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Sunday 25 May 2014

'WHAT KIND OF FATHER IS GOD?'

Rev. Brian Wilkie
By Rev. Brian Wilkie                                                                                    

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


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‘What Kind of Father is God?


Welcome to Good News In the Morning a program of words and music bringing a Christian message of hope and encouragement to those who are looking for intelligent meaningful and spirited approach to faith and to life.

Good morning, I'm your host today, Brian Wilkie of St. Andrew's Christian church in Rockland. As always I want to start by thanking you our listeners. We are so grateful for your encouragement and support. Please remember you can always visit our website for materials to encourage and support you in your Christian walk. If you miss an episode of the show you can go to our website and download the podcast or the MP3 of our broadcast. This month we are expressing our thankfulness to Wills Transfer Limited, of 3100 Swansea Drive in Ottawa. This show and all the shows through this month are brought you by Good News Christian Ministries and Wills Transfer who supported us with a generous donation. Thank you so much for that.

Today as we take a look into the word of God I want to look at the theme of, “What kind of a father is our heavenly Father?”  I'm going to read to you a Scripture from the Old Testament from the book of Hosea. God speaks his word to the prophet Hosea:

When Israel was a child, I loved him,
         and out of Egypt I called my son.
         2      But the more I called Israel,
         the further they went from me.
         They sacrificed to the Baals
         and they burned incense to images.
         3      It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
         taking them by the arms;
         but they did not realize
         it was I who healed them.
         4      I led them with cords of human kindness,
         with ties of love;
         I lifted the yoke from their neck
         and bent down to feed them. (NIV)

This is the word of God, and I'm going to speak about the message of God's great love as fatherhood towards his people. We're going to get into that in a few moments as we take a look at the fatherhood of God of the Old Testament, the fatherhood of God in the New Testament, and God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; but first I'd like you to hear this hymn which expresses the theme of the fatherhood God, “Eternal Father strong to save, from the collection A Celebration Of Hymns.

When we look into the scriptures, the image of God as father is a very frequent one in the Old Testament. God is like a father to Israel. God is like a father to the fatherless. God is this father presented in Hosea, who teaches his child to walk, who bounces his child on his knee, who cares for him and draws him, his child with loving kindness. It is the God, too, who experiences the frustration of fatherhood; who finds his children running away from him and is moved to anger. But in the book of Hosea in the 11th chapter he declares to the people of Israel, “How can I give you up? How can I hand you over? How can I treat you as if I didn't love you? My heart is changed within me, all my compassion is roused. I will not carry out my fierce anger nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim. I am God and not man, the holy one among you. I will not come in Wrath.”

There is an expression of God's fatherhood for us in his word. It's amazing, actually, to me, that there's something about that passage which doesn't quite sound like I expected it to. He says, “I am the Holy One, therefore I will not come in wrath. I am God not man. My heart is changed within me.” I think that here we see something astonishing about God when he uses the image of father. It's common today to have a certain amount of concern about the fact that some people have not had a good experience of fatherhood. Some people have had very bad, hurtful experiences of an earthly father. If we imagined God based on our experience, we might think that, as a father, he would be, because he's greater than humans, that his anger might be greater; that his stubbornness might be greater; his anger might be greater. But here God turns things upside down. He says, “Because I am God, I'm not going to carry out my wrath.  Because I am not a man but God, I'm going to gather my people again even though they scattered from me.”

Isn’t that astounding? Because he is holy, he is merciful. Does that sound as strange to you as it sounds to me? When I was raised, I wasn't raised in a particularly strict household. I wasn't raised with a Bible-thumping religion, nor fire and brimstone sermons, but somehow I had the idea that God being holy was the reason that he would be angry at me. But here he says, “Because I am holy I'm going to turn from wrath and work to save you.” Isn't that amazing? Does that turn your notion of holiness upside down? Does that help you understand that God knows that the image of father is not always a positive one, but he wants to be sure, when he uses that expression, that we know that he means wonderful things for us by it. He wants to disabuse us of the notion that as a father he is something other than the great and loving God who has worked to save us. That's even in the Old Testament. Now, in the New Testament we have a great deal of God's loving fatherhood expressed.

It's not a fatherhood that is without its challenges. I think if you have been a mom or dad you understand that that raising kids is a tough job. It sometimes does require sternness and firmness. It requires difficult choices and sometimes it does require being the ‘bad guy.’ Paul speaks about God's discipline for those that he loves. The word discipline means training. He says that training is not all that pleasant when you're going through it. Training means doing things that are difficult, and being asked to challenge yourself by the one who trains you. Paul says God trains the ones he loves. He wants those that he loves to come through these challenges and be strengthened and equipped and enabled to be filled with more of his spirit, to express more of his love and to know his presence more securely. For this reason all the writers in the New Testament speak of this loving God but they also speak of a God to permits us to go through difficulties so that the our sufferings can create endurance, our endurance can create character and our character can produce hope. Through it all we know that the hope will not disappoint us because God has already poured his love into our hearts.

As we continue in thinking about the meaning of God's fatherhood we can take a look at Jesus' teachings about his heavenly father. That's an important part of his message. When Jesus teaches of God's knowing our needs before we ask, he teaches God the father, as a daddy who knows what his children need. He says that if you as a father had your child ask you for a piece of bread, would you give him a serpent? No! Don’t be silly! If he asked for an egg would you give him a scorpion? No, of course not! Jesus says that you, even though you're evil, know how to give your children good things; even though there is sin and brokenness in our lives; even though we can sometimes be selfish; even though we, as parents, find ourselves often still growing up ourselves, we know that we want to give good things to our children. “How much more,” Jesus says, “does your Father in heaven want to you want to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask?”

I've raised one issue of fatherhood and parenthood as moms and dads that we ourselves, perhaps as children, we look at our parents and we think about the mistakes they've made. Then we find ourselves parents, in that same role, and discover that the parents are still in the process of maturing. As parents we are still in the process of learning and gaining wisdom. We find ourselves trying to teach our children skills that we didn't learn in our childhood. We’re still struggling to learn things and trying to teach those very things to our children. It's a tough spot to be in and I think as we grow as parents we sometimes grow in understanding of the struggle that our parents had.

How do we learn to be better parents?

We can learn from the example of our parents we were able to honor them and recognize the good that they attempted to do. We can learn from the example of people around us, as they raise their children, and we can learn from the teachings of Scripture about what God, as our parent, is doing for us. We learn from the lessons of Scripture that being a father is hard for God, just as it's difficult for us. In the story the prodigal son we have a father who waits for his wandering child to return and wonders how he's going to return. Now God the Father is in a different position than we are when we go through those struggles, but we have Jesus teaching us that he understands the difficulties we go through.

We’re going to take a look at one more aspect of the Fatherhood of God as we continue, but first I want you to listen to this song which one is sung by Glad and it's from their album A Cappella Hymns. This song is called This Is My Father's World.

During the first half of this discussion I’ve taken a look at some of the images of God as father. Through the Bible, God is compared to many things and we call those comparisons metaphors, or similes, depending on how they're phrased. They identify that God is like something. Whenever we do a comparison we recognize that God is like that thing we’re comparing him, to and he's also unlike it. So when we come to the idea of God as father we can note that there are many other metaphors that are used in Scripture. Jesus describes himself as being like a mother hen trying to gather her chicks under her wing, but not being allowed to.  The chicks are being rebellious and running away. God is compared to a lion of Judah. God is compared to a Lamb. Jesus himself is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. We understand that these are comparisons which point to an aspect of how God is like these things, but recognizing that he's not entirely identical with these things. We can and do see metaphors and images in Scripture of God as father, God as a mother, and God as a brother. God revealed in so many different ways. But the image of father is one that, in Jesus Christ,  goes from metaphor to reality. God is the father of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is his son. The word and in the in John 3:16 that describes Jesus as the only begotten son describes God different in his relationship to Jesus from any other person.

You  see, we are creatures of God. We are made from the materials of the created order, but Jesus is not created. All the ancient church fathers spoke of Jesus as being generated of God or proceeding from God, because he is one in substance with God, the father.

That old story about Pinocchio is kind of like that. You know that Geppetto created a puppet. He didn't conceive a son, he created a wooden puppet. Somehow or other it was given life. The challenge in the Pinocchio story is for Pinocchio to become a real boy. In creation, God made Adam and Eve, God made the human race and he gave them life but they are not generated out of the substance of the Father. They are made out of the materials of the universe. Jesus however is eternally with the Father. Jesus is not created, he is of the same substance of the Father. He is himself one of the three eternal persons of the Godhead. Jesus and the Father are one. But when Jesus takes on flesh, God the father literally is his father. Mary is his mother and God is his father. Conceived by the Holy Spirit, he is truly the son of God. So when we look at Jesus’ relationship to his father we have a special insight into how God the Father works.

 I just want to draw your attention to what the Father says to the Son in the New Testament, I just want quickly to look at a couple of verses. Remember when Jesus is baptized and a voice comes from heaven saying, “this is my son with whom I am well pleased.” The Father speaks encouragement, speaks of his pride in his Son, His joy in his Son. Likewise on the mount of Transfiguration, almost the same words are spoken. As Moses stands there and Elijah stands there and Jesus stands there, the Father speaks about his boy. He says, “This is my Son with whom I am pleased. Listen to him.” God the Father looks at his Son with pleasure is proud of his boy, he loves him with an everlasting love. He trusts him with the work that he's given him. He sends Him to earth to do a difficult task, and together they accomplish the salvation of the world. God has been so generous with his praise for his Son. What kind of father do you think God is to us when he adopts us into his family? He is the same joyful, proud father. He works in us to fit us for heaven, and he is confident that with his love we will be prepared and spotless before him. God loves us with the same love with which he loves his Son Jesus Christ.

Let us pray together.

God help us to know and experience your love. Help us to be changed by that love. Help us to rejoice in that love. We pray this in Jesus name, amen.

Thank you again for your encouragement support and the thank you for listening to us. This week I want to encourage you to visit our website and make use of the resources that are there. Today again we especially want to thank Will's Transfer Limited whose generous support has enabled us to make these broadcasts this month. Will's Transfer Limited is at 3100 Swansea Drive in Ottawa, again thank you so much.

Listeners please be sure to worship in a church where the gospel is soundly proclaimed and lived out with compassion, integrity and resolve. Now as we finish today I'd love to have you listen to this song by Carolyn Arends which she sings to one of her children and speaks to that baby about Your Father In Heaven.

Good News In The Morning is produced in the Studios of News Talk Radio 580 CFRA.


- Rev. Brian Wilkie
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Sunday 18 May 2014

'THE SIMPLE GOSPEL'

Rev. Brian Wilkie
By Rev. Brian Wilkie                                                                                    

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


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‘The Simple Gospel


Welcome to Good News In the Morning a program of words and music bringing a Christian message of hope and encouragement to those who are looking for intelligent meaningful and spirited approach to faith and to life.

For the month of May these programs are brought to you by GOOD NEWS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, and the generous support of WILLS TRANSFER, LIMITED, 3100 Swansea Drive, Ottawa. I'm your host today, Brian Wilkie of St. Andrew's Christian Church in Rockland. I also want to thank you, our listeners. We are so grateful for your encouragement and support. Please remember that you can always visit our website for materials to encourage and support you in your Christian walk.

If you miss an episode of the show you can go to our website and download the podcast or the MP3 of our broadcast.

The Scripture today is a very familiar one, I hope. It's a Scripture from the Gospel of John and we begin reading at verse 13 of the third chapter.

“No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven, the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him.” 

This is the Word of God, and it's really the gospel in just a few sentences. Today as we take a look into the word of God we are actually just going to look at the simplicity and fullness of the gospel as it is expressed in John chapter 3.

We’ll do that in a few moments but for now I'd like to have you listen with me to a song by Jackie Velazquez. It's based on the Scripture that we just heard, ‘God so Loved the World.’

Have you ever been asked to express the gospel in one sentence? It can be a difficult thing to do. The Lord himself has given us the Bible with 66 books it, with tens of thousands of words to express the fullness of his plan of salvation and the way that we can come to know him through Jesus Christ. The gospel is not always entirely simple because it has to do with every part of our life, everything that we do, every relationship that we are in. God gives us insight and guidelines and direction in all those parts of life through the word of Scripture but when you have to share the gospel with someone or when you're trying to get to the core things yourself,  is there one sentence the can express everything that you that you need to say in that moment? Obviously John 3:16 has been that sentence for many people. It's the word of God and it contains so much of the gospel in it that can be readily unpacked and explained so that the sentence doesn't need to stand on its own but contains pointers to different parts of God's purpose and plan for us.  

In the last week before this broadcast I was spending some time at a Pastors’ Conference in Toronto and it was a little bit unusual for me. Most of the pastors’ conferences that I've been to have been very practical, or at least that's what they seem to consider themselves. They want to tell you how to grow your church, how to solve particular problems in your congregation, how do how to encourage yourself, or get involved in encouraging with supportive relationships, how to take care of purity in your life, (which is important practical aspect of being a pastor and being a Christian), but sometimes they seem to be so interested in the current problems we’re facing that there can be a neglect of the message of the gospel itself. For myself I found it very refreshing at the conference I was just at, that it wasn't all about how to grow your church, how to build your congregation, it was about ‘who is Jesus?’ and ‘what is the gospel?’ The question, over and over again, was about what's the proper biblical understanding of who Jesus is, and how do we connect anew and afresh with the good news that is the reason for all that we do? There weren’t messages about church growth but there were messages about sharing the good news with others. One of the questions we were faced with was, “How would you express the gospel in one sentence?”

Have you got an answer for that question? If you were perhaps trying to answer someone who asked you, “yes, I’ve heard John 3:16, but how would you put it?” I think just about any attempt to express the gospel in as short a form as possible is always going to end up being a paraphrase of John 3:16 because that is the root of the gospel. Here is the message that that God has given us.

Now and I was faced with that question in discussion during the conference I pulled out a phrase or sentence that I've used in the past and thought about it a bit more. I put it this way: if I would express to you our listeners the gospel in my own words, in one sentence, it would be this, “That God so much desires to spend eternity with you that he sent his only Son, Jesus, to invite you, to prepare the way for you, and to fit you for his kingdom.”

God wants to spend eternity with us.

God so loves the world that he wants to spend all eternity with you and me. There are other people expressing the gospel in single sentences, and each sentence brings some aspects of the gospel or highlights some aspects of the gospel.

What you find most astonishing about the gospel?
·         That that God was willing to lay down his life for you? or perhaps
·         That God could be present, entirely, fully God, in his Son? That Jesus Christ is God and that God became flesh and dwelt among us? or is it
·         that it's so easy to receive the gospel? That it says that if you receive Jesus Christ, he gives you the right to become children of God. Is that what astonishes you? That it's by grace operating through faith? That it's a gift of God, not something you obtained by works?
·         or are you filled with wonder just at the idea of eternal life, eternal joy, a world that is made perfect and a world that is worth spending eternity in?
What are the things about the gospel that absolutely astonish you, and what would you express to your friends and neighbors? What would you tell another Christian? What would you tell an unbeliever if you want to express what is closest to your heart in the gospel of Jesus Christ?

Knowing the gospel gives us other things to share as well. It gives us the testimony of how God has encouraged us in our life. What would you say to somebody, in one sentence, about the role God has played in your life and the way that faith has changed your life? Is it a particular struggle which you have had support, encouragement and victory over as you walked with God? Is it the sustaining power, even as you go through difficulties? Now some people have miraculous stories of healing and deliverance. Some people can talk about being at the bottom of the barrel and being picked up by God. What's your testimony about the gospel?

The work, no, the joy of sharing the gospel comes in these two forms: in the objective the facts – here is what God has done, he sent his Son into the world – and in the subjective – here is the difference that this gospel has made my life.  I think each of these are part of sharing the gospel. We can't have one without the other. Some people will hear an explanation of the facts of history which is so important to ground our faith in reality rather than just imagination, yet they might ask us the question, “What difference has it made? What change is apparent because of this gospel you’ve told me?” and another person might hear us share a testimony of an experience we've had or feeling we felt, an orientation of our heart or of our mind. They might say, “Yes, but how can I know it's true? You've experienced this and I can't question your feelings, but I can question whether this is something that anyone can have or believe. I want to know whether this is for me, or just for people like you.”

The subjective, the personal experience, needs to be supported by the facts and testimony of Scripture. The testimony and facts of Scripture often need to be supported by your own testimony, your own witness to the difference this has made in your life.
It's so important that we be able to express the gospel not only for our own encouragement, but for the sake of those who really do need the love of God in their lives.

This next song that we are going to listen to is from a celebration of hymns is the hymn “New every morning is love” and this marries the subjective and the objective: it is the word of Scripture speaking about how God's mercies are new every morning, and it's also the experience of so many believers. Let's listen to this hymn together.

I was speaking earlier this morning about the two questions that we were looking at in the in the gospel in the conference I attended: ‘What is the gospel?’ and ‘Who is Jesus?’ These two things go hand in hand together, don't they? The gospel is Jesus Christ! The good news is that God has sent Jesus Christ! As we look at the Scripture from John 3:16. In that familiar phrase, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” we see that it speaks about who Jesus is, and how he comes to bring good news to us.

I love that it begins with a declaration that God so loved the world. In Scripture we have the phrase ‘the world’ used in two different ways. Sometimes ‘the world’ refers to the world as it is today with powers opposed to God, working in rebellion against him; with disease and sickness rampant; with people lonely and isolated, hurt and hurting: The world of human desires and appetites being pursued without any restraint, without any consideration for their neighbor, or for the will of God. That’s a world that we’re told to avoid; a world that are told to not participate in. We are not to fill our worldly desires.

But then throughout Scripture is also ‘the world’ as the creation of God. Everything that was made was made beautifully and wonderfully by God. Each person, even in this fallen world, is loved by God, even as the circumstances of their conception or birth may actually come in horrible situations. They may be born into difficult circumstances. They may in fact be born with congenital problems and difficulties that don't reflect the goodness that God originally intended for them. But God loves his world. God loves each person in it. He loves his creation, even the inanimate objects the stars spread across the skies. The word of Scripture, in Jesus own words, declare that God sees the sparrow when it falls. He loves his world. He loves you and me. When Jesus says that God so loved the world that he sent his only son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have of everlasting life, ‘the world’ in particular means you and me; means humanity. God so loved us that he sent his son so that we might believe in him.

It also suggests in this little phrase, ‘God so loved the world that he sent his Son,’ that our salvation, our transformation into the image of Jesus Christ, is something that has benefits beyond humanity: that our salvation benefits the whole earth.  God so loved his creation that he came and saved fallen humanity through Jesus Christ.

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son. The gospel of John here declares that Jesus is unique. He's not just a prophet, is not just a godly man, or a seer. he's not like anybody else who's ever lived on this planet. He is God's only begotten son. He is the unique gift of God to us. He is, in fact, as we find another declarations within John's Gospel and throughout the Scriptures, he is, in fact, a person of the Trinity. He is divine. He is fully God, even as he is fully human. God sent someone irreplaceable and precious to us and he gave him to us.

The Scripture just before verse 15 says that the Son of Man must be lifted up so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life, and the Scriptures speak of how God gave his Son: he gave his Son for us as the atoning sacrifice. God, in the flesh, was willing to die in order that we might live. God so loved the world that he gave Jesus his son to us.

Then it speaks about how we may receive this gift. It doesn't say that if you're good enough you can receive this gift; you can earn this gift somehow. You can't earn gifts! You can only earn wages, as Paul says at another part of Scripture. Instead God gave his Son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

The way to gain salvation is to put your trust in Jesus Christ. The word believe here means to believe, to trust, to receive, to welcome. The one who looks to Jesus as Lord and Savior is the one who receives this new life. God so much wants to spend eternity with us that he sent Jesus his son to invite us into that eternity. He also sent his Son to give us a way to receive that invitation. He sent his Son to open a way, that his death on the cross, the giving of the Son would enable us to have eternal life. We believe in him and based on his goodness, based on God's willingness to save, we find ourselves forgiven and free, recipients of new life.

The gospel includes this phrase that whoever believes in him will not perish. Death is something that doesn't need to be debated. When talking about the Christian message everyone recognizes that death is a reality that human beings face. Scientists even speculate about how the universe itself may die, given enough time. Whether will collapse into a black hole or extend forever cooling-off until there is no life and no energy left to be expressed through starlight, and radiation and the warmth of planets and the growth of life. Everything will die apart from God's work.

Humans are particularly good at pretending that everything's okay; at acting as though death doesn't really mean anything. But when we take some time to reflect soberly, we see that to ‘perish’ is our natural destination.

Without some change, without salvation, all human beings will perish. So the Good News does remind us of something we try to forget, but it simply reminds us in order to tell us that there is an alternative; that those who received Jesus who are willing to be transformed and fit for heaven by the power of God in Jesus Christ, these people need not perish they can have eternal life.

Elsewhere Paul says that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. He declares that everyone need salvation. Then he says that those who receive Jesus Christ are able to be fitted for heaven, are able to receive eternal life as a gracious gift from God.

You may be hearing this message for the first time. There is always a chance of someone tunes in and hasn't been listening before and hasn't heard the gospel spelled-out through the words of John 3:16. You yourself may be wondering if you can receive Jesus Christ. And you can! It's as simple as acknowledging your sin, acknowledging your need for a Savior and recognizing that Jesus Christ is the one sent for your salvation. To accept him as Lord means to seek to follow him, and as you as you ask him to be your Lord and Savior, you are asking him to begin the transformation of your life. I hope that you take the opportunity to do that today.

Let's take a moment now to pray:

Almighty God, I want to thank you that we do have the opportunity to receive eternal life through your son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Lord, may you forgive us our sins and transform us, in every respect, so that we can be filled with the love that has saved us and live out obedience to your word, and the fullness of your grace.

Almighty God, for those who are receiving you, at any time, we pray that your Holy Spirit will just continue to fill them with love and joy and peace, as they come to know you and your Word.
And for us who have received you before, may you freshen in us, our love for you, so that we might share the good news; we might tell others about the facts of your salvation and the difference that it’s made in our lives.

We ask all this in Jesus’ name. Amen.


Almighty God I want to thank you that we do have the opportunity to receive eternal life through your son Jesus Christ our Lord. Lord may you forgive us our sins and transform us in every respect, so that we can be filled with the love that has saved us and live out obedience to your word and the fullness of your grace.

Almighty God for those who are receiving you at any time we pray that your Holy Spirit will just continue to fill them with love and joy and peace as they come to know you and your word.
And for us who have received you before, may you freshen in us our love for you so that we might share the good news; we might tell others about the facts of your salvation and the difference that it's made in our lives. We ask all this in Jesus’ name, Amen

Once again I want to thank you, our listeners, for your encouragement and support. We do thank you because you keep us on the air week by week. We want to encourage you to support our ministry financially if you can. Did you know the Good News Ministries has only one major cost? The four hosts, Brent Russett, George Sinclair, Juliet Schimpf and myself, are volunteers, and so are the people manage our website organize our events and operate our board. Your gift can help us continue to meet that one vital expense, the cost of broadcasting, which enables us to reach you and over 7000 listeners in the Ottawa River Valley. I know I've already said it, but I want to say once again: we want to express our gratitude to Wills Transfer Limited at 3100 Swansea Drive in Ottawa, for their generous support that is covering the cost of our broadcast this month.

As for you be sure to worship in a church where the gospel is soundly proclaimed and lived out with compassion integrity and resolve. And now to conclude our program I would like to have you listen to a song the song is called “And This is Love,” sung by the group Glad from their album The A Cappella Project.

I do pray the Lord will hold your heart and you would know Jesus personally and profoundly. May the Holy Spirit reside deep within your heart. may the heavenly Father surround you with his constant and abiding and accompanying love.

Good News In The Morning is produced in the Studios of News Talk Radio 580 CFRA.

- Rev. Brian Wilkie
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