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Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is the reality and vitality of God’s fatherhood outside your experience? The wonderful news is that God isn’t like your father, no matter how good or bad he’s been. To call God “Father” isn’t an analogy; he’s not like a father—he is the one and only Father, of whom all earthly fathers and mothers are but poor reflections. In the face of Jesus you see him as he really is and he’s poured out his...

We can never be sure and settled in his love for us when we think our relationship with God is legalistic (i.e., we get what we earn) or when we think our Father’s affection for us is conditional (which drives legalism deep into us). We’re subject to a restless conscience and to the suspicion that God isn’t for us unless we earn his favor and keep ourselves in it. This treadmill does more than rob us of spiritual vitality and joy—it denies our very sonship. If we don’t see and believe ourselves to
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