A Generation of Truth-Tellers Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” In a day when it seems like almost everybody feels free to bend or ignore the truth, Christians must resolve to be a people committed to the ninth commandment and all it requires. The truth will shine ...

Fulfill Your Vows Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” “For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse.” Probably most of us have declared those vows to the Lord. Keeping vows is an important part of truth-telling, and this requires a ...

Truthful to God? Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Throughout much of the Old Testament Israel tried to hold on to the worship of God and indulge the pagan ways of her neighbors at the same time. This is self-deceptive–withholding truth from ourselves–and an outright insult to ...

Truth and Love Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Truth hurts, or, at least, it can. But that doesn’t mean that telling people the truth is somehow unloving. It may hurt us to hear God say that we’re dead in our trespasses and sin; that our best works ...

Lies All the Same Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” “White lies” are still lies. Holding back the truth is just a form of deceit. Skirting the truth is an attempt to make truth into something else, either to palliate someone’s sensitivities or to protect our own ...

God Demands Truth Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Consider the grace and kindness of God: He believes that you deserve truth. So He reveals Himself to us, in the creation, by His Word, and in our Lord Jesus Christ, showing us in so many and varied ways ...

Standing Squarely for Truth Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” God is truth, the apostle reminds us (1 John 4:8), a proposition no Christian will deny. But more to the point for many of us is Pilate’s question, “What is truth?” Many believers today have their view ...

Launched on a Trajectory Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19 “You shall not steal.” Exodus 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.” Show of hands: How many of you would ...

Full Restitution Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19 “You shall not steal.” Exodus 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.” How many times have I done or said something that ...

Mess Up, ‘Fess Up, Clean Up–Grow Up Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19 “You shall not steal.” Exodus 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.” “It’s not my fault!” “I ...