Category Archives: I’ve been thinking

A ‘FAREWELL’ TESTIMONY TO OUR PASTOR HERSHAEL W. YORK

Posted on January 27, 2024 by PastorDave

28 January 2024 Dear Pastor York, Here on the day of your final sermon and service with us as our Senior Pastor, please allow Debbie and me to once again express our deepest love and gratitude to you for the … Continue reading →

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“I have gotten a man with the help of Yahweh!”

Posted on December 25, 2023 by PastorDave

Genesis 4.1: “Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, ‘I have gotten a man with the help of Yahweh!’” And thus, with the arrival of this first child born … Continue reading →

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Intrigue, Conspiracies, & Assassinations

Posted on August 12, 2023 by PastorDave

JEREMIAH | Lesson 8 | Lesson Notes / Talking Points Read Jeremiah, chapters 37-44 MAKING THE CONNECTIONS & SETTING THE CONTEXT 1/ I told you in our last lesson that this section we’re going to survey now is called by … Continue reading →

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I used to call them ‘interruptions’

Posted on May 26, 2023 by PastorDave

Interruptions. We all have them…constantly…every day…of all kinds… Interruptions to what we are doing and working on at the moment. Interruptions to the agenda of the whole day. Interruptions sometimes to the very direction and course of our lives from … Continue reading →

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“SUCCESS” vs. “EFFECTIVENESS”

Posted on March 3, 2023 by PastorDave

The older I get, the more I think about where all I’ve been over the course of my life and ministry and what all I’ve done – or not done – and if I’ve done it well. I always seriously … Continue reading →

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The Old Testament: pre-enactment of Christ

Posted on November 25, 2022 by PastorDave

Here’s a good rule to remember any time you are reading anywhere in the Bible … and especially the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, every time you read about and see: …every one of these is a pointer, picture, … Continue reading →

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‘Beulah’ songs (and Fiji rugby)

Posted on November 24, 2022 by PastorDave

I grew up in rural West Virginia churches [that’s a good ways from Fiji, by the way … which is where this is going] singing lots of songs about ‘Beulah.’ I also knew that ‘Beulah’ means ‘married’ and comes from … Continue reading →

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I will love them freely (Redemption, Reconciliation, Restoration)

Posted on November 5, 2022 by PastorDave

HOSEA | Lesson 4 | Lesson Notes / Talking Points Read Hosea, chapters 11.12-14.9 INTRODUCTION I / MICROCOSM OF THE MACROCOSM II / HOW THE MESSAGE OF HOSEA IS A MICROCOSM OF THE MACROCOSM OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST … Continue reading →

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A famine for hearing the words of the LORD

Posted on September 22, 2022 by PastorDave

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land – not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander … Continue reading →

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Your Pastor is “a man with a nature like ours” [James 5.17]

Posted on July 26, 2022 by PastorDave

The last two lessons I have delivered to our Sunday School class have focused on the ministry of Elijah. In the first lesson, Elijah presided over what had to be at least among the pinnacles of the high points in … Continue reading →

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