The overarching theme of the Bible is the Father/Son relationship. In fact, the entire Bible is a full description of this relationship between Father and Son, as God wants to see it in us. We know this because of the testimony of the best authority in the Bible - Jesus himself, the eternal Son of God. The reason he came was to gather a Family together and make them one with himself, in his image, so that they might become Sons of God.
We first see this relationship of the Father/Son with the creation of man, who was made "in God's image." That means man was made after the pattern of...

The Puritans left a spiritual legacy that put the Christian Church in their debt for centuries.
In this volume are hundreds of quotations from the Puritans and their spiritual heirs over the last 400 years. They had a full and Biblical view of God, and (as the Apostle Peter tells us) they "knew then how they should live." They were spiritual doctors: they were able to study the soul, and apply the necessary medicine, to cure sinners of worldliness and immorality. They had the keys to the glory of God and delighted to show those who were earth-bound the majesty of Heaven. They understood...