Category: God’s spirit
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Earth is our home
A pastor of mine often ended his prayers with “this is not our home,” telling us that we’re here briefly while in transit to heaven, so we should not get wrapped up in Earth. But the pastor is mistaken. We’ve been placed on this planet for seventy (more or less) years to glorify and love…
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Face to face with God . . . in his nature
In the quiet of nature, we find ourselves face to face with God’s love of life and variety of life, his cycles of life and death and life again, the immensity of his time and space, and with the wonders and wisdom by which he created the universe. At the seashore, on a mountaintop, in…
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Creation theology: the truths we learn.
God created the heavens and the Earth, or more specifically, through his spirit he molded all the planets, stars, and the life they sustain, using energy, elements, and physical laws of the universe. He engineered the cosmos through gravity, atomic forces, chemical and genetic relationships, and more. We now know that Earth is 4.5 billion…