Paul Prather: Some people in contemporary Christianity seem to shy away from referring to God as the Father because of the baggage. I get that, but I also respectfully disagree.

However, even the greatest of fathers can unintentionally leave wounds that, in the Providence of God, give the Father an opportunity to heal and reveal his love through the Holy Spirit.

Using Rembrandt’s painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as inspiration, the Holy Father said God’s love is like that of a father who goes out in search of his lost children.

He describes a father looking upon a child and smiling, ... If we accept the transformative idea that God loves us without reservation, we also have to accept that we’re not the only ones.

"Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’" (John 14:6). This Bible verse comes from the Gospel of John, one of the four gospel ...

Do you remember the movie “The Ten Commandments?” I was in high school when I first watched it. Since then, I have watched it ...

From God’s perspective, the answer is simple: love. Deuteronomy 7:8 says that God chose Israel not because its people were the greatest but simply because he loves them.

Gail loves the Lord most of all. She delights in her calling to be a wife to Ed Malick and a mother to seven children ages 26 ...

He tried to make God his father fall and above all to prove to him that men, whom he venerated so much, were in reality not ...

Again, Christ himself tells us very clearly what true love for him involves or, shall we say, requires. “He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me,” he said. &ldquo ...