“Regardless of where you are in your spiritual life, the Holy Spirit is applicable to you because the Spirit is necessary to experience a full and holistic Christian life. God the Spirit enables and empowers us to do exactly what God has invited us to do and become who God created us to be. . […]
“A healthy relationship between parent and child moves from dependence to independence. But a healthy relationship with our heavenly Father moves in the opposite direction. Spiritually speaking, we start out in a state of total independence. . . . Spiritual maturity is moving along a continuum toward total dependence on God. . . . It […]
“Pastor Louie Giglio says that the heavenly Father is not a perfected version of our earthly parents. He is the perfect Father. In other words, God is not a better version of your good parent or your not-so-good parent. God is perfectly good, perfectly whole, and perfectly loving, and when we become His children, we […]
“God is still pursuing you after you’ve placed your faith in Him — not to burden you with more tasks on the to-do list or to whip you into shape, but to love you. He pursues you with an intensity that can breathe life into you.”- Jud Wilhite In Chapter 1 (“Dare to Pray Like […]
In Chapter 4 (“What Father Gives His Child a Stone”) of How to Forgive, June Hunt cites a study done at Baylor University about ten years ago. The study included a Gallup survey that identified four distinct perceptions of God’s nature and character. The findings were as follows: Authoritarian God (31.4%)- those who believe in […]