Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

“Culpable disturbance of shalom” suggests that sin is unoriginal, that it disrupts something

good and harmonious, that (like a housebreaker) it is an intruder, and that those who sin

deserve reproach. To get our bearings, we need to see first that sin is one form of evil (an

agential and culpable form) and that evil, in turn, is the disruption or disturbance of what

God has designed.

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.