Day: March 28, 2016

Small Vision, Small Faith

Full faith requires a full and expansive vision.

Grace Recalled

God did not let Israel forget His grace.

Exodus 34:14

(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), A well known TV personality declared several years ago that she could not worship a jealous god. As I have thought about that remark, I have become convinced that I cannot worship a God who is not […]

More Preventive Justice

The Eighth Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (3)

Exodus 21.33, 34

³³ “And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, ³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to their owner, but the dead animal shall be his. ³⁵ If one man’s ox hurts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide. ³⁶ Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in time past, and its owner has not kept it confined, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.”