A Word For Wednesday It Is More Blessed To Give, God's Design For Finance

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It Is More Blessed To Give Part One

Today's episode of A Word For Wednesday was recorded early in 2021 and held for this time. This lesson and the two that follow it are about Christian giving.

At the time they were recorded, we were home, sick and not working. We did not want anyone to think we were working an angle to get people to give to us. So we saved these lessons for now.

We NEVER want anyone to feel we are asking for something or that we think we deserve something from you. We are thankful to be part of God's family and to work in His vineyard. God has been so good to us and we love sharing His message.

The truth of Christian giving and the joy of giving is an amazing truth that everyone needs to know. Jesus is quoted as saying It is more blessed to give than to receive and He has been proven to be true over and over!

We hope you enjoy this three-part series and decide to share it with others.

Today I am spending a few moments on the first part of a sermon called, "It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive-Living By Giving." Part One is God's Design For Finance.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday - All Things New

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All Things New

We have been posting A Word for Wednesday for one year. It is time to evaluate if we are being good stewards of our time. I enjoy the format and I would like to know if you do as well.

-Do you enjoy A Word For Wednesday?

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All Things New

Revelations 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Praise God, there will be a day when He makes all things new! No more tears, no more death, no more sorrow, no more crying, no more pain and the former things are passed away! Hallelujah! All Things New!

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A Word For Wednesday - Not Every Christmas Is A Merry Christmas

Bonus: Day #9 Twelve Days of Christmas Joy To The World

A Word For Wednesday

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

It is Christmas time! Not Every Christmas Is A Merry Christmas

The Christmas season is difficult to navigate for some of us. Sickness, sadness, sorrow, despair, divorce, deployment, death, depression and a million other things can cause our Christmas to be more blue than white, more melancholy than merry.

That is OK! God loves us and will comfort us right where we are. God help us to realize that not everyone around us is having a Merry Christmas and may we have grace to reach out and embrace everyone in this Christmas season.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday - Three Gifts Everyone Needs For Christmas -Bonus Day #2 Twelve Days of Christmas

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Day #2 Twelve Days of Christmas

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

It is Christmas time! Three Gifts That Everyone Needs.

Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son! Hallelujah! In giving us His son, God gave us three wonderful gifts that we all need!

1. He gave us atonement for the punishment of sin.

2. He gave us the antidote for the poison of sin.

3. He gave us the answer for the power of sin.

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A Word For Wednesday, What If Christmas Had Not Come?

It is Christmas time!

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

What If Christmas Had Not Come?

We are focusing on Christmas for a few weeks on A Word For Wednesday. This is the second Christmas episode. I am asking a question today. What If Christmas Had Not Come? This question was spawned from a book of sermons entitled If Christ Had Not Come by Jarrette Aycock.

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Davy

A Word For Wednesday, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

It is Christmas time and today I am beginning a series of four A Word For Wednesday episodes with a Christmas theme. Today is God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. I tell how this Christmas song saved my life and brought peace to my troubled mind!

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Davy 

A Word For Wednesday The Pattern For Prayer Part 2.

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

The Pattern For Prayer

A Word for Wednesday for this week is "The Pattern For Prayer Part 2" In today's Word For Wednesday, The Pattern For Prayer from Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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A Word For Wednesday The Pattern For Prayer Part 1

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

A Word for Wednesday for this week is "The Pattern For Prayer Part 1"

In today's Word For Wednesday, The Pattern For Prayer from Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

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It Has Been Another Great Week! 11/12/21

Scheduling Note: Due to a death associated with the church, there will be no service here Sunday night November 14. Sunday morning will be our last service of revival

Our week began with the finishing of revival at High Point Pentecostal Church in Paducah, Kentucky. We had a wonderful time with Pastor Doug Stevens and his family and church. Have you seen the Revival In Pictures? We posted them on Monday.

Speaking of Monday, it was a busy and productive day. The weather was beautiful so while KJo and Odie were gone doing laundry, I worked on some maintenance items on the bus. The generator oil needed to be changed and while I was doing that, I also cleaned the hush box as well as the air filter canister for the generator.

I noticed some clamps needed to be tightened and discovered a very small coolant leak. It is a wonder things hold together as much as they do with all the vibration that happens in the generator hush box.

We also shared another meal with Pastor Stevens and his family and we enjoyed the extra fellowship very much. We loved parking at High Point too. It is so close to town, yet smack in the middle of the country. Perfect!

Monday evening and Tuesday morning I worked on recording and loading videos for A Word For Wednesday. I wanted to record and upload at High Point, because the phone and internet signal has historically been nearly nonexistent at the church in Central City.

I am happy to report that we do have a smidgen of cell signal at the church this week. It is not near signal enough to load a video, but we can make a call and do limited online work if we stand still and exercise patience. We are thankful for it.

Tuesday afternoon, we cranked the BoggsMobile, pulled up to the church in Paducah and loaded our sound equipment with the help of Bro. Stevens and his family. We stopped at Love's in Calvert City to do the work of the evangelist and then completed the 110 mile drive to Trinity Pentecostal Church on the west side of Central City.

We pulled in about 4:00 and Pastor Alan Harris and his wife, Sis. Tammy were waiting for us with big smiles and hugs all around. We have been preaching revivals here for many years and it seems like it has been forever since we have been here.

They helped us load in equipment, get the bus parked and hooked up and then we visited a while. It was way past dark and I was ready to go to bed, when I discovered it was only 5:30! Nothing like a busy day and a time change to upset your body clock!

The revival began Wednesday night and we have been enjoying services, meals and wonderful fellowship with our friends. Thursday night we had special friends visit the service and bless us so much. Hopefully, you will see pictures of them in the Revival In Pictures post on Monday.

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Pastor Alan and Sis. Tammy Harris

Thank you for stopping in to spend a few minutes with us.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday The Call To Repentance

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

The Call To Repentance

A Word for Wednesday for this week is The Call To Repentance from Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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A Word For Wednesday - How Does Light Affect You?

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

A Word for Wednesday for this week is "How Does Light Affect You?"

Our Word For Wednesday is taken from The Rudder and The Rock by Charles W. Conn. The sunlight melts some things and hardens others. It brings color to living things and often fades things that have no life. How Does Light Affect You?

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A Word for Wednesday - Making The Right Choice

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

A Word for Wednesday for this week is Making The Right Choice.

Our Word For Wednesday is taken from the introduction to a sermon called Making The Right Choice by Wade H. Horton from his book Sound Scriptural Sermon Outlines Volume 6.

Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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A Word For Wednesday Could God dvu You?

 It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

A Word for Wednesday for this week is "Could God dvu You?"

"Translator Lee Bramlett was confident that God had left his mark on the Hdi culture somewhere; but though he searched, he could not find it. Where was the footprint of God in the history or daily life of these Cameroonian people? What clue had he planted to let the Hdi know who he is and how he wants to relate to them?"

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View Out The Front Window 10/17/21

Sunday Morning Sanity

I am convinced that if a man-eating lion was on the loose, it would starve to death. There is a shortage of men who will accept their responsibilities get up and go to work and provide for their families. 

Adapted from a statement I heard or read from Darius Templeton

View Out The Front Window

This was our view out the front window of the BoggsMobile at a Flying J in Indiana Sunday night.

This was our view out the front window in Ozark, Missouri.

This is our view now out the front window at Bethany in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

I hope you have a great Sunday!

Davy

A Word For Wednesday Faith That Is Convinced

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

A Word for Wednesday for this week is Faith That Is Convinced from a sermon I wrote and preached for a few years and probably will again.

Faith That Is Convinced

Matthew 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:

5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

I apologize for the lighting on the video. It was evening before I could get this recorded Tuesday and the lights in the BoggsMobile and not suited for nighttime recording.

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A Word for Wednesday The Life That Wins

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel.

Life That Wins

A Word for Wednesday for this week is The Life That Wins taken from Every Day With Jesus by George B. Duncan.

Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ... Thank you for joining us today, friends.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday God Is More Involved Than You Can See

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. The episode this week is God Is More Involved Than You Can See.

You may wonder, Why is this happening here? Why is this happening now? Why is this happening to us? Hang on! You may see God at work in this yet!

II Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

I recorded this outside. PLEASE hang with me through the road noise. I can not control everything in our On The Road studio.😢😊

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A Word For Wednesday Power In The Name of Jesus

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. I posted it on our YouTube Channel a few moments ago. I am talking to you today from the Gospel of John.

Power In The Name of Jesus

John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 

I hope you enjoy these videos on Wednesdays. If you do, tell someone else about them for me. Thank you.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday A Reflection On September 11, 2001

It is time for A Word For Wednesday. I posted it on our YouTube Channel a few moments ago.

Reflections on September 11, 2001 

Today, I am reflecting on September 11, 2001, twenty years later. I would like to hear your thoughts in the comments below or in the YouTube comments.

Thank you, Davy

A Reflection On September 11, 2001

Twenty years ago this past Saturday we were living in Wichita, Kansas and I was serving as Pastor of New Horizon Holiness Church. We were renting a house 3 tenths of a mile from the church and I usually started my day early in my study at the church.
 
That Tuesday I got caught up with something outside and I was late getting away. I stepped into the house to speak to Kelly Jo and Odie before leaving and the phone rang. Some of the details have faded with time, but the emotions come rushing back at any mention or thought of September 11, 2001.
 
On the phone was my mother. She called to tell us that something hit the World Trade Center in New York City. We turned on the clock radio in our bedroom and our emotions bubbled over as we three huddled close to each other on the bed and listened with mouths silently open.
 
Do you remember the punch in the gut when they reported that a plane had flown into the second world trade center tower?
 
What? That can not be an accident, right? I remember the confusion, the unbelief, the fear, the worry and then hours later, the anger.
 
All of these emotions and many more were sweeping over us as the three of us sat on the bed and listened to the radio all day long.
 
Then came the report of a plane hitting the Pentagon.
Then US airspace is closed and planes are ordered to land.
The South tower collapsed.
The North tower collapsed.
A section of the Pentagon collapsed.
We begin to hear reports of a plane crashing into the ground in Pennsylvania.
 
The news people begin to speculate about how many thousands may have been killed in the collapsing towers.
 
They wondered aloud who might be attacking our nation. They speculated what targets may be next. The White House, the Capitol building, Nuclear reactors? Strategic military bases? Like many cities, we had a military base only a few miles from us.
 
For many hours we were glued to the radio. Throughout the day we called to check on family and friends and the people that attended the church that I pastored. Everyone was fine, but everyone was shaken.
 
I did not have the capability to process all of the emotions that day. Since then I have read thousands of words about the lives that were ended or changed or affected on September 11, 2001. We have visited the memorial site and the museum twice. I still do not have the words to process it. It was overwhelming then and it is overwhelming now.
 
There is a movement now to wipe the horror of those events on that day from our collective memories. 
Do not show the images of the planes. 
Do not show the images of burning buildings, of collapsing buildings.
Do not show the images of people falling from the buildings before they collapsed.
Do not talk about the perpetrators. 
Do not discuss the fact that they did this in the name of their deity and in loyalty to their leaders and their religion and their god.
 
Campus Reform interviewed students on the campus of the University of Florida recently. The students thought the gruesome details of 9/11 should be completely ignored and there should be no discussion of who was responsible. The students emphasized that America was not good and we should not take pride in our nation.
 
Oh, my stars! That makes my head hurt!
 
I suppose they think we should teach 9/11 something like this. Some bad things happened to America on September 11, 2001 and some people died. It was a difficult time in our history but we needed to see how bad America was and our enemies were justified in trying to wake us up by harming us.
 
God help us! Twenty years later and America is being destroyed from within.
 
Nearly 3000 people died on American soil on September 11, 2001 because religious nuts hated America, hated capitalism, hated our system of government, hated anyone that did not serve their god and tried their best to destroy us.
 
It must be said loudly that most followers of that same religion did not, do not want to kill Americans or destroy Americans. But it must be said just as loudly that these men killed Americans in the name of their religion.
 
3000 lives ended in a moment. 20 years later and people are still grieving, still hurting, still crying and still trying to live on. 
 
Many in the world would like us to forget.
 
Many in the press would like for us to forget.
 
Many in the government would like for us to forget.
 
But we must never forget.
 
Families were forever changed and scarred. 
 
Parents lost children. 
 
Spouses lost their companions. 
 
Friends were separated forever. 
 
Many businesses lost key employees. 
 
New York City Fire Department lost 343 firefighters. 
 
New York City Police Department lost 23 officers. 
 
New York City Port Authority lost 37 officers. 
 
Over 3200 children lost at least one parent.
 
How could we ever forget?
 
We must never forget. We must never omit the details. We must never sidestep the truth to avoid hurting a snowflake's feelings. Those 19 hijackers and the men who sent them did not care for the feelings of thousands they hoped to kill.
 
We must know. We must learn. We must remember. We must care. We must remain vigilant. We must never forget.
 
September 11, 2001 made me want to pull people I love closer and let them know how much I care for them. It still does. Nearly 3000 people lost their lives in NYC, Washington DC and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The more I read the stories of victims and survivors and heroes, the more I value life at its very core.
 
Life is valuable. Life is fleeting. Life is too short to waste on ourselves. God help me to remember.
 
We visited the 9/11 Museum and Memorial in August 2014 and 2016. These two visits had a sobering impact on our family. We were seeing many of the film clips and pictures for the very first time. I have described it as an emotional punch in the gut.
 
The hours we spent there were some of the most sobering, severe and significant hours in my life. It is a place that haunts not only my sleep, but often even my waking hours. It may seem cliche but I assure you it is not, 9/11 changed our lives forever, even those of us that were thousands of miles removed from the destruction.
 
In the museum I came to the slow realization that we are not talking about a group of 3000 random people being tragically killed, which is heartbreaking in itself, but we are talking about 3000 individuals, all with families, hopes, dreams, ambitions and plans.
 
The personal cost, the personal hurt, the personal tragedies are completely overwhelming when standing on their own. To hear their voices, to see their pictures, to watch video clips of them with their families, to hear their loved ones talk about them is powerfully poignant. When you put it all together in one event and attempt to add up all the loss of real, living, breathing humanity, it is unfathomable!
 
Consider just one personal story we learned there. It is the story of Captain Terrance S. Hatton the commander of Rescue 1 in Manhattan. Captain Terry Hatton was killed in the north tower when it fell. 
 
His wife, Beth Petrone Hatton was the Executive Assistant to Mayor Rudy Giuliani. She was standing on the steps of City Hall as the World Trade Center collapsed. She knew exactly where her husband was at that moment.
 
Captain Hatton was a man of duty. He was 41 years old and had served the NYFD for 21 years. In those 21 years he had earned 19 medals for bravery including the highest award in the city, the Medal of Honor. He was considered by those that served with him as one of the best.
 
Beth Petrone knew all that. She knew her honorable husband would be on the highest accessible floor conducting rescue operations. That was his job and he did it well.
 
As she watched the tower fall, she instantly knew he was dead. The dust engulfed City Hall and Beth found herself holding handfuls of the debris thinking she was somehow holding her husband.
 
They found Captain Terry Hatton's remains two weeks later and buried him in the fashion of the hero he was. By then, Beth Petrone Hatton had learned she was expecting their first child.
 
Terri Elizabeth Hatton was born in May of 2002. She is a beautiful teenager now and she will never know her heroic father except for stories. He will never hold her. He will never tuck her into bed. He will never read to her. He will never walk her down the aisle. He is gone. Beth lost her husband and little Terri lost her Daddy, simply because he went to work that morning.

That is the story of only one man that died and it does not even include the hurt of his parents, his siblings, his other relatives, his friends or the men he worked with and all the rest he left behind.

Multiply that one story by 3000 plus stories and you have not even begun to scratch the surface of why we should never forget!

Maybe you will enjoy your family today. Maybe you will go to church and worship. Maybe you must concentrate today on walking through your own personal hardships or even tragedy. Wherever you are and whatever stage in life you are in, please take a moment to think about all that were lost on September 11, 2001. 

Take a moment to remember. Take a moment to consider what might have been. Take a moment to pray for Terri Elizabeth Hatton and many, many of thousands of others that are moving forward and trying to overcome each day.

I believe we owe them that much.