A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.