TWO OLD STORIES:    A woman whose tongue was sharp and unkind was accused of starting a rumor.  She was brought before the village rabbi to be reprimanded, but she protested: “What I said was all in fun.  I was only joking.  Besides, it was others in the village who carried my words forth. […]
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When I was in seminary fifty years ago, one of my professors lamented the number of best-selling books that were selling nothing more than plain old common sense. He could not understand why people had to pay money for knowledge that came naturally to their far less educated grandparents. But then he said, “Perhaps we
Above: Different wording and numbering, but the same basic commands. ———- Prayers by Martin Luther (1483-1546), adapted from Luther’s Prayers, translated by Charles Kistler (1917) ———- (1st commandment)  Eternal God, you ask that I rely on you alone with all my heart in all things.  It is your earnest desire to be my God, and I must believe
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW By Dennis Prager at ( http://www.prageru.com ) ———————————————    No document in world history so changed the world for the better as did the Ten Commandments. Western civilization — the civilization that developed universal human rights, created women’s equality, ended slavery, and created parliamentary democracy, among other
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     “It wasn’t my fault, my brother made me do it, I was having a bad day, I couldn’t help it, I didn’t have time to think, and besides, nobody’s perfect.” ————————–    (…continued)  Whether or not rules are made to be broken, we do break them; so then what?  Well, then
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EXODUS 20:1-4…7-8…12-17: God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or
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  Image above:   JEALOUSY:  It starts early ——————    (…continued)  A man was complaining to his neighbor about his bad luck in his business and finances.  He was wondering why he could not be as lucky and as well off as their other neighbor down the street who had been extremely successful
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A Meditation based on the Ten Commandments and Martin Luther’s Small Catechism Explanations SELF-EXAMINATION: Our Father in heaven, you have said, “I am the Lord your God,” and you have commanded us to have no other gods before you: Lord, we pray that you give us the faith to fear, love, and trust in you above all
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Painting by Norman Rockwell, The Gossips, 1948 ********************************** A Jewish Fable by Shoshannah Brombacher < http://www.chabad.org >    In a small town somewhere in Eastern Europe lived a nice man with a nasty problem: he talked too much about other people.  He could not help himself.  Whenever he heard a story about somebody he knew, and
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    In Luke 6:21 Jesus says, “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.”  SATISFIED. Did anyone ever tell you to ‘just be satisfied’? I’ve been told that. I used to be told that all the time by my parents. Like most other kids, whenever I got into a store, there was
