What was Martin Luther doing meditating on the Ten Commandments when he himself insisted that we are saved by grace through faith, and not by works of the Law (trick question)?

What do the Ten Commandments have to do with peace, when some people nearly came to blows when a monument to the Ten Commandments was being taken out of the Alabama state capital building a few years ago? Or when, in ancient Israel, one could get stoned to death for breaking some of them?

The case almost seems closed against them if you, like many people today, consider any religious or absolute moral commitment to be not only the prelude to violence, but an act of violence itself. For the thoughts that were shared at Emmanuel Mennonite Church this past Sunday, June 8, check out the following link to Download ten_commandments.doc