On Easter morning we rejoice that Christ's victory over death is also our victory over sin, for through the Spirit we have power to live in Christ.
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The astounding news of Easter is that God has thrown our death spiral into reverse through the resurrection of Jesus.
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At its core, Lust is treating another human being--another child of God--as though they were merely objects available to satisfy our physical passions.
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At its core, Lust is treating another human being as though they were merely objects available to satisfy our physical passions. Our culture makes a virtue out of almost unfettered sexual desire, yet we are still loathe to talk about (or admit personally) the damage it does to both personal and community relationships.
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While God’s anger is always driven by love, our anger is nearly always driven by selfish desire. Through Jesus Christ, God seeks to heal our anger and make it his kind of anger, an anger driven by love.
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The deadly sin of anger is unusual in that it is the only one of the Seven that is also an attribute of God. But while God’s anger is always driven by love, our anger is nearly always driven by selfish desire. This Sunday, Corey Widmer continues the series Seven: Finding Freedom from the Darkness Within.
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The great medieval poet, Dante, observed, "Envy is the love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs." Paul's stirring words to the Philippians points us to the hope that in Christ we can learn to move from envy to contentment.
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Envy has been called "the silent sin" because we seldom admit whom and what we envy. When it is full-blown, Envy is a desire that our neighbor actually lose his or her advantage or possession, while we gain it, instead.
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Gluttony is an intensified appetite for things that do not ultimately satisfy. Thus, the ancients condemned gluttony not because of what it does to the body, but what it does to the soul.
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Gluttony could be defined as an excessive appetite for food, drink or pleasure in order to keep God at bay. Therefore, the ancients condemned gluttony and included it on the list of Seven not because of what it does to the body, but what it does to the soul.
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Sloth, or spiritual apathy, encourages us to hunger and thirst after the wrong things, and be satisfied with staying right where we are.
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When most of us think about the 7 Deadly Sins, sloth is the one that doesn't seem so bad. The reality is that sloth is much more than being lazy, and is in fact one of the most deadly.
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It's hard to deny the power of money has over us, but Jesus invites us to be liberated from greed, and to rightly order our relationship to our possessions.
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It is hard to deny the power of money over our lives. But Jesus invites us to experience freedom from the control money exerts and be liberated from greed: to rightly order our relationship to our possessions. Then can we become like him, generously using what we have and are for the sake of love.
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Pride is often considered the root of all other sins. Pride is difficult to eradicate because it is encouraged in the culture in which we live, and because it is with us all the time, especially among those of us who are "good."
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The sermon series Seven | Finding Freedom from the Evil Within begins this week with an examination of pride, often considered the root of all other sins. Perhaps the oldest form of evil within us.
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