What does Tribe teach about father's day?
Drawn from the message where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
Father's Day at Tribe has been a moment to acknowledge the reality that not everyone has a good father, or any father at all, while pointing toward something more reliable. Pastor Brian opened one message by recognizing the day directly, then moved quickly to the question underneath it: how do you hear from a God who is actually there, even when a human father was not? One person in the room put it plainly, and Brian let those words stand as their own testimony: "I never knew my dad, but I got a great heavenly dad."
The teaching that grew out of that Father's Day message was rooted in Scripture as the clearest way God speaks into a person's life. Brian described the Bible as something a father uses to warn, teach, correct, and equip, not in anger, but the way a father warns a child running toward traffic because the road is dangerous. The promises in it are real and large, but as Brian put it, "the promises of God are always guaranteed, but they are not automatic." You have to take hold of them, and that takes time and familiarity, the same way someone who has spent real hours with climbing ropes can tell them apart by feel alone.
The picture Tribe holds out on this topic is not a tidy sentiment about fatherhood. It is an honest acknowledgment that fathers fail, disappear, or are never there, set alongside a steady confidence that God's voice and God's word are available to anyone willing to spend time with them. The question Brian left the room with was a simple one: "Has God's word left a mark on your life?"
Taught from 2 Timothy 3:15-16 · 2 Peter 1:3-4 · Deuteronomy 6:7-8 · Romans 15:4 · Psalm 119:105
“The promises of God are always guaranteed, but they are not automatic.”
From Marked by His Word
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:11
11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 25, 2023 Marked by His Word Brian Hunter walks through how God speaks through Scripture, why his promises are guaranteed but not automatic, and how to build the habit of hearing his voice.