Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love, he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved (Eph. 1:3-6).

The Bible is clear that God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is omniscient, and He is actively involved in people’s lives and the world He created (Acts 17:26-28). The Bible is equally clear that people have a choice whether to follow God (Deut 30:19; Jn. 1:12; 6:37; 13:20), and the choice to determines whether they will spend eternity with Him (Jn 3:36; 5:40; Rev 16:9). God the Father invites everyone to come aboard, to be holy and blameless through faith in Jesus Christ. God’s Fatherhood, by nature, is an example of all other fathers, which must align with Him. A biblical fatherhood is essential for a biblical marriage and home. It is impossible to be what God has called us to be as a father (or mother) if we fail to align ourselves with the loving and holy nature of God’s Fatherhood. God, in His simplicity, is the standard ‘from whom every Fatherhood in heaven or on earth takes its name. In the abundance of his glory…, through his Spirit.’

Father’s Day, a celebration of Fatherhood on earth, evolved into a global phenomenon to honour fathers and father figures. Sonora Smart Dodd, a woman from Spokane, Washington, first proposed Father’s Day in 1909 in admiration for her father, ‘William Jackson Smart, A Civil War veteran who raised her and her siblings alone after her mother died.’ Smart’s expression and practice of fatherhood point to the outflow of the caring and loving nature of God’s Fatherhood.

The first Father’s Day celebration took place on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, promoted by many churches and the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). Beyond ‘merely a commercial gimmick mirroring Mother’s Day,’ President Woodrow Wilson honoured Father’s Day in 1916. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge supported the national observance of Father’s Day. President Lyndon B. Johnson officially recognised Father’s Day through a presidential proclamation in 1966, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a law declaring Father’s Day, which marked the culmination of Dodd’s lifelong dedication to celebrating Fatherhood.

Trinity Sunday is celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost, symbolising the unity of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Celebrating 2025 Trinity Sunday and Father’s Day on the same day resonates with the idea of Fatherhood in the family as an object of God’s salvific plan, having its source and pattern in the Holy Trinity. Just as Holy Trinity Sunday ushers in the season when the church hears about Jesus’ ministry and then about the church’s ministry, Father’s Day reveals and awakens the very Fatherhood of God, the Heavenly Father, within us. The Christian marriage and family as reflections of the trinitarian life point to the creation of man and woman and how God impressed on man’s physical and spiritual reality the image of His own life and fruitful love.

Holy Trinity provides a good understanding of God’s design for the family and why Satan tries to attack, change, and undermine it. The war against Christian marriage and family is to destroy the effectiveness of the church and eventually destroy man’s concept of God and the moral virtues of society. Satan stands as the supreme manipulator of truth, a sinister mastermind intent on distorting reality, especially of the Christian home (1 Cor 11:14).

We have a Perfect Father who chose and blessed us in Jesus Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places before the foundation of the world. God’s Fatherhood over us as Christians is endless and immutable; hence, Christian marriage and family are under regular attack in this world. The agenda of the devil is to attack the family to suppress the truth of God.

The heavenly Father is a Father by nature and holds primacy in that is the first Father and in importance. Every expression of Fatherhood finds its origin in the Heavenly Father. He is the perfect Father, and He is our Father if we come to Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. Earthly father lived closely under the protection of God our Father, his devotion to Jesus Christ, and his willing surrender to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual growth occurs within a family where the father embodies the divine love of the Holy Trinity in his daily life. Using the words of Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, the family reflects the Triune God, “For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named” (Eph 3: 14-15). All families are named after God’s Fatherhood, just as a family comes from a father; so, every family has God as its Creator, Father, and model. God’s Fatherhood holds primacy. Fatherhood is not a human construct applied to God, just as the family is not a government idea for control.

As Christians, we are given the totality of all we need to live a holy Christian life inspired by the Holy Spirit. The earthly fathers are, therefore, able to reveal and relive on earth the very nature of God’s Fatherhood. Apostle Paul explained how earthly fathers witnessed the importance of a personal relationship with the Trinity. He wrote, “This then is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every Fatherhood in heaven or on earth takes its name. In the abundance of his glory, may he, through his Spirit, enable you grow firm in power with regard to your inner self so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith and then planted in love, with all God’s holy people you will have the strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth, so that knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond knowledge, you may be filled with inner fullness of God” (Eph. 3:14-19).

The truth about God’s Fatherhood offers us a rich Christian family heritage and legacy, bearing in mind that earthly Fatherhood is the embodiment of the divine being of God the Father in the Holy Trinity. Earthly fathers, as a gift, make the love of God real for home, church, and nations. There is one God, the Father, from whom all things, including the earthly fathers, and for whom we exist, through one Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Cor 8:5-6). Just as all things – love, justice, hope, and peace find existence and definition in God, the Father, the earthly father, especially on Father’s Day, expresses the visibility of God’s existence and definition in Spirit and truth (Jn 4:24).