God the Father (353)
  1. God the Father Almighty is good. And He must be good in ways that surpass my earthly father.
  2. Surely everyone reading at one time or another in their lives has heard the popular phrase I’m writing about today.
  3. As it turned out, the novels in which I had sought escape, became part of the means whereby the Lord rescued me from my own death.
  4. So what's the back side? What's the promise? We shall not have other gods, but we do have the one, true God—the promise of a God for us.
  5. The manna God provides is never tasty enough. God never lives up to your expectations. So silently or audibly you wish for an easier way.
  6. The mother of this prophet is visited by the Mother of God. In the coming together of these two pregnant women, we see the coming together of the old and the new.
  7. He loved me, to be sure, but in a very nondescript, emotionally detached way, which is the way my grandfather loved him.
  8. As C. S. Lewis, in "The Magician’s Nephew", has Aslan sing the world and all its beautiful intricacies into existence, so the Lion of the tribe of Judah, our Lord Jesus, hymns the heavens and earth into being.
  9. Is God the perfect loving father for whom we have all longed; or is he an angry, blood-thirsty deity who can only be appeased by the torture and death of his own child?
  10. Here’s what lurks beneath this seemingly righteous behavior: they wanted to make a name for themselves, these tower-builders.
  11. In Christ, we become part of the group of eight on the ark. The eight does not increase to nine or ten but swells to contain us all. God recreates us in this saving flood of baptism. We enter the new creation in Christ.
  12. And there was heard, all round the world, the boom of a pounding hammer. And there resounded, all around the world, the cry of a righteous man who prayed for an unrighteous world.
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