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Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 17, 2024
Jack a professor of philosophy and literature had a brilliant mind He rsquo d declared himself an atheist at the age of fifteen and in adulthood adamantly defended his ldquo atheistic faith rdquo Christian friends tried to persuade him As Jack put it ldquo Everyone and everything had joined the other side rdquo But the Bible he had to admit was different from other literature and myths About the Gospels he wrote ldquo If ever a myth had become fact had been incarnated it would be just like this rdquo One Bible passage became most influential to Jack mdash Exodus [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 12, 2024
The color red doesn rsquo t always naturally occur in the things we make How do you put the vibrant color of an apple into a T-shirt or lipstick In early times the red pigment was made from clay or red rocks In the s the Aztecs invented a way of using cochineal insects to make red dye Today those same tiny insects supply the world with red In the Bible red denotes royalty and it also signifies sin and shame Further it rsquo s the color of blood When soldiers ldquo stripped Jesus and put a scarlet robe on [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 19, 2023
Jill Price was born with the condition of hyperthymesia the ability to remember in extraordinary detail everything that ever happened to her She can replay in her mind the exact occurrence of any event she rsquo s experienced in her lifetime A TV show Unforgettable was premised on a female police officer with hyperthymesia mdash to her a great advantage in trivia games and in solving crimes For Jill Price however the condition isn rsquo t so much fun She can rsquo t forget the moments of life when she was criticized experienced loss or did something she deeply regretted [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 25, 2023
In the aftermath of the Marshall Fire the most destructive fire in Colorado history one ministry offered to help families search through the ashes for valuable items Family members mentioned precious objects they hoped were still preserved Very little was One man spoke tenderly of his wedding ring He rsquo d placed it on his dresser in the upstairs bedroom The house now gone its contents had charred or melted into a single layer of debris at the basement level Searchers looked for the ring in that same corner where the bedroom had been mdash without success The prophet Isaiah [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 01, 2023
Writing in The Atlantic author Arthur C Brooks tells of his visit to the National Palace Museum in Taiwan which contains one of the largest collections of Chinese art in the world The museum guide asked ldquo What do you think of when I ask you to imagine a work of art yet to be started rdquo Brooks said ldquo An empty canvas I guess rdquo The guide replied ldquo There rsquo s another way to view it The art already exists and the job of artists is simply to reveal it rdquo In Ephesians the word ldquo handiwork rdquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 29, 2023
Hollywood gives us larger than life spies who are dashing drivers of flashy Aston-Martins and other luxury sports cars But Jonna Mendez a former CIA chief paints an opposite picture of the real thing An agent must be ldquo the little gray man rdquo she says someone nondescript not flashy ldquo You want them to be forgettable rdquo The best agents are those least likely to appear like agents When two of Israel rsquo s spies slipped into Jericho it was Rahab who hid them from the king rsquo s soldiers Joshua She was seemingly the least likely person for [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 06, 2023
You wouldn rsquo t think anyone would be excited about going to a place called Dismals Canyon to watch gnats Yet this forest in northwestern Alabama attracts a number of tourists each year many in May and June when the gnat larvae hatch and become glowworms At night these glowworms cast a brilliant blue luminescence and thousands of them together create a breathtaking light In a way the apostle Paul writes about believers in Christ as glowworms He explains that ldquo you were once darkness but now you are light in the Lord rdquo Ephesians But sometimes we wonder how [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 03, 2023
An iconic photo shows the tread of a boot against a gray background It rsquo s astronaut Buzz Aldrin rsquo s footprint which he left on the moon in Scientists say that footprint is likely still there unchanged after all these years In fact it may be there as long as the moon itself lasts On the moon there is no wind or water to change the landscape Nothing gets eroded What happens on the lunar landscape stays on the lunar landscape It rsquo s even more awesome to reflect on the constant presence of God Himself James writes ldquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 05, 2023
Here are some vacation tips The next time you rsquo re traveling through Middleton Wisconsin you might want to visit the National Mustard Museum For those of us who feel that one mustard is plenty this place amazes featuring different mustards from around the world In Mclean Texas you might be surprised to run across the Barbed Wire Museum mdash or more surprised there is such a passion for well fencing It rsquo s telling what kinds of things we choose to make important One writer says you could do worse than spend an afternoon at the Banana Museum though [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 17, 2023
Researchers at Emory University used MRI scans to study the brains of grandmothers They measured empathetic responses to images that included their own grandchild their own adult child and one anonymous child The study showed that grandmothers have a higher empathy toward their own grandchild than even their adult child This is attributed to what they call the ldquo cute factor rdquo mdash their own grandchild being more ldquo adorable rdquo than the adult Before we say ldquo Well duh rdquo we might consider the words of James Rilling who conducted the study ldquo If their grandchild is smiling the [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 11, 2023
I received a phone call from an unknown number Often I let those calls go to voicemail but this time I picked up The random caller asked politely if I had just a minute for him to share a short Bible passage He quoted Revelation ndash about how God ldquo will wipe every tear from their eyes rdquo He talked about Jesus how he was our assurance and hope I told him I already know Jesus as my personal Savior But the caller wasn rsquo t aiming to ldquo witness rdquo to me Instead he simply asked if he could [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 15, 2023
In the late s people in different places developed the same vision at the same time The first was in Montreal Canada in In a similar concept was launched in New York City By some of these programs were active in North America each summer This is the early history of Vacation Bible School which still continues today The passion that fueled those Christian VBS pioneers was a desire for young people to know the Bible Paul had a similar passion for his young prot eacute g eacute Timothy writing that ldquo Scripture is God-breathed rdquo and equips us ldquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 08, 2023
At four months old Leo had never seen his parents He rsquo d been born with a rare condition that left his vision blurred For him it was like living in dense fog But then eye doctors fit him with a special set of glasses Leo rsquo s father posted the video of Mom placing the new glasses over his eyes for the first time We watch as Leo rsquo s eyes slowly focus A smile spreads wide across his face as he truly sees his mom for the first time Priceless In that moment little Leo could see again [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 06, 2023
At age sixteen Luis Rodriguez had already been in jail for selling crack But now arrested for attempted murder he was in prison once again mdash looking at a life sentence But God spoke into his guilty circumstances Behind bars young Luis remembered his early years when his mother had faithfully taken him to church He now felt God tugging at his heart Luis moved by Him repented of his sins and came to Jesus In his early years the apostle Paul rsquo s ldquo street name rdquo was Saul He was guilty of aggravated assault on believers in Jesus [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 12, 2022
A short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells of a Roman soldier Marcus Rufus who drinks from a ldquo secret river that purifies men of death rdquo In time though Marcus realizes immortality wasn rsquo t what it was cracked up to be life without limits was life without significance In fact it rsquo s death itself that gives meaning to life Marcus finds an antidote mdash a spring of clear water After drinking from it he scratches his hand on a thorn and a drop of blood forms signifying his restored mortality Like Marcus we too sometimes [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 11, 2022
In French researchers had a computer problem a data error when processing the age of Jeanne Calment She was years old an age outside the parameters of the software program The programmers had assumed no one could possibly live that long In fact Jeanne lived until the age of The psalmist writes ldquo our days may come to seventy years or eighty if our strength endures rdquo Psalm a figurative way of saying whatever age we live to even to the age of Jeanne Calment our lives on earth are indeed limited Our lifetimes are in the sovereign hands of [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 28, 2022
In people watching William Beal would likely think he was loony They rsquo d see him filling bottles with seeds then burying them in deep soil What they didn rsquo t know was that Beal was conducting an experiment that would span centuries Every twenty years a bottle would be dug up its seeds would be planted and researchers could see which seeds would germinate Jesus talked a lot about seed-planting often likening the sowing of seed to the spreading of ldquo the word rdquo Mark He taught that some seeds are snatched by Satan others have no foundation and [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 16, 2022
You might start your journey in the southwest United States in a dusty town called Why Arizona Heading cross-country would take you through Uncertain Texas Bearing northeast you rsquo d make a rest stop in Dismal Tennessee Ultimately you rsquo d reach your destination mdash Panic Pennsylvania These are real places across the landscape of America though not likely a trip you rsquo d ever choose to take Sometimes this is exactly what the journey of life feels like We easily identify with the Israelites rsquo tough life in the wilderness Deuteronomy mdash life can be hard But do we [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 04, 2022
As a teenager Charles Spurgeon wrestled with God He'd grown up going to church but what was preached seemed bland and meaningless God was a struggle for him and Charles in his own words ldquo rebelled and revolted rdquo One night a fierce snowstorm forced the sixteen-year-old Spurgeon to seek shelter in a tiny Methodist church The pastor's sermon seemed directed at him personally In that moment God won the wrestling match and Charles gave his heart to Jesus Spurgeon later wrote ldquo long before I began with Christ He began with me rdquo In fact our life with God [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 01, 2022
In rural Amish culture the building of a barn is a social event It would take months for a single farmer and his family to construct a barn but the Amish doing it together make quick work of it Lumber is stocked ahead of time tools are prepped On the designated day the entire Amish community gathers early morning divvies up tasks and together pitches in to raise a barn In some cases a barn is built in a single day This is a good picture of God rsquo s vision for the church and our role in it The [... more]
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