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

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.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

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

Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

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