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Preacher Dave’s Daily Affirmations, 514 N. Galena Avenue, Wyoming, IL (2026)

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.

03/30/2026

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,

Preacher

11/20/2025

As I was driving to the office yesterday, I was listening to a sermon from Sunday and the Pastor said something I’ve heard him and others say multiple times. What struck me is that people continue to equate the scriptures with their current environment or more accurately, the availability of the Bible to everyone. They will quote a specific verse to back up their position, “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17)They will either precede or postcede this with a “if you want to get closer to God, then you need to be reading your Bible.” While I understand their reasoning behind this and agree that Christian’s should read the Bible, I do not agree with their positional reasoning.

Let me give you some history. The Bible, including the Torah and Old Testament books, were hand copied prior to 1455 AD. That is when Gutenberg invented the printing press. The Bible was still too expensive for most people to afford, but as more presses were built and more copies made, the cost eventually came down. That means very few people actually had the opportunity to have a copy and most of the human population was actually illiterate until recent history.

That being said, let’s go back to the sermon. Were the Christian’s prior to the Bible less connected to God? Did they have less of a faith? Was their faith weaker than modern Christians? Were they less close to God than people of today with all of their Bibles? Absolutely not. When you take all things into consideration, they were dealing with a way harder life than we ever deal with. It took way more reliance on God to just survive than we face today. If they didn’t have the Bible, what did they have? Prayer. They had prayer. They prayed continuously, giving thanks in all things. They were thankful for just being alive. They were thankful they were surviving the daily struggle to live.

Let’s look at the context in which Romans 10-11 was written. Paul is talking about the people of Israel and their reliance on the Mosaic Law. He is addressing their passion for God, but stating because this zeal is based on the law, and not on the grace provided through the Gospel, it’s misdirected. He can totally relate to this as he experienced this misguided zeal and killed Christians because of it. The message of salvation is very simple. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Paul then proceeds to continue by quoting the Old Testament and to show how those that rely on the law cannot be saved, but also shows that there is a remnant in Israel that have heard the Gospel and have believed to show that God had not turned His back on His people. That’s what this scripture is referencing. That section of Israelites heard the Gospel and believed. They connected the dots from the scriptures they had heard about the Messiah to Jesus. They realized the narrative they had been taught of a warrior coming to free them from bo***ge was not about physical bo***ge, but spiritual bo***ge.
From here, Paul proceeds to take the Gospel one step further and explains that it is not just for the Jews, but it is a message for the Gentiles as well.

While this is not close to finished and I could continue for another hour, I will stop with this. You’ve been given the ability to read the Bible and you have the choice to accept that opportunity. It’s a privilege that most of the Church never had the opportunity to have. Learn to read the Bible in context and not as a weapon to serve your personal agenda. Read it for the history and the connection that it provides then and now. Use the opportunity to learn about God, His holiness, His grace, His love and His Son who gave His life for you that you may have eternal life. If you feel closer to God because of it, then be thankful for that blessing. If you gain knowledge or understanding, be thankful for that as well. Just keep it in context and not for what you want it to say.

10/09/2025

Every moment is an opportunity to be a blessing in someone else’s life.

09/11/2025

I am very disturbed and brokenhearted over today’s events and the murder of Charlie Kirk. He was what is right about this country and threw himself willingly into what is wrong with it. He took the Gospel message and an America first message into the midst of anti-American and anti-Christian college campuses. He stood on his faith and asked people to explain and define what things and terms meant to them and exposed the false circular arguments for the fact less and baseless positions that they were. He didn’t hate anyone and gave everyone the opportunity to exercise their fundamental right to free speech. He gave them questions they couldn’t logically answer and answers they couldn’t logically question. He politely and at times humorously caused those that believed they were informed to find out they were in fact being misled down a path of destruction. We need more people like him in the world to face the darkness that threatens our freedom and true rights while being disguised as “democracy” and righteous indignation. R.I.P. Charlie Kirk..

The war is real. If you’ve had your head in the sand while your children were fed anti-Christian values in school, I hope you are awake. The lion is about to let the world know He is real and He is in charge.

04/18/2025

Divorce….

The Bible says God hates divorce and I completely understand why…twice. The effects of divorce are far reaching, beyond that of the couple and the immediate families. Friends and acquaintances are also affected by the split of the home. Relationships with friends and family that were once strong become obsolete, as if they never existed. It destroys bonds built over years in an instance. I will admit I wanted my first divorce because I saw early on that it was just about what I could provide..money, children, home, car, etc., and it wasn’t about love or respect or any of the foundational qualities that make a marriage work. I lost more in that first divorce than just a wife, home and money, I also lost a relationship my children and grandchildren..and that is probably what hurts the most.

The second divorce, I really didn’t want it to happen. It was not my choice, but I’ve learned it is probably for the best. Until I started counseling, I didn’t realize just what was going on and how much I was being damaged by this relationship, the things I was enduring to keep the peace and how it was changing me. It was when I started to stand up to the manipulation and attempts at control by setting boundaries, standing my ground and fighting back that it all fell apart. I look back at all of the red flags I ignored from the beginning and see that I should have run instead of changing to make the relationship work when she was doing nothing to make it work with me. I did get a Marine stepdaughter out of it, so it wasn’t all bad, however, lost some relationships with others that was sad to lose.

The Bible never tells women to love their husbands, but it tells men to love their wives, even as Christ loved the church. The man is to love the wife sacrificially, doing all things to lead her, provide for her and protect her above his own needs. It tells women to respect their husbands by acknowledging the husband’s place in the hierarchy of marriage; God, the husband and then the wife. When the woman respects her husband in this way and the man loves the woman in this way, the relationship builds upon itself and continuously grows. When the man does not love the wife as she should be loved, then she is affected and will not do the things she should do. The same goes for when the woman tries to assert dominance over the man by controlling or belittling him, he stops loving her the way she should be loved.

There will always be disagreements and issues in a relationship, but the plan for a good, God centered marriage and how to overcome the obstacles of life together are already there for us to read and follow.

Happy Good Friday and Happy Easter!

He is Risen!

02/03/2025

It is by GRACE you are saved, by FAITH.

That means that you are saved through your total and full belief that Jesus is the Son of God, He gave up His place on the throne next to God in heaven to become human, be born of the virgin called Mary, lived on earth without ever sinning in order to fulfill the laws of God, ministered on this earth, spreading His message of salvation to the children of Israel, to then be an innocent man sentenced to death, beaten and abused, then hung on a cross to die, taking on all of our sins (past, present and future), was then buried in a tomb, then on the third day rose from the grave, defeating death, was then seen by many witnesses and ascended through the clouds to sit at the right hand of God in heaven.

God made a way for you and I to have a relationship and commune with Him by offering Himself for the penalty of our sins. His sacrifice covered the cost of sin and forever removed us from being under conviction of the law. The law does not save anyone, it only convicts and condemns. God provided a way through His graciousness and love. Once you are saved, He no longer wants you to operate under the law. He wants you to operate under the same grace and love He gave to you. When you stop living under the precepts of the law, you will stop thinking about sin and your focus will then be on spreading the Gospel message through grace and love.

The law is milk, grace is the meat.

10/16/2024

A well meaning friend posted this today and I really wanted to comment on it, but I didn’t. This is 100% legalistic religiosity and virtue signaling. Jesus fulfilled the law. Only those that have not accepted the work of Christ on the cross are under the law and condemned to hell by their own hands. We are saved by faith, through grace and not by any works of our own. Nowhere in the Gospel message does it say you are saved by following these rules and doing this or doing that. This is why the road to heaven is narrow, because it is not paved with the wide row of bricks of laws, rules, tenets, works, denominational doctrines and false teachings. Salvation is a narrow and simple path. Trust that Jesus took your punishment and died for you, was buried and defeated death by leaving the grave on the third day. If you want to stop sinning, stop thinking about it and start thinking about God’s grace and love for you.

08/30/2024

Relationship rules to live by…

08/17/2024

Just heard a Pastor say this in a sermon.

When you follow God’s way, it’s on Him. When you follow your way, it’s on you.

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