Trinity sunday romans 8:12-17

Romans 8:12-17 (Trinity Sunday) 1) Obviously we get names/.titles for the Trinity here, so it is an appropriate reading. It shows an inter-relationship at work, so it fits the economic (household) external work of the trinity well. With titles, we are less likely to play games with numbers, the great pitfall of working with it. 2) The use of debtors fits the reformed version/Mathew’s version of the Lord’s Prayer well. In a time of economic crisis, it certainly could be an excellent move into grasping the apocalyptic dialectic or division of flesh and spirit. 3) How are the works of the body death dealing? How do you explain life giving factors of the spirit without falling into a spiritualized, abstract view of Christian life? 4) How do we know we are led by the spirit and not another power? 5) How do you work out this adoption/life/confidence v. slavery/death/fear notion? A sermon on fear, its reality and its cure, could be a compelling one. 6) Notice that the Spirit bears with witness with us in a seemingly c-operative endeavor. 7) I truly worry about how we employ vv 17-18 for the suffering. Suffering people do not need their troubles to be minimized. 8) I would think that one could employ this language for a political sermon about the powers that be.