Today on Summit Life with JD Krier, you got to stop viewing your heavenly father

through the lens of the failures of your earthly one and he just start evaluating your

earthly father through the lens of the heavenly one. He's the real father, he's the one

you're created for and here's what's going to happen. When you do that,

not only are you going to become healthy and not only are you going to heal,

but you're also going to develop the ability to love and forgive your earthly father for the way

that he felt you. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, author and theologian JD Krier,

and as always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch. Hey, Christmas Day is almost here. In fact,

we say a big Merry Christmas to you today. We pray that your week has been full of joy and

anticipation as you're looking ahead to celebrate with family and friends this weekend.

And today we have our final message in our teaching series called Hope Has a Name.

Did you know that our relationship with our dads shapes not only our faith and how we view God,

but how we also approach life? Whether your earthly dad was gone or whether he was great,

we all crave a father who never disappoints or leaves us. Pastor JD continues today to identify

four types of father wounds that are everlasting father heals and shows us how Jesus fills those

longings and is the Heavenly Father. We've always craved. So let's rejoin Pastor JD right now in

our message titled Everlasting Father. Let me use this moment to say that for some of you, the key

to understanding all this is going to be that you're going to have to stop viewing your Heavenly Father

through the lens of your earthly dad. And you're going to have to start viewing your earthly father

and evaluating him through the lens of your Heavenly Dad. My friend Jonathan said this was

this was the turning point for him and his development of a real trust in God. He started to realize

that God was the real Father. God was the one he was created for, that his dad was just a temporary

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