Dangerous Virtues-Discussion Guide & Videos

Video 1: Dangerous Virtues: Sin and the Seven Dangerous Virtues

We are sinners. We don’t deny it. But most of the time, we don’t think much about it. Are the ideas of sin and virtue outdated?

Video 2: Love: The Seduction of Desire

The sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s changed modern thinking about the nature of love. But what moderns call love, the ancients called lust.

Video 3: Satisfaction: Coping with the Hunger that Cannot Be Satisfied

Is gluttony really a “thing?” The truth is that most of us wouldn’t recognize a glutton if they swallowed us whole.

Video 4: Prosperity: Why Wanting More Means We Will Never Have Enough

While lust is usually associated with sex, and gluttony is linked with food, greed is a similar inordinate desire for money and possessions.

Video 5: Leisure: Living Beyond the Weekend

Os Guinness has called sloth “the underlying condition of a secular era.” But we wonder what all the fuss is about. We call it the good life.

Video 6: Justice: Life in an Age of Outrage

If you follow social media or drive the expressway, you already know that nobody believes that anger is a sin these days. We view it as an emotion.

Video 7: Envy: Getting What’s Coming to Them

Envy is the devil’s little hammer, bending our hearts until it turns us against anyone who possesses what we want. Envy poisons our desires and weaponizes them.

Video 8: Pride: Why God Nees to Put Us in Our Place

We live in an age that considers confidence to be a virtue. The ancients would have used a different word to describe this kind of thinking. They might have called it hubris or pride.

Video 9: Yet Not I: Separating Ourselves From Sin

The apostle Paul seems to distance himself from
sin. He honestly describes an ongoing struggle with sin that takes place in the life of the believer, but he also shows that there is another way
open to us.