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Live Not by Lies… or Malicious “Truth”

God has given humanity ten social anchors for sustaining prosperous and free societies. We call these the Ten Commandments. As anchors they are more than just enforceable laws for society, they are principles of existence tethered to laws for society, which should shape our every interaction. In Exodus...
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Possession, Charity, & The Christian Spirit

We’ve been exploring the Ten Commandments and, by now, I’m hoping you’ve seen a distinct pattern in our meditations on them. We’ve articulated the value of these commandments as agents of legal structure in a blessed society AND explored them as agents of instruction for the covenant heart...
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What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

The seventh of the Big Ten commandments, given by our loving Creator to bless us with a special revelation of the path of life that He wove into the fabric of His good world, is a blessed torment. It strikes at the heart of being creatures who by...
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Let Him Who Steals, Steal No Longer

We are eight commandments into the Big Ten. These God gave for the creation of a stable and blessed society. Exodus 20:15, says simply, “You shall not steal.” Amazingly enough, however, many worldview assumptions exist inside those four words. In the book, The Kite Runner, Baba, the narrator’s...
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The Day I Beat Kleptomania & Became an Honest Man

The last of the great commandments given by God to Israel at Mount Sinai in order that they might reap the benefits of a blessable and blessed society cuts below the surface of the previous four commandments in a powerful way. It strikes at the underground spring from...
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Road Rage, Frustration, and Divine Purpose

Exodus 20:13 gives a simple command with layers of implications in the context of Scripture. “You shall not murder,” demands that society punish legally provable murderers with death, and, more deeply yet, that believers pull murder, roots and all, from their souls.  I’ve been serving the Lord as...
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“Not Murdering” God’s Way

In The Ten Commandments, we have the rudiments of a legal code. Torah[1] however, is much bigger than a legal code. In it, specific commands are woven into the rich context of Israel’s covenant living before Holy God. Thus, while a judicial body might hold one accountable to...
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Sabbath Keeping God’s Way

In the Ten Commandments, we find the core of a body of rules for life and society that are God’s gift to a floundering race. In them, He reveals the rudiments of the path of life in His world. Today, I want to meditate on the fourth of...
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Don’t Wear the Name of the Lord in Vain

God founded His good rules for living on ten basic commands. Any people who dedicate themselves to keeping the heart and soul of these commands will find God’s good-life… a life of stability, wisdom, happiness, and wholeness… not a perfect life, because people still battle selfishness, and God...
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Stop Being Pagan

God gave ten commandments to Abraham’s descendants when he created them as the nation of Israel. When followed, these commandments establish a grand vision for God’s good life of stability, wisdom, happiness, and wholeness. His first commandment was that they wake up to the One Holy Creator of...
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The Greatest Commandment

Because the Creator is a God of love who, for His own purposes, made a good world for us to populate and to bring into divine order,[1] He is also eager to reveal Himself to us and to help us find the path of life in His world…...
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