Week 3 - Source

Here are some reasons a person may resist the idea of God being a loving Father.

- I feel unworthy of that type of Love
- I used to believe it, but to many bad things have happened to me.
- I'm not ready to give up my way and if I believe in God that would mean I would have to do it His way.
- I believe in God. But being loving, I just don't believe it's possible for God.

God as Father:

"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling" - Psalm 68:5

"I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
-Corinthians 6:18

"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" -1 John 3:1

week 2 - Polluted

If you had an important message to tell the world, but other people came along and twisted, polluted, and added to it, how would you feel?


What would you imagine to be Jesus' reaction to the abuses and misuses of His message?


Try writing out your view of Jesus; that is, try to describe Him as you see Him.


One description of Jesus in this weeks video, "The love of Jesus is not conditional. It isn't based on ulterior motives. It has no hidden agendas. There's nothing you can do to deserve it. And there's nothing you can do to lose it. It's free. It's powerful. It's pure."

Session 1 - Pure...

"Creatures are not born with desire unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water... If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing." - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

When you do get thirsty in the deeper sense, what do you generally turn to in order to quench your thirst?

"Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'If anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink.'"
- John 7:37