In the best times of marriage, we can’t get enough of each other. We breeze through workdays, knowing we can be together afterward. We spoon our bodies in the night, delighting in how well we fit together. We cook special things for each other. We reach for each...

Spending time in meditation enables us to become better acquainted with God in the same way that we become acquainted with someone we would really like to know; that is, by spending time with him. Meditation can be difficult in the beginning. We are used to being...

2 Samuel 6:14 New International Version 14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, The people around David probably grew accustomed to his musical outbursts. After all, and much to the chagrin of Saul’s daughter, it was King David...

Genesis 2:25 New International Version 25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. Genesis 3:9-10 New International Version 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I...

Philippians 3:13-14 New International Version 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God...

Genesis 45:9-11 New International Version 9 Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay. 10 You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and...

Galatians 2:20 New International Version 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Our relationship with God—the most...