Live 10: Things Matter (Exodus 20:15, 17)

MOTIVATE A burglar broke into a house one night. As the thief was stealing the valuables he heard a voice out of the darkness say, “Jesus is watching you.” The burglar was nerved but after a few moments of looking around and not seeing anything he continued his heist. Suddenly, just as before the voice…

Are we Jonah?

Jonah heard God’s call but instead of obeying he rebelled. He tried to run 1000+ miles away from Nineveh, “away from the presence of the Lord” (1:3 twice; 1:10). He went down[1] to Joppa, found a ready ship and paid the fare to leave, going down into the ship to lay down to sleep. Talk…

LIVE 10: Marriage Matters (Exodus 20:14)

MOTIVATE Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the fictional story in 17th Century Boston, then a Puritan settlement, of a lady named Hester Prynne. She had committed a crime of passion with an adulterous affair resulting in a little child, to be named Pearl. Hester Prynne would be imprisoned for a time and then sentenced to wear a…

Live 10: Life Matters (Exodus 20:13)

Feb 3 2013_Exodus 20_13_Life Matters MOTIVATE  In the last century, humanity has perfected the action of murder and was characterized by the newly coined word “mega-death”. o 3 individuals: Adolf Hitler (~20million), Joseph Stalin (~62million), Mao Zedong (~75million) account for well over 150million murders. This number exceeds half the population of today’s United States….