From The Pulpit of DUMC

#53. The Deadly Sins: Sloth - Rev. Shane Page

Episode Summary

This Sunday we will press on in our sermon series on the seven deadly sins (and the seven life-giving virtues!). This week we will discuss what may be the most misunderstood of the seven vices: Sloth. Recall once again that all the vices become vices through ongoing habits. A vice is the end result of habitual sinful acts. Once something becomes a habit, it shapes our character until we simply do it without thinking about it. We are, in many ways, the sum total of all our habits. That's why for every vice, which comes from a bad habit, we need to oppose it through its opposite virtue, which comes from a good habit. Only good habits can offset bad habits. All good habits, of course, require effort on our part, which will help explain why sloth makes the cut as constituting such a deadly vice. This Sunday, then, we will ponder the vice of sloth and then contemplate its opposite virtue.