Lo Signov – You Shall Not Steal. On the surface, it sounds quite uncomplicated. (Aren’t even young children taught not to help themselves to something – anything – that is not theirs?) If we are ...

Lisa disapproves when Homer has cable television installed illegally into their home. At Mount Sinai in the year 1220 B.C., a thief (Homer) listens to Moses as he reads the Ten Commandments. Homer ...

The Eighth Commandment/Pronouncement is a bridge commandment connecting the sixth and seventh to the final two commandments. We might say that the Eighth Commandment ...

An Atlanta businessman boarded MARTA to make his daily commute to work. He stood in the crowded car scanning the newspaper accounts of crime when he felt a stranger bump him. He instinctively felt for ...

Time for some sermons about the importance of the Eighth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Lying is a bad thing to do. It may be as human as sneezing. It may be true ...

What if those rules were the only rules in school? Would it be so bad if no one lied, (9th Commandment)? How bout if you weren’t allowed to steal, (8th Commandment)? If children respected their ...