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What Religion Never Taught You About Your Heavenly Father

What Religion Never Taught You About Your Heavenly Father

Update: 2025-06-15
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What if everything you thought about God as Father has been shaped more by human pain than by who He really is?

This Father’s Day, let’s break free from the tired religious stereotype of God as a distant, strict judge. Instead, we’ll explore the heart of our Heavenly Father—the One who loves deeper and wider than we can imagine.

Maybe your view of God has been clouded by a harsh or absent earthly dad. Maybe you’ve heard that Jesus is kind and gentle, but God the Father is the stern disciplinarian waiting to catch you in failure. That divide keeps so many from experiencing the full, rich love God wants to pour out on us.

In this message, we’ll uncover five life-changing truths about our Father’s love. You’ll discover a God who loved you before you were born, before you ever believed, without demanding that you clean up your act. Unlike human love that sometimes runs out, His love never fades or quits. When He forgives, He wipes the slate clean, separating our sins “as far as the East is from the West.” More than just religion or rules, God wants friendship with you, a real connection, heart to heart. And best of all, He loves you more than your failures, seeing you through the perfect righteousness of Christ rather than your mistakes.

For fathers here on earth, these truths offer a powerful model: love first, don’t give up, forgive fully, express love openly, and value relationship above performance. When dads reflect God’s love this way, they help their children grow into a healthy understanding of both earthly and heavenly fatherhood.

Whether your experience with your earthly Father was beautiful or painful, this message will help heal your heart and reshape how you see the Father who made you on purpose, knows you inside and out, and loves you without condition.

You were never an accident. You were intentionally designed by a Father who loves you first, loves you forever, forgives completely, desires true friendship, and loves you more than your failures.

Join me as we explore these five powerful truths, which can change everything—from how you see God to how you live in His love.

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What Religion Never Taught You About Your Heavenly Father

What Religion Never Taught You About Your Heavenly Father

W. Austin Gardner