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Law as Archetype -- God's Law: Conspiratorial Blueprints

• Why Should We Obey God's Law?
• How Do We Distinguish "Ceremonial" from "Moral" Law?
• How Was God's Law Obeyed in the Past?
• How Can We Obey God's Law Today?

"The Moral Law"
The Abiding Validity of God's Law: Why Christians Should Obey the Law

• Why I Worship God's Law
• Understanding the Rhetoric of the Law-Word of God
• Theonomy: God's Law
• America: Home of the Slaves
• Must We "Obey" the Gospel?
• Theonomy in Christian Ethics
• Liturgy v. Law
• "Spirit" vs. Law

• Law or "Fruit of the Spirit"?

• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Love
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Joy
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Peace
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Longsuffering
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Gentleness
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Goodness
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Faith
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Meekness
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit: Temperance
• Fruit of the Law of the Spirit - Conclusion

• "Love" or Law?
• The Impossibility of "Legalism"
• A Living Faith
• The Origin of Greasy Grace
• Theonomy in Christian Ethics - Concluding Remarks
• Character Traits of a Christmas Conspirator

"The Ceremonial Law"
"Behold the Lamb of God" -- The New Pedagogical Law

The Cleansing of the Land by the Blood of Christ

• Debate over the Dietary Laws
  
• Capital Punishment
  • The Death Penalty Debate
  • The "Hidden Agenda" of the "Death Penalty Debate"
  • Table of Contents
  • Prologue
  • Discerning God's Will
  • Who Should Throw the Switch?
  • The Woman Caught in Adultery
  • "Separation of Church and State"
  • Capital Punishment: "Ceremonial" or "Moral"?
  • Appendix A -- The Patriarchal Power of "Capital Punishment"
  • Appendix B -- "Capital Punishment" from Cain to Christ
  • Rethinking Capital Punishment
  • Proof-Texts for "Capital Punishment"
    
• Cleansing our Money: False Weights and Measures
  • Cleansing the Home
  • The Ungodliest Man in the World!
  • God's Law Concerning Money
  • Usury and Unabombers
  • What About Borrowing?
  • "The Evils of Capitalism" -- Wrong Enemy
  • FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING AND VIOLENCE
  • Getting out of Paper
  • A Purified Life
  • For Further Reading

The Law of God vs. The Law of Man: Confronting "Ceremonial Deism"

The Ten Commandments Home Page

The Ten Commandments Applied in American Legal History

• The Ten Commandments in American History
• The First Commandment in American Legal History
• The Second Commandment in American Legal History
• The Third Commandment in American Legal History
• The Fourth Commandment in American Legal History
• The Fifth Commandment in American Legal History
• The Sixth Commandment in American Legal History
• The Seventh Commandment in American Legal History
• The Eighth Commandment in American Legal History
• The Ninth Commandment in American Legal History
• The Tenth Commandment in American Legal History
• The Ten Commandments: A Jeffersonian Dialogue
• America and "The God of Justice"

Putting God's Law into Practice in Our Lives

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Virtue
3. Recovery
4. Meditation
5. Godly Character Traits

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The Ten Commandments

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Preface

The First Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Second Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Third Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Fourth Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Fifth Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Sixth Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Seventh Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Eighth Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Ninth Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

The Tenth Commandment 

• Overview
• Do I Agree With God's Word?
• Have I Violated This Commandment?
• Am I Resolved to Obey it in the Future?
• How This Commandment was Applied in Early American Law

Vine & Fig Tree's Path to Virtue

• Vine & Fig Tree's VIRTUE Home Page
• Abraham: Model of Virtue
• George Washington: Model of Virtue
• Vine & Fig Tree's Path to Virtue [program overview]
• Vine & Fig Tree's Path to Virtue [contents]
• What do you mean, no absolute moral values?
• Why are Absolute Moral Values Important?
• Why we resist becoming Patriarchs
• How to Develop Godly Character
• Seven Universal, Non-Optional Principles
• Character Traits: The List
• I am an Overcomer
• Kill Your Old Man!
• Salvation as Sanctification
• More than "Salvation"
• The Secret of Stephen's Wisdom
• What it Means to be Truly Human
• Seventeen Commitments

Recovery

• How to Kill Your Old Man [index]
• A Program of Recovery
• The 12 Steps of A.A.
  • The First Step
  • The Second Step
  • The Third Step
  • The Fourth Step
    • What is a "Moral Inventory?" [bigbook]
    • A Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory
    • Taking Inventory with the Larger Catechism
  • The Fifth Step
  • The Sixth Step
  • The Seventh Step
  • The Eighth Step
  • The Ninth Step
  • The Tenth Step 
  • The Eleventh Step
  • The Twelfth Step
• Mere Perfection

Meditation

• Meditation: A Program
• I Live in the Prophetic Present
• "Meditation or Meditation"
• Understanding Vows
• Of Lawful Oaths and Vows - WCF ch.22
• Acting, Emotions, and Imagination
• Meditation and Conformity to Christ
• Meditating on God's Law
• What is "Personalism"?
• What it Means to be Truly Human
• Understanding Vows
• Why I Meditate

Christlike Character

Spirit-Empowered Obedience to God's Law
Produces Men Who Are:

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