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18th Dec 2023

The David Spoon Experience 12-18-23 part 2

1) Welcome to a special version of the show. Today, we will take a quick journey back to our youthful years long ago and consider a special cartoon movie that reminds us that having a heart is a good thing. Will we discuss the spirit of Christmas, Dave, with all its pomp and circumstance? No. Will we discuss the ridiculousness and absurdity of the commercialism of Christmas? No. Will we support anyone anywhere who tries to take the Christ out of Christmas? No. What then Doctor Dave? We will discuss that image of God that has captured too many.

2) First, let's be honest. God is not Santa. And no, Santa is not a special way to spell satan any more than a dog is directly connected to God. Take a legalistic break, Larry. But equally and even more disturbing is the connection that people make to the other side of the Christmas season. God is NOT the Grinch. The big issue is that either one of these sad images distorts and insults the King of the Universe.

3) Here is a sad truth. If we don’t think that God will say yes when we pray and change the universe in response to our faith, then we operate with the false image that God is stingy. That image encourages doubt and double-mindedness when we pray. And James makes it clear: A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let not that man think that he will receive ANYTHING from the Lord (James 1:7-8).

4) The issue for too many of us Bible-believing Born Again Christians is that we are NOT very Bible-believing, even if we are born again. The truth is greater than our adolescent understanding of how God operates in the cosmos. He answers prayers in His way and at His time, and not according to our schedule. And because of His mercy, there are times when He says NO. There is where we are called to trust the Lord, even if we don’t get it. Our Father is a giver. Just consider the gift of Jesus. And that He gave you and me life in the first place.

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David Spoon was born and raised in a Jewish home in Detroit, Michigan. He attended a private Hebrew school called Hillel Hebrew Academy. David was bar mitzvah-ed at the age of thirteen. Not long after, he was involved in drug abuse and trafficking. After hearing the Gospel for the first time at age seventeen, David accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. A few months later, David had a dramatic experience with God. Immediately set free from years of excessive drug use, he committed himself to ministry and to furthering the Kingdom of God.

He attended Arizona Bible College, Northern Arizona University, and Life Pacific College, graduating summa-cum-laude in their Ministry and Leadership program. He also graduated with honors from Regent University with a master’s degree in Theological Studies and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in Strategic Christian Ministry at Liberty University.

He is one of a few individuals holding ministerial ordinations from three separate denominations: Heritage Free Baptist Organization, 1981; Independent Pentecostal Ministers Association, 1985; and Vineyard Valley Association, 1988. He was also the Chaplain for the Flagstaff Police Department. In addition, David was the senior pastor of Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Flagstaff.

In addition, David started and co-hosted two different live Christian call-in radio talk shows. He hosted the very popular radio show “The David Spoon Experience” on KPRZ 1210 and a show called “To Know Him,” which aired on 88.9 on the F.M. dial-in Temecula, California at 1:00 p.m., Monday through Fridays. He was also the Director of Local Ministry for Salem Media Group in San Diego, California.

David is married to his best friend, Noelle. He has three children and seven grandchildren, plus their two dogs named Levi and Bert. On March 18th, 2019, he started “The David Spoon Experience” in Texas and is growing with his audience of awesome believers and non-believers alike.

He is the President of He Must Increase Ministry, a 501c3 ministry, and is hosting (again) the live daily radio show “The David Spoon Experience” with DJR Broadcasting in KAAM, on the 770 A.M. radio dial. The show is also on various apps and the Internet.

David is a Jewish-Christian, Bapti-Costal, Cal-Minian, Manifold Millennialist.

Just ask him.