THE WAY WITH WORDS

A blog by Dave Swavely

Thursday, February 26, 2026

A drama skit for churches, prison ministries, and second chance programs (or anyone who wants to be blessed by reading it)

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[This short play was written for the men's graduation ceremony of the CHILL OUT Inmate Re-Establishment Program at a prison in Philadelp...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Jephthah's Vow -- My experience with one of the most difficult passages in the Bible

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My son and I are reading through the book of Judges one chapter each week, and recently we came upon the story of Jephthah's rash and tr...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

"He sends rain on the just and the unjust..." (and sometimes miraculously)

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  [The following is an excerpt from an unusual memoir I've been writing. Most of it is stories of how I have failed to love God supremel...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

“My Christian wife left me and justified it by saying ‘We never had a marriage’”

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I chose that title for this blog because I searched the internet repeatedly trying to find something that addressed this issue directly, and...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

God Met Me in My Doubt and Fear

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For my time with the Lord first thing in the morning, I usually have been reading a chapter in the book of Mark and an Old Testament story i...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Reformers before the Reformers (yes, true biblical faith existed in the Middle Ages)

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I made an amazing discovery tonight as I was looking for biblical statements made during the Middle Ages to be included in a list of histori...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Spirit and truth in worship (and social media)

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I posted the vlog below this past week and after I did, God brought an interesting insight to mind as I was thinking about John 4:21-24, whe...
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Dave Swavely
I am a sinner saved by grace whose greatest goals/dreams in life are serving and one day meeting my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, growing to be more like Him, seeing my children follow Him, being a blessing to others, and leaving a legacy of good material, including books that I've written, both non-fiction and fiction. I hope this blog site can be part of that legacy too, as I write about spiritual issues here.
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