Chi Alpha @ Stanford

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Sloth
Fourth mes­sage in the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Length: 23:36
Size: 8 MB
For­mat MP3
Speaker: Glen Davis — 2/16/2005

Here’s this week’s hand­out:

Sloth: A Sin-opsis
The Sin Clus­ter: Apa­thy, Despair, Mop­ing, Angst, Lazi­ness
The Virtues They Dis­tort: Con­tent­ment, Recre­ation, Opti­mism
Bib­li­cal Sto­ries About:

• Judas: com­mit­ted sui­cide in his despair (Matthew 27:3–5)
• Eli­jah: wanted to give up because he felt iso­lated (1 Kings 19)
• Job: cursed the day of his birth (Job 3:1–26)
• Pon­tius Pilate: gave up on dis­cov­er­ing truth (John 18:28–40)
• Felix: wasn’t really inter­ested in learn­ing about God (Acts 24:22–27)
• Paul: mod­els a Chris­t­ian response to despon­dency (2 Cor 1:8–10; 2 Cor 4)

James 4:17, NRSV — Any­one, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, com­mits sin.

Also, I rec­om­mend the arti­cle Fight­ing the Noon­day Devil by R. R. Reno and, of course, Eva­grius’ own com­ments about ace­dia (scroll down to Prak­tikos 12).