Sermons

Today we’re reflecting on lust, adultery and divorce. These are painful topics for some of us because of our own experiences or because of what we’re going through right now. While it may be difficult for some of us to hear, I pray that it may be helpful. Click to listen: Click this link to…

Anger is one of the most obvious sins that we as a people must face and deal with constantly. Some of the other sins we are talking about such as lust, envy and greed can be sins that are internal. We can have them in our hearts without people knowing about it, but anger is…

Today we’re discussing the vice of gluttony, and the first thing to do is to share what gluttony is and is not. Gluttony is not being over—even egregiously over— one’s ideal or healthy weight. Gluttony is not defined as overeating either. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: Gluttony Feeding Your…

“Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ But he said to him, ‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?’ And he said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does…

The vice we’re talking about today is sloth and at the most basic level, sloth is reluctance to exert ourselves, to work or make an effort; laziness. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: Sloth – Resistance to the Demands of Love 2 Peter 1:3-7 “His divine power has given us…

Thirty years ago in 1989 on the set of a commercial in the Nevada desert for a Canon Rebel camera, 19-year-old tennis pro Andre Agassi was instructed to step out of a white Lamborghini, lower his sunglasses, and utter the words, “Image is everything.” “Image is everything?” Agassi asked the director. Click to listen: Click…

Today we’re beginning a new series in worship based on Rebecca DeYoung’s book Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies. Many Christians today have forgotten about or misunderstood the seven deadly sins: envy, vainglory, sloth, avarice, anger, gluttony, and lust. Click to listen: Click this link to get a…