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Sometime in the fourth century, a monk sat in the Egyptian desert and made a list of every way the human soul could go wrong. That list became the seven deadly sins, and for 1,500 years, through the fall of Rome, the Reformation, and two World Wars, theologians, poets, and pastors looked at those seven and said: that’s the whole map. That covers it. Until now. A recent article by James Parker in The Atlantic suggests our age may have produced an eighth. Have you ever noticed that when Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, none of the offers were viciously evil? Bread for a hungry man. A miraculous sign. The kingdoms of a world Jesus himself had made. That’s what makes it so unsettling — sin is just that subtle. Join us tomorrow morning as we open Matthew 4 and examine what may be the eighth deadly sin.

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