A God to Call Father
An Imaginative Journey into the High Places of Intimacy with God
Published on 25. January 2023
252 pages
978-0-7953-5082-5 (ISBN)
Description
The acclaimed Christian author shares a devotional and thought-provoking exploration of God's Fatherhood.
We all experience a desire to run into the arms of the Father and feel safe and secure, to be able to know him and know that he understands us completely. If this kind of closeness to God has somehow eluded you, perhaps it has something to do with how you think about him. In this book, Michael Phillips takes you on a spiritual journey that will lead you into the arms of God the Father.
A God to Call Father explores an often-overlooked aspect of our spirituality. It suggests that we are plagued by a misunderstanding of the character of God the Father-who he truly is and what he is really like. Following in the tradition of George MacDonald and Hannah Hurnard, Phillips weaves a beautiful allegory throughout the book, paralleling the path toward the intimate presence of God in your life.
We all experience a desire to run into the arms of the Father and feel safe and secure, to be able to know him and know that he understands us completely. If this kind of closeness to God has somehow eluded you, perhaps it has something to do with how you think about him. In this book, Michael Phillips takes you on a spiritual journey that will lead you into the arms of God the Father.
A God to Call Father explores an often-overlooked aspect of our spirituality. It suggests that we are plagued by a misunderstanding of the character of God the Father-who he truly is and what he is really like. Following in the tradition of George MacDonald and Hannah Hurnard, Phillips weaves a beautiful allegory throughout the book, paralleling the path toward the intimate presence of God in your life.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Prologue: The Valley and the Mountains
- PART I THE INSTINCT TO LOOK UP Gazing from the Valley toward the Mountains
- 1 The Instinct to Look Up
- 2 Modernism Resents Fatherhood
- 3 What Does Father Mean?
- 4 Who Is the Father?
- 5 The Difficulty of Intimacy
- 6 Looking Upward
- PART II HIDDEN SECRETS ABOUT OUR MAKER Beginning the Climb Upward
- 7 Getting to Know
- 8 Secrets about Our Maker
- 9 The Greatest Hidden Mystery of All
- PART III ABBA, FATHER! The First Plateau of Our Journey
- 10 God's Fatherhood
- 11 Abba, Father
- 12 Imagining the World's Most Loving Daddy
- 13 The Husk
- 14 Fatherhood Requires Childness
- PART IV A GOD TO CALL FATHER Glimpses of the Mountain Estate
- 15 Creation of the Universal Family
- 16 The Demon Lies of Genesis 3
- 17 All the Way Back to the Garden
- 18 Looking beyond Fear
- 19 God's First Purpose
- 20 A God to Call Father
- 21 Jesus Did Not come to Save Us from the Father
- PART V HOME AMONG THE PEAKS Scaling the Heights
- 22 How Big Is Our God?
- 23 Follow Fatherhood to Finality
- 24 Do We Really Believe in God's Fatherhood?
- 25 Discovering whether God Is Really Good
- PART VI THE INNER CHAMBER WHERE THE FATHER'S HEART DWELLS Finding at Last Our Eternal Dwelling Place
- 26 The Three Mountain Peaks of Fatherhood
- 27 The Heart Chamber of Life
- 28 Living in the Threefold Heart of the Estate
- 29 A Conversation with the Son
- 30 Low-Lying Borderlands
- 31 The Answer Is Trust
- 32 A High View . . . and More Lofty Vistas Ahead
- A Bibliography of Titles by Michael Phillips
