Dead man walking.

As we all learned from the Sean Penn/Susan Sarandon movie of that same name a few years back, "Dead man walking" is the phrase uttered by guards and inmates as a death-row inmate takes his final walk down the prison hallway to the execution chamber. Moving under the black weight of the imminent fulfillment of society's death sentence, the convict literally is a dead man walking.

As gruesome as that image is, an equally grim reality comes from the testimony of all four of our Scripture readings this morning. Every day there are millions of men and women who spiritually qualify as dead men walking and dead women walking.

Are you looking just to get through each day at work until you can get out the door?

Are you longing for the weekend by Monday afternoon?

Do you count it a good…