In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.

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

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

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

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

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.