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…
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…
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…
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…