As believers, we live in this world as outsiders, foreigners. Yet God promises we are not alone in this journey. In fact, despite our messy world, God helps us to thrive and enables us to help others thrive, too.

We tend to view God’s call to holiness as unattainable. But maybe we’ve misunderstood what it means to live a holy life. First it’s about understanding God’s holiness. Then it’s understanding how it relates to our own identity, and the ways we think, act and see the world.

God created us in his own image. That’s such a familiar line from Genesis 1 that we can lose sight of what it really means. It has everything to do with how we live, especially how we see others and ourselves.

Have you ever stopped to think about what it means to be a child of God? As children of God, we inherit not only his name but also his nature. The Apostle John had much to say about how we can live in light of this amazing truth.