This seems like a strange yet obvious sermon to give; yet it is a very complex and sensitive topic. Whatever your religious persuasions might be, this book lies at the heart of it all. No matter your translation or name, in one form or another it is central to all things religious.

Men have killed for those words. Women have betrayed, brothers have turned their backs on one another. More wars have been fought in “God’s” name, in deed in the bibles name, than in any other.

As we look ...