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...more about 'God as Father'.
- Get access to the 99 highly detailed meditations and related articles
- Explore connections and relations between Bible texts
- Listen to 5 videos of Jim teaching in a YWAM Discipleship Training School (DTS) about 'Learning to Know God as our Father'
- Engage the author of the meditations with comments and questions
There is a whole world out there to discover.
Whatever your culture or family background, you have a concept of 'father'. Yet your concept and experience of ‘a father’ will likely make it difficult, if not impossible for you to see God as your Father in the way he has revealed himself in the Bible. After years of research, I've written ‘the Father Meditations’ to help others come to know God in this way.
Through this website I've made an abbreviated version of the meditations available for free to all who want to learn about God as our Father. When you becoming a paying member, you will gain access to each of the original, more detailed meditations.
In the original 99 detailed meditations you will get access to...
Further exposition of the Scripture Passage
As a member of Father Meditations you will get access to additional insights into the Bible text, often with more references to Greek and Hebrew words in the original texts.
More Bible text references
Each aspect of the meditation text is more directly connected to a specific verse or verses in the Scripture Passage, as well as to related texts elsewhere in the Bible.
More extensive footnotes to the meditations
As a member you get access to the more comprehensive footnotes that accompanied the original detailed meditations.
Besides these study materials, you also get access to...
More articles
Jim Mellis has written additional articles regarding God as our Father. As a member you will get full access to these articles as well as to others he plans to write: both about the Father and about intercultural relationships and ministry.
Original sheet music
There are not many Christian worship songs that are directed to God as our Father. Jim has composed a number such songs. Members will gain access to the sheet music of these songs for use in private and corporate worship, as well as access to additional songs that he has written.
Video teachings
Jim often gives presentations about the Father and about relationships between men and women of different cultures. Members gain acces to presentations already recorded and to new recorded presentations as these become available
Ask questions and interact
As a member, you will be given opportunity to submit questions and comments to Jim Mellis. Any time you feel stuck or want to get help to further your study, you can send an email.
A breakdown of all currently available resources
You will get access to all these articles and materials when you become a member.
In-depth Bible meditations about 'God as Father'
All 99 detailed meditations are now available:
- Chapter 1, Meditations #1-10
- Chapter 2, Meditations #1-16
- Chapter 3, Meditations #17-24
- Chapter 4, Meditations #25-32
- Chapter 5, Meditations #33-41
- Chapter 6, Meditations #42-48
- Chapter 7, Meditations #49-57
- Chapter 8, Meditations #58-67
- Chapter 9, Meditations #68-77
- Chapter 10, Meditations #78-87
- Chapter 11, Meditations #88-94
- Appendix, Meditations #A-E
Articles about God as our Father and intercultural relationships in his family kingdom
- A Plausible Chronology of the Life of Jesus and the early part of Paul’s life (13 jan 2020)
- A Plausible Chronology of the middle part of Paul’s life and ministry (13 jan 2020)
- A Plausible Chronology of the later part of Paul’s life and ministry (13 jan 2020)
- Saul of Tarsus, his Cultural Background and Ethnic Identities
- A Christian Response to Immigration in European Societies: Becoming Part of the Solution and not just another Part of the Problem
- The Corinthian Church Mess – The Back-story: Part 1 & Part 2 (28 Nov. 2019)
- Dealing with Divisive Ethnic Group Leaders in the Church in Rome (2 Feb. 2020)
- The story of the Bible from the perspective of God as ‘our Father’: Discoveries while Writing the Father Meditations (detailed version) (6 Nov. 2020)
- The Mediation of Ethnic Identity by Ghanaian Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches in the Netherlands (3 Dec. 2021)
- “Red Dreamer” – A story about bi-cultural kids set in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (15 Dec. 2021)
- Intercultural Lessons from the Life of Abraham (14 January 2022)
- War and Peace and the Lordship of Christ: A Tale of Two Molds (18 April 2023)
- Timothy of Lystra: Memoirs of a Bi-Cultural Kid, Parts 1 (July 2023)
- Timothy of Lystra: Memoirs of a Bi-Cultural Kid, Parts 2 (May 2024)
- NEW! Timothy of Lystra: Memoirs of a Bi-Cultural Kid, Parts 3 (October 2024)
- NEW!Timothy of Lystra: Memoirs of a Bi-Cultural Kid, Bibliography (October 2024)
Video lectures about God as Father, and about intercultural relationships and ministry
- Knowing God as our Father
- A Theology of Cultural Diversity
- A Biblical Model of Contextualization
- Social Power and the Multi-Ethnic Family Kingdom: Implications for Global Christianity Today
- Understanding My Own Culture and Other Cultures: Using the Basic Values Model
Songs and sheetmusic to accompany various meditations
Additional Songs (& sheet music) to:
- Paul’s Prayer (Ephesians 3) – Meditation #50
- Servant Song (Isaiah 41 & Philippians 2) – Meditation #56
- Living and Praying in Christ – Meditation #80,#1 &, #39
- My Heart is Glad (Psalm 16)
- NEW! Psalm 139 – Meditation #A
Sheet music to:
- A Meditation on the Cross (Psalm 22 & Luke 23) – Meditation #41
- A Trinitarian Agnus Dei – Meditation #52
- Father, Righteous One – Meditation #10
- The Father’s House – Meditation #2
- The Love of the Father – Meditation #53
- NEW! Firstborn of the Nations – Meditation #C
What others are saying...
- Regula, SwitserlandMay I suggest these devotions to you? Jim has been my teacher and mentor during my time with Youth With A Mission. I appreciate him and his teaching a lot. Jim is very thorough and has the gift and desire to lead others to God the Father. I have benefited a lot and have started to go through the meditations again, now that they are being put online.
- Rev. Geoff Pfaff, Senior Pastor, La Habra Hills Presbyterian Church, California, USA (Home ‘sending’ church of Jim & Debbie Mellis since 1988)Jim Mellis writes with a mixture of thought-provoking insight and warm faith as he opens up the richness of the concept of Father in these meditations on the Scriptures. Each time I have read a new meditation, I have been invariably challenged to think more carefully about some previously held idea - usually based more on my culture or some other preconception - while at the same time pushing me to go deeper in my relationship with God. Mellis reveals to us purposes of our gracious Father as he uncovers truths we often miss in the Scripture—leading to a deeper exploration of the mystery of the Trinity and of what it means to be an intimate disciple of Jesus Christ. And what makes these reflections even more meaningful and trustworthy is the faithful and vibrant relationship that Jim has shared with our congregation for decades and the authentic way in which he and Debbie live their faith. I highly recommend spending time in these spiritually enriching meditations.
- Simon, GermanyThere are few people who I would consider spiritual fathers. You are one of them. I needed to look away so many times because I had tears in my eyes. I never had a father, and talking about the Father’s love always reaches deep down to the roots.
- Paul, USAThe meditations have really begun to connect "the dots" for me. I wish I could fully say how they have brought a dynamic change to my relationship with our Father. I fairly cried with joy when the Holy Spirit brought that truth to my inward core. Through that, I was able to bring closure to a shadow of an unknown father and begin to respect him. That brought a sense of peace about an unresolved matter in my life. I look forward to each new installment; and I read them over and over.
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About the Author
Jim Mellis has worked for Youth With A Mission for over 40 years. His working life involved many aspects of intercultural and multicultural ministry.
In his work Jim discovered that healthy relationships between men and women and between people of different cultures is very much related to the new things that have been revealed in the New Testament about knowing God as Father through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
It was this discovery and Jim's desire to know his heavenly Father better that led him to meditate on all the texts in the Bible that directly or indirectly refer to God as 'Father'. It was this personal research project that gave birth to this Father-Meditations website.