Sloth - probably the most misunderstood of the seven deadly sins - is the failure to care about things that matter. Sloth is the apathy that robs us from the abundant life God has for us. This week we identified four signs that we have a problem with sloth, and four ways that we can find freedom from this deadly impulse.

This week our Seven Deadly Sins series continued with wrath (or anger). We identified four signs that we have a problem with wrath, whether all "wrath" is bad, and how Jesus can help free us from this dangerous impulse.

This week we started our new series: Seven Deadly Sins: Finding Freedom from our Worst Impulses. We started with the sin of envy, our impulse to resent those who have things we want. We talked about how this sin "entangles us," and some steps we can take to "throw it off."

Our mini-series on anxiety ended this week by focusing on the question: What do we do when our faith itself becomes a source of anxiety? We looked at two possible sources of faith-related anxiety: (1) Anxiety that we aren't really saved, and (2) Fear that we aren't doing enough for God.

This week was Part 2 in our mini-series on anxiety: we considered the role "renewing our mind" has in moving us from anxiety to peace, and three practical ways to help us do it. Listen here:

We live in an anxious age: research indicates that 1 in 4 adults will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lifetime. And yet, the Bible encourages us to be anxious for nothing. How can we move from anxiety to peace?

Our Conversations with Jesus series concluded this week with a look at a conversation Jesus had with his disciples about his identity. Many people in our culture today have ideas about who Jesus was, but they are often very different from the Jesus-approved answer Peter gave in this conversation. We considered what Peter's answer reveals about how Jesus wants us to view him.

Jesus invited a man to follow him. When the man requested that he be able to say goodbye to his family first, Jesus sounded disappointed. Why? While on the surface it may seem that Jesus is advocating a cult-like abandonment of previous familial ties, when we reflect more deeply on the passage we realize that something else is going on.

This week we looked at Jesus's conversation with the Devil, a series of three temptations. For many of us reading this story today, it can be hard to understand what would have been wrong with Jesus succumbing to these temptations. We identified what the Devil was trying to get Jesus to do, and why it would have been wrong for Jesus to give in. In understanding Jesus's temptations, we are better prepared to resist the Devil's temptations in our own lives.

Jesus had a conversation with Peter that has a lot to teach us about the subject of our calling. If we're wondering what God wants us to do with our lives, this conversation helps us to recognize at least three foundational truths about our callings.