The Source of Spiritual Disciplines Even the discipline we need is a gift of God’s grace. “Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.” Exodus 33:13 Where would the people of Israel learn ...

Why Spiritual Disciplines? Our sinful nature makes spiritual disciplines most necessary. When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us.” Exodus 32:1 Spiritual disciplines are those activities we submit ...

The Training of the Soul Gaining the promises of God does not come naturally. “You shall love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:5 The worldview rooted in the Law of God is grounded in a compelling vision of God and His ...

The Hereafter God’s Law indicates an eternal continuance with Him. And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers.” Deuteronomy 31:16 God declared Himself to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, as Jesus explained, but of ...

The Future God’s Law points His people to the generations. “…for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me ...

The Power of God God’s power is over everything that He has made. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them, and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. ...

Satan He is not much discussed in the Law, but Satan is present throughout. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. Genesis 3:1 How did sin become established as a continuing condition of the human soul and the creation of God? ...

Sin Sin prevents God’s people from knowing the promises of His covenant. “Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!” Deuteronomy 5:29 The question immediately arises: Why, given all Israel ...

The Soul God’s promises are directed first at men’s souls. “You shall love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:5 All worldviews are rooted in unseen realities—concepts of the greatest good, expressions of hope, statements of vision, mission, goals, and so forth; ...

A Blessing to All Nations God’s Covenant reaches to all nations in all times. “Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and ...