“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 Today’s verse is perplexing. Is Jesus really commanding us to do something that is humanly unattainable in this life? Only God is perfect and without sin. Does Jesus want us to strive for perfection in this life as if it were attainable, knowing …

Our Savior is called Christ   —that is, Anointed—because he is ordained of God the Father,and anointed with the Holy Spirit, to be our chief Prophet and Teacher, who fully reveals to us the secret counsel and will of God concerning our redemption; and to be our only High Priest, who by the one sacrifice …

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.”  John 9:1–3 Recently, …

God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. Genesis 1:27–28 Lily loved houseplants. After working at a plant nursery over the summer, she’d spent nearly all the money she earned to buy plants of every shape and size. …

Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. . . . If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in …