Greg Lorry and Harvest Ministries recommend a great resource about the end times by Dallas Theological Seminary Professor Mark Hitchcock.

He's written a brand new book called The Revelation Answer Book, 125 common questions people ask about Earth's final days.

And guess what? We have a copy with your name on it. So for your gift, if any size, we will

rush you your own copy of the Revelation Answer book. Available at Harvest.org.

Is God a smiling God? Is He a frowning God? Is he a God who approves of us or is he a God that does not approve of us? We wonder.

You know, it's interesting that the Bible compares God to a father. He's referred to father many times.

Now, I don't know what kind of dad you have or what kind of dad you had. Maybe your father was hands-on, affectionate, affirming,

encouraging, loving. Maybe your dad was a bit aloof, a bit distant, perhaps not that communicative,

even worse. Maybe your dad was harsh and maybe you never had a dad at all growing up.

That would be more my situation.

So we can sometimes take our earthly father and then view God our heavenly father in this same way.

If we had a good dad, that's not a bad thing, but here's the deal.

You have to evaluate God based on what he reveals about himself in the Bible.

Okay?

And one of the most beautiful pictures of God in the Bible is a story that Jesus told to show us what God is like.

It's a selfie of God, if you will.

And Jesus compared God to a father who had two sons.

And one of those sons went astray and drugged the family name to the gutter

and did all sorts of horrible, sinful things.

But one day came to his senses and decided to return home

and the father, as portrayed by Jesus,

sees his son coming at a distance and runs to meet him

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