Exodus 20:13 The sixth commandment is short and to the point, just two words in the Hebrew, Don’t kill. Who can argue with that? Well, a lot of people can. This commandment has been used as an argument against war. It has been used as an argument against abortion and capital punishment. Pacifists use this [...]
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. In our series on the ten commandments we come today to the fifth. In my mind, when I have considered the two stone tablets of Moses, I have always assumed that [...]
Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. In the 1981 movie, Chariots of Fire, the hero is a Scotsman named Eric Liddell who won a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics. A key part of the film is his decision not to run in the 100 meters event, his best event, because [...]
Exodus 20:7 Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their mothers? These are some of the questions discussed in a book I read this summer, Freakonomics. One chapter in the book discussed names and has this [...]
Exodus 20:3 The supreme god in Greek mythology was Zeus. Being the supreme god meant he had easy access to the women of the world and made him difficult to resist. He married four times. His final marriage was to Hera but she was followed by many lovers. One of these was Io with whom [...]
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