Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Again, I want to emphasize that all of the beatitudes are intended to produce change from within a person. Too many of us are being affected by the world around us. We should be changing from within to affect the outside world. This…
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Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth. Well, it seems that the 5th commandment “survived the cut.” The New Testament…
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I prayed long and hard about this piece today. After much prayer, (and as you can see from the above subject line) I decided to write one last piece on the Fourth Commandment, to both remember and keep the Shabbat holy. The Hebrew word Kadosh is translated as ‘holy’. But we have a hard time…
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