The image of ... isn’t that God is a Father. The real problem is that our earthly fathers—who, however unintentionally, tend to serve as human stand-ins for the heavenly Father—have often ...

Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother has gone mainstream ... the connection that during the ‘First Vision,’ when Joseph Smith was visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ, he first mentions ...

Being immersed in the Holy Spirit brings a new way of thinking and responding to the Lord, said Father Jim Livingston, pastor of St. Paul in Ham Lake. “Within us there is an innocence that we go ...

As Jesus himself used the fatherly analogy we have, as Christians, felt duty bound to adhere rigidly to that image. God the Father has consequently ended up as an elderly man with a beard ...

Schall reminds us that “leisure describes the life of God.” God created the universe not because he felt compelled to or because he lacked something. And as the triune God, the Father created ...

One of the earliest saints to receive a firsthand glimpse into the heavenly realm ... they enter into the depths of God, contemplating the inner life of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy ...

In the song, he sings “Heavenly father, look down from above.” Paul was asked if the line was supposed to be about his father, James McCartney, or God. “Heavenly father … That’s either ...