The Promise Restored: Rediscovering the Ten Commandments in an Uncertain World

By T. Wyatt Watkins

A pastor and scholar discusses the ethical and moral dilemmas of the twenty-first century, exploring the relevance of the Ten Commandments in today's uncertain world and suggesting that their fundamental principles can help to bring people closer to each other and to God. Original. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157731204X
• ISBN13: 9781577312048
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Ethical Guidelines for Community

While "wandering around" among the books in my personal library and next to a book I wrote entitled "Radical Voices in the Wilderness," I came upon this book by the pastor of the church I attend in Indianapolis. I had reviewed another of his books so I knew that I had to refresh my memory and review this one. Soon I remembered why I had put it on the shelf of books that were not part of my downsizing. For one thing, it had...

God's word in today's world

This is a very fun, helpful and ambitious book. Watkins, a long time pastor who has written charming books about the foibiles (sp?) of his flock and ministry, pulls it all together here--each chapter focuses on another commandment and intersperses Bible text, commentary, quotes from all over, and modern day stories that illuminate and elaborate on the points made in the other sections. Watkins is an engaging writer who involves...

Rigid rules, often ignored in modern times

T. Wyatt Watkins' The Promise Restored surveys the Ten Commandments and their meaning to modern society. Rigid rules, often ignored in modern times, are considered in a title that encourages understanding the importance of the commands to modern life and events. Packed with intriguing insights.

the promise restored

It is a popular belief among many that if only the Ten Commandments were posted in every school, every courthouse and other public buildings, jail houses and abortion clinics would lose the majority of their clientele.What would a child, seeing the first commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me", posted on the wall of his schoolroom, envision as a forbidden god? Some strange-looking little doll?In his third book,...

Then and Now

What a refreshing "now" approach! Watkins has detached the Ten Commandments from the stone and has overlaid them upon the human heart. First we see the context of their application in the Hebrew community. Often wrongly presented as restrictive laws, these commandments were meant as life-giving parameters within which the community could thrive in grace. The author then fast-forwards us to "real time" where we observe...