Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

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

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.