Week 1: Thinking About Sin (Chapter1) Leviticus 18:26-19:2 and Romans 3:19-24
Week 2: Pride (Chapter 2) Genesis 3:1-7 and Philippians 2:3-11
Pride is the root of so much other evil. It is pride that makes some of us think we are above the law, that rules do not apply to us, or that we simply cannot fail, whatever we attempt.
Week 3: Envy (Chapter 3) Genesis 4:1-8 and Matthew 20:1-16
Envy is the emotional root and a subtle form of hate—resenting the good and rejoicing in the bad that occurs to one's neighbor. It is a social sin, hurting our relationships
Week 4: Anger (Chapter 4) Psalm 137:7-9 and John 2:13-17
Anger has many redemptive qualities. Anger is a natural response to knowing the world is not as it ought to be.
Week 5: Sloth (Chapter 5) Ecclesiastes 1:1-9 and John 5:1-9a
Not as laziness or the lack of productive work, but as apathy toward spiritual matters to which we should devote ourselves. Sloth is not caring enough about God to wrestle mightily with Scripture and spiritual disciplines that would challenge us.
Week 6: Greed (Chapter 6) 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 and Matthew 6: 16:19-24
Hard to tell the difference between needs and wants. Are our motives really so pure?
Week 7: Gluttony (Chapter 7) Philippians 3:17-21 and Matthew 6:25-33
Signified overall preoccupation with matters of the flesh. It is as much a sin to obsess over the minutiae of what one eats as it is to lustfully consume an entire feast.
Week 8: Lust (Chapter 8) 2 Samuel 11:1-17 and Matthew 5:27-30
We humans are obsessed with sex. As an act of consumption, of personal gratification, rather than for the benefit of the relationship and society as a whole is a matter of Pride, Greed, and perhaps Envy, pouring fuel on the fire of our most selfish tendencies.
Anger has many redemptive qualities. Anger is a natural response to knowing the world is not as it ought to be.
Week 5: Sloth (Chapter 5) Ecclesiastes 1:1-9 and John 5:1-9a
Not as laziness or the lack of productive work, but as apathy toward spiritual matters to which we should devote ourselves. Sloth is not caring enough about God to wrestle mightily with Scripture and spiritual disciplines that would challenge us.
Week 6: Greed (Chapter 6) 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 and Matthew 6: 16:19-24
Hard to tell the difference between needs and wants. Are our motives really so pure?
Week 7: Gluttony (Chapter 7) Philippians 3:17-21 and Matthew 6:25-33
Signified overall preoccupation with matters of the flesh. It is as much a sin to obsess over the minutiae of what one eats as it is to lustfully consume an entire feast.
Week 8: Lust (Chapter 8) 2 Samuel 11:1-17 and Matthew 5:27-30
We humans are obsessed with sex. As an act of consumption, of personal gratification, rather than for the benefit of the relationship and society as a whole is a matter of Pride, Greed, and perhaps Envy, pouring fuel on the fire of our most selfish tendencies.
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