Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.