Reclaiming the Table

Following Jesus Together Around the Table Every Sunday evening in Seattle’s Lake Union neighborhood, about thirty to forty people gather in a community room. No pulpits, no pews anywhere to be found. Instead, people sit around tables featuring...

Can I Trust You?: Cultivating Character That Isn’t Performative

I stood beside him in the church choir. Months...

The Key to Resilience: Returning to Joy

Returning to Joy in the Middle of Tragedy In November 2013 tragedy struck my hometown of Washington, Illinois. An EF-4 tornado, with damaging winds reaching 190 miles per hour, destroyed over one thousand...

Life Together at Jesus’ Table: Discipleship as Sacramental Living

Discipleship as Sacramental Living and Table Fellowship Discipleship is sacramental because disciples are the living temple of the triune God, together. Years earlier, Paul’s letter to the Galatians erupted...

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Daybreak Devotions – Arrow

Daybreak Devotions – Arrow

“Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth.” (Psalm 127:4 NIV) When my younger daughter, Heather, was fifteen she accompanied me to a speaking engagement. On the way home she complimented me on my message. “It was just what I needed to...

Daybreak Devotions – Deposit

Daybreak Devotions – Deposit

“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?” (1 John 3:17) Missionary and martyr, Jim Elliot said, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” However,...

Counseling with Compassion and Competence

Counseling with Compassion and Competence

By Kathy Collard Miller, Author of "Whispers of My Heart (Daughters of the King Bible Study Series)". Whether or not we’re professional counselors, helping others with their struggles can be a challenge. Yet it can be done with compassion and competence. As a lay...

Daybreak Devotions – Weight Loss

Daybreak Devotions – Weight Loss

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.” (1 John 3:19-20a NIV) One of the benefits of...

Pastors and Pietism: Part 2

Pastors and Pietism: Part 2

Copyright © 2017 Roger Helland I’ve pastored in the Vineyard, in the Mennonite Brethren, and in the Christian and Missionary Alliance traditions. I now serve as a district minister (a pastor to pastors and churches) of 29 churches in the Baptist General Conference...

Daybreak Devotions – Exercise (Action)

Daybreak Devotions – Exercise (Action)

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” (1John 3:18 NIV) I’ve been thinking about exercise a lot lately. I want to lose the “spare tire” around my middle and gain some muscle mass in my chest, arms and shoulders. I’ve been...

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About the President

Dave Wike is a family man. Serving pastors, and those who desire to do the same, became his calling over the last 20+ years. He and his wife Margie live in North Carolina. They have a son living overseas, and three daughters still at home. Dave enjoys writing instrumental guitar music, and plans to complete his Masters in Biblical Counseling. He’s also well aware he can do nothing good apart from the Holy Spirit. 

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