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

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.

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

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.