CSN - Sunday LightWing Messages - Father’s Day Edition

6/15/2025

Jun 15, 2025

And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: and you shall teach them ...

For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.

“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’”

This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”

Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives be rescued from the fierce?

But this is what the Lord says:

“Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.” Isaiah 49:13-25 (NIV)

Fathers Day 2018 — Crossroads Christian Church

FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:

Today is the day in the United States that is set aside for the Dads; we call it Father’s Day. So, Happy Father’s Day to all the dads who are reading this! Although Father’s Day may not seem as popular or as robust a holiday as Mother’s Day, it is a day to consider the value of all fathers.

The day was created as a legal holiday in the United States as a day honoring fathers and as a day to remember them for all that they provide for their children and families each day of each week. Hopefully, gratitude for dads would not be limited to just one day a year. And, that was not

the point of the holiday for Sonora Dodd, the “mother of Father’s Day.” Simply put, her desire as a dutiful and loving daughter was to provide a proper or “official” day to honor fathers throughout the world. Ms. Dodd was the daughter of a father who lost his wife, and who helped her dad to raise her five brothers. The history is well worth reading, for many reasons. Yet, the message I offer today was written for Father’s Day in 2021. It delves upon the relationships we definitely need as God’s children.

My attempt is to express that Father’s Day represents a day to honor fathers all over the wide, wide world, but children often forget to express their love for their fathers, for multitudes of real, or seemingly real, reasons. However, the question to be raised is whether it is the same in withholding our children’s love for our Father in Heaven. So, while the world is celebrating Father’s Day, this message explores the love we freely express to Heavenly Father. The message is a bit lengthy, but it is a genuine subject to consider.

As my message points out that Jesus’ relationship with his Father in Heaven was not just a mere intellectual approach to God, but Jesus was the way to know the Father through the love relationship he was reminding the people of; he showed the way to relate to our Heavenly Father daily. He shared the Lord’s Prayer as a basic starting point on such a journey.

In addition to my Light Wing message, as usual we have additional faith filled features, and we do have ten great videos for today - including the “American Minute” feature by William Federer. Most of the videos have some connectedness to Father’s Day or families. As always, we hope that you would also please check out the presentations relevant to you. Again, we wish all the dads a Happy Father’s Day!

Editors’ Note: We hope readers could receive as many of the features and wise perspectives that may be of interest. Recently, Substack performed a removal of email subscribers from our initial email list. We lost a number of “dead” email addresses in the “purge.” We hope loyal readers could also become messengers of Light and spread the word from LightWing Messages to friends, relatives or those who you believe would benefit from our Sunday messages. We would like to build back up our free subscribers list. Additionally, read, enjoy, and absorb and share the articles and links to the important stories of the news cycle with those whom you hope would benefit from the Citizen Sentinels Network. Please share an edition, or invite your loved ones to get a free subscription – Citizen Voice on Substack

It is important to receive God’s blessings and fruit that continue to come as a result of the 2024 election. It is also just as important to maintain a vigilant awareness and prayer focus to protect the efforts being made during this time of the new Administration – an eradication of the damage that was done to America as we are proceeding to move past the past.

These words are being freely offered to you – intended to shine light unto our paths, as written: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 - (KJV)

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6 - (NKJV)

May God bless our readers who are Dads. May God be with All His Children!

May we honor the fathers (and mothers) who raise their children in the ways of the Lord. May we help the children and guide them to seek His Kingdom and His righteousness in these days. May we seek to know more His Will and to practice more His guidance for all of us to seek His righteousness, especially to seek His Kingdom first in such a turbulent time as this.

Our Heavenly Father and Filial Piety

By Dennis Jamison

June 20, 2021

“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.” 1 John 3:1

People across the world, who believe in Father’s Day, manage to celebrate this day and honor the fathers of the families, in their own manner of custom or practice. It seems quite fitting and proper to honor fathers for all that they do for their families -- it would be the ideal. Christians may understand it as an important day, and together with those of the Jewish faith would view it as a way to keep the Fifth Commandment -- “to honor thy father and mother.” Yet, for lack of a legal holiday to honor God, the Father in Heaven, it is my intent to call attention to readers to use this day as a way to also honor our Heavenly Father. Far be it for the secular world to have a legal holiday honoring our Father in Heaven; what government would create a legal holiday to honor God? Even in the United States, with the contorted concept of “separation of church and state,” it would seem a monumental task.

Yet, what of the First Commandment? The first four are directed upward and have to do with our relationship with God, but the first is usually familiar most to those of the Jewish faith: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” But, according to Jesus, when asked about the greatest Commandment, he quoted Deuteronomy 6:

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. -- These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-8

So, what Jesus was teaching was not new, and yet it was new. If one looks at what Jesus had to encounter when he walked the earthen roads, the central relationship between God and man, up to the time he came, was between God as Lord and those of the faith. Yet, the relationship that Jesus introduced was as God the Father in Heaven. There is an incredibly different type of relationship that he shared, and it was a more intimate relationship of Father and Son. The real simple point of this message is whether people of faith today share such a deeply intimate and personal relationship with God, our Father in Heaven. Honestly, people of the Judeo-Christian heritage are all over the “spiritual map” in their personal relationship in faith with God. However, when Jesus prayed, he addressed God as Heavenly Father, even though when he often spoke, as he taught, he spoke of God.

Herein lies the dilemma that creates a great deal of confusion, not only in one’s relationship to Jesus, but in one’s relationship to God. Jesus taught his disciples how to pray:

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray:

‘Our Father in Heaven,

hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come,
Your Will be done,

on Earth as it is in Heaven…’

Yet, even though Christians claim to follow Jesus, they pray to God, they pray to the Lord, they pray to Jesus, and they even pray to Mother Mary or various saints. The real simple question one needs to ask themselves is: whose Kingdom is Jesus referring to in his instructions? What is the point of this part of the prayer? Is it not to develop a deeper consciousness of relationship with the Father in Heaven? Is it not linked to the First Commandment of the Ten? It emphasizes the relationship to God. But, Jesus is teaching his disciples that they are children of God in truly

a deeper or more intimate relationship with God. Yet, based upon the specific traditions of those various streams of “Christian” teaching, one develops a relationship with a “Supreme Judge” of the universe, or the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or one’s Father in Heaven. The genuine relationship between father and son, or father and daughter, is not always replicated in the way in which Jesus intended.

Certainly, when the Jewish authorities, specifically the Sanhedrin, viewed Jesus’ claim that he was the son of his Father in Heaven, it was considered blasphemy, and his followers were seen as heretics, and they were marginalized as a cult within the Hebrew society and in the greater reaches of the Roman Empire. How much pain and persecution haunted the followers of the “Way,” which was the name given to the earlier followers. And “Christian” may have been more a derogatory term by those who looked down upon these religious “fanatics.” But, a real deeper examination of what a Christian means in this time, may be needed, as we have several people who are Christian by birth only, or in name only. This means they are not truly Christians. But, it is understandable that Jesus was showing the “Way.” He certainly said he was, “...“the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me..” John 14:6

Jesus was showing his followers the “Way” to the Father, not to the Supreme Judge, or Almighty God. He was offering the pathway to know that intimate relationship with our Father in Heaven. Yet, there is more than one way to look at this, despite how difficult it is for people to grasp the distinction. Jesus was not only the way to God, but he was showing the way to have such a real relationship with the Father in Heaven. In other words, through his life, he was also revealing to us the way to relate to God as a father. It was not just his relationship he was teaching about, he was extending the understanding to those who could receive it, that they too were children of the Father. The passage from I John is not that complicated, but the message comes from one who knew the son, and helps to point the way to the relationship of filial piety that Jesus had with our Heavenly Father.

Truly, if one considers Jesus’ words in such a light, Church doctrine, or traditions, or theology pale in comparison to such a concept. Jesus was the way to develop this personal and quite intimate relationship with God in Heaven that was a love relationship. So, once one realizes the relationship God intended to have with His children, what else did Jesus teach? Again, it is not complicated. The Lord’s Prayer gives a deeper meaning as to what must we be doing to do the Will of God? It is centered around the Kingdom of God. Jesus did say: "...seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness..." Matthew 6:33 And, Jesus, at another time, is quoted as to who were those in his real family:

“Someone told him, ‘Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.’ He replied to him, ‘Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the Will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’”

Jesus’ relationship with his Father in Heaven should not just be a mere intellectual approach to him, but he was the way to know the Father through the love relationship he was reminding the people of, but he showed the way to relate to our Heavenly Father daily. How deep, how rich, how intimate that love relationship with God becomes is up to each of His children. And like an earthly relationship with our fathers, is as real as we want it to be, as real as we make it. And, for those seeking to do the Will of our Father in Heaven, that would be to allow Him to be first in our hearts, and then to focus upon doing what is most precious to Him. Jesus already told us.

It would start a true revolution if we could just put Jesus’ words into practice each day! Let us take Father’s Day to a new dimension - every day!

Again… HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all the Dads out there!!!

Let’s Keep Celebrating Natural Family Month — All Year!

Let's Celebrate Natural Family Month - Pass the Salt Ministries

A positive approach to repairing our nation. James Harrison, National Director of Natural Family Strong www.naturalfamilystrong.com is honoring a new holiday to celebrate

the Family! In concert with other local community leaders, Natural Family Strong is proposing all Americans consider the time period between Mother's Day in May thru Father's Day in June as an annual celebration of the Natural Family. It is now! They need help to make it happen.

There is already some traction with that effort because New Hampshire has passed the first official State Natural Family Proclamation. State Representative Claudine Burnham, was able to get this passed in the Granite State. Other states need to follow New Hampshire and officially pass a state Natural Family Proclamation. Contact local leaders to help to make it happen.

Consider continuing celebrating the Natural Family all year long!

Deuteronomy 11:19 Illustrated: "Real Education" — Heartlight® Gallery

Additional Faith & Spirit-filled links…

From The Skit Guys: Super Dads by the Skit Guys

From The American Minute with Bill Federer (video): American Minute for June 19 - The first formal Father's Day was celebrated on this day in 1910.

From Eric Clapton: My Father's Eyes (Official Music Video) - 4/17/2010

From World Outreach Church with Allen Jackson: My Father's Journey of Faith [Featuring George Jackson] – 6/13/25

From Cat Stevens: Yusuf / Cat Stevens w/ Father & Son - - 6/17/2018

From History.com: Father's Day - Date, Definition & History

From Jonathan Cahn: By Which we cry out ‘Daddy!’ | Jonathan Cahn Sermon – 6/9/23

From YouTube Rascal Flatts ~ “My wish for you” ~ with lyrics 12/27/09 Rascal Flatts ~ My wish for you ~ with lyrics

From Promise Keepers: A Proclamation on Godly Masculinity - Promise Keepers

From World Outreach Church with Allen Jackson: Masculinity that Honors God | Pastor Allen Jackson – 6/17/23

From John Finch: The Father Effect (movie trailer)

From Harry Chapin: Cat's in the Cradle - by Harry Chapin 1974

From Eric Metaxas on TBN: Why Fatherlessness Is America’s Greatest Crisis – 5/16/25

From Duncan Toombs: My Child – 1/12/23

From the Aoki Family Journal (a family series): I Became a Better Dad Though My Hobby | Aoki Family - Episode 2 – Can your hobby improve you as a person? It can! In fact, my hobby helps build my character and makes me a better family man.

From Family Peace Association: “Recognizing the unique contributions of fathers in the family and community.” – 6/2/25

From Rock Church: Fathers Day Skit 6/29/2009

From Climate One: Kids Sing "Teach Your Children" to Graham Nash - 12/6/2013