Parenting 'Dad, can I have an ice cream?' 'Not now, wait til you have had lunch.' A conversation familiar to anyone who has been a parent, saying no to your children, letting them down gently. Of course, in the above example a good parent wold have to come up with ice cream after lunch. At …
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Father
Our Father The Lord's prayer - part 2 Jesus told us to treat God as Father, but not the authoritarian sort of father that some think of when they think about God. I have heard a sermon where it was said that Jesus used the Aramaic word Abba in the prayer, a word like the …
3in1
The preachers' nightmare, Trinity Sunday. How do we explain that God is three persons and one God? It does not make sense. Simply the doctrine says: The Father is fully God, but the Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the Son, is fully God, but the Son is not the Father …