Title Index

A complete index of meditation titles.

Clicking on a colored chapter heading will take you to the page with brief summaries of each meditation in that chapter. Clicking on the colored meditation title will open that particular meditation.

Chapter 1: Introductory Meditations

  1. Even Christians Still Need Revelation
  2. Jesus: The Revelation of the Father and the Way to Life with Him
  3. A Time Change and a Gift
  4. The Time of Inheritance (Coming of Age) Has Come
  5. The Spirit: the First Fruits of our Coming of Age
  6. The Mystery of the Messiah
  7. ‘For A Little While Lower than the Angels’
  8. The Glorious Grace of God's Purpose and Will
  9. ‘Father God’, ‘Our Father’ and ‘the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ’
  10. Hearing the Father's Voice

Chapter 2: The Father in the Sermon on the Mount

  1. The Father's Affirmation and the Good Works that Honor Him
  2. A New and Mature Approach to Righteousness
  3. Praying as Part of the Father's Family
  4. Adult Sons and Daughters and their Material Needs
  5. Chief Temptations that come to us in the Father's Kingdom
  6. The Will of the Father and the Evil Side of Religion

Chapter 3: The Father in the Parables of Jesus

  1. The Parable of the Father's Kingdom
  2. Sons of the Kingdom, Angels, and the Father's ‘Little Ones’
  3. Wandering ‘Little Ones’ and Abusive Siblings in the Father's Kingdom
  4. The ‘Bad’ Son, the ‘Good’ Son, & their Father's Costly Redemption
  5. Doing the Father's Will with Authority in a New Season
  6. Bearing Fruit out of Love, Obedience, Understanding and Friendship
  7. Jesus' Model for Discipling Families and Nations—with the Father
  8. Resurrection Joy with the Father, through the Spirit

Chapter 4: Human 'Guardian Powers' and the Father

  1. Learning to Know the Father as Children and Teenagers
  2. Beginning to Exercise Authority as an Adult Son or Daughter
  3. Exercising Authority over Nations Begins with your Own Nation
  4. How Paul Came of Age in Christ, by the Spirit
  5. Dealing with Family Pressure as part of the Father’s Family
  6. The Father's Grace and the Guardian Powers
  7. Why Many Christians Retreat from Adult Freedom in the Spirit
  8. A Mature Approach to Holiness

Chapter 5: Suffering in the Lives of the Father's Sons and Daughters

  1. Faith and Obedience under our Father's Training
  2. An Understanding Father who is Deserving of Praise
  3. The Father's Comfort in Times of Suffering
  4. When Facing Suffering, pray: ‘Father, Glorify your Name!’
  5. Facing Suffering Jesus prayed: ‘Father, Glorify your Son!’
  6. ‘Father, Glorify your Son…!’: Part Two
  7. Facing Temptation in the Hour before the Suffering
  8. Standing in the Father's Name during the Suffering
  9. During Jesus' Suffering, the Father Stayed with Him

Chapter 6: Jesus' Resurrection and our Relationship with the Father

  1. Sons (and Daughters) of the Resurrection
  2. The Father Raises the Dead and Gives them Life
  3. Access to the Father, Peace and Authority in Christ
  4. An Inheritance from the Merciful Father who ‘Foreknew’ Us
  5. Becoming Holy like our Impartial Father is Holy
  6. ‘Sons’ of God through the Flesh, the Spirit & the Resurrection
  7. Reigning in the Power of the Father's Glorious Grace

Chapter 7: How Jesus' Ascension Impacts our Relationship with the Father

  1. Receiving the Father's Promise means an Altered View of our World
  2. Growing together as Adult Sons and Daughters by the Gifts of the Spirit
  3. Growing Up in our Relationship with the Father
  4. Becoming Like Jesus: Mature, Confident Sons & Daughters
  5. The Father's Love, and overcoming Compromise with the World
  6. Enjoying Family Fellowship with the Father, the Son and Each Other
  7. Avoiding Deception through Fellowship with Jesus & the Father
  8. Being Like Jesus, to Each Other, Brings Glory to the Father
  9. Why it is Advantageous for us that Jesus went to the Father

Chapter 8: Barriers to Knowing the Father (from John's Gospel)

  1. ‘Born Again’ Thinking Can Keep Us from Knowing the Father Like John Did 
  2. Religious Systems Can Hold Us Back
  3. Fear of Accusation and a Need for Human Recognition
  4. Religious Views of God and Hearing the Father's Voice
  5. When Rationalism Gets in the Way
  6. Religious Power and Dependency
  7. Presumption and Crowded Hearts
  8. A ‘Dichotomous’ Worldview
  9. False Expectations and the Darkness of Fear, Disappointment and Doubt
  10. When Significance and Authority Depend on Holding a Position

Chapter 9: The Father, Social Power and Church Leadership

  1. Relationships in a Family Kingdom
  2. The Power of our Social and Religious Backgrounds
  3. Overcoming Group Social Power in a Multi-Ethnic Church
  4. Spiritual 'fathers' and 'mothers' in the Father's Family
  5. Paul as a ‘father’ to Timothy
  6. Four Glimpses of Paul as a 'father’ to Titus
  7. Paul as a ‘father’ to Onesimus, and to Philemon and Archippus
  8. Adult Responsibility and Leadership in the Father's Family 
  9. Abiding in the Father Together: as ‘children’, ‘young people’ and ‘fathers’
  10. Confronting Various Kinds of Social and Religious Power in the Church

Chapter 10: The Father and our Witness to the World

  1. Biblical Influence in Society in Partnership with the Father
  2. Our Witness Begins with Gratitude in our Hearts, to the Father
  3. Confident Witness through Knowing the Father's Will
  4. Overflowing in Thankfulness to the Father: in Prayer, Word and Deed
  5. After Witnessing: Rejoice in the Father, not in Power Signs
  6. Facing our Fears of Witnessing…with the Father
  7. Becoming a more Fruitful Witness to Jesus: Peter's Three Revelations
  8. A Family Kingdom where our Hope and our Work Reflect our Father’s Goodness
  9. Growing as Mature Witnesses to our Father's Light
  10. Discipling all Nations into Knowing the Father

Chapter 11: The Father, the End and the World to Come

  1. Why the 'Signs' in any Season can only Indicate that Jesus' Coming is Near
  2. The Final Sign, the Witnesses and the Father's Pre-planned Inheritance
  3. Why Those who Overcome are Sealed with the Names of Jesus and his Father
  4. The Father's Glory at Jesus' Coming and the Shame of the Cross
  5. Who Gets the Father's Prepared Seating next to Jesus when He Returns?
  6. The Love, Mercy and Peace that Preserve Us and can Save Others
  7. How Our Resurrection Fulfills an Eternal Plan, and What Jesus Does Next 

Appendix: The Father in the Tanakh (Old Testament)

A.  God is our Father because He Wanted us & Made us in His Image

B.  'Like a Loving, Compassionate Father'

C.  A Father to Israel before the Coming of the Messiah

D.  Fathering the Messiah-King of a Worldwide Kingdom

E.  The Father of Israel, with the Messiah, is about to do Something New

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