The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. To that end, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God.

If you’ve taken Personal Spiritual Disciplines with me, you can probably guess much of what you are about to read here—or at least I hope you can. But even if you have taken the class, I hope you’ll find these brief reminders helpful.

The Spirit of God will use the word of God to help the people of God pray increasingly according to the will of God.

Our Father loves to hear our voices. Nothing is too small to bring to him.

Here are some questions designed to spark not only conversation, but also dialogue relevant to the season.

When praying the Bible, our primary activity is prayer, not Bible intake. Bible reading is secondary in this process. Our focus is on God through prayer; our glance is at the Bible.

You can trust everything the Bible says about the Christian life. But these nine are among those the Bible emphasizes most often.

Donald S. Whitney discusses his book “How Can I Be Sure I’m a Christian?” and the satisfying certainty of eternal life

Unlike the words of David and Jeremiah in Scripture, no believer’s writings today are divinely inspired. But the example of the biblical authors in writing their prayers, meditations, questions, etc., provides scriptural validation for Christians today to do the same.

A hunger to learn the Word of God, the ways of God, and the will of God expresses a hunger for God himself.

If you can’t make time to meet God through the Bible and prayer now, it’s very unlikely you will when (if) life does slow down.

I plan to continue this practice for the rest of my life, for I never outgrow the need for the practical wisdom of this divinely-inspired book.