This is the final blog in our series on usury. Today we have the task of what John Stott calls bringing two worlds together: the world of biblical...
Usury is often defined as taking or charging excessive interest on a loan. However, before the sixteenth century, it meant charging any kind of loan, whether for money...
Honoring the Sabbath is an easy commandment to break. We diminish it to the hour or two we’re at church on Sunday morning and an afternoon nap. We...
The New Testament does not address the issue of “usury” in the same way that was evident in the examination of key Old Testament texts (see Leviticus and...
So far we have observed Old Testament references to usury in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, Psalms and Ezekial. Today we will review a final Old Testament passage on this...
In my first blog, we examined usury in the book of Exodus, and in my second blog, we discussed usury from the context of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. But...
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