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Days of creation

God Can Handle Chaos—Including Yours

By Campbell Markham / May 23, 2025

In Genesis 1:1-2 we read about how the Spirit of God loved, sustained, and upheld his creation. 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.

You Are Very Important—the Sixth Day of Creation

By Campbell Markham / March 28, 2025

We sense that we are significant. Life means something. We have purpose—a high purpose. Here are 3 reasons from Genesis 1:24-26 why you are very important.

“Let There Be Light”: 6 Things You Need to Know about the Light God Gives You

By Campbell Markham / March 14, 2024

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.

Want Abundant Life? It Only Grows on the Solid Rock—the Third Day of Creation

By Campbell Markham / June 25, 2022

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.

Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Creation

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / September 14, 2021

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.

3 Ways God Saves You from Drowning—the Second Day of Creation

By Campbell Markham / April 21, 2020

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.