The Lord Jesus warns us to be careful about the truth and about promising to do things. When we use God's name to reinforce our promise, either regarding the truth or our intention to do something, we bring ourselves under a very strict judgment, one where Satan can use our idle words to accuse us before God.
Our Lord is not forbidding all swearing: indeed, he himself opened his mouth and swore a very powerful oath, when he was charged to do so by the High Priest (Matthew 26:63-64).
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...