Why Deceit is the First Sin You Should Get Rid of (Ephesians 4:25)

The Redeeming God Podcast · May 1, 2025 · 32m

After President Calvin Coolidge returned home from attending church early one Sunday afternoon, his wife had been unable to attend, but she was interested in what the pastor spoke on in the service, so she asked her husband what the sermon was about.

“Sin,” he responded. She pressed him for a few words of explanation, and, being a man of few words, he elaborated by saying, “I think he was against it.”[1]

This is funny because it seems that so many sermons are nothing more than tirades against sin.

And maybe it’s true that the church often has a preoccupation with sin, so much so, that we…