Two weeks ago, I was held at gunpoint by two men.
Six days later, Pastor Rick asked at the start of his sermon on Revelation 13, “Do you believe there is such a thing as evil in the world today?” Through tears, I thought, Yes. I stared it in the face. The sermon ultimately culminated with our great hope that God is in control. Eternal Victory is the Lord’s.
I have a bad habit of signing up for things before I really know what’s going on. Like Vickey’s book study this summer—I signed up simply because I had never done a Jen Wilkin study (we are reading Ten Words to Live By.) Lo and behold, I get the book and it’s on the Ten Commandments! Whaaa?! Why did I sign up for a study on something so ancient—I had a brief flash of Charleton Heston playing Moses with the stone tablets and horrible special effects created by 1956 Hollywood. What was the likelihood of any massive new insight emerging on this particular topic?
On Tuesday, August 8th, a lovely thing will be happening for CRBC Women: Jen Wilkin will be the featured speaker at our annual Women’s Ministry Fall Launch! Ever since word got out that one of our nation’s premier Bible teachers is coming to CRBC, I have been asked one question: How did you get Jen Wilkin?
You“ shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.” - Exodus 20:7
Do you know the meaning of your name? I took a deep dive into my name one summer in college and, honestly, really struggled with it. I felt like I was the opposite of what my name meant. So, I took some time to really ask the Lord to give me peace about my name, to help me find ownership in it and what it meant as I pursued looking more like Christ.
I honestly can’t remember the first time I heard the Ten Commandments. Raised in church, no doubt I was taught in Sunday School of Moses’ delivery of those holy words straight from the Lord, carved on stone by His own Hand, and taken to the Israelites (who were literally breaking every command…but that’s another story). As an adult, I have read and studied Exodus 20:1-17 many times, yet just recently learned that Rabbis call the ‘Ten Commandments’ the ‘Ten Words’, since the Hebrew text says, “and God spoke all these words…” (Exodus 20:1).
