The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God insisted not only that Israelites should judge their own hearts and cast aside falsehood about Him but that they should also confront it wherever it emerged.