TOPICS
God’s creation
How God Shows Himself to the World in General and Special Revelation
“If God is there, why doesn’t he show himself?” God does show himself to the world in two very different but complementary ways.
God Can Handle Chaos—Including Yours
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
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.
The Important Truth of Our Smallness
As humans we quickly forget that we are dust. That we are not invincible. That we are the created and not the Creator. How can we develop a right view of God and ourselves?
Want Abundant Life? It Only Grows on the Solid Rock—the Third Day of Creation
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 Providence
The providence of God reveals his infinite wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy. Nothing can thwart his plan. Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s providence.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Creation
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.
Suspended Between Heaven and Earth—Fly Fishing on the Madison River
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.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Covenant with Man
Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon the covenant God made with man in Genesis 2, to share himself with a holy people—and only a holy people.