Satan tells us that repentance is easy and forgiveness is available, so yielding to temptation is not serious. We are tempted to think that we’ll only commit a sin a few times and then claim God’s forgiveness. “Correcting the situation…
Anyone who might still hold to the classical liberal perspective that the God of the Old Testament was this angry, vengeful, “bad-hair-day” deity that frankly hated everyone and everything ,while the New Testament Jesus was a veritable hippie, spouting free…
The sixth commandment is “You shall not murder.” (Exo 20:13),[1] or, in the memorable KJV, “Thou shalt not kill.” The later vividly captures the word picture of the original, meaning, “to slay, or strike down”. The former is, however, more…
The Fifth Commandment is weighty. The finger of God inscribed it this way, “Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” In the Westminster Larger Catechism,…
When I see the Ten Commandments summarized artistically and framed for purchase to hang on the walls of a Christian home, I often wonder if the Fourth Commandment, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy (Exodus 20:8), ought…
In light of Matt Foreman’s insightful article, it seems appropriate to look at some practical advice from The Beatitudes by Thomas Watson.[1]. Here’s what Watson had to say about becoming a peacemaker: How shall we attain to peaceableness? 1. Take…
There’s something of a progression when one moves from the first commandment – “You shall have no other gods before me” – to the second commandment forbidding the making and worship of idols. It’s a move delineating how the one…
“As long as he believes in something, that is what’s important.” With those words the man in front of me simultaneously dismissed the authority of God and justified a younger relative who had embraced an animistic system of belief. For…
Satan tempts us to think that God is so indulgent that we need not fear punishment for our sins. Few of Satan’s lies are more widespread and more dangerous today, “God is a God of love. He does not punish.…
Karma is a word that has been adopted from Hinduism and Buddhism to capture the saying, “what goes around, comes around.” What you do to others—good or ill—will eventually in some form or fashion be done to you. As is…
