The Seven Deadly Sins, Sermonically Speaking
So I got it into my li’l head that I’d like to do a sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins of tradition, ’cause they’re just so much fun. I like giving sermon series (serieses? Series-eziz?), and the congregation seems to like them, too. Last year I did the Seven Unitarian Universalist Principles, and the year before the Ten Commandments. Several years back, I did a series called “Spiritual Stumbling Blocks,” including one on jealousy that I think will do very nicely as a repeat for Envy.
My “gimmick” for this series (please don’t take that seriously, but one has to have a vision, a hook, a focus) is to try to use characters from contemporary culture, literature or film as key sermon illustrations. I’m just as adept at summarizing plays, novels, short stories and films as any good preacher should be (after all, if any preacher assumes […]