Preacher Dave’s Daily Affirmations

Preacher Dave’s Daily Affirmations Sharing positive posts and affirmations collected from multiple sources and some from myself.

04/02/2026

I’ll be honest, sometimes it takes me a while to get things. I’ll get to that in a second.

Today is known as Maundy Thursday. This is the day recognized during “Holy Week” as when Jesus and his disciples observed Passover and ate the “Last Supper”. I am over simplifying this, but the Passover observance was a yearly feast in the Jewish calendar where they recognized God delivering them from death as well as Egyptian captivity. The unleavened bread represented them leaving Egypt without having time for their bread to be made in the normal, time consuming way, and the wine represented the blood spread above the doors to identify the Jewish homes and cover them from the plague of death. The angel of death “Passed Over” the homes that had the lambs blood on the door frames. This was a representation of Christ and what He would do for us.

This is where the light went off. I started making sourdough starter last week. It’s like having a pet and learning how to take care of it. I didn’t do so well in the first few days. I didn’t kill it, but it wasn’t doing well and I thought I may need to start over. You start out with a mixture of flour and water in a jar, cover it, let it set for a day, discard most of the mixture, then add flour and water, mix it, cover it and repeat every day. In the beginning stages of creating the starter, you don’t want to use the discard for making bread, most people save it for other recipes, but it’s not good for bread. Luckily, I happened upon a video that showed me what I needed to do and where I had gone wrong. It was during my elation that my starter finally floated in or “walked on” water and is ready for baking that the light went on… “💡”

This is how bread was made for thousands of years… This is how the Jews made their bread... They made a starter, probably in a clay jar covered with linen, and probably passed it on to each generation as they started their own households and families. They separated the wheat from the chaff, ground the grain, added it to a vessel, added water, stirred it up, covered it and let it set, then the next day they took some out, added more flour and water, stirred it up, covered it and repeated the process every day. They made bread every day by taking some of the starter source and then adding to it so it would be ready for tomorrow. I’m going to guess they wrapped their bread in linen to keep it throughout the day as well. It’s possible they had different starters for different types of breads, rye, wheat, barley…

I was always taught that “unleavened” meant they didn’t add yeast to it. Thinking in today’s terms, they didn’t add their packet of yeast to the process of making the bread because they had to leave right away. For people that didn’t make bread every single day of their life, that assumption would make sense. When the light went off, I realized they did add their starter to make the bread, they just didn’t have time to let it rise and grow, so it came out flat. Having made a lot of bread over the years, I’ve experienced it quite a few times. The bread is still good, it’s just flat and can be pretty hard.

This realization opened up a plethora of analogies which I could right a book about, but I’m going to focus on one small part.

You are the vessel. The sourdough starter is Christ in you. Every day you start your day with a replenishment of God’s mercy, love and grace. (Lamentations 3:22-23). You are a full vessel, refilled and re-energized for what the new day brings you. His grace is new every morning and as you go through your day, you give out little pieces of your “starter” to those you encounter on your journey. Then Christ feeds and waters you at the end of the day as you rest and you are renewed the next day to go out this day and make your daily bread, sharing Christ in each moment you are given.

In every moment, we are given the opportunity to share Christ, our good “starter”, that is ready for being shared to become a new start in a new vessel, to be fed and watered by Christ every day in order to grow and produce more starter and bread to be passed along… or we can share the “discard” that was saved in the beginning that isn’t good for making bread that we have been led to make.

Peace be with you.

Blessing of the Bikes, May 2, 2026, 13:00 hours, 100 W. Bittersweet Rd., Washington, IL 61571
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Blessing of the Bikes, May 2, 2026, 13:00 hours, 100 W. Bittersweet Rd., Washington, IL 61571

03/27/2026

So, a local restaurant decided to post my page because on my personal page I said their tenderloin wasn’t good, quite honestly, their pork tenderloin is abominable. Zero flavor. Zero seasoning. They use the breading they use on everything else they fry in their restaurant. Many years ago I worked at a place that made chicken and tenderloins and the owner taught me a lot. Rather than make their product better, they would rather ignore the fact that they use the same breading on their mushrooms or onion rings that they use on their tenderloins and keep the minimum customers rather than expanding their customer base. If the people in Sauk Valley ever realize that what they have been presented as food by these restaurants is horrible, these places will be out of business and the food provided will be much better.

01/15/2026

Let me preface this with I believe every believer should read their Bible. The scriptures can help guide you through a multitude of situations. It provides direction, support, understanding and guidance.

Romans 10:17…Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Pastors are taught things in school or books they read or by other pastors and they continuously use scripture out of context. This drives me nuts. Just this past Sunday my pastor used Romans 10:17 to influence people to read the Bible as a way to get “more faith”. He does it quite often and I just shake my head every time. (It’s a legalistic and works based motivation) If you have given your life to Christ and have believed He is the only way to eternal life and nothing that you can do will get you there, then you have achieved the pinnacle of faith. You cannot get more faith than that. You can get strengthened, you can get motivation, you can get support, you can get understanding, you can get acceptance, you can get hope, etc., but you cannot get more faith than you already have. Salvation comes by faith, through grace. This is the very message of Romans 10 from Paul.

In Romans 10, Paul is telling the church that the Jews were given the scriptures, but most of them rejected Christ, so God extended the invitation to the Gentiles. Paul says the Jews heard the message their entire lives and even heard it from Jesus himself, yet continue to attempt to achieve salvation through the law and their own works. Paul then proceeds to tell the church that they need to go out and preach the Gospel message to everyone they can because it is only through hearing the Gospel message that the Gentiles can be saved. Those that hear the Gospel message and put their trust in Christ are then saved by faith in Jesus. Paul isn’t talking about believers. He’s talking about the unsaved that the church in Rome can reach and bring to salvation by preaching the Gospel.

After service on Sunday, I stopped and asked my pastor what Christians did prior to the 1600’s. He didn’t get it at first. So I said prior to the printing press, the Bible was all hand written and the only people that possessed them were churches and the ultra rich. Even after the printing press was invented, it still took a long time to print a Bible and only those with wealth could afford them. He gave some reply about it being the dark ages and quoted Romans 10:17 again and then another verse out of context. I said the Bible was not readily available to people until recent history with advances in the printing process. It doesn’t say faith comes by reading…to which I walked away as the line behind me was backing up pretty good.

There were many families until recently that had one Bible to share and that was usually in the possession of the head of the family. So, using this verse in this context would not make sense until everyone could own one. While the intentions are meant to encourage the believer to read their Bibles, it’s out of context and it’s wrong. This is what I call pulpit manipulation. It’s no different than the preacher standing in the pulpit and yelling at the congregation and calling them sinners to guilt them into doing some work of some type…like control some habit by their own hand rather than turn completely to God’s grace and away from the condemnation of the law. Browbeating those that are saved is not the way to get more people in heaven. The first part of conviction is convict and those that are saved are no longer in the shackles of sin. They just need to learn that the grace of Jesus is what they need to focus on and not the law. When you are focused on Jesus, you aren’t focused on sin.

Grace to all,

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