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Is “Heavenly Father” Just a Title or an Active Role?
Find God’s Unconditional Love Demonstrated Through His Fatherly Actions in Your Life -- We all have a heavenly Father that loves us. As Christians, we often accept "everlasting Father" as one of Jesus's titles without recognizing that He actively fathers us. Here are a few examples of how God fathers us.
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Is It Really Possible to be a Friend of God?
Serving is Good But Friendship is Better -- Friend of God is a song written by Israel Houghton and Michael Gungor. I first heard it on the Let the Worshippers Arise recording by Phillips, Craig & Dean released in 2004. In John 15:15 (NIV), Jesus tells his disciples, “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” If we are disciples of Christ, walking in relationship with Him, is it really possible that we…
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Overcome the Power and Obsession of Self-Contempt
2 Steps to Becoming the New Creature God Made You to Be -- I remember my first conversation with Lonnie. Nobody formally introduced us. We just began speaking to each other as we stood in the foyer of the church. He was one of those people who never knew a stranger and treated everyone like the dearest of friends from the first conversation.