Jesus’ sacrifice for our sake can be understood not only as his death, but also his life lived in perfect obedience. In his life and death, Jesus gave himself for our salvation.
Jesus’ crucifixion is God’s Word to us—revealing God’s heart of love, God’s action to reconcile and heal a broken, self-centered humanity, and God’s will for how we are to live.
To have the joyful life God has for us, we must intentionally choose what God wants for us over anything else.
We long to experience the kind of transformation we see in Jesus, but we find change rare and difficult. The Transfiguration is a promise of the transformation God works in us.
Happy people value and invest in real friendships. Jesus wants you to be full of joy, which comes from a right relationship with God and one another.
We often think happiness is just one accomplishment or milestone away, but when we get there, we find that satisfaction doesn’t last. If we want enduring happiness, we need to instead focus on progress toward the things Jesus teaches that matter most.
When it comes to happiness, Jesus and social science research agree: it’s all about relationships. The way we nurture our relationships with God, family, friends, and nature can make us significantly happier, and it can make the world happier, too.
Justice is about closing the gap between the world as it is and the world as God meant it to be.
True happiness at work comes not from career success or status but from knowing our identity as God’s beloved children and joining God’s work in the world through whatever we…
Jesus teaches us that while the world mistakenly seeks happiness through following natural urges, the people of God seek God’s will first.
