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.
At Tribe, the teaching on Father's Day holds two things together at once: honoring earthly fathers while being honest that not everyone has had one. In the one message recorded under this topic, Pastor Brian acknowledged the day directly before moving into the larger question the series was exploring. One person in the room put it plainly, and Brian carried the weight of it: "I never knew my dad, but I got a great heavenly dad." That reframe is not a way of brushing past the pain, but of pointing toward something real and available to anyone in the room regardless of what their family looked like.
The teaching on that day was rooted in Scripture as the clearest way God speaks, and Brian drew a repeated comparison to a father warning a child who is about to run into traffic. The warning is not anger, it is care, because the road is actually dangerous. That is how he described what the Bible does: it teaches, warns, corrects, and equips, and it carries what he called mega and precious promises. He was careful to add, though, that "the promises of God are always guaranteed, but they are not automatic." You have to take hold of them.
The personal story Brian told about the morning after he came to faith as a sophomore in high school, opening a Bible he had carried for years and finding it suddenly alive in a way it never had been before, set the tone for how Tribe approaches both the day and the subject. Fatherhood, human and divine, is something you learn to recognize through time spent, not through circumstances you happened to be born into.
Taught from 2 Peter 1:3-4 · 2 Timothy 3:15-16 · 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
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- 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.