Ten Words to Live By
Delighting in and Doing What God Commands
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Publisher Description
New from the Best-Selling Author of Women of the Word
Christianity isn't about following rules, it's about a relationship. The rise in popularity of this phrase coincides with a growing disinterest and misunderstanding regarding the role of God's life-giving, perfect law in the Christian life. Rather than the source of joy it was intended to be, the law is viewed as an angry god's restrictions for a rebellious people.
In Ten Words to Live By, Jen Wilkin presents a fresh biblical look at the Ten Commandments, showing how they come to bear on our lives today as we seek to love God and others, to live in joyful freedom, and to long for that future day when God will be rightly worshiped for eternity. Learn to see the law of God as a feast for your famished soul, open to anyone who calls on the name of the Lord.
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Bible teacher Wilkin (Women of the Word) considers the significance of the Ten Commandments within modern culture in this fresh, insightful analysis. In each chapter, she focuses on one of God's commandments, suggests verses for meditation, and poses questions for reflection. For instance, when considering the commandment to "honor your father and your mother," she suggests readers turn to Psalm 90:12 ("teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom") and asks, "What shortcoming might you forgive in your heart?" She explains that justice and compassion go hand in hand with strong communal relationships: "Without rules, our hopes of healthy relationship vanish in short order. Jesus did not put rules against relationship." Noting Jesus taught followers to pray "on earth as it is in heaven," Wilkin illustrates how Christians can apply the Ten Commandments to their daily lives by, among other things, employing encouraging words, pursuing a life of honesty and truth, and taking "marriage and sexual purity as seriously as God does." For Wilkin, the faith and commitment that is ultimately pleasing to God must begin in the heart. This concise, informative study will encourage Christians to think deeply about the ethical underpinnings of the Ten Commandments.
