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"The Burden of Self-Esteem" (Romans 7:24-25). This Sunday we circle back a bit and hover over those excruciating words: "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" How long and hard we work to avoid coming to such a diminishing discovery. Yet this is the way all men must tread if they will come into and remain in the presence of God. "Woe, to me!" the prophet Isaiah cried. "I am ruined." But then grace covered the span and made him clean (Isaiah 6). Sunday we will work our way around the great cultural roadblock that keeps many far from grace's healing touch: self-esteem. We'll see that Christ's gospel bends us away from self-hatred and self-love toward something immensely more satisfying. Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.