1. Don’t pay attention to or put any trust in astrology, Ouija boards, luck, or any other supposed supernatural power. Trust only in God.
2. Worship God in spirit and truth.
3. Always protect and promote God’s reputation and his glory.
4. Always make time to worship and thank God.
5. Respect and honor everyone who has legitimate authority over you,
including your parents, teachers, employers, and government officials, even when they make mistakes.
including your parents, teachers, employers, and government officials, even when they make mistakes.
6. Promote your own health and everyone else’s health and life.
7. Don’t interfere in anyone else’s marriage, and don’t pollute your own, whether you are now married or hope to be one day.
8. Be careful how you are with possessions, your own or others’. Remember, you are only a steward.
9. Always and only speak the truth in love.
10. Remember that God is concerned not only with your words and deeds, but also with your heart. So be careful what you watch, what you think about, what you plan for, what you desire.
— from God’s Law in Worship, written by Calvin P. Van Reken, on the Reformed Worship site.
The giving of the Ten Commandments (as found in Exodus 20:1-20) is one of the suggested scripture texts for October 2, 2011 (the sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost). For more worship resources related to this text, or other texts for this Sunday, click on Proper 22A in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page.
For more worship resources on the Ten Commandments, click on Ten Commandments in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page.
