TWL – 7DeadlySins- S8E4
A champion’s rival chiseled at a statue night after night, and it cost him everything. Pastor Chris looks at envy, the sin that rots the bones, and three ways to get free of it. Pastor Chris continues the series on the seven deadly sins with the second one: envy. He opens with an ancient Greek story about an athlete who finished second. Night after night he chiseled at the base of the winner’s statue, until it fell and killed him.…
Regret – 10.4.26 – EP04
Pastor Chris continues the Regret series with the fourth question to ask before we decide anything: is there a grudge that won’t budge? He starts in James 3, where James describes two kinds of wisdom, God’s and man’s. Then he compares a grudge to too much alcohol. Both distort our view of reality. In Mark 6, Herodias nursed a grudge against John the Baptist, and it ended with John’s death. Leviticus 19:18 tells us not to seek revenge or bear…
TWL – 7DeadlySins- S8E3
Pride was once seen as a fatal flaw. Today it’s celebrated. Pastor Chris traces it back to the garden, names three forms it takes, and shows why it drains our spiritual life. Pastor Chris opens the series on the seven deadly sins with pride. He defines it as the desire to be something you’re not. He takes us back to Genesis 3:5, where the serpent told Adam and Eve they could be like God. They bit, sin entered the world,…
Regret – 9.27.26 – EP03
Regret has a way of sneaking up on us, not because we don’t know better, but because we’re moving too fast to notice we’re headed the wrong way. This week, we continued our series on regret by asking a simple but piercing question: What’s the hurry? It turns out that the rush we treat as a badge of honor might actually be the very thing setting us up for a lifetime of looking back and wishing we’d done things differently.…
TWL – 7DeadlySins- S8E2
Why Are They Called the Seven Deadly Sins? Truth Worth Living returns this week with the second installment of our series on the seven deadly sins. Before we explore pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth, we need to answer an important question: Why call any sin “deadly”? Where Did the List Come From?Pope Gregory the Great compiled the traditional list of the seven deadly sins. His framework distinguished between venial sins—sins considered minor—and mortal sins, which were believed…
Regert – 9.20.26 – EP2
Regret has a way of showing up uninvited. It sits quietly in the back of our minds, reminding us of the decision we wish we could take back, the words we wish we hadn’t said, the year we wish we could live over. In week two of our series on regret, we look honestly at why we make the decisions we do, and we ask a question that might surprise you: what if chasing your own happiness is actually the…
TWL – 7 Deadly Sins EP01
Seven Deadly Sins: Why We Still Need to Talk About Sin One of the criticisms often leveled at churches today is that pastors do not talk enough about sin. The assumption is that preaching has become too positive, too encouraging, and too focused on making people feel good. So, should we get back to making everybody feel terrible about themselves? Probably not. But there is another danger on the opposite side: pretending sin is not a serious problem. And that…
Regret 9.13.26 – EP1
Episode Summary Rain never stopped anyone from getting a good word today, and this one’s worth every drop. Pastor kicked off the new series “Regret” by pointing at a scene most of us have replayed in our own lives, even if it never made SportsCenter: a coach who calls the wrong play at the worst possible moment. That was the story of Super Bowl 49, the goal-line interception, and the coach who stood at the podium afterward insisting he had…
Moses – 9.6.26 – EP13
Moses Died on a Mountain. Here’s Why That’s Good News Pastor Chris closes the Moses series by asking what made Moses’ faith active, not just believed. Series: MosesSpeaker: Pastor ChrisPassages: Deuteronomy 34:1-10, Hebrews 11:24-28 He climbed a mountain at 120 years old No trail. A 4,500-foot climb. And he was 120 years old. That’s how Moses’ story ends in Deuteronomy 34 — not in a hospital bed, but on top of Mount Pisgah, looking out over a land God had…