Imagine This
Imagine this: Suppose some eager lawmaker in Washington should introduce legislation on a pressing matter of public policy, prefacing his bill with the information that his proposed legislation is informed and guided by the Law of God. How do you suppose that would be received? On Monday of this week President Obama held a kind […]
Where Wisdom Begins
Where Wisdom Begins July/Holiness 28 July 2010 Wisdom without learning is better than learning without wisdom. – Colman mac Beognai, Aipgitir Chrabaid (Irish, 7th century) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practiceit have a good understanding. – Psalm 111.10 I’m reading a most interesting book about wisdom. The […]
Psalm 13:3-4 Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes,
Psalm 13:3-4 Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. Guard me, Lord, protect me from becoming one of Satan’s trophies. Let him not triumph over me […]
The First Commandment No other gods
Deuteronomy 6.4-9
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”