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Workplace Holiness In chapter 3 of Holiness, Ryle paints a vivid picture of true practical holiness, which extends far beyond mere outward appearances or isolated expressions of godliness. He explains that holiness should be holistic: “A holy man will follow after faithfulness in all the duties and relations in life” (Ryle 52). Holiness is not a matter of putting on a façade on Sundays or during Bible studies with other Christians; rather, it involves a faithfulness that characterizes every aspect of one’s life....

Bearing False Witness: Truth, Love, and the Ninth Commandment Exodus 20:16 reads: “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Other translations say: do not testify falsely, give false evidence, or bear false testimony. In what sort of context do we often hear this language of “testimony,” “testify,” “witness,” “evidence? A courtroom. And that is exactly what this verse is about. So here we get to our first section, immediate context....

The Old Testament of the canonical, Protestant Bible shares nearly identical content as the Jewish Tanakh, yet the two collections differ in the ordering and placement of their books. The Christian Old Testament orders the Jewish sacred scriptures generally into four categories: the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Poetical/Wisdom Books, and the Prophetic Books. In contrast, the Jewish Tanakh orders the Hebrew scriptures into three major sections: the Torah (Law/Instruction), the Nevi’im (Prophets), and the Ketuvim (Writings)....

The three canonical Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John are three praise biographies of Jesus Christ, written by three distinct authors at different times. Unlike the Gospel of Mark, these three Gospels offer limited information about the origin story of Jesus, either through an enumeration of his genealogy, a description of his birth narrative, or an introduction of his ethereal origins with a hymnic prologue. Though ultimately describing the same figure of Jesus, the three origin stories from Matthew, Luke, and John differ in both their content and style of writing....