Words From the Fire: Hearing the Voice of God in the 10 Commandments

by Dr. Richard Albert Mohler Jr.

Publisher:

Moody Publishers

, 2009

Overview

If God has spoken, then the highest human aspiration must be to hear what the Creator has said. God has indeed spoken, through the Ten Commandments, and Al Mohler explores this revelation of God and the implications for His people. The promise is to hear, to obey, and to live. These “Ten Words” tell us who God is and what His people should look like.

Mohler is a respected voice on the state of our culture (and the church) today. The Ten Commandments speak to current issues today such as the exclusivity of the Christian God, the essence of worship, capital punishment, just war, business ethics and the postmodern definition of truth.

Contents

Introduction: Has Any People Heard the Voice of God...and Survived?

1. The First Commandment:
No Other God, No Other Voice

2. The Second Commandment:
The God Who Is Heard and Not Seen

3. The Third Commandment:
Honoring the God We Know by Name

4. The Fourth Commandment:
Resting Secure in the God Who Saves Us

5. The Fifth Commandment:
Honoring Our Parents, Cherishing a Patrimony

6. The Sixth Commandment:
The Sanctity of Life and the Violence of Sin

7. The Seventh Commandment:
Why Adultery is about Much More Than Sex

8. The Eighth Commandment:
Dealing with the Inner Embezzler

9. The Ninth Commandment:
The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

10. The Tenth Commandment:
Why Covetousness Kills Contentment

Praise for Words From the Fire

Dr. Mohler gives a fresh and encouraging word on the God who still speaks and a people who must obey, as he takes us on an expositional journey through the Ten Commandments. You will be well reminded that “God speaks in the fire and through His son.”
-Johnny Hunt, Senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention

Al Mohler is a like a biblical prophet of old speaking into a modernday wilderness of confusion and compromise. In this exposition of the Ten Commandments, he is following in a train of faithful Christian ministers who used the ten words (along with the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer) to teach “Christianity 101.” But there are riches here for those both new to and mature in the faith. Read and grow.
-Ligon Duncan, Senior minister, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi

In our noisy culture, voices of all kinds are bombarding us. In Al Mohler’s book Words from the Fire, he challenges us to hear the voice of God roaring from the fire. God’s Word to us through the Ten Commandments is clear, convicting, and compelling. This incredible read will silence the noise around you and call you to hear the only voice
that leads you to a life of holiness. Get this book, read it, share it, teach it, and give another copy of it to a friend.
-Ronnie W. Floyd, Senior pastor, First Baptist Church of Springdale and The Church at Pinnacle Hills, Arkansas

I love how my friend Al Mohler instills in Words from the Fire a sense of reverence, respect, and mystery at the awesomeness of God’s truth proclaimed to God’s people. Something’s going on that is so much bigger than you and me. “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves” (2 Corinthians 4:7). This reminder will never grow old.
-James MacDonald, Senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel

This is a rare book of deep scriptural insight combined with acute cultural analysis. Dr. Mohler helps us see that, far from being simply “rules” about Christian living, these Ten Commandments embody the heart of Christian faith. Serious Christians, pastors, teachers, and all those wishing to understand the urgent relevance of this ancient code for today’s confused world will greatly benefit from this book.
-J.D. Greear, Lead pastor, the Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

Dr. Mohler has admirably achieved the difficult task of being both faithful to Holy Scripture and relevant to the cultural crises of our day. These essays take God’s timeless Ten Commandments and apply them in an inspiring and timely way to the moral crises of our current culture.
-Dr. Richard Land, President of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

Of the myriad of books written on the Ten Commandments, I put Al Mohler’s up there close to the top of the list. It is contemporary, insightful, interesting, and above all biblical. If you want a fresh but thoroughly Christian perspective on the BIG TEN, here it is!!
-Phil Roberts, President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

If we are to know God, He must speak—and He has! In Words From The Fire, Al Mohler Jr. carefully and clearly reveals to us the God who spoke in the Ten Commandments. This book is exegetically sound and theologically solid. I never hear or read Al that I am not blessed and challenged. Reading this book was no exception.
-Dr. Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

“A lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:8). In his new book, Words from the Fire, Al Mohler, like Amos, reminds us that God’s revealed Word in Scripture, specifically in the Decalogue, changes everything for everyone! By His grace, God has spoken His Word. We ignore it or disobey it at our own peril. But if we obey it, our lives are blessed. This work is a welcomed breath of fresh air in our day of self-centered, antiauthoritarian relativism. I commend it wholeheartedly.
-Steve Gaines, PhD, Senior pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee

Product Details

• Title : Words From the Fire: Hearing the Voice of God in the 10 Commandments
• Author: Mohler, Jr., R. Albert
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication Date: 2009
• ISBN: 9781575673677

About Dr. Richard Albert Mohler Jr.

Richard Albert Mohler Jr. is an American evangelical theologian and the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been recognized by Time and Christianity Today as a leader among American evangelicals. Dr. Mohler hosts The Albert Mohler Program, a daily nationwide radio show, and writes a popular blog and a regular commentary on moral, cultural, and theological issues.

Mohler’s aim is to address contemporary issues from a consistent and explicit Christian worldview. Widely sought as a columnist and commentator, Dr. Mohler has been quoted in the nation’s leading newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Washington Post, and has appeared on national news programs.

A native of Lakeland, Florida, Dr. Mohler was a faculty scholar at Florida Atlantic University before receiving his BA from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds an MDiv and PhD (in systematic and historical theology) from Southern Seminary. He has pursued additional study at the St. Meinrad School of Theology and has done research at Oxford University. Dr. Mohler also serves as the Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary.

His writings have been published throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to contributing to a number of collected volumes, he is the author of several books, including Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth, Desire & Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance, Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists, He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World, and the forthcoming The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness. Dr. Mohler has served on several influential committees and has lectured across the country.

Show More