From The Pulpit of DUMC

#49. The Deadly Sins: Pride - Rev. Shane Page

Episode Summary

This Sunday we will begin a new sermon series—just before and in time for Lent, which starts on February 26, on what church tradition calls the seven deadly or capital vices. There is no one particular section in the Bible that catalogues these seven vices on a page, but the Scriptures do refer to them or (at least alludes to them) throughout: pride, envy, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony, and lust. These seven predispositions constitute the soil from which grows all kinds of dysfunction, be it personal dysfunction, social, or spiritual. For every one of these seven vices, however, there exist seven virtues that can, through God’s grace and our discipline, offset their influence. That means there’s hope and good news! This Sunday we’ll start things off with what Christian tradition pinpoints as the chief vice of them all, the root vice from which grows all the other vices: Pride! Start thinking now of what you may wish to give up for Lent!