God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.

A healthy relationship with God is built on the internal changes He brings about through Christ.

God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.