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.
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.
Jesus teaches us that while the world mistakenly seeks happiness through following natural urges, the people of God seek God’s will first.
At Christmas, we come to the miracle of the incarnation, where the unknowable God takes on flesh. When God shows up, light drives out darkness, and love drives out fear.
God comes to earth in Jesus as light and love, driving out darkness and fear. We are invited to join Jesus in sharing that light in a weary world.
God invites us, like Mary, to trust the limitless goodness of the Holy Spirit and offer an unqualified yes to God’s will.
