1. ארך - “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you." EXODUS 20:12
  2. שׁבע - "Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God." EXODUS 20:9–10
  3. The year was 1557. Today we remember Anne Howard (nee Dacre) and the Elizabethan persecutions. The reading is from Robert Southwell's "The Nativity of Christ."
  4. שׁוא - “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain." EXODUS 20:7
  5. The year was 1477. Today we remember Jerome Emser, a Reformation-era controversialist. The reading is “The Loving Soul’s Jubilation” by Bernard of Clairvaux.
  6. Grace Means Never Having to Try Harder. In this episode, Martin Luther’s comments on the letter to the Galatians regarding God’s mercy and predestination.
  7. You gotta serve/work for/obey/be of use to somebody . . . will it be for selfish gathering of treasures that fade and decay, or will it be service that comes from a sincere faith and a pure heart?
  8. פסל - “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." EXODUS 20:4
  9. The year was 1748. Today we remember the erstwhile Quaker, Elias Hicks. The reading is “Welcoming Angels” by Pat Schneider.
  10. A mystery has been revealed and all hostility has been killed.
  11. עשׂרת הדברים - So [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. EXODUS 34:28