Destiny Christian Church

They are called “capital vices” because they are the fountainhead, or the “source vices” that are an ever bubbling wellspring of many others. - DeYoung

“Knowing the cardinal virtues and deadly vices provides essential moral compasses for us as modern people.” Os Guinness

Wrath Poem:
Wrath is what they call me, child.
Won’t you let me stay a while?
Quietly, I sit inside,
Waiting for my time to rise.
The fire burning in your eyes
Let’s you know I’ll never die.
I only fade when my job’s done.
I’m deadly sin number one.

Holy Emotion or Hellish Passion? (Is Anger Good or Bad?)

“Wrath is the love of justice perverted into the desire for revenge for the injury of someone else; justice is the proclaimed motive for every manifestation of wrath.” Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins Today

“The power of anger is actually the power of resistance in the soul.” Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues

1. Should We Ever Be Angry?

2. Why Do I Get Angry?

3. What is the Reason for Anger?

“Someone who would otherwise feel too weak and afraid may fight beyond the limit of his power if anger fires his spirit. A complacent congregation may need anger to lift it out of indifference and mobilize it into action.” – Aquinas

4. Anger and Justice

Aquinas – Three things that must happen for us to live with our desire for revenge.
You must demean the other person.
You must over estimate your importance.
You must exaggerate the offense.

“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.” - DeYoung