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The meme is "Law bad, Grace good." We tend to think that the Lord's primary purpose for giving us the Law is to show us that we need a Savior. While it is true that the Law is like a mirror, pointing out our sin, it is far and away more precious and valuable than a mere set of rules. Rather, Commandments 6-9 highlight the inherent dignity the Lord has given to his people. How so? Come with the Grace United crew as we discover anew and afresh how the Torah reveals our dignity.

Columbia researcher Sheena Iyengar has concluded that the average individual makes about seventy conscious decisions every day. That’s 25,550 a year and in the course of seventy years that would be around 1,788,500 decisions (Ortberg “All the Places to Go” p. 7) It is in these daily decisions that we…

INTRODUCTION: We are taking care to work through this passage of Scripture deliberately and slowly, and there are at least two reasons for this. First, the issues involved are complex and important, and are more complex and important in our day than they usually are. Second, the misunderstandings that…

INTRODUCTION: Because the teaching of the apostle Paul on civil authority is widely misunderstood and misrepresented, we are going to take our time going through this section. And because the instructions here are to Christian citizens and subjects, we are going to begin with a scriptural introduction…

INTRODUCTION: As we begin the task of unpacking this crucial part of Romans, always remember the context. In the latter part of chapter 12, we saw that Paul was arguing from Dt. 32 that Moses had predicted that God would be avenged upon the Jews, and that He would use a nation that has no understanding…

INTRODUCTION: When considering the subject of our duty to pay taxes, the Bible seems plain enough. But a lot rides on where you place the emphasis—where do the italics go? Governments exist by covenant, and governments like ours explicitly claim to exist by covenant. The word federal comes from the Latin…

Who will you obey? Acts 5:17-32 We ought to obey God rather than men! The time is coming when we, as Christians, will have to decide who we will obey. There is coming a time when our loyalty WILL be tested. · Example of the home Bible study in California that was disbanded. · The Hate Crimes law: The…