Exodus 2 This morning is the second Sunday in Advent, the four week period before Christmas in which we focus on waiting for the celebration of the birth of Jesus and for the promised return of Jesus. Currently, my oldest daughter is waiting in Boston for a much anticipated birth at the end of January [...]
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Exodus 20:17 If you were able to obey the first and last of the ten commandments, you would never sin. All the law comes from these two commandments. The other eight commandments are just details to help us when we are unclear about the meaning of the first and last commandments. If you were here [...]
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Exodus 20:16 Linguists say that you can tell what is important in a culture by how many words exist in the language to describe it. It is a myth that the Inuit language of the Eskimos have 40 or more words for snow. But Eskimos do have a lot of words for snow, about as [...]
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Exodus 20:15 There were two pastors, one Baptist and the other Presbyterian. They each preached at two churches on Sunday mornings and would go from one church to the other on bicycles and if they both finished their services on time, they would pass each other close to a bridge over a stream. One morning [...]
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Exodus 20:14 Adultery has to be one of the most depressing of sins. When someone commits adultery, it is not just that a man and a women who were not married to each other had sex. If that were all, then it would be less distressing. What makes adultery hurt so much is the pain [...]
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