Author Archives: PastorDave

“MY ONE-WORD RESOLUTION” or “MY ONE WORD” | part 3

Posted on February 13, 2021 by PastorDave

Course: Spiritual Exercises Part 3: Scriptural Authority and Precedent for and Examples of a “My One Word” Resolution This is part 3 of our current lesson about the ‘spiritual exercise’ of making holy resolutions – and I’m borrowing the title … Continue reading →

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Our Dad’s ‘get out of death free’ token: his death from here

Posted on February 9, 2021 by PastorDave

10 February 2021 Eight years ago today, 10 February 2013, our Dad died ‘in the Lord’ only four days after his 91st birthday. We celebrated all the promises of eternal life, hope, Heaven, the resurrection in glory, ‘we would rather … Continue reading →

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LONESOME SOUL (Job 23) – a simple song of experience

Posted on February 9, 2021 by PastorDave

~ What can I do when I cannot find the Face of the Sun of my soul? When I look ahead, behind, and around but no refuge in sight I behold? Does He not care that I labor here pressed … Continue reading →

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‘EFFECTIVE AND FRUITFUL’

Posted on February 8, 2021 by PastorDave

This message was delivered by our Pastor Hershael York on 1/24/21. Here are some personal reflections and resolutions… It was: clarifying. It was a powerful, poignant, pointed, and personal clarification of the balancing and supplementing roles of God’s sovereign and … Continue reading →

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O, FOR A CLOSER WALK WITH GOD

Posted on February 7, 2021 by PastorDave

O, FOR A CLOSER WALK WITH GOD 1 O for a closer walk with God,a calm and heav’nly frame,a light to shine upon the roadthat leads me to the Lamb! 2 Where is the blessedness I knewwhen first I sought … Continue reading →

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SWEET WILL OF GOD

Posted on February 7, 2021 by PastorDave

SWEET WILL OF GOD 1/ My stubborn will at last hath yielded;I would be Thine, and Thine alone,And this the prayer my lips are bringing,“Lord, let in me Thy will be done.”  Sweet will of God, still fold me closer,Till … Continue reading →

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“MY ONE-WORD RESOLUTION” or “MY ONE WORD” | Part 2

Posted on February 6, 2021 by PastorDave

Course: Spiritual Exercises Title: Lesson #5 – “My One-Word Resolution” or “My One Word” | Part 2 Part 2: My Seven-Year Story Making “My One-Word Resolutions” and Living by “My One Word” – and What They Have Been In our … Continue reading →

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“May prayer be made FOR Him continually…” ~Psalm 72.15

Posted on February 6, 2021 by PastorDave

“May prayer be made for Him continually, and blessings invoked for Him all the day!” ~Psalm 72.15b This Psalm bears the superscription “Of Solomon.” Whether ‘of Solomon’ means that David or some other Divinely-inspired author wrote this Psalm ‘of,’ about, … Continue reading →

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“I WILL BE YOUR GOD!”

Posted on February 4, 2021 by PastorDave

“YOU SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD!” ~Jeremiah 30:22 I read this Pastor Richard Sibbes excerpt recently in the February 1 reading of Voices From The Past, volume 2, edited by Richard Rushing [Banner of Truth]. … Continue reading →

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Judges … then Ruth – you never know what God is doing behind the scenes and under the cover of your darkness…

Posted on February 1, 2021 by PastorDave

JUDGES … THEN RUTH! Just a powerful conviction and encouragement. In my Daily Time With God, I have been reading through Joshua and Judges. Especially Judges: what a debauched, perverted, raunchy, and dissolute time in Israel’s history. And to think … Continue reading →

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