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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Jamie Smith leads us in the final week of our Desires February Term, moving us to consider how our loves are framed by what we imagine as the good life.
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Guest preacher James K. A. Smith describes the way we acquire virtue by imitation and through the rhythms of worship--until being like Jesus becomes second nature.
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Rev. Dr. Jim Singleton preached on 2 Corinthians 4:1-7 during the Service of Installation for Corey Widmer as Third's Lead Pastor.
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Our February Term continues with Randy Raggio helping us look at how spiritual disciplines can serve as a counterforce to cultural influences that shape us to hurry and consume.
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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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Our February Term series, "Desires: Who and What Do You Love?" continues with Lisa Ould helping us look at how there are liturgies--patterns of relating--in our interpersonal affairs with each other, which shape how we experience love, friendship and fellowship in the church.
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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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Youth Sunday. Though we are sinners in desperate need of God's redemptive grace through Jesus, and while God's grace is freely given to us by no work of our own, we do have a role to play in what we become.
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February Term 2015, Week 2. Richard Haney helps us look at the pervasive influence of technology in our lives, and how our device-oriented rituals are part of a larger liturgy of consumption.
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Lead Pastor Corey Widmer kicks off the February Term, introducing us to the idea that liturgies--whether sacred or secular--help shape our identities by shaping our loves.
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In the final week of our series on the Book of Acts, we see Jesus continuing to push his church out into new territories and to engage new people--crossing racial and cultural boundaries to proclaim and to do works of healing and justice in his name.
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The early church faced internal conflict that threatened to destroy it and impede the spread of the gospel; yet, they overcame their differences. How might we learn from its example and live more fully as the new Community?
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In the early Church we get a glimpse of the Kingdom of God coming on earth as it is in heaven, and that the purpose of the church is to provide a new identity for all believers.
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