June 16, 2012

• Father's Day Posts (series links)

  I've not been blogging here much lately, but there's still plenty to read in the archives. Every so often I bundle together similar posts into a single post, which I periodically update as I write newer related posts. (For a list of all such bundled posts, please click on my tag, "series links.")  Today I've bundled together various posts I've written for and/or are related to Father's Day...

  • Happy Father's Day/Bible Reading-I Kings 1: Fatherly Discipline

  • the Father's Valentine

  • Happy Father's Day: "Only the child cries, 'Abba, Father'"

  • Dealing with sins & guilt: Godly guilt leads us to declare spiritual bankruptcy & run home

  • God's people ought to be welcoming "Hookers & Robbers"

  • every day ought to be our Father's day

  • Letter 24 on assurance and fighting for joy (the Father's discipline)

  • Reflections on my Dad on his 107th birthday* (Letter 33 on assurance & fighting for joy)

  • Shall we not drink the cup the Father has given us? (Letter 53 on assurance & fighting for joy)

  • our Father's discipline, William Cowper on trials & sufferings (letter 61 on assurance & joy)

  • "A Father at the Helm"

  • Holy Father, it grieves me . . . (Father's Day reflections on husbands & fathers)

  • sin's cold deception, my Father's warm reception

  • The Father's Inheritance (Eleven days' journey ~ A lamentation & an exhortation)

  • Father's Day ~ William Carey & his son | duty, risk & the obedient Son

  • Fear not, little flock (Luke 12:32) | letter 123 on assurance & fighting for joy

  • "The Christian should not just believe the truth, and know it..." | the Father's assurance

  • Are you really Mine?

  • A Father's Charge (Reuben, Reuben! My Firstborn Son) – Genesis 49:3-4

  • All Saints' Day: "Man, if I could be anything, baby, I'd be a saint!" (Lecrae)

  • Linger, linger, linger – so you might know God's love

  • "What an awful place is the christian's closet! The whole Trinity is about it every time he kneels." (Edward Dorr Griffin's prayers for his daughters)

  • Prodigal son, my dear seed, How for thy soul shall I plead?

  • Advent # 9 WHY HAS JESUS COME? Adoption: the highest privilege the gospel offers ~ J.I. Packer

  • "There are many in the church that never had a kid" ~ John Elias

  • Our fathers prevailed with God in prayer ~ turn the heart of the fathers to us! (Malachi 4:5-6)

  I John 4:12  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

  13  By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

  17  By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18  There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19  We love because he first loved us. 20  If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21  And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

  

  But what to those who find? Ah, this
  Nor tongue nor pen can show;
  The love of Jesus, what it is,
  None but His loved ones know.
  (Bernard of Clairvaux)

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