Jesus does not discuss how the Father made him rich or famous. He talked about how the Father loved him. When you take the father's love from the child or the father doesn't know how to give love to the child outside of the woman, the [...]

Well, I believe today is a very special day where we can get to know God better as our father. God is all about family. And it's not just necessarily your family, your immediate family, because there's a lot of brokenness in many of our [...]

Well, today we are in a series that you probably know about that we're calling "Family Ties". Now I wanna tell you a story. About 22 years ago, I took the plunge, I took up golf. And the reason I took up golf, even though I was in my [...]

This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. You know when Father's Day rolls around, we love to celebrate Dad: Dad who took me fishing when I was a boy, Dad who came to all my games, Dad who was always [...]

You see, this notion of the fatherhood of God gives us identity and a place in the unfolding purposes of God. It gives you a confidence when you pray, when you talk to him, when you imagine inviting God into your life. It helps you understand [...]

Do not accept the premise that, as a rule of thumb, we should think of masculinity as toxic. If somebody's coming through your front door in the middle of the night, you want somebody in the house that's more than empathetic, a promise. [...]

Be finding the book of Psalms, please, and open your Bibles to Psalm 127. And as you're finding it, may I tell you what you probably already know: that Satan has unleashed an all-out war on the family. When I say the family, I'm talking [...]

What does it mean to be a man today? - We're always talking about the greatest men in history, and so we set ourselves up to want to be a great man. - Being a man today is challenging because of the times that we're living in. - You want [...]

What are the most important words you ever heard from your father? Did you ever hear your father say I love you? What was your feeling the first time you ever heard your dad say I love you? How old were you when you heard it? How old was your father [...]

Today we choose this theme of sports because there's so many applications that come from it that we can apply to the purpose and the plan that God has for fathers. Today we set aside this service and this moment to encourage some of the most [...]

If you would, please stand for the reading of God's word and turn to the book of Micah, the 6th chapter and the 8th verse, as this morning we speak to fathers and continue in our series "Words that work and statements that don't" [...]

Good morning. Boy, didn't our Hamilton actors do great this morning? Wasn't that great? And I'm especially grateful for them leaving me this Hamilton pulpit to preach from. So would you turn in your Bibles please? Happy Father's [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Father's Day rolls around once every year. It's a time when we celebrate our dads, or our grandfathers, too, for that matter. And it's an opportunity to reflect on [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Well, there are sunnier subjects, I guess, but I'm not sure there are too many that are more important. We're going to take a few moments together to talk about [...]

Today is a story of a desperate dad and a dying son, in John chapter 4. It's the story about a man who came to experience genuine faith and the power of that faith in his life and in his family. And, dads, this message in great part is to you. [...]

Because he sees you as his child and you can come boldly to the throne of grace and find grace to help in the time of need. And when God got ready to make his first son, his first-made son, he created Adam out of the dust of the earth with his own [...]

It saved me from performance and condemnation and all of that. That's what we'll be talking about. If you turn in your Bibles to Ephesians five, however you read the Bible there, this message is called "Every great father". And I [...]

While the voice of shame wants men and fathers to meditate on their failures, a man of God refuses to live in this state, and as a man of God, refuse to live in that state. By the power of the Holy Spirit, he will instead get up, this man of God, [...]

If you have your Bibles this morning, go with me to the book of Exodus, chapter 20 and verse 12. I'm gonna be reading out of the New Living Translation. Exodus chapter 20 and verse 12. I thought about showing a lot of pictures of fathers, [...]

More than anything else, beloved one, you and I need to know Father God as our own Daddy, and to understand that we are the children of his own loins. You know what John the apostle said in the Book of 1 John, chapter 3, verse 1? He said this: [...]

I want to talk with you now about what are the roles of a father. As we're developing this relationship with our God and Father, I want to help us to understand what does this relationship mean to us? In other words, many of us grew up without [...]

You know the Bible tells us in the Book of Romans, that when we received Jesus that we received, get it now, the spirit of sonship. The spirit of adoption, by which we cry out, Abba Father. Daddy Father. The Hebrew word Abba is a very affectionate, [...]

Fatherlessness dominates our cultural landscape today. Forty percent of all children in our country are raised without their biological father. In the African-American community, 72% of children born are born to single parents. Now, fatherlessness [...]

Let’s look at the father’s responsibility as prophet. You can put it this way. As priest he represents his family to God. As prophet he represents God to his family. That again is the special unique privilege of every father. Let’s look in Ephesians [...]

Let’s go a little step further now in this picture of what it is to be a father. I think I need to say at this point that I’m not providing merely theory. I have experience. When I married my first wife I inherited eight adopted daughters on the [...]

All right, we’re going on now to the father as king or governor. 1 Timothy 3:4–5. speaking about an elder: One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence. For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, [...]

There is nothing in the Bible more important than the revelation of fatherhood. It really is the central theme of the whole Bible. To discover this, let’s turn to a beautiful prayer of the apostle Paul recorded in Ephesians 3:14–15. This is only the [...]

There is nothing in the Bible more important than the revelation of fatherhood. It really is the central theme of the whole Bible. To discover this, let’s turn to a beautiful prayer of the apostle Paul recorded in Ephesians 3:14–15. This is only the [...]