Recently a few of us were reflecting on God as Father. It was stunning to read Genesis 1 and Luke 3 noticing that in as much as to the rest of creation God is Creator, when God made Adam His relationship to Him was that of a loving Father. It is unfortunate that there are […]
Read More Gaining Great Wisdom From Flawed Father FiguresSee what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1 It’s not as though there is no good pattern for fatherhood. Check the […]
Read More Say What You See: Faithful FatherhoodSolomon sure loved his Dad. I get the impression he was also very fond of his son. I get that impression because it’s fairly regular we read in the book of wisdom the father talking to his son. The thing about the book of Proverbs is there are some things in there that are observations, […]
Read More Pay, Turn, ApplyThe nature of the life we lead can often be very demanding. Responsibilities require energy to carry them out. Loving people is not done without expending something of yourself in it. That takes a toll. This is why it was a genius part of the human set-up to require a number of hours of sleep […]
Read More It’s Very Good From Time To Time To RestIt has been a really tiring but interesting past few days. The highlight was yesterday attending the blessing of my niece. It was one of the rare occasions when my sister, brother and I were in the same place at the same time. I love my siblings heaps and heaps so the three of us […]
Read More Grateful For The Blessing Of Being A ChildI am amazed by the love the Son has for the Father. I am amazed by the love the Father has for the Son. I am captured by the love of the Son for the Father. A love that saw Him voluntarily left His position in glory to take on humanity. A love that looked […]
Read More September Sojourn: What Manner Of Love Is This?Let me be honest with you. (I know that’s a surprise, but bear with me.) I get rather caught up with the Holy Spirit living in me, Jesus being my guide and example, and my Father loving me like His son, that I don’t pay that much attention to the bit about the angels. Scripture […]
Read More DMCD Songs: My Father’s Angels – Mark Lowry, Charlotte Ritchie, Wes Hampton & David PhelpsAs ever in these cases, I blame Frank Viola. I was minding my own business, just reading the occasional blog here and there, when I came across this one from Frank recommending three books from some guy called DeVern Fromke. To put this in context, before Frank, I had never heard of T. Austin Sparks […]
Read More Another One Of Those ‘Oh I Get It Now’ Moments: Fatherhood in ChurchI just cannot tell you how often being a parent, I feel like I’m parenting myself! I see my attitudes towards my parents in the way my children behave. Though it’s a completely different context and they are genuinely very different people to me (for starters I was never the daughter!) it is amazing how […]
Read More Child Of God, You Will LearnThis song has a great deal of meaning to me. It is a song that says so much not so much about me – although there’s a lot of ‘me’ in it. It is what it has to say about the nature of God. I love the fact that He really won’t leave me. He […]
Read More DMCD Songs: I Won’t Leave You Anymore – John P. Kee
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