The Workbook on the Ten Commandments

by Kimberly Dunnam Reisman and Maxie D. Dunnam

Book Overview

This eight week study for small groups challenges Christians to re-examine popular stances on the issues touched by the Ten commandments. Maxie Dunnam and Kimberly Dunnam Reisman offer reflections on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083589875X
• ISBN13: 9780835898751
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Upper Room Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

A book for learning and understanding...

Two summers ago I had a yearning to learn more about The Ten Commandments. But I did not know where to begin, and when I asked people I thought knew, they had no book recommendations. How I found this title, one of four I read that summer on The Ten Commandments, is through Upper Room Publications, who are publishers of "Weavings." "Weavings" is a journal of the Christian spiritual life. So I had a context for this workbook. And it is a workbook that takes on eight weeks to complete. The other three books I found on a website that was Episcopalian and recommended books of denominations other than the Methodist, where the workbook arises. In case you want a summer program of your own of The Ten Commandments, I give you the titles of my other three books, which I purchased: "Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves," (a Jewish viewpoint); "Do We Still Need the Ten Commandments: A Frsh Look at God's Laws of Love," (Catholic viewpoint); "Commandments of Compassion," (Catholic viewpoint). Funny, I didn't discover a book published by an Episcopal publisher, but I thought this was good enough and should be good reading and study. Probably designed for small groups, as well as for individual study, "The Workbook on the Ten Commandments" by Maxie Dunnam and Kimberly Dunnam Reisman, experienced retreat leaders, is a clear, enjoyable and demanding exercise in understanding and news. One piece of news and action as a result of that news to me, came from one question early in the book. This was the first week of the workbook, which also suggested that the same week I memorize the Ten Commandments. It took me some doing, but I did it and I understand it better from doing so. There is something to be said for memorizing the Ten Commandments. They are good for bringing to mind. The question that was news to me: "Recall the last time you had a conversation with someone about the role of individual morality in our culture and how we as a people, corporately, may have lost our sense of sin. Make some notes about the occasion and the key points in that conversation." I wrote in my answer, in blue pen, "I have never done so. There is no interest in the Ten Commandments among friends or people I know." Pretty bleak. The result of this self revelation, of which the book stirs many, has been my own willingness to bring the Ten Commandments to my friends, and to hopefully find a way to enter into a conversation about respective morality and sin. I must answer, this has continued to be rare, and I think it shows that we, and that means ones I know, are spiritually and morally lacking. There is that danger in doing the workbook. You may stumble upon similar recognitions. There is a lot in this workbook. Again, from the beginning, in the section, "The Mount to Which We Can Come," there is a question where one checks off the Commandments most difficult, and those violoated most often. Then the reader is asked to write a brief prayer committing him or