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Sunday 28 July 2013

'DISCIPLESHIP'

Rev. Brian Wilkie
By Rev. Brian Wilkie                                                                                    

Pastor of St. Andrew's Christian Community
Rockland, Ontario


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Prayer:

 Almighty God, You have called us into this wonderful task of fulfilling the great commission you've given. And we're so thankful that Jesus Christ has promised to be with us, always, even to the end of the age.
And with Him comes all authority in Heaven and on earth, so we know that we have the power, we know that we have the strength, and we know that we have the the presence of Jesus Christ to lead us in doing this job.
Lord, strengthen our knees; strengthen our failing hands so that we may have the strength and the courage to do that which you've called us to do, so that we might have the joy of following you more closely each day.
We thank you, that by your grace, that all this is possible through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

- Rev. Brian Wilkie
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Sunday 21 July 2013

'LIVING WATER AND BROKEN CISTERNS'

Rev. Brent Russett
By Rev. Brent Russett
Pastor of Sunnyside Wesleyan Church in Ottawa:
http://www.sunnysidechurchottawa.com/   

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Living Water and Broken Cisterns’


Good morning. And welcome to good news in the morning. My name is Brent Russett. I am the Senior Pastor at Sunnyside Wesleyan Church. It is my pleasure to look at some of life’s challenges, and then bring you some good news in the morning.

This program is sponsored by Good News Christian Ministries, Box 184 Rideau Ferry, ON K0G1W0. Or you can find us on the web at Goodnewsinthemorning.ca

Last week I talked about how Jesus came that we might have life and have it to the full. We looked at all at how the Bible calls us to “Take Hold of the life that is really life.” We looked at what it means to really live. If you missed that you can listen to it on our website, Goodnewsinthemorning.ca

            This morning I want to remind you to accept no substitutes for the life that is really life.

Music

            My Grandma and Grandpa house was located 4 kilometers down the road from the farm where I grew up. In the kitchen of my Grandparents house was a wood cook stove. By the time I came along my Grandma had an electric stove, but she still used the wood stove, to bake bread and keep water warm – because-- you never knew when you needed a cup of tea.

            That wood cook stove was more than just a stove. My grandfather would cut the wood for that stove. My mother’s three brothers would split and pile the wood for that stove.

            It was one of those old farm houses, and so in the winter time, when you were getting out of bed, the upstairs rooms were freezing, so you would rush down and gather around the stove. That stove was a focal point in the house of my grandparents. There was a lot of life lived around that stove. A lot of important things in terms of conversation and relationships went on around that stove.

            Of course now if I want to heat up the house, I go to a little nob on my all and turn it up. If I want to heat up water for a cup of tea, I just click on the kettle. Life is either But neither do our houses have the same kind of focal point where life is lived. It seems like as we gain technology in a world we lose meaning.

            When it comes to  taking hold of the life that is really life –the technological advances of the last hundred years, have made life easier, but we have made finding meaning and real life harder. It seems like we lost something very important.

            When my Grandparents wanted to hear music, it would either happen in their kitchen, or they would have to go out to the community hall. It was a community event.  Now I can dial up Yo Yo Ma on my ipod, - and I can bring the best music in the world into my living room, but at the same time we have lost a whole lot of what is important that surrounded the music of days gone by.

            Things like community, and interaction, and the satisfaction that those things bring in life.

            Now don’t get me wrong, I am not a Luddite. I love technology. I love gadgets. I just think that as we adopt gadgets, we may be missing out on life.

            You see nothing worthwhile comes easy. I don’t know if you have every tried to learn to play a musical instrument, or paint a picture. When you first set out – lets pick the violin. When you first set out to play the violin, it is painful. It is not satisfactory at all. But if you work on it , you can get to a level of competence, where there is real satisfaction in playing.

            Compare that satisfaction level to purchasing a C.D. You get the new music, you love it. – but for how long after a couple days, a week, a couple of weeks the satisfaction level starts to drop off. And if you want to get more satisfaction you are going to have to go buy another CD.

            We live in a world that is losing meaning, and we are trying to buy our satisfaction.

            Now all of what I have just said is true for both the Christian and the non Christian. But for the Christian this world is exceptionally perilous to our soul. For it is training us to try to buy satisfaction rather than finding it in Jesus.

            I would suggest to you that learning to follow Jesus, and having you needs met in Jesus – learning to be a disciple is kind of like learning the violin. When you first start out it is hard. You are just trying to get your bearings. Learning to pray, to find your way around the bible is hard. Learning to navigate the spiritual life is challenging – but as you learn to walk by faith there is a satisfaction that can only be found in Jesus – It can’t be found any other way.          

            There are ways of trying to live your spiritual life where you lose track of what is important, and you go for quick hits of spirituality that quickly lose their appeal. This morning I want to urge you to take hold of the life that is really life, and accept no substitutes.

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Let me tell you a Jesus story that is found John 4.

            Jesus is in the southern part of Israel called Judea, and he wants to travel to Galilee, which is in the Northern part of Israel. Between Judea and Galilee was a place called Samaria. Often travelers would take the long way around to avoid Samaria. The Jews of Jesus day looked at Samaritans kind of the way we look at country hicks or hillbillies. The Jews thought they knew better. They thought they were better and they were just a little bit scared of the Samaritians. The reality was that Jews and Samaritians did not talk to one another.

            Jesus did not take the long way around. He traveled right through Samaria. His disciples had gone into town to purchase supplies and Jesus ended up by a well.

            By the well was a woman. Now this woman was aware of the political forces around her. She could debate from different perspectives. She was probably a good looking woman. She had no problem getting a man. She did however, have a problem hanging onto a man, or maybe the men had a hard time holding on to her.

            When we catch up with her in the story, she has already been married 5 times. And now she is living with a man that she is not married to.

            It was culturally inappropriate in Jesus day for a man to talk to a woman who was not part of his family - alone. It was culturally inappropriate to for a Jew to talk to a Samaritian. So after a long walk Jesus sat by a well around noon. In a short time a Samaritian woman came to draw water from the well – and what does Jesus do – He says hi there.

            Well actually what he said was please give me a drink.

The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans.* She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”

            Jesus, as was his practice moved the conversation towards a spiritual end. Lady, God has a gift for you. If you knew about it, you would be asking me – and I would give you living water.

            Just a couple things to note: God has a gift, not just for this woman, but for whoever would look to him. And you will note that Jesus gives this gift to whoever asks, you are no exception.

            Then Jesus says, if you were to ask, I would give you living water.

            The question is, why does Jesus use this metaphor? Living water. It goes quite nicely because he is sitting beside a well, and he had already asked for water.

            But Jesus could have went for the kingdom of God, or her need of life, or told her about how she could find rest for her soul. Instead he uses a metaphor that ties into quenching a thirsty soul. I think he did this, because he realized and quite possibly this woman realized that her soul was thirsty. Jesus comes along and says I can give you water for your soul that will really satisfy.

            Why is it that she went from man to man to man. There is something in her soul that is thirsty.

            But this woman still hadn’t caught on that Jesus was talking about a spiritual reality.

11 “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water? 12 And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”
13 Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

            Jesus is saying, it is a different kind of water – if you drink it your soul will never be thirsty again. In fact it will become like an artesian well that keeps on bubbling up. It keeps on flowing. It gives you a constant supply of life and gives you eternal life.

            There is a deep satisfaction of soul that happens when you drink from the water that Jesus gives.

            Often when people begin with Christ, they are bubbling and overflowing with life. But sometimes to continue into that deep satisfaction of the soul, it is kind of like learning to play the violin. The journey is challenging but the satisfaction is deep.

            The bible says be being filled with the Holy Spirit. Sometimes allowing him to fill us and to deal with the stuff that blocks us is hard. Sometimes dealing with what this world hands us is hard, and instead of going to Jesus for the satisfaction of our soul we turn to other things.

            Have you ever found yourself doing that. It would be nothing new. A little earlier in the service we heard Jeremiah 2 read. This is written about 600 years before Jesus.

            Whenever we look for something to satisfy our souls other than Jesus it is called idolatry. We are putting our desire for a quick fix ahead of  God.

Jeremiah 2
11 Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,
even though they are not gods at all?
Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God*
for worthless idols!
            
12 The heavens are shocked at such a thing
and shrink back in horror and dismay,”
says the Lord.
Catch this
13 “For my people have done two evil things:
They have abandoned me—
the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns
that can hold no water at all!


Jesus says that if we drink of the water that he is offering, living water, we will never thirst again. But sometimes what happens is we abandon that water and go looking for other water sources.

            Larry Crabb describes it this way,

“Digging leaky wells highlights our desire for immediate satisfaction on demand and on terms we can control. This is an immense problem. We experience soul-pain, a profoundly empty space that demands to be filled. We settle for lesser satisfactions than living water. We want pleasure that will fill us with joy. We dig wells when we are ruled by urges to feel good now. Whatever provides even a brief experience of ache-free happiness becomes irresistible. And we assume the responsibility to arrange for the pleasure we want. We dig our own wells. We don't like being at the mercy of an unpredictable God.”

            Here is the dynamic he is describing. We thirst so we dig a hole. Then we find that we are not satisfied and so we dig another hole. We try to dig our own wells. We abandon the spring of living water for cisterns that can’t hold water at all.

            Doesn’t that just sound like us sometimes?

            I have watched people make idols of work, or careers, of family, of food, or entertainment, of alcohol, of adrenaline rushes, of sex, of hobbies, and each time they dug a hole, they would get a little satisfaction, but those holes just won’t hold water – and you end up unsatisfied.

            It is kind of like buying the C.D. It is great for the first little while, and then it gets old real quick, and fails to satisfy, and so you have to buy another one.

            It is not that the things I mentioned are bad in their place, it is just that that is not where you are going to find life.

            But learning to pray is sometimes an unsatisfactory experience. Learning to hear God’s voice through scripture and through others and through his Spirit is sometimes an unsatisfactory experience. Learning to worship, or to have fellowship, or to serve, or to use your spiritual gifts are sometimes challenging.

            But as your soul learns to have communion with God, as you learn to uncover the spring of living water, there is a deep sustaining satisfaction that goes one in you.

            The bible instructs us to be filled with the Spirit. The way it is written, it is an ongoing process. Here is what I have found – it is a learned process. I have to make space for God in order for God to have the opportunity to fill me.

            But God doesn’t seem to work on my schedule. Sometimes the stress is overwhelming and a simple prayer does not fix it. Sometimes, the pain of betrayal, or grief, is deep, and God doesn’t seem to work bring peace right away. Sometimes the fear is consuming –and I look for courage – but it is challenging to find God.

            In those times it is really tempting to go out and dig our own wells. Depending on where you find immediate confort, you may be tempted to over eat, or get drunk, or high. There are thousands of ways to dig wells – but they are really a substitute for what God wants to do.

            Here is what I have found. God’s word is still true.
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.

            God is faithful. He will come through.. It may not be on your time table but he will come through. Wait and accept no substitutes. For you will find as you wait, that he is your real source of strength and help. He will be with you.

Prayer:

Lord, I pray that you would give the people who are listening, the ability to take hold of you, because you have come that they might have life, and have it to the full. I pray Lord, that they would accept no substitutes for life: that they would find their real life in you. I pray Lord that you would speak into the core of who they are, with your blessing of life.
We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Thank you, Listeners for your words of encouragement, and for keeping us in your  prayers.,   Keeping this program on the air continues to be a work of faith. As you probably know, the summer month are financial struggle. If you can help with that, please make out a cheque payable to Good News Christian Ministries, Box 184 , Rideau Ferry , On. K0G  1W0. Or you can give online by going to goodnewsinthemorning.ca

            If you go to that website, goodnewsinthemorning.ca you can also follow us on twitter, or our blog.

Alan Churchill, the founding pastor of this ministry is writing a monthly devotional. Alan is well known for his spiritual insight and ability to communicate the truth of God. If you would like to receive this devotional, go to our website at Goodnewsinthemorning.ca and sign up to start receiving it right to you e-mail inbox. We know that God will bless you through this ministry.
           
            (It has been a pleasure to spend this morning with you. My name is Brent Russett. You can follow me on twitter. @brentrussett)

May you know   Jesus Christ personally and profoundly.  May the Holy Spirit reside deep within your heart .  And may the heavenly Father surround you with His constant and abiding and accompanying love

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- Rev. Brent Russett
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Sunday 14 July 2013

'TAKE HOLD OF LIFE'

Rev. Brent Russett
By Rev. Brent Russett
Pastor of Sunnyside Wesleyan Church in Ottawa:
http://www.sunnysidechurchottawa.com/   

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Take Hold of Life’
Good morning. And welcome to good news in the morning. My name is Brent Russett. I am the Senior Pastor at Sunnyside Wesleyan Church. It is my pleasure to look at some of life’s challenges, and then bring you some good news in the morning.

This program is sponsored by Good News Christian Ministries. If you want to look us up on the internet, or to re-listen to this program you can find us at Goodnewsinthemorning.ca

This morning I want to talk to you about Taking hold of the life that is really life.

            As I have walked through life there are times when I felt a deep sense of well being. Good friends and good conversation – or just an incredible sense of – of inner strength. There has been wonderful sense of the work of God happening in and around me.

            There have been times when I have been full of joy. There have been times when I have been so empty, so drained of life that I could hardly move. There is a tiredness of body, which is a good thing after a hard day’s work. There is a tiredness of soul that is not so good.

            I have lived much more of my life than I care to admit in survival mode. You make it by but you don’t really live. I been in places where I was full of life and places where I felt like the walking dead.

            I suspect that many of you can relate to that. Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.”

            Here is what I have come to understand about the gospel. I believe it was the church father Irasmus who said, “God’s glory is the earth creature made fully and eternally alive with the life of the Spirit.” Or to put it  plainly said, the glory of God is men and women fully alive.

            God is most glorified in you when you are most alive in him.

Music – Fully Alive by Bill and Gloria Gaither 4:13

            God is most glorified in you when you are most alive in him. That is a different way to measure you spiritual life. Your spiritual live is not measured by how much bible you know, or how many prayers you say, or how religious you are – those are just means to an end – the end of being fully alive in God.

            So the question is how do you know you are fully alive. What does that look  like? How do you measure life.

            Is life measured by the amount of adrenaline rushes you have? Well you do feel fully alive in the middle of an adrenaline rush. But do you have to risk death to experience real life?

            Is life measured by the amount of money or the amount of toys you have? Well those things are fun. And sometimes we feel most fully alive when we are at play. But is that the extent of life – how hard we play?

            Is life measured by how we look? Some people spend a large proportion of their life at the gym, and shopping so that they can look good. Is life measured by how good you look?

            Is life measured by good meals. I like a good meal. If I could I would eat out most nights. But is life measured by the restaurants you visit?

            I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that the right answer, the Christian answer to whether life is made up of Adrenline rushes, and toys and looks and meals  is no. But that would not be the answer that Jesus would give.

            I want you to come with me to the sermon on the mount. Remember Jesus is speaking to a crowd of people in the backwoods of Israel. The crowd would be made up of subsistence farmers, and trades people. So their primary concern was what am I going to eat, and where am I going to get clothes, and where am I going to live.

            This is what Jesus says.
Matthew 6:25–34 (NLT)
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, 29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. 30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?
31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God* above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

            Now I recognize that the primary reason that Jesus is saying these things – is to instruct us on futility of worry. That is good to reflect on.  But look what he says to these people.

            Verse 25 Life is more than food, and you body more than clothing.

            If he was talking to us, I think the cultural translation would be that life is more than adrenaline rushes, and toys, and how you look, and what you eat. That is part of life, but life is more than that.

            And as for the basics in life, like what you eat and what you wear and where you live. Jesus says in Verse 32 You heavenly father knows all your needs.

            So playing and food and clothing and even adrenaline rushes are part of life. But life is more than just these things.

            In fact Jesus would go further he would say
Luke 12:15 (NLT)
15 Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.

            So while those things are a part of life, you life is not measured by how much you own. So contrary to the saying that is going around that says “The one who has the most toys at the end wins” – Jesus would say, no that is not how you measure life.

            So how do you measure life? How would you know if you are more fully alive now than you were a year ago.

            That is a question I have wrestled with for a while. What does it mean to be fully alive?

            I have come to the conclusion that life is not like a light switch. It is not an on off proposition. It is more like a fuel gauge that is somewhere between full and empty.

            And the reality is, we are not in heaven yet. We will not be truly fully alive until we are. There are just too many things in this world that suck life from us. So our gauge is never going to reach entirely full. But maybe we should have an earth gauge. What does full of life on earth look like?

            The Hebrews have a word – it is probably the only Hebrew word most of you know. The word is Shalom. They would use it in a greeting. I might say “Gidday, Gidday” – I’m from the valley. A Hebrew person would say “Shalom”. It is a greeting an a blessing.  It means peace, well being. It is the idea that things are as they should be. There is something in there that speaks of life.

            God created the world and it was good, and things are as they should be. That would be real life.

            When God created the world, things were right between God and us. They were not only right, they were great. Things were right between us and others. There was an openness to be who we are without shame. Things were right in ourselves. We walked in right relationship with ourselves. We walked in right relationship with the world around us.   Right relationship with God, and others and ourselves and the world. Things are as they should be – Shalom. That might be a good definition of life. At least I think it gets at a facet of life.

Music – Fill my Cup Lord – By the Vocal Union  (2:47)

            But let’s think about another way to think about the Bible talks about life. Jesus was eating with tax collectors and sinners and being criticised for it. Jesus said to the people criticising him,

Mark 2:17 (NIV)
, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

            Put that verse together with Romans 3:23 The wages of sin is death.

            Sin causes death. The reason why God hates sin so much is that sin brings death and that goes against all that God is. But in the way Jesus describes sinners in this particular passage is that they are sick.

            Another way to think of life is to think about health. Not physical health, although your body is part of your life – just not all of it as Jesus said. There is this spiritual health.

            Sin is like a poison, and toxin. The more of it you have the unhealthier you are, the less life you have. That fuel gauge, that goes between life and death. The more toxin in your system, the more death the less life you have.

            And you know that. You know that people who are full of hatred and bitterness – are like the walking dead. You know that when you enter into slander and gossip and backbiting, that there is something wrong in your soul. You know that when you engage in sexual sin, or relational sin, that it hurts you on the inside. Those things have a way of poisoning your heart. You live but you don’t.

            Think about the opposite. When your heart is full of love, full of peace, full of hope – there is that sense of well being. There is a sense of aliveness.

            So we can think of life as health. But it is more than physical health. It is more than emotional health. There is a spiritual health. Jesus has made a way that you might be forgiven – detoxified as it were, through his death on the cross. He has made a way so that you might be forgiven and cleansed.

            That is a helpful way to understand life. How much poison is in my system. How much am I ingesting. What am I doing to be healthy.

            I want to lay one last understanding of life on your mind before I pull this thing all together. Jesus was talking to his disciples about communion. This is what he says. (And I like the message paraphrase of it.

John 6:63 (The Message)
The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making.

            Or the new living translation puts it this way.
John 6:63 (NLT)
63 The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

            The Spirit gives life. The words I speak are spirit and life. You are not going to get their through human effort.

            There is a word for us who are prone to be religious. You can’t make life happen. All you can do is put yourself in a place to receive the life giving spirit.

            It kind of reminds me of Jesus’ words, I am the vine, you are the branch. If you are attached to the branch and there is a uninhibited flow of sap, the branch is full of life. But if you are unattached then you can’t get the life that God wants for you. And if the flow is broken, life is inhibited.

            If you want full life, you have to be connected to Jesus. That is where it starts. Because it is the Spirit of God who gives life – you are not going to get there by trying harder.

            But if you are connected to Jesus, then the question is are you fully alive, or are you sick. Are you walking in right relationship with God, yourself, others and this world?

            I am hoping that you are moving a direction where you can say I am fully connected to God and I sense his life flowing in me, and through me to others. It is not that the rest of life like what you eat or how you look, doesn’t matter. It just that those things don’t define real life.

            God is most glorified in you when you are most alive in him.

            The question I want to ask you is, are you willing to take the risk to come fully alive in Jesus. Are you willing to deal with the poison and the death in you. Are you willing to take on those things that block you.  If you are really looking to live, you are going to experience pain and failure. There will be some risks involved. You are going to have to step outside the walls of your heart, and invite others into your heart.

            You might hear yourself say, “Embracing all this is too much, too hard; it’ll take too long,” or “This looks too scary.” Walking over unfamiliar ground, you feel yourself stumble and say, “I can’t do this.”

            As Ken Davis says, When it comes to living, it’s the never-ending adventure of being a follower of Christ that keeps the wow in my life. The wow of life lived fully alive is breathtaking. It can also be intimidating.

            Choosing to become more fully alive is  more than the movie platitudes of Carpie Deim, Seize the day. This is more than, you only have one life to live so grab all the gusto you can. No, this is about Jesus.

            Jesus said "I have come that you might have life and have it to the full." So I am calling you like Paul called Timothy – Take hold of the life that is really life.

            So the question is are you willing to do what you need to do to move into Shalom. To walk in right relationship with God, with yourself, with others, with the world around you.

            Are you willing to deal with the toxins that are poisoning your soul and stealing your life? Are you willing to plug into the vine, plug into Jesus who is the source of life.           

            God is most glorified in you when you are most alive in him. Will you say Lord, I want to be fully alive in you. I am willing to follow you  as you lead me into life. 

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, You are about life. You are about a life that comes and dwells in us. 
By your cross you have made a way that we could deal with sin that’s in our life, and the toxins in our life. 
I pray, even now, that people would say, “Jesus, Come, forgive me. Take the sin away. Give me your life.”
Lord, I pray that you would speak into peoples’ lives in such a way, that they would know you; and you would teach them how to walk in right relationship with you, and right relationship with themselves, and right relationship with others, in right relationship with the world.
I pray, Lord, that you would be so a part of what they’re about, that they would sense your life flowing in them and through them.
Lord, I pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Thank you, Listeners for your words of encouragement, and for keeping us in your prayers.,   Keeping this program on the air continues to be a work of faith. As you probably know, the summer month are financial struggle. If you can help with that, please make out a cheque payable to Good News Christian Ministries, Box 184 , Rideau Ferry , On. K0G  1W0. Or you can give online by going to goodnewsinthemorning.ca

            If you go to that website, goodnewsinthemorning.ca you can also follow us on twitter, or our blog.

Alan Churchill, the founding pastor of this ministry is writing a monthly devotional. Alan is well known for his spiritual insight and ability to communicate the truth of God. If you would like to receive this devotional, go to our website at Goodnewsinthemorning.ca and sign up to start receiving it right to you e-mail inbox. We know that God will bless you through this ministry.
           
            (It has been a pleasure to spend this morning with you. My name is Brent Russett. You can follow me on twitter. @brentrussett)

May you know   Jesus Christ personally and profoundly.  May the Holy Spirit reside deep within your heart .  And may the heavenly Father surround you with His constant and abiding and accompanying love

Music -  Cry in my Heart – by Starfield 3

- Rev. Brent Russett
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