The concept of 'name' has to do with person, character, nature, essence, who someone is. Therefore, we are not to take God, in the fullness of who He is, and treat Him in a vain way, or an empty, irreverent, impious, insincere, phony, fraudulent manner. Not taking the Lord’s name in vain, then, is not limited to cursing or something like that, but it means to treat God with irreverence, superficiality, insincerity, or phoniness, or to bring to God empty worship, hypocritical worship or honor. Someone has said frankly that God’s name is taken in vain more often in the church than outside of it, where people come and offer empty worship with their needless repetition, empty praise-words, singing without thought of God, praying with indifference, hearing the Word and never applying it – all of this is empty worship, phony, hypocritical. Such worship is damnable, condemned in the Word of God.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		New, Text, Import	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Loaf day-old pumpernickel bread
1		Stick butter

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread both sides bread slices with butter.
Cut into cubes. Spread on cookie sheet and bake until brown.
Recipe By     :CHEF DU JOUR SHOW #DJ9113 LEA DELARIA
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #254
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:42:13 -0400
From: Meg Antczak <meginny@frontiernet.net>

A Message from our Provider:

“An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed, knowing that God’s bonds are as good as ready money. #Matthew Henry”

The first mark of a healthy church is expositional preaching. It is not only the first mark; it is far and away the most important of them all, because if you get this one right, all of the others should follow… If you get the priority of the Word established, then you have in place the single most important aspect of the church’s life, and growing health is virtually assured, because God has decided to act by His Spirit through His Word… The congregation’s commitment to the centrality of the Word coming from the front, from the preacher, the one specially gifted by God and called to that ministry, is the most important thing you can look for in a church.

Mark Dever