Exodus 20:12 says, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” Where the first four commandments deal, primarily, with our relationship to God, the final ...
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Why Democracies Fail
You can never have a revolution to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. —G. K. Chesterton, “The Wind and the Trees” (1909) To an ancient Greek, “democracy” was inseparable from ...
Read More »The 4th Commandment: Are We Still Required To Keep The Sabbath?
If we’re honest, breaking the Fourth Commandment is one we might be not feel as bad about as breaking the other nine. Certainly, if you kill, commit adultery, or make a carved image, you should and usually do feel guilty. ...
Read More »The 3rd Commandment: What Does It Mean To Take God’s Name In Vain?
It always amazes me how young our children are when we see rebellion in them. I recall that our toddler daughter didn’t want to submit to my authority – or her mom’s authority. If she didn’t want to eat her ...
Read More »The 2nd Commandment: No, We Don’t Get To Define God
Imagine someone coming up to you and saying, “I want to write a memoir about your life. In my biography of you, you are an Olympic athlete, you’re terrible at personal relationships, and you live with 25 birds and 10 ...
Read More »The 1st Commandment: What Does It Mean To Love God?
Stop reading this for a moment, and try to say the Ten Commandments from memory. Do you know them? Many people may have heard about them on the news, but they have never read them. Exodus 20:7 lists the first ...
Read More »Freedom Of Speech: Can You Really Say Anything You Want?
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable. — Justice William Brennan, Texas v. Johnson ...
Read More »Sufficiency Of Scripture: The Bible’s Most Practical Teaching For People Today
The backdrop of opinions on the Bible vary from contempt to celebration. Some are bothered by passages they don’t understand; others are troubled by the ones they do. Scripture is seen by some as a stumbling block in the path ...
Read More »Do You Find It Hard To Forgive Others?
Have you ever forgiven someone who didn’t deserve it? Or, do you find it hard to forgive? Regardless of which category you fall into, this post is for you. In many respects, our culture has come to reject the idea ...
Read More »Can I Know God And Believe What I Want?
“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle,” said President George Washington in his farewell address. But Washington’s words can be more broadly understood as a good representation of how ...
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