7 Deadly Sins
Envy: God Made Me Wrong
Envy isn’t about not having enough stuff. Rather, it is the sense that I am not enough. Seeing things in others that I wish for myself. But, I need to be the only one to have th...
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Greed: God Doesn’t Care
Greed moves beyond having what we need to live. Instead, if focuses on accumulation to define our self and status. It is ambition gone wrong. We are called to practice kindness ...
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Gluttony: Life is More Than
Food and drink are good and necessary for the health of our bodies, but we can easily overindulge those appetites, placing our physical desires over our spiritual good. To comba...
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Lust: God’s Love Is Not Enough
Men and women are designed for one another. Therefore, sexual desire isn’t sinful. But, lust is desire disordered. Rather than fulfilling our longing, it leaves us empty and sep...
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Wrath: Usurping God’s Role
Anger over injustice is good. We even see Jesus become angry in several places. But, we’re not Jesus and our anger can too easily give way to wrath. God is the only one who has ...
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Sloth: Ignoring God
Rest and leisure are good and important things. However, we can slide into spiritual laziness. When we do we do not take time to worship God or attend to our spiritual condition...
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Pride: Putting God on Trial
The sin of pride puts us over others: our fellow human beings and God. We want to put our will in the place of God’s will. When the two do not agree we turn on God rather than s...
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