As I thought about it this past week, it raised a couple of questions in my mind, some clarifications I needed. If in your Christian walk, looking and hearing about the Father is something you skim past, I would challenge you to think about your relationship with God. For those who are not affiliated with this great Christian organization, it would make a fantastic personal or small-group Bible study to increase your understanding of and intimacy with the God who loves you more than humanly possible. When Adam and Eve, when they recognized their nakedness through sin, they immediately became fearful of God. This is good news, especially to religious types like the Pharisees (whom Jesus addressed), who were trying to earn God’s approval by their works.

If you’ve grown up thinking of God the Father as distant and angry, it’s hard to immediately think of Him as a loving and gentle Father instead. If God punished us every time we deserved it, we would be in a perpetual state of receiving retribution. is the senior pastor of a large, growing church in Kansas City, Missouri, and the international director of All Nations Family.

He's a great swimmer; he just doesn't like the pressure of having to do something in front of a couple of life guards. We may familiar with the fact that the prodigal became a stranger but many don’t realize that the older brother was just as estranged.

If you think about the atmosphere of a courtroom, the judge often seems authoritative, stern and unapproachable. How many mothers have exploded in anger at a child who has damaged a treasured object of great expense or sentimental value. On the other hand, when you see God as harsh, cold and stern, it’s hard to feel close to Him, or want to have a relationship with him. If I start here in North America and go north, eventually I get to the top of the globe at the North Pole. Today as a follower of Jesus it is common to come before God as a Father, but we may have our own definition of what a father is.Good dads also take into account a son or daughter's age or temperament or peer pressure or physical health or school struggles or popularity issues.

And then he takes us to a different perspective: that of God, who is portrayed in the Bible as a loving Father. Let Him have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you. Their homes were simple, consisting of earth floors, thatched roofs, and mats that rolled down to serve as walls at night.One of the most defining aspects of Christianity, compared to other religions, is that God is also known as “Father”. When it comes to his love for sinful people, God's got a long fuse, a short memory, a thick skin, and a big heart.