• Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Goods: The Tenth Commandment

  Greed and envy, despite the devastating havoc they wreak within life, get little ink. Too rarely do we examine what covetousness does in our lives. This was not the case

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• Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Wife: The Ninth Commandment

  Some years ago, when Jimmy Carter was president of the United States, he confessed publicly that he sometimes had lustful thoughts about women that were not confined to his wife.

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• On Not Bearing False Witness: The Eighth Commandment

  It is not what goes into a person’s mouth that defiles him or her, it is what comes out of the mouth. For what comes out of the mouth comes

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• Thou Shalt Not Steal: The Seventh Commandment

  Never look a gift universe in the mouth! A court jester might well state the seventh commandment in this manner since what is at stake is far more than merely

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• Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery: The Sixth Commandment

  This commandment is much questioned today. Our age tends to understands sex as a normal extension of dating and as an expression of intimacy which can be desacralized and severed

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• Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Fifth Commandment

  An old axiom suggests that the sixth commandment gets all the ink, but the fifth commandment is the one that does us in. This is quite accurate. We are always

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• Honour Your Father and Mother: The Fourth Commandment

  On the surface, the demands of this commandment are clear. It asks, first, that we give honour, obedience, gratitude and affection to our parents and elders since it is to

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• Remember To Keep Holy The Sabbath Day: The Third Commandment

  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. What is forbidden by this edict? In dealing with the third commandment perhaps it is better to ask what is bidden by

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• You Shall Not Take The Name Of The Lord In Vain: The Second Commandment

  The second commandment is perhaps the most misunderstood of all the commandments. How do I take God’s name in vain? The common idea is that we break this commandment when

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• You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: The First Commandment

  Among all the commandments, the first is the most difficult to keep. We are forever worshipping strange gods. Idolatry, more so even than atheism, is what is natural to us.

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