God As Father: When Your Own Father Fails

by David A. Powlison

When your earthly father has hurt you, how can you know God as a loving heavenly Father? Some say it can t happen unless someone will stand in your father s place, giving you a loving new image to use in relating to God. Is this true? David Powlison says that this well-intentioned perspective will fail to meet the need. It overlooks the way our own hearts contribure to our view of God. And it makes our hope for change dependent on another person, instead of connecting us to the power of Christ and his Word. In encouraging yet challenging ways, Powlison shows us that God is at work through and despite out father s failures to help us know him as our true heavenly Father.

20 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

David Powlison, MDiv, PhD, (1949–2019) was a teacher, counselor, and the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF). He wrote many books and minibooks, including Speaking Truth in Love, Seeing with New Eyes, Good and Angry, Making All Things New, God's Grace in Your Suffering, Safe and Sound, and Take Heart. David was also the editor of The Journal of Biblical Counseling.