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Binding And Loosing
“Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. “Those words of Jesus, as you know, apply not
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Lying Forms the Root of Bitterness
“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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The Resurrection of Christ brings forth Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the only thing that is new and it is the message of the resurrection. The world contains only one thing that is truly novel, forgiveness. Everything else is
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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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