Identity: Soul

Listen to the music. “Satisfy My Soul.” “Heart and Soul.” “Soul Survivor.” We know we are more than flesh and bones. We thirst for something deeper. Something richer. Something more.

God put that in you. You were made for something more. It’s your true identity.

That longing you sense deep down? That's your soul thirsting for God (Psalm 42).

The sermon today is titled "Soul." It is the second installment in our "Identity" Series. The Scripture reading is from Genesis 2:7 & Psalm 42:1. Originally preached at the West Side Church of Christ (Searcy, AR) on February 19, 2023. All lessons fit under one of 5 broad categories: Begin, Discover, Grow, Learn, and Serve. This sermon is filed under Discover: A New Identity.

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Footnotes (Sources and References Used In Today's Podcast):

• For this series, I formed my outline (and begin each lesson) by consulting James Bryan Smith's The Good & Beautiful You. For this lesson, see especially chapter 1: "You Have A Soul."
• "Chief mode of transportation 200 years ago is the same as 2000 years ago." First heard this from Randy Harris (ACU). See evidence here.
• James Hillman & Michael Ventura, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotheraphy--And the World's Getting Worse.
• Stats on mental health taken from Statista and the CDC.
• Jennifer Baldwin, Trauma-Sensitive Theology: Thinking Theologically in the Era of Trauma.
• Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self.
• I learned of Edward Tronick's experiments from Andy Crouch, The Life We're Looking For, p. 4. For the journal article, see here.
• N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God.
• On Origen, see de principiis, III.iv.1. On Tertullian, ses de baptismo, 5. I am indebted to Alister McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction (4th ed).