God delights in the truth. Those who follow Christ must be people of the truth. Therefore, it is better not to make a promise than to make a promise you can't or don't intend to keep. So, say what you mean, and mean what you say.

Jesus shows how the requirements of God's Law go much deeper than many people realize or are willing to admit. Impure thoughts are just as sinful as impure deeds.

Jesus shows how the requirements of God's Law go much deeper than many people realize or are willing to admit. The sins of anger and murder have the same source and bear the same awful consequence.

As followers of Jesus Christ, God has called us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, to be distinct from and influential in the decaying and darkened society around us.

If your life reflects the spiritual attitudes of the Beatitudes then you will be persecuted. But you will also be blessed with the joy that comes from knowing you belong to God's family and are counted worthy of suffering for Jesus' sake.

Since Christ has made a way for peace to exist between God and man; those who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord become his ambassadors of peace, declaring his message of reconciliation.

God desires his people to be clothed with a purity that comes from within—a purity of heart. Such purity is a necessary quality of all who will see the Lord and dwell in his kingdom.

Christians don't need to dress God's message or his messenger to be more fashionable. They need to adorn their hearts with purity and the radiance of God. That's why Jesus characterized citizens of God's kingdom by saying, "Blessed are the pure in heart...

Feeling the reality of your own spiritual poverty and need for God's mercy will fuel your practical acts of love and mercy toward the lives of others.

Those who belong to the kingdom of heaven have an underlying hunger and thirst for righteousness. It is more necessary to their existence that their daily intake of food and water. Yet, it's a hunger that leads to eternal satisfaction.