God's law graciously requires his people to rest, rejoice, and worship- the response to those commands reveals whether the Lord is our God or whether we pursue some other.

The righteous Lord calls his people to honesty and uprightness in society, towards enemies and the disadvantaged, and in the courts- but those virtues still leave a severe problem unaddressed...

We are called to lives of very concrete godliness in light of the damage caused by sin, sympathy for the suffering, and the compassionate and holy character of our redeeming God.

The way Paul appeals in prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father demonstrates that the Father and Son are one in essence, united in love, and joined in blessing.

The laws concerning restitution establish our responsibility to care considerately for ourselves and others. But as thieves helpless to restore what we have stolen, this law by itself offers us no hope of redemption.

The justice of the Lord's law aims to prevent violence, protect servants, and preserve life- but it cannot restore what is broken...

The Lord is revealed as the one who considers the poor because his law protects and provides for them, and because through his own servitude, the Lord's Son redeemed the spiritually poor from bondage and gave them entrance to God's family as sons and heirs.

Prayer is vital both in that it is indispensable and in that it arises from a living relationship with God our Father.

In unexpected and undeserved grace, God reaffirmed, expanded, and gave a sign confirming his covenant promises, and calling Abraham to covenant obedience.

Abram's faith was bolstered by God's more detailed word of promise, by meaningful visual aids, and by the cutting of a covenant.