Sublime

Take a clear example: Christ instructs his followers to think of God on the analogy of a human father, and to feel safe in assuming that God’s actions toward them will display something like—but also something far greater than—

If a son does not receive blessing from his father, he will spend the rest of his life trying to earn that blessing. Creating a blessing ceremony will help cement our sons’ identity and heal wounds they have suffered along the way. It is something only we as fathers can give to our sons.

A man must love his father and yet be free of his father’s expectations and criticisms in…

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“We aren’t meant to figure out life on our own. God wants to father us.

To be a father in more than a biological sense—to make fatherhood an integral part of my identity, to care about my child in an active and passionate sense—requires that I sustain an existential, life-defining commitment to my child. This is why parenthood can be such a transformative event, reorienting my deepest relation to the world, making life

In seeing the church as the family of God, we must see our need to become fathered children by embracing the concept of a spiritual father. Once we have done this we become not just “church members” but “sons and daughters of the house”.

God the Father is sometimes called: God (Ps. 22:1; Isa. 53:4), Lord (Isa. 53:10), God and Father of Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 1:3), Father of the fatherless (Ps. 68:5), and many more.