Selected Reading, January 2, 2021
Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 2:30AM 
A few reading and listening suggestions for this first weekend of the new year.
God
Three Ways God’s Fatherhood Is Different Than Ours
A good reminder that God’s fatherhood is unique. His fatherhood is not patterned after human fatherhood. It is “determined by God’s fatherhood alone and not by any external standard of fatherhood … . Unlike the fatherhood of creatures, the fatherhood of God is not dependent, not composite, not changing, not limited, and not temporal. It is self-existent, simple, immutable, infinite, and eternal. God’s radiant fatherhood is “above” all other forms of fatherhood … .”
The God Who Hears Our Lament
This is a post from earlier this year, but I didn’t read it until this week. It makes an important point: We need an impassible God: “It is only because God is blessed in himself—the sovereign fullness of life, peace, and joy—regardless of all the vicissitudes and pains of history, that he can communicate a blessedness that overcomes and restores that history.”
Words
Hallelujah and Amen
Barry Cooper of Simply Put podcast explains these two transliterations.
