(Written By Teresa Shields Parker) He’s crafty. He’s wily. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Many of us stop him when he comes at us with something we recognize as wrong like being tempted to pilfer funds no one will ever know are gone, go to a movie with that man or woman from the office who acts so much more interested in us than our spouse, drink and drive and hang out with folks who do. We can easily (I hope) say, “No!”

He’s far more clever than to tempt us with the obvious. He’s got his hand in something far more deadly than any of the things we ordinarily think of as sin, and yet it is one of the seven deadly sins. I am talking about the thing I’ve never heard even one pastor preach about or even talk about—gluttony, the sin that’s eating Christians alive. READ MORE


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