2023-07-02 Sermon for the Fourth Sunday After Trinity
Grace Lutheran Church, Thompson, Ohio
Rev. S. Berndt
"Futile Vanity" Romans 8:18-23
Readings of the Day:
Isaiah 58:6-12 True & False Fasting
Romans 8:18-23 Future Glory
Luke 6:36-42 Judging Others

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Futile Vanity - Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2023-07-02

Futility

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この曲は、現代社会における企業の無敵性と、その陰で苦しむ個人の孤独感と無力感を歌っています。私は、正義が見えずに消えていく世界で、自分の声が届かないことに絶望しています。企業が罰を受けることなく、新たに生まれ続け、内部告発者が罰せられるという不条理な現実に直面しています。改善を望むことが無駄であると感じ、現状を受け入れるしかないという諦めの気持ちが強く描かれています。私の叫びは無視され、希望も未来も見えない中で、ただ生きるしかないと感じています。
#InvincibleCorporations #Loneliness #Despair #Whistleblowers #JusticeDenied #CorporateWorld #Resignation #ModernSociety #LostHope #Futility

無敵の企業

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a sermon on apathy before.
One of the most silent, yet deadly of the negative emotions. 
We need to deal with it, or it can destroy us.
God wants to help you with it.

Get Rid of It!

Apathy

Corridors Of Power

get out of jail free card

"Futility"

It's true--the last time I saw Sandy Smallens was in the spring of 1989 when his band Too Much Joy came to the campus radio station to play on my weekly show. The band were incredibly cool and I've never forgotten that they took the time to traipse into the East Bay hills to get to my school and how nice they were. They even played an unrehearsed acoustic version of Clowns at my request, which was awesome. I'd play it for you now, but guess what? After the band left, I took out the tape and found that I hadn't hit record. It's bothered me for years. At any rate, Too Much Joy and Wonderlick which is Tim and Jay from TMJ, have a lot of news coming out their camp, so they do come up a bit in this chat, but really, the focus here is on Sandy's other band Surface Wound. Informed by the undulating jagged basslines of bands like Gang Of Four and Wire, Surface Wound's new album Futility is a riveting blast of post-punk magic. The Scarsdale-raised, Yale-educated Smallens played football in high school and as a result his bass playing has a real athleticism to it and not only that, but his voice has never sounded better. Filled with prowling basslines and muscular hooks, Futility is filled with fight songs for desperate times. Sandy Smallens is a busy guy--he's in a bunch of bands, he hosts the Four Strings And The Truth podcast and as the guy who launched Spotify's original content department, he now runs the podcast company Audiation. Not only that, but he's a massive supporter of the arts . And, he's one of the nicest guys around.

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