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Rev. David Bast

Rev. Dave Bast retired as the President and Broadcast Minister of Words of Hope in January 2017, after 23 years with the ministry. 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. He is the author of several devotional books. A graduate of Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, he has also studied at both the Fuller and Calvin seminaries. Dave and his wife, Betty Jo, have four children and four grandchildren. Dave enjoys reading, growing tomatoes, and avidly follows the Detroit Tigers.
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Devotionals

Lady Folly

Read: Proverbs 7 All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter. (v. 22) The opposite of knowledge is ignorance. The opposite of wisdom is folly. Whether

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Devotionals

The Way of Wisdom

Read: Psalm 1 Wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. (Prov. 8:11) The book of Proverbs is the treasury of the Old

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Devotionals

Pray to the Lord of the Harvest

Read: Matthew 9:35-38 The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray . . . (v. 37) The 20th-century evangelical leader John Stott said that the world’s great

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Devotionals

Two Last Miracles

Read: Matthew 9:27-34 Never was anything like this seen in Israel. (v. 33) Opening the eyes of the two blind men and loosening the tongue of the deaf-mute are the

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Devotionals

A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman

Read: Matt. 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43 Little girl . . . arise. (Mark 5:41) This section of Matthew recounts two intertwined miracles. In both cases Jesus is not contaminated by contact

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Devotionals

Follow Me

Read: Matthew 9:9-13 As Jesus passed on from there . . . he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth. (v. 9) The only thing Matthew tells

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Devotionals

The Forgiveness of Sins

Read: Matthew 9:1-8 Take heart . . . your sins are forgiven. (v. 2) Every time we recite the Apostles’ Creed we say, “I believe in . . . the

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Devotionals

The In-breaking Kingdom

Read: Matthew 8:28-34 What have you to do with us, O Son of God? (v. 29) C. S. Lewis described our world as enemy-occupied territory. This story in Matthew 8

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Devotionals

Stilling the Storm

Read: Matthew 8:23-27 Then he . . . rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. (v. 26) With the disciples panicking and screaming for him

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