Do you ever wish God would speak to you? Here are two ways God communicates to people today.

Whereas human religions grope for God, in the Bible God confronts humanity with the bright light of truth. Here are six things you need to know about the light God gives you and how it relates to Jesus.

In Genesis 1:1-2 we read about God’s formless, empty, lifeless, black, and watery creation and how the Spirit of God loved, sustained, and upheld it. Right now you may feel confused. Empty. Lifeless. Dark. Chaotic. Whoever you are, and whatever the depths and agony of your trials, God is hovering over you: he loves you, he is near to you, and he can rescue you.

On the one hand, we sense that we are important and significant. Life means something. We have purpose—a high purpose. We were destined for great things. On the other hand, we tell ourselves, incessantly, that we are meaningless and insignificant. Here are 3 reasons from Genesis 1:24-26 why you are very important.

So many of us are unhappy because we don’t know why we exist. God pours out love-gifts of sun and breath, food and family, and we don’t see him. We are dying, and we don’t want our lives to end. We don’t know where we are going, nor how to get there. Yet, even in the most vicious trials of this life, we can find joy.

God made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding (Jer. 10:12). Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s creation.

The Sabbath was supposed to be a day of rest, but the Pharisees loaded it with stupid laws and turned the Sabbath into a day of fear and misery. How did Jesus recover the Sabbath, and what does it mean for us today?

Have you ever visited a pristine part of God’s creation where it seemed like you were almost in another world entirely? I had that experience fly fishing on the Madison River—and it left me breathless.

God’s church is always in danger of drowning—suffocating in the waters of outward persecution and inward materialism and temptation. We need not fear, though, because our Lord will rescue us and bring us through.