The central concern of our lives needs to be our turning back to God, our repenting of our sin before God, our being redeemed from our sin by God – before it is too late. “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

“To “stay dressed for action” is to remember that our lives are meant for more than whatever it is we are doing and experiencing right now and today and tomorrow – and that our lives right now and today and tomorrow and forevermore have God as their ultimate destiny.”

Israel is not to live like the other nations around them, but Israel is to live for God alone. No longer conformed to the world around them, but now transformed by the grace of God and in accord with the Ten Commandments.

“Jesus doesn’t just hear this man’s words, He reads this man’s heart.”

“To fear God, says the Bible, is something else – it is the beginning of wisdom. It is a fear defined not by anxiety, but by awe and reverence.”