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…
Exodus 20:3-6 A little boy was drawing with his crayons. When his mother asked him what he was drawing, he answered, “God.” “But,” his mother said, “nobody knows what God looks like.” “They will,” the boy answered, “when I finish my picture.” That little story is the second commandment. Actually, there is some dispute about…
Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5 On our two week vacation at the end of August, we had three significant volcano experiences. The first was on the Greek island of Santorini. These Greek islands were the home of the Minoan civilization that lasted for over three thousand years and the destruction of this civilization is probably the…
Exodus 32 How would you like to have the kind of relationship with God that Moses had? Moses, in the reading from Exodus we just read, talked back and forth with God as if they were talking face to face. The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his…