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

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

God's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves.

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.

God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.