Diving for Gomers. In this episode, we have a much-needed conversation about slavery to sin, Ezekiel’s whore metaphor for God’s relationship with his people, and why it’s important that Christians not shy away from difficult conversations about how God describes sin and grace in the Bible.

God uses the fifth commandment to protect us from selfishness, prevent us from only thinking about our needs, and to drive us to Christ and our neighbors.

In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."

Some have built an entire theology on the false assumption that when God commands us to obey or believe, we have the ability to obey or believe.