Abba: what Jesus taught us to call Him
Jesus called God Abba in the garden, and then put the same word in our mouths. What it means, what it does not mean, and how to begin saying it yourself.
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Articles about who you are once God is your Father.
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Adopted: your standing with God
Adoption in Scripture is a legal standing, not a mood. What Romans 8, Galatians 4 and Ephesians 1 say about being God's child, and what to do on the days you feel nothing.
Do not be anxious: what Jesus actually said
Matthew 6, walked slowly. Jesus is not scolding an anxious person about worry; He is telling them who their Father is and what that Father knows.
God as Father when your own father failed
For readers whose father was absent, harsh, or abusive. God is the original, not the copy; you can name what happened honestly, and you are under no pressure to reconcile with someone unsafe.
Growing up without a father
The empty seat at games, the questions no one answered, the quiet suspicion that something is wrong with you. God calls Himself the Father of the fatherless, and He means it.
Loneliness in a crowd
You can sit in a full office, a church foyer or a family dinner and be entirely unknown. The Father knows you all the way down, and that changes how the room feels.
The Father's discipline is not rejection
Hebrews 12 says God disciplines the ones He loves. For readers whose earthly correction was anger, here is how training differs from punishment and how to tell hardship from abandonment.
What it means that God is Father
When Scripture calls God Father it is not a mood or a metaphor for comfort. It is who He is, who He has always been, and the ground under everything else this site says.