Editor’s note: This article is a reprint from Feb. 10, 2013. We do not like to talk with any degree of seriousness about consequences, especially if those consequences involve penalty and punishment ...

“The Lord was standing beside a wall ... with a plumb line in his hand,” Amos 8:7. “So the law was our pedagogue until Christ came,” Galatians 3:24. Talking to a veteran carpenter and fairly new ...

A friend recently made reference to a “plumb line” in a conversation we were having about Costa Mesa, which inspired me to do some research. She mentioned she attended a local church service that ...