“God Wants You to Grow Up,” by Rick Warren, Daily Hope meditation, September 19, 2018, at http://www.pastorrick.org: God created you to become like Christ. He wants you to grow up spiritually. The Bible says, “From the very beginning God decided that those who came to him—and all along he knew who would—should […]
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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(…continued… first paragraph is repeated from yesterday) There are many Bible verses that speak to this sort of thing; not to mention the commandment that says “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” In his Small Catechism explanation of this commandment, Martin Luther expands the meaning of the command to beyond
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Several years ago, when visiting my ten-year-old grandson, he went running to his parents and said to them, “Grandpa said a bad word. He said the ‘S’ word.” I heard the accusation and was puzzled. I pleaded innocent, until the little tattler whispered the forbidden word into his mother’s ear. “Dad,” she said
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From The Strong-willed Child, by Dr. James Dobson, 1978, pages 181-182. My daughter has a pet hamster (uncreatively named ‘Hammy’) who has a passion for freedom. He spends a portion of every night gnawing on the metal bars of his cage and forcing his head through the trap door. Recently I sat watching
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“The Truth Shall Set You Free” ———————————— My favorite living author is Philip Yancey. He has written more than 25 books over the last 50 years, and I have read all of them at least once. His mother, who you will hear about today, never read a single one. She raised
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Image above: Full-page ad encouraging membership in the White Citizens’ Council, from The Selma Times-Journal, June 9,1963. ****************************** Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon, in Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, 1989, pages 110-111. ———————————– An old pastor was serving in a small Southern town in the throes of the 1950’s school desegregation
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