This document discusses some key reformational basics, including: 1) Creation exists only in response to God's word and could not exist without it. 2) All of creation, including humans, is sustained "all the way down" by God's word. 3) Creation has a spiritual reality as well, since all of it responds to God, and the Spirit was at work before humans. 4) God sovereignly and faithfully upholds and directs creation through divine decrees and laws that penetrate and provide order for all things.