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Friends, it’s not incidental to God that he is a kind and loving Father. That’s not a role he’s stepped into or an act that he tries to pull off while inwardly just being transcendent and disinterested in you.When you pray the Lord’s Prayer and call him “Our Father” or “Abba, Father,” you’re not asking him to pretend for a moment he’s less like God and more like Jesus than he actually is. You’re putting your finger on the very essence of God.

The Christian and even the secular media contain many sad stories of Christian leaders being accused of all sorts of things. Bullying, sexual immorality, and financial irregularities. On a smaller scale, within congregations people find themselves accused. It is a minefield to make sure that injured parties are heard whilst innocent accused are protected.

The following series of messages given by Steffen Jenkins at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Cardiff, seeks to help you enjoy the Psalms.

For Expectant Mothers ONLY. Who knew a parking lot could be so cruel? It was like I just got rejected from the Mommy Club. “No barren women allowed.” The sign could have said: For women whose bodies work right. For women who have had their prayers answered. For women who have something to look forward to. For women with something to expect.

The past twelve months, in a lot of ways, have been most discouraging. Perhaps you feel it too. Name-calling. Factions. Slander. The binding of consciences. Grumbling. Disunity. All of this may have you tempted to think that the church is just plain ugly. Providentially, Dustin Benge has penned his new work, The Loveliest Place: The Beauty and Glory of the Church, at this precise moment.

Peter Mead looks at how our understanding of salvation should shape our Bible reading in the last of two talks. 

Mike Reeves stands in for John Piper on Episode 381 of 'Ask Pastor John' from Desiring God, discussing the practice of praying to the mother of Jesus. 

Glen Scrivener looks at how getting the gospel right will make us better at sharing it in the last of two talks. 

Mike Reeves pieces together a doctrine of scripture in the first of three talks.