Imago Dei Community Sermons

God has appointed Christ to provide freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Yet how many of us are stuck in addictions, habits, and sin? We begin by making a single bad decision. Pretty soon we've pursued this bad decision to the point of developing a bad habit. Eventually, it seems, the choice seems to no longer be ours...we're trapped. Addiction. Captive. There are the obvious addictions seen in our culture. Alcohol. Drugs. Pornography. But there are also more subtle ones that entrap us. Spending that leads to debt. Cynicism that leads to hardness of heart. It becomes critical for us to specifically name our personal entrapments. What is it in your life that you seem unable to stop? Whether attitude or action Jesus has come to forgive, but also to destroy the work of our enemy. Yet, though Jesus has unlocked the doors of our prison, many of us remain in our prison cells. Why? Either we don't know that we are free, or we we've gotten so comfortable with prison that we choose to