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Christian Ethics and Living
How Scripture Shapes Moral Life, Identity, and Faithful Practice
Christian ethics is not first a list of rules. In Scripture, the moral life grows out of who God is and who we are becoming in Christ: people whose loves are being set in order, whose habits are being reshaped by grace, and whose lives are bound up with neighbors near and far.
These pages gather that teaching in one place. Begin with the foundations of sin and grace, then explore the inner life of the heart, our life together, and how we handle money, work, and possessions.
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Five ways into the moral life
The Seven Deadly Sins
Sin, desire, and the shape of Christian life: the old tradition of naming the sins that bend the heart and the virtues that heal it.
Our Inner Life and Emotional Health
Faith, feeling, and the formation of the heart: anxiety and trust, grief and lament, identity, discernment, and renewal.
Relationships & Community
Faithful living with others: friendship, love and marriage, speech, conflict, forgiveness, and justice for the vulnerable.
Money, Work & Possessions
Faithful stewardship in everyday life: giving and tithing, wealth and greed, risk, rest, and the place of wine and strong drink.
What Does the Bible Say About
Biblical wisdom for life’s moral questions, with Scripture gathered topic by topic from A to Z.
Foundations: Sin, Grace, and Growth
Where the moral life begins
Before particular questions of conduct, Scripture asks what has gone wrong in the human heart and how God sets it right. These articles lay the theological groundwork for everything else on these pages.
- What Is Sin in the Bible?How Scripture names sin and why it is more than breaking rules.
- Grace in the BibleGod’s unearned favor as the starting point of the Christian life.
- Repentance in the BibleTurning toward God as a movement of freedom rather than fear.
- What Is Sanctification in the Bible?How God forms holiness in believers over a lifetime.
- The 7 Heavenly VirtuesThe virtues the church has paired with the seven deadly sins.
- Living by God’s Ways: Principles in ScriptureHow biblical principles guide faithful decisions.
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Ethics and Christian living is part of the wider Faith & Life library of prayers and practices.