“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:5; see also 1 Peter2:8, Revelation 1:5-6). Each and every individual member of the body of Christ (the Church of Christ) is a priest of God, truly an…
Few things are as essential to mankind as hope, for the greatest difficulty can be borne while men have hope. The strongest man becomes discouraged under hardships when hope fails. We cannot live without hope. We need to know that better things lie in the future. This is even more true of the spiritual than…
Jesus warned against choosing the wrong goal in life. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:38. No matter how great our material success in life might be in achieving possessions, power, honor, and prestige; it will be of no benefit to us if our…