It is evident that God has revealed things to us. We have various words to describe certain elements of this disclosure, for example, the Incarnation. We really do not know how He did that, we do not fully know how God can be both personal and sovereign/transcendent. We cannot comprehend just how the one God can be three in one.

“Worship extends to every domain of life. God must be served on all planes of human existence, as biblical legislation testifies. It is significant that Hebrew has one word to denote work, service and worship. In biblical thought there is no watertight division between daily work and the adoration of God. In the very first page of Scripture manual activity and the service of the Creator are inseparably linked.” R. Martin Achard

If the heart of sinfulness is self-centeredness, the heart of all biblical religion is God-centeredness. In our fallenness, we constrict all there is to our petty horizons. Most of us think of all relationships in terms of their impact on us; our daydreams circle around our life and circumstances; our goals and hopes invariably turn on our place in the universe.

Keeping the Sabbath is portrayed rather as a stoppage. It is good for everyone: for the purpose of refocusing on holiness (all concerns that stem from belonging to God), in order to enjoy God’s blessings of that day and its potential. The physical nature was not to be worn out, dishonored, and slowly destroyed by restless occupation.

If you want to live long in the land where God places you, you’ve got to have this intergeneration stability. Today, all this individual freedom leads many young people to think that the whole universe begins with them. When we begin to think like that, we start to process everything through a lens that anything happening before me is not important. And we are then failing to give them what they most need.

The true measure of success for Christian parenting is the parents’ own character. To the degree that we have followed God’s design for parenting, we have succeeded as parents before God. As a general rule, parents who follow biblical principles in bringing up their children will see a positive effect on the character of their children.

There is something intrinsically self-denying in a really good marriage. And unbelievably fulfilling. If we dispose of our western/modern culture baggage connected to the misunderstanding of the word, God’s love is central.

Before the Fall, God was at the center of Adam and Eve’s world. Now, since the fall, the reality is each individual naturally wants to be the center of the universe.

Those who want to be leaders in the church today must begin by recognizing that there is no special, elitist qualification. The qualifications for leadership is given elsewhere in the Bible: 1 Timothy 3:1–7. The passage contains nothing about intelligence, decisiveness, drive, wealth, or power. Almost everything on the list is elsewhere in the New Testament required of all believers.

Christians, remember that God loves to choose the weak and the lowly and the despised, the nobodies, so that no one may boast before Him. The immediate application of this exhortation is the prohibition of factions and cliques. So then, no more boasting about men! (3:21a).