Keys to Better Living: Command #5 Honor Your Parents Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6:1-3   Honor your parents because they help us understand the principle of authority.   “The home is the lab where children learn submission to authority. Christian parents train their children to submit to them so th …

10 Keys to Better Living: Steal, Lie, Covet Exodus 20:15-17   Command #8 – Honor others’ property.   “You shall not steal.” Vs. 15   Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Ephesia …

10 Keys to Better Living: Commandment #7 – Adultery Exodus 20:14 Marriage is a relational covenant.       Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24   “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast …

Exodus 20:13 Thou Shall Not Murder   1: Kill vs. Murder                 “…murder can only mean one thing: The illegal or immoral taking of a human life.  That’s why we say, ‘I killed a mosquito’ not ‘I murdered a mosquito’. -Dennis Prager The Rational Bible: Exodus   2: This command makes no distinc …

Keys To Better Living Keeping the Sabbath Day Exodus 20:8-11 “Our patterns of work and rest reveal what we believe to be true about God and ourselves. God alone requires no limits on his activity. To rest is to acknowledge that we humans are limited by design. We are created for rest just as surely …

Keys to Better Living: Honoring God Exodus 20:1-7   Command #1 – Have no other gods. 1-3  “You shall have no other gods before me.” Vs. 3   Command #2 – Have no idols.  VS 4-6  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in th …

  Journey to the Cross: The Kingdom Prepared Matthew 28:1-10   The resurrection story starts with sorrow. 1   Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. Vs. 1     The resurrection story is verified by miracles. 2- …

The Sacrifice Prepared Matthew 27:27-31 Jesus is King. He is Robed in Scarlet. He is Crowned in thorns. He is kneeled down to. He is hailed “King”. Jesus is the Suffering Servant. He is flogged. He is stripped. He is mocked. He is beaten. The Messiah King had to be the Suffering Servant to become th …

The Way Prepared Matthew 21:1-11   The Way of the Cross vs  The Way of the World.   “Pilate’s procession embodied the power, glory, and violence of the empire that ruled the world. Jesus’s procession embodied an alternative vision, the kingdom of God.” — Borg and Crossan, The Last Week         …

Journey to the Cross: The Disciples Prepared Matthew 16:21-28   Jesus reveals His purpose. 21-23   From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. V …