Avoiding Collateral Damage

When you make a loan of any sort to your countryman, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge.  You must remain outside, while the man to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you.  Deuteronomy 24:10-11 Pledge – If you make a loan to a member of the community…

I.O.U.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.  Romans 15:1 Ought – This verse isn’t fair.  If my spiritual walk is deeper and more trusting than yours, why should I have to modify my behavior just so that you aren’t disturbed or upset.  After…

Who Pays The Bill?

“and forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors”  Matthew 6:12 As We Also – It’s such a well-known phrase that we don’t really pay close attention to its implications.  It just runs off our lips like drinking from a hose.  But there is something very important here; important because it is right…