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Rev. David Bast

David Bast is a writer and pastor who served for 23 years as the President and Broadcast Minister for Words of Hope. In his more than 40 years of devotional writing and preaching, he has been encouraging believers around the world to be shaped by God and his Word.  Prior to his ministry and work at Words of Hope, Dave served as a pastor for 18 years in congregations in the Reformed Church in America. A graduate of Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, he is the author of nine devotional books and Bible studies, including God of My Days, Why Doesn't God Act More Like God, Christ in the Psalms, and A Gospel for the World. Dave and his wife, Betty Jo, have four children and eight grandchildren. Dave enjoys reading, growing tomatoes, and avidly follows the Detroit Tigers.
Devotionals

Who Moved the Stone?

Read: John 20:1-10 Who will roll away the stone for us? (Mark 16:3) More than eighty years ago an English skeptic named Frank Morison set out to explain Jesus’s resurrection

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All Together Now

Read: Psalm 103 Bless the LORD, O you his angels . . . his ministers, who do his will! (vv. 20-21) In the opening line of the Nicene Creed, we

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Therefore, Praise!

Read: Psalm 103:1-19; Psalm 113 Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! (Ps. 113:1) The liturgy for Communion in my church tradition

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He Did Not Spare His Own Son

Read: Psalm 103:1-18; Romans 8:31-32 [God] who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us

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God’s Love Is Forever

Read: Psalm 103:1-18 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him. (v. 17) This is one of those great Bible pivot

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Lives Like Flowers

Read: Psalm 103:1-16; 1 Corinthians 15:14-20 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it

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Dust to Dust

Read: Psalm 103:1-14; Genesis 3:8-19 He remembers that we are dust. (Ps. 103:14) The story of creation, so beautifully described in Genesis 1 and 2, all went horribly wrong in

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He Knows Us

Read: Psalm 103:1-14; Hebrews 4:14-16 For he knows our frame . . . (Ps. 103:14) Notice the little word For at the beginning of this verse. God treats us with

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