Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

God never forgets a promise.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.