EXODUS 20:14 You shall not commit adultery . A newspaper publisher offered a prize for the best answer to the question, “Why is a newspaper like a good woman?” The winning answer was, “Because every man should have one of his own and not look at his neighbor’s!” While the...
EXODUS 20:13 You shall not murder. Every 22 seconds someone in the United States is beaten, stabbed, shot, robbed, raped or killed. The average American citizen has a 1 in 153 chance of being murdered. Intentional killings–murders and suicides–rank fourth among causes of U.S. deaths, after heart disease, cancer and...
EXODUS 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. On her 80th birthday, a woman from Brooklyn decided to prepare her last will and testament. She went to her pastor to make two final...
EXODUS 20:1-3 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.” John Wanamaker was a man who had his priorities straight. In the...
EXODUS 19:10-11 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of...
EXODUS 19:9 And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.” So Moses told the words of the people to the Lord. A popular definition of faith is “believing something...
EXODUS 19:3-4 And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings...
EXODUS 18:22 And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you. Andrew C. Davison...
EXODUS 18:21 Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. In 1789 an uncertain George Washington was urged to...
EXODUS 18:14, 17 So when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?” So Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The...