The Ten Commandments! Be honest…how many of you picture Charlton Heston holding stone tablets when you hear the phrase? Maybe you scratch your head as you try to remember them. Perhaps you feel a twinge of guilt as you recall the ones you have not kept? If you want to test your knowledge you can do a fill in the blank exercise here. This Sunday we will hear the commandments as one of our readings. They are a key part of the covenant that God makes with his people in the wilderness. They are, if you will, a guide for how God’s people were to be in relationship with him. But what about now. Do these old laws still apply? How are we to make sense of them today? Why not take some time to read them and meditate on them this week? You can find them in your bible in the book of Exodus chapter 20. Then read how Jesus emphasized them in Matthew 22: 34-40 or Mark 12: 28-34. How do you express your love for God and neighbor? How can we as followers of Jesus show our love for God in our love for our neighbors? With you on the journey. Blessings, Matthew+ I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God-- what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2 | 
