Living Room Study

10 Commandments (9 & 10)

Today, we finish the 10 Commandments!!!!! (Cue the Pointer Sisters: “Celebrate Good Times”…balloons & confetti.) Good times, indeed. From now on, we’re going to begin each Living Room Study by reciting the 10 Commandments. This practice is intended to be an encouragement to one another, and a positive testimony to any [...]

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10 Commandments (6&8)

Today, we are focusing on Commandments 6 & 8. If you remember, we already learned Commandment #7 when we learned #3…because they both deal with infidelity. (#3 deals with Spiritual adultery, while #7 deals with the Personal.)

6 & 8 are my kids’ favorites. Let dig-in.

6th COMMANDMENT: Hold up a “High-Five” in one hand, [...]

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10 Commandments (4&5)

Today, we are focusing on Commandments 4 & 5. They aren’t as intimately related as the 1&2, and 3&7…so let’s consider them individually.

4th COMMANDMENT: Hold up 4 fingers, look at them and say, “Commandment #4: Remember the Sabbath day and set it apart for God…’cause that’s what it’s there FOUR! (For)”

“Remember the Sabbath [...]

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10 Commandments (3&7)

I know what you’re thinking: Shouldn’t we be learning 3&4? Well, I was educated in Arkansas and that’s how we count!!

Actually, I teach 3 & 7 because they are closely alike. They both deal with infidelity, or “adultery”. Also, because 3 & 7 are Biblical numbers associated with God.

3 reminds us of the [...]

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10 Commandments (1 & 2)

“When He had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.”  Exodus 31:18

Awhile back, I was asked to speak at a men’s conference in the Northeast. There were about 400 men in attendance. The topic [...]

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Jude

“But you, dear friends, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.  Have mercy on some who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; on others have mercy in [...]

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3 John

“Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.”  3 John v.2

It’s a natural inclination to value our physical needs above spiritual ones. Most often, we have a higher opinion of God when we’re successful. We generally say, “God is good, because [...]

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2 John

“And this is love: that we walk according to His commands.  This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.”  2 John v.6

Funny, my devotional will be longer than the whole book of 2nd John!

As a young believer, I really wanted to honor the Lord in [...]

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1 John 5

“We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the One who is born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.  We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.  And we know [...]

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1 John 4

“Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Messiah Jesus has come in the flesh is from God.”  1 [...]

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