Sensing God: Experiencing the Divine in Nature, Food, Music, and Beauty

Did God Give Us Our Senses So that We Could Enjoy Him More?
Sensing God is a discovery of Jesus in all of the sensory points embedded into each of us. It shows how the holiest acts in our daily lives are often the simplest: reveling in the beauty of nature; listening to our favorite music; eating a nourishing meal with family. These are potentially heartbeats of a living faith, and when we learn to recognize and respond to God’s goodness in them, it draws us into redemptive participation with Him, the source of all beauty.

Joel Clarkson shares personal stories and paints vivid imagery so that we, too, can taste and see (and hear and touch and smell) that the Lord is good. In our exploration, we meet Jesus, who invites us to enjoy his presence and proclaim his visible, tangible, and touchable gospel. We physically experience the glory of our Creator and at the same time, we make that encounter a testimony to a broken world that is desperate for restoration. We are encouraged to get the good dirt of God’s holy world under our nails.

Together, we will come into contact with the God who reaches out to us with His eternal truth through the goodness of beauty. Will you join the journey? Come and learn how to truly worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

So much of our faith is lived out in our heads. We study the Bible, sit through sermons, pray with our eyes closed.

All of these are good things.

A healthy Christian life, however, goes beyond these essentials. The glory of God is woven into the world, and we have been given eyes to see it, ears to hear it, and hands to touch it. The goodness of God is waiting to be tasted and seen in everything around us. In Sensing God, Joel Clarkson reveals what it means to participate in God’s abundant life through our senses, inviting us to practice a faith formed by the truth-telling goodness of beauty itself.