Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses,
And all the king’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

Like Humpty Dumpty, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. The Bible calls that problem sin. “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves” (I John 1:8). Forty years ago, Dr. Tom Harris wrote a best seller entitled I’m OK, You’re OK. As a tool for analyzing interpersonal transactions, the book was immensely helpful. As a philosophical statement of the human condition, the book is flawed. If everybody’s okay, who’s causing the problem?

Sin lurks in our genes. While we bear the image of God, we also reflect the sin of Adam.

We are baptizing six children this weekend. At each baptism we pray for a child’s sins to be washed away, and that God will clothe them in…