From The Mind of David Dendy

Say Their Name... for the girls of Camp Mystic, Kerrville, TX — July 2025 (An editorial note: Praying all these girls are returned to their families! As of this writing, I do not have confirmation if these beautiful girls have been found, returned to their families, still missing or have eternally passed into the Father’s arms…) "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you." — Isaiah 43:2 "Jesus wept." — John 11:35 Say their name… Because silence won’t do. Because th

The Empty Chair – Part 2 Twas the Christmas season when all through God’s house The Angels, The Saints were all hurrying and scurrying. No one and I mean no one was as quiet as a mouse! Preparations for the Christmas festivities were all in full gear The celebration of the Newborn King was drawing near. Get out the plates, the goblets and the perfectly shined silverware The fine linen napkins and the brightly colored tablecloths were being placed here, there, everywhere! Ten

The Empty Chair "The Empty Chair" sits vacant at every home this Christmas.It sits there all alone in my house, and it sits all alone in yours. The difficult part about dealing with "The Empty Chair" is that it used to be filled...Filled to overflowing perhaps... Filled with sounds of laughter...Filled with striking smiles and twinkling eyes...Lips that curled a certain way right before busting out laughing and even crying...Eyes that narrowed in keen observation… Eyes that s

I pulled up to the intersection and saw the same scene for the 1,892nd time. A bearded man with a ball cap, sitting on his honches, holding a cardboard sign which read "Hard Times". There were more words on the sign but as I whizzed by and came to an abrupt stop three cars behind the red light, "Hard Times" were the only two words that stuck. Have you ever experienced "hard times?"Me too...The Apostle Paul was having "hard times." He was in prison. His crime? He was passionat

There She Stands! It’s the first Thursday On the first day of the month of July On the first day of the second half of 2021! I’ve got red, white and blue on my mind today as the Fourth will be celebrated on Sunday! My mind started thinking about our great American Flag. So… I wrote this short poem titled, “There She Stands” There She Stands In the year of 1776 the experimental journey began For freedom to which we ran Freedom from tyranny Freedom to worship Thee An em

Lent Day 40 - The Disciples What did the disciples do on the Saturday after Good Friday? Listen in... Grace and peace, Laugh often and Fear not! David! Today's Video https://youtu.be/_l9wxSSj8Nk

"Lent Day 39 - Good Friday" pays witness to the seventh and last saying of Jesus on the cross. Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last. - Luke 23: 46 Jesus is dead... Today's Video https://youtu.be/9qPmaSwMJBw

"Lent Day 38 - The Garden of Gethsemane" explores the most important and most decisive day in human history - Maundy Thursday! Is this day more important than Christmas? More important the Easter? Listen in... Grace and peace, Laugh often and Fear not! David! Today's VideoLent Day 37 – Miracle #7 https://youtu.be/vN6jlfwlLGA

"Lent Day 37 - Miracle #7" finds us at the tomb of Lazarus. The first miracle of Jesus was performed at a wedding, turning water into 960 bottles of wine! The last miracle of Jesus was performed at a funeral with friend Lazarus already dead four days, literally entombed! Jesus shouts, "Lazarus, Come out!" And Lazarus does... But there's a problem. Lazarus is still covered and bound with "grave clothes", which constrict his movements. Listen to Jesus, "Unbind him and let

Lent Day 36 - I am the Vine Today we look at the seventh and last of the "I am" sayings by Jesus - "I am the vine and you are the branches." (Found in John 15) 15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cann

"Lent Day 35 - Psalm 118" Check out these few verses from Psalm 118: 24This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord. What do these verses have to do with Palm Sunday? Everything... And I mean - Everything! Listen in... Grace and peace, Laugh often and Fear not! David! ps - Read John 12: 12

"Lent Day 34 - Be Still and know that I am God" explores the full context of Psalm 46. So many times people quote a Bible verse out of context. What is the "when" and the "where" behind this iconic verse, "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46: 10)? Listen in... Grace and peace, Laugh often and Fear not! David! Lent Day 34 - Be still Today's Video https://youtu.be/IUn1h623s1Y

Lent Day 33 - It is finished Lent Day 33 - Last Saying #6: "It is finished" focuses on a phrase that has haunted me for years. (Click on the YouTube video to discover why!) "It is finished..." "When he had received the drink, Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." (John 19: 30) According to John, these are the last words Jesus speaks before dying. Would they be words you could speak? The work Jesus came to do, fulfill and p

"Lent Day 32 - I am saying #6: I am the way, the truth and the life..." puts our hearts and minds at ease in knowing God has made the pathway to abundant life and eternal life in a very uncomplicated way. The choice before us is not found in a myriad of ways, byways, highways and different approaches, belief systems and 4,693 different practices and disciplines. The Way, The Truth and the Life is found not in a "What" but rather in a "Who"! Jesus proclaims, "I am the way,

"Lent Day 31 - Miracle #6" takes us on a bizarre odyssey of a man being blind from birth to mud being placed on his eyes and then having his sight restored. This whole odyssey takes place in John 9 and is Jesus' sixth miracle according to John. Read this chapter and marvel at the comedy of errors and mistakes the disciples, the people, the parents and the Pharisees make, all because of the miracle of a man blind from birth can now see - "I once was blind but now I see!" Ma

"Lent Day 30 - Love" challenges the notion that "Love" is nothing but a second hand emotion... Remember that song by Tina Turner? The Apostle Paul has a better definition which shows "Love" is hard work and takes effort. "Read" 1 Corinthians 13 and then "Listen" to the challenge 1 Corinthians 13 offers on day 30 of the Lenten season! 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.2 And if I have prophetic powers

"Lent Day 29 - Who am I?" asks one of the most basic questions of our human existence: Who Am I? It's not a new question. David in Psalm 8 upon looking at the stars, the moon, the heavens and all that the fingers of God have created and put into place, asks the age old question: "Who am I Oh Lord that you would be mindful of me?" Who am I? Who are you? One hundred and thirty-one Psalms later, we find the answer in Psalm 139! O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 Y

Lent Day 28 - Isaiah 53 offers to each of us a better understanding of who Jesus is and was and His purpose for coming to earth as a "suffering servant" and dying for the sins of the world. Check out Isaiah 53: 53 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should des

"Lent Day 27 - I thirst" explores the fifth saying of Jesus on the cross. "After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth." John 19: 28-29 Jesus' utterance of "I thirst" fulfills the prophecy from Psalm 69: 21: "They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink." Listen

Lent Day 26 - "I am" #5 - I am the Resurrection and the Life "I am the Resurrection and the Life" finds us by the tomb of Lazarus as Jesus is confronted by Lazarus' sister Martha. Martha had pleaded with Jesus to return from an out of town trip to be with her then sick brother. Jesus delays his return by two days only to find Lazarus dead in the tomb for four days already upon arriving back in town. As Jesus approaches town, Martha makes a bee line to confront him with th