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...
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,...
EXODUS 18:10-11: And Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all...
EXODUS 18:7-8: So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. And they asked each other about their well-being, and they went into the tent. And Moses told his fatherin-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all...