What Happened, Really?

As our journey continues, we should be mindful of what Jesus endured. According to Matthew's gospel, Jesus goes to Gethsemane with His disciples. There, He instructs them to sit while He goes to pray. Filled with distress, He takes Peter and two others aside with Him. He tells them that He is grieved and asks them to remain awake with Him. He leaves them and goes a little farther where His human nature struggles with what is to come. Death by crucifixion is the cruelest and most painful form of execution devised by man. Jesus throws Himself face down to the ground and prays. His human...

A Slippery Slope

The book of Exodus describes for us that body of law that is best known as “The Ten Commandments”.Each commandment is about relationships.Some are about our relationship with God.The rest are about our relationship with others.Although I have read these commandments a number of times over the years, my thoughts lately seem to keep turning to one in particular.Exodus 20:17 (NET) - "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet you neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor." I think there...