St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

During this season of Epiphany, we are looking at the subject of Privilege and Power. There is a pastoral method to the madness, and it is simply this: we live in an age where Christians have lost all their privilege and power in the culture. (If we’re honest, even when we had it we didn’t do a very good job with it, did we?) Anyway, what hope is there for us? Truthfully, I have never seen so many Christians, both liberal and conservative, who act like God is off asleep somewhere. I mean, they are beyond concerned—they are despairing! Is that the right posture for us? Do we the people of God need to be known as people who blow up Facebook and Twitter and make fools of ourselves when we don’t get our own way?Welcome to the world of Kings in the Old Testament! It is a dark time in the passage we look at this week, and I am asking you to do something I usually don’t ask you to do and that is get out your Bible and read I Kings 16:29 – 19:18. I know that, if you weren’t raised Baptist, you most likely don’t even