it affects us, and what hope we have to be free from it.  This week, we take the next step and start asking questions about redemption.  In too many circles, redemption looks like an episode from "This Old House."  Our spiritual lives are in a state of disrepair and Jesus comes to fix us up.  But after Jesus and the camera crews leave, we can still see the scars of sin.  And it seems that every attempt we make to keep up the repairs (using the cool, new tools Jesus left us) leads to more decay.  What is redemption, especially when it doesn't feel like we've been redeemed?  That's the course our conversation will take this Sunday.  Hope to see you there.