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Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 20, 2024
Helping as God Helps Us
Ole Kassow of Copenhagen loved bicycling One morning when he saw an elderly man sitting alone with his walker in a park Ole felt inspired by a simple idea why not offer elderly people the joy and freedom of a bike ride So one sunny day he stopped at a nursing home with a rented trishaw a three-wheeled bike and offered a ride to anyone there He was delighted when a staff member and an elderly resident became the first riders of Cycling Without Age Now more than twenty years later Ole rsquo s dream to help those who missed [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 03, 2024
Jesus Dwells Within
As a blizzard bore down on my state in the western USA my widowed mother agreed to stay with my family to ldquo ride out rdquo the storm After the blizzard however she never returned to her house She moved in dwelling with us for the rest of her life Her presence changed our household in many positive ways She was available daily to provide wisdom advice to family members and share ancestral stories She and my husband became the best of friends sharing a similar sense of humor and love of sports No longer a visitor she was a [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 02, 2024
Gifted with Love
On her wedding day Gwendolyn Stulgis wore the wedding dress of her dreams Then she gave it away mdash to a stranger Stulgis believed a dress deserved more than sitting in a closet collecting dust Other brides agreed Now scores of women have bonded on her social media site to donate and receive wedding dresses As one giver said ldquo I hope this dress gets passed from bride to bride to bride and it just gets worn out and is in tatters at the end of its life because of all the celebrating that rsquo s done in it rdquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 28, 2024
Sharing by Caring
The young pastor prayed every morning asking God to use him that day to bless someone Often to his delight such a situation arose One day during a break at his second job he sat in the sunshine with a coworker who asked him about Jesus The pastor simply answered the other man rsquo s questions No rant No arguing The pastor commented that being guided by the Holy Spirit led him to have a casual talk that felt effective but loving He made a new friend as well mdash someone hungry to learn more about God Letting the Holy [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 18, 2024
God’s Protective Love
One summer night the birds near our home suddenly erupted into chaotic cawing The squawking intensified as the songbirds sent piercing calls from the trees We finally realized why As the sun set a large hawk swooped from a treetop sending the birds scattering in a screeching frenzy sounding the alarm as they flew from danger In our lives spiritual warnings can be heard throughout Scripture mdash cautions against false teachings for example We may doubt that rsquo s what we rsquo re hearing Because of His love for us however our heavenly Father provides the clarity of Scripture to [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 30, 2023
God’s Heart for All
Nine-year-old Dan Gill arrived with his best friend Archie at their classmate rsquo s birthday party When the mother of the birthday boy saw Archie however she refused him entry ldquo There aren rsquo t enough chairs rdquo she insisted Dan offered to sit on the floor to make room for his friend who was Black but the mother said no Dejected Dan left their presents with her and returned home with Archie the sting of his friend rsquo s rejection searing his heart Now decades later Dan is a schoolteacher who keeps one empty chair in his classroom When [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 05, 2023
Persistent Pizza
At age twelve Ibrahim arrived in Italy from West Africa not knowing a word of Italian struggling with a stutter and forced to face anti-immigrant putdowns None of that stopped the hard-working young man who in his twenties opened a pizza shop in Trento Italy His little business won over doubters to be listed as one of the top fifty pizzerias in the world His hope was then to help feed hungry children on Italian streets So he launched a ldquo pizza charity rdquo by expanding a Neapolitan tradition mdash where customers buy an extra coffee caff egrave sospeso for [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 20, 2023
Christ, Our True Light
ldquo Go to the light rdquo That rsquo s what my husband advised as we struggled to find our way out of a big city hospital on a recent Sunday afternoon We rsquo d visited a friend and when we exited an elevator we couldn rsquo t find anyone during weekend hours to point us to the front doors mdash and the brilliant Colorado sunlight Roaming around half-lit hallways we finally encountered a man who saw our confusion ldquo These hallways all look the same rdquo he said ldquo But the exit rsquo s this way rdquo With his directions [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 12, 2023
Yielding to Trust
Opening the blinds one winter morning I faced a shocking sight A wall of fog ldquo Freezing fog rdquo the weather forecaster called it Rare for our location this fog came with an even bigger surprise a later forecast for blue skies and sunshine mdash ldquo in one hour rdquo ldquo Impossible rdquo I told my husband ldquo We can barely see one foot ahead rdquo But sure enough in less than an hour the fog had faded the sky yielding to a sunny clear blue Standing at a window I pondered my level of trust when I can only [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 23, 2023
Compassion in Action
Building benches isn rsquo t James Warren rsquo s job He started building them however when he noticed a woman in Denver sitting in the dirt while waiting for a bus That rsquo s ldquo undignified rdquo Warren worried So the twenty-eight-year-old workforce consultant found some scrap wood built a bench and placed it at the bus stop It quickly got used Realizing many of the nine thousand bus stops in his city lacked seating he made another bench then several more inscribing ldquo Be Kind rdquo on each one His goal ldquo To make people rsquo s lives just [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 21, 2023
God’s Eternal Church
ldquo Is church over rdquo asked a young mother arriving at our church with two children in tow just as the Sunday service was ending But a greeter told her that a church nearby offered two Sunday services and the second would start soon Would she like a ride there The young mother said yes and seemed grateful to travel the few blocks to the other church Reflecting later the greeter came to this conclusion ldquo Is church over Never God rsquo s church goes on forever rdquo The church isn rsquo t a fragile ldquo building rdquo It rsquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 15, 2023
The Power of Persistence
In a young seamstress was thrilled to get admitted to one of New York City rsquo s most renowned fashion design schools But when Ann Cone later Ann Lowe arrived from Florida to register for classes the school director told her she wasn rsquo t welcome ldquo To be blunt Mrs Cone we didn rsquo t know that you were a Negro rdquo he said Refusing to leave she whispered a prayer Please let me stay here Please let me stay here Seeing her persistence the director let Ann stay but segregated her from the whites-only classroom whose back door [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 13, 2023
Deep Waters
When Bill Pinkney sailed solo around the world in mdash taking the hard route around the perilous Great Southern Capes mdash he did it for a higher purpose His voyage was to inspire and educate children That included students at his former inner-city Chicago elementary school His goal To show how far they could go by studying hard and making a commitment mdash the word he chose in naming his boat When Bill takes schoolkids on the water in Commitment he says ldquo They rsquo ve got that tiller in their hand and they learn about control self-control they learn [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 23, 2023
He Makes Us New
As a traveling executive Shawn Seipler wrestled with an odd question What happens to leftover soap in hotel rooms Thrown out as trash for landfills millions of soap bars could instead find new life Seipler believed So he launched Clean the World a recycling venture that has helped more than eight thousand hotels cruise lines and resorts turn millions of pounds of discarded soap into sterilized newly molded soap bars Sent to people in need in more than one hundred countries the recycled soap helps prevent countless hygiene-related illnesses and deaths As Seipler said ldquo I know it sounds funny [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 26, 2023
Small But Great
Will I make the Olympics The college swimmer worried her speed was too slow But when math professor Ken Ono studied her swim techniques he saw how to improve her time by six full seconds mdash a substantial difference at that level of competition Attaching sensors to the swimmer rsquo s back he didn rsquo t identify major changes to improve her time Instead Ono identified tiny corrective actions that if applied could make the swimmer more efficient in the water making the winning difference Small corrective actions in spiritual matters can make a big difference for us too The [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 08, 2023
Known by God
ldquo Who is this stranger rdquo A college student in Georgia USA asked that question when a fellow student texted him saying a DNA test showed they could be brothers Separated by adoption almost twenty years earlier the young man texted a reply in which he asked what name the other student had been given at birth He immediately answered ldquo Tyler rdquo Replied the other ldquo Yes You are my brother rdquo Recognized by his name Consider how a name plays a key role in the Easter story As it unfolds Mary Magdalene comes to Christ rsquo s tomb [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 25, 2023
Strong and Good
The young campus minister was troubled But he looked conflicted when I dared to ask if he prays for God rsquo s direction for His help To pray as Paul urged without ceasing In reply the young man confessed ldquo I rsquo m not sure I believe anymore in prayer rdquo He frowned ldquo Or believe that God is listening Just look at the world rdquo That young leader was ldquo building rdquo a ministry in his own strength and sadly he was failing Why He was rejecting God Jesus as the cornerstone of the church has always been rejected [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 13, 2023
Game of Change
The handshake spoke volumes On a March night in two college basketball players mdash one Black one White mdash defied the hate of segregationists and shook hands marking the first time in Mississippi State rsquo s history that its all-White men rsquo s team played against an integrated team To compete in the ldquo Game of Change rdquo against Loyola University Chicago in a national tournament the Mississippi State squad avoided an injunction to stop them by using decoy players to leave their state Loyola rsquo s Black players meantime had endured racial slurs all season getting pelted with popcorn [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 15, 2023
Reflecting Christ’s Light
To capture the beauty of reflective light in his landscape oil paintings artist Armand Cabrera works with a key artistic principle ldquo Reflected light is never as strong as its source light rdquo He observes that novice painters tend to exaggerate reflected light He says ldquo Reflected light belongs to the shadow and as such it must support not compete with the lighted areas rdquo of a painting We hear similar insight in the Bible concerning Jesus as ldquo the light of all mankind rdquo John John the Baptist who ldquo came as a witness to testify concerning that light [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 16, 2023
Never Late
As a visitor to a small West African town my American pastor made sure to arrive on time for a a m Sunday service Inside the humble sanctuary however he found the room empty So he waited One hour Two hours Finally about p m when the local pastor arrived after his long walk there mdash followed by some choir members and a gathering of friendly town people mdash the service began ldquo in the fullness of time rdquo as my pastor said ldquo The Spirit welcomed us and God wasn rsquo t late rdquo My pastor understood the culture [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 28, 2022
Just As I Am
The young woman couldn rsquo t sleep A person with a lifelong physical disability she rsquo d be center stage at a church bazaar the next day to receive donations to pay for her higher education But I rsquo m not worthy Charlotte Elliott worried Tossing and turning she doubted her credentials questioning every aspect of her spiritual life Still restless the next day she finally moved to a desk to pick up pen and paper to write down the words of the now classic hymn ldquo Just As I Am rdquo ldquo Just as I am without one plea [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 05, 2022
Great Expectations
On a busy day before Christmas an aged woman approached the mail counter at my crowded neighborhood post office Watching her slow pace the patient postal clerk greeted her ldquo Well hello young lady rdquo His words were friendly but some might hear them saying that ldquo younger rdquo is better In the Christmas season however the Bible inspires us to see that advanced age can motivate our hope As the infant Jesus is brought to the temple by Joseph and Mary to be consecrated two elderly believers suddenly take center stage in the holy story Luke Exodus First Simeon [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 02, 2022
Hearing Christ, Not Chaos
After watching cable news for hours each day the elderly man grew agitated and anxious mdash worried the world was falling apart and taking him with it ldquo Please turn it off rdquo his grown daughter begged him ldquo Just stop listening rdquo But the man refused eventually following conspiracy-mongers on social media to ldquo teach rdquo himself what rsquo s ldquo really rdquo happening What we listen to matters deeply We see that in Jesus rsquo encounter with Pontius Pilate Responding to criminal charges brought against Jesus by religious leaders Pilate summoned Him and asked ldquo Are you the [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 24, 2022
Trusting God’s Foresight
While driving us to an unfamiliar location my husband noticed that the GPS directions suddenly seemed wrong After entering a reliable four-lane highway we were advised to exit and travel along a one-lane ldquo frontage rdquo road running parallel to us ldquo I rsquo ll just trust it rdquo Dan said despite seeing no delays After about ten miles however the traffic on the highway next to us slowed to a near standstill The trouble Major construction And the frontage road With little traffic it provided a clear path to our destination ldquo I couldn rsquo t see ahead rdquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 06, 2022
Birds of the Air
The summer sun was rising and my smiling neighbor seeing me in my front yard whispered for me to come look ldquo What rdquo I whispered back intrigued She pointed to a wind chime on her front porch where a tiny teacup of straw rested atop a metal rung ldquo A hummingbird rsquo s nest rdquo she whispered ldquo See the babies rdquo The two beaks tiny as pinpricks were barely visible as they pointed upwards ldquo They rsquo re waiting for the mother rdquo We stood there marveling I raised my cell phone to snap a picture ldquo Not [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 20, 2022
Living Water
The cut flowers came from Ecuador By the time they arrived at my house they were droopy and road weary Instructions said revive them with a cool drink of refreshing water Before that however the flower stems had to be trimmed one-half inch so they could drink the water more easily But would they survive The next morning I discovered my answer The Ecuadorian bouquet was a glorious sight Featuring flowers I rsquo d never seen before the floral display was stunning Fresh water made all the difference mdash a reminder of what Jesus said about water and what it [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 17, 2022
Learning and Loving
At a primary school in Greenock Scotland three teachers on maternity leave brought their babies to school every two weeks to interact with schoolchildren Playtime with babies teaches children empathy or care and feeling for others Most receptive often are the children who are ldquo a little challenging rdquo as one teacher put it ldquo It rsquo s often they who interact more on a one-to-one level rdquo They learn ldquo how much hard work it is to take care of a child rdquo and ldquo more about each other rsquo s feelings as well rdquo Learning from an infant [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 06, 2022
Strength to Let Go
Once known as the World rsquo s Strongest Man American weightlifter Paul Anderson set a world record in the Olympics in Melbourne Australia despite a severe inner-ear infection and a -degree fever Falling behind frontrunners his only chance for a gold medal was to set a new Olympic record in his last event His first two attempts failed badly So the burly athlete did what even the weakest among us can do He called on God for extra strength letting go of his own As he later said ldquo It wasn rsquo t making a bargain I needed help rdquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 28, 2022
Followed by God’s Goodness
At my first job during my high school years I worked at a women rsquo s clothing store where a female security guard dressed as a shopper followed women she thought might steal the merchandise Certain people fit profiles of those the store owners rsquo thought were suspicious Others not considered a threat were left alone I rsquo ve been profiled in stores myself and followed an interesting experience since I still recognize the tactic In sharp contrast David declared he was followed by a divine blessing mdash God rsquo s goodness and mercy These two gifts always stay close [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 18, 2022
A Humble Snack
The bag of snack chips was small but it taught an American missionary a big lesson Working one evening nbsp in the Dominican Republic she arrived nbsp at a church meeting and opened her chips when a woman she hardly knew reached and grabbed a few from the bag Others helped themselves too How rude the missionary thought Then she realized a humbling lesson She didn rsquo t yet understand the culture where she rsquo d agreed to serve Rather than emphasizing individualism as in the United States she learned that life in the Dominican Republic is lived in community [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 29, 2022
Giving God My Work
The magazine I was writing for felt ldquo important rdquo so I struggled to present the best possible article I could for the high-ranking editor Feeling pressure to meet her standards I kept rewriting my thoughts and ideas But what was my problem Was it my controversial topic Or was my real worry personal Would the editor approve of me and not just my words For answers to our job worries Paul gives trustworthy instruction In a letter to the Colossian church Paul urged believers to work not for approval of people but for God As the apostle said ldquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 16, 2022
Planted in God
ldquo The wind is tossing the lilacs rdquo With that opening line of her springtime poem ldquo May rdquo poet Sara Teasdale captured a vision of lilac bushes waving in gusty breezes But Teasdale was lamenting a lost love and her poem soon turned sorrowful Our backyard lilacs also encountered a challenge After having their most lush and beautiful season they faced the axe of a hard-working lawn man who ldquo trimmed rdquo every bush chopping them to stubs I cried Then three years later mdash after barren branches a bout of powdery mildew and my faithless plan to dig [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 25, 2022
Turn Up the Heat
Temperatures where we live in Colorado can change quickly mdash sometimes within a few minutes So my husband Dan was curious about the temperature differences in and around our home As a fan of gadgets he was excited to unpack his latest ldquo toy rdquo mdash a thermometer showing temperature readings from four ldquo zones rdquo around our house Joking that it was a ldquo silly rdquo gadget I was surprised to find myself frequently checking the temperatures too The differences inside and out fascinated me Jesus used temperature to describe the ldquo lukewarm rdquo church in Laodicea one of [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 29, 2022
Servants of the Night
It rsquo s a m at an acute-care hospital A worried patient presses the call button for the fourth time in an hour The night-shift nurse answers without complaint Soon another patient is screaming crying for attention The nurse isn rsquo t surprised She requested the night shift five years ago to avoid her hospital rsquo s daytime frenzy Then the reality hit Night work often means taking on extra tasks such as lifting and turning patients by herself It also means closely monitoring patients rsquo conditions so physicians can be notified in emergencies Buoyed by close friendships with her [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 21, 2022
Keep It Simple
The email was short but urgent ldquo Request salvation I would like to know Jesus rdquo What an astonishing request Unlike reluctant friends and family who hadn rsquo t yet received Christ this person didn rsquo t need convincing My task was to quiet my self-doubt about evangelizing and simply share key concepts Scriptures and trusted resources that addressed this man rsquo s plea From there by faith God would lead his journey Philip demonstrated such simple evangelism when on a desert road he met the treasurer of Ethiopia who was reading aloud from the book of Isaiah ldquo Do [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 01, 2022
Managing Our Gifts
In British actor David Suchet was filming the final TV episodes as Agatha Christie rsquo s beloved Belgium detective Hercule Poirot mdash and also starring in a stage play mdash when he took on ldquo the biggest role in my life rdquo Between those projects he recorded an audio version of the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation mdash words over two hundred hours Suchet who converted to Christianity after reading the book of Romans in a hotel Bible called the project the fulfillment of ldquo a -year-long ambition I felt totally driven I did so much research on every [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 09, 2022
His Amazing Help
The sheriff marveled at the prayers estimating ldquo hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of prayers rdquo were lifted to God for help as the East Troublesome Fire raged through the mountains of Colorado in the fall of Living up to its name the blaze consumed acres in twelve hours roaring through tinder-dry forests burning three hundred homes to the ground and threatening entire towns in its path Then came ldquo the Godsend rdquo as one meteorologist called it No not rain A timely snowfall It fell across the fire zone arriving early for that time of year mdash dropping [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 16, 2022
Brave Your Storm
A fierce thunderstorm lashed Memphis Tennessee on the evening of April Weary and feeling ill the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr decided not to give his planned speech for striking sanitation workers at a church hall He was surprised by an urgent phone call saying a large crowd had braved the weather to hear him So he went to the hall and spoke for forty minutes delivering what some say was his greatest speech ldquo I rsquo ve Been to the Mountaintop rdquo The next day King was killed by an assassin rsquo s bullet but his speech still [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 11, 2022
Hearing Us from Heaven
At eighteen months old little Maison had never heard his mother rsquo s voice Then doctors fitted him with his first hearing aids and his mom Lauryn asked Maison ldquo Can you hear me rdquo The child rsquo s eyes lit up ldquo Hi Baby rdquo his mom added A smiling Maison softly replied ldquo Hi rdquo In tears the mother knew she rsquo d witnessed a miracle She rsquo d given birth to Maison prematurely after gunmen shot her three times during a random home invasion Weighing just one pound Maison spent days in intensive care and wasn rsquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 29, 2021
Better Than Gold
When gold seeker Edward Jackson set out for California during the Great Gold Rush in the US his diary entry on May lamented his grueling wagon journey marked by disease and death ldquo O do not leave my bones here rdquo he wrote ldquo If possible let them lay at home rdquo Another gold-seeker named John Walker penned ldquo It is the most complete lottery that you can imagine I cannot advise any person to come rdquo Walker in fact returned home and succeeded at farming ranching and state politics When a family member took Walker rsquo s yellowing letters [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 18, 2021
Remembered in Prayer
In the large African church the pastor fell to his knees praying to God ldquo Remember us rdquo As the pastor pleaded the crowd responded crying ldquo Remember us Lord rdquo Watching this moment on YouTube I was surprised that I shed tears too The prayer was recorded months earlier Yet it recalled childhood times when I heard our family rsquo s pastor make the same plea to God ldquo Remember us Lord rdquo Hearing that prayer as a child I rsquo d wrongly assumed that God sometimes forgets about us But God is all-knowing Psalm John He always see [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 15, 2021
Our True Identity
First the man selected a tackle box Standing in his town rsquo s small bait shop he then filled a shopping cart with hooks lures bobbers line and weights Finally he added live bait and selected a new rod and reel ldquo Ever fished before rdquo the shop owner asked The man said no ldquo Better add this rdquo said the owner It was a first-aid kit The man agreed and paid then headed off to a day of not catching a thing mdash except snags on his fingers from his hooks and gear That wasn rsquo t Simon Peter [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 09, 2021
You’re Not Alone
ldquo So great to see you rdquo ldquo You too rdquo ldquo So glad you rsquo re here rdquo The greetings were warm and welcoming Members of a ministry in Southern California gathered online before their evening program As their speaker calling in from Colorado I watched silently as the others gathered on the video call mdash not knowing anyone and as an introvert feeling like a social outsider Then suddenly a screen opened and there was my pastor Then another screen opened A longtime church friend was joining the call too Seeing them I no longer felt alone God [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 16, 2021
Move Your Fence
The village vicar couldn rsquo t sleep As World War II raged he rsquo d told a small group of American soldiers they couldn rsquo t bury their fallen comrade inside the fenced cemetery next to his church Only burials for church members were allowed So the men buried their beloved friend just outside the fence The next morning however the soldiers couldn rsquo t find the grave ldquo What happened The grave is gone rdquo one soldier told the reverend ldquo Oh it rsquo s still there rdquo he told him The soldier was confused but the churchman explained [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 10, 2021
From Wisdom to Joy
The phone rang and I picked it up without delay Calling was the oldest member of our church family mdash a vibrant hard-working woman who was nearly years old Putting the final touches on her latest book she asked some writing questions to help her cross the finish line As always however I soon was asking her questions mdash about life work love family Her many lessons from a long life sparkled with wisdom She told me ldquo Pace yourself rdquo And soon we were laughing about times she rsquo d forgotten to do that mdash her wonderful stories all [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 16, 2021
Trusting the Bible
Billy Graham the renowned American evangelist once described his struggle to accept the Bible as nbsp completely true One night as he walked alone in the moonlight at a retreat center in the San Bernardino Mountains he dropped to his knees and placed his Bible on a tree stump able only to ldquo stutter rdquo a prayer ldquo Oh God There are many things in this book I do not understand rdquo By confessing his confusion Graham said the Holy Spirit finally ldquo freed me to say it lsquo Father I am going to accept this as thy Word mdash [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 06, 2021
First Forgive
We called ourselves ldquo sisters in Christ rdquo But my white friend and I had begun to act like enemies Over a caf eacute breakfast one morning we argued unkindly over our differing racial views Then we parted with me vowing not to see her again One year later however we were hired by the same ministry mdash working in the same department unable not to reconnect Awkwardly at first we talked over conflicts Then over time God helped us to apologize to each other and to heal but also give the ministry our best God also healed the bitter [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 25, 2021
Blooming for Jesus
I wasn rsquo t truthful about the tulips A gift from my younger daughter the packaged bulbs traveled home with her to the US from Amsterdam after she visited there So I made a show of accepting the bulbs with great excitement as excited as I was to reunite with her But tulips are my least favorite flower Many bloom early and fade fast The July weather meantime made it too hot to plant them Finally however in late September I planted ldquo my daughter rsquo s rdquo bulbs mdash thinking of her and thus planting them with love With [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 02, 2021
Cleaning Method
At the sink two little children happily sing the ldquo Happy Birthday rdquo song mdash two times each mdash while washing their hands ldquo It takes that long to wash away the germs rdquo their mother tells them So even before the COVID- pandemic they rsquo d learned to take time to clean dirt from their hands Getting clean can be a tedious process as we learned in the pandemic Scrubbing away sin however means following focused steps back to God James urged believers in Jesus scattered throughout the Roman Empire to turn their focus back to God Beset by [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 20, 2021
He Will Fight for You
The wounded horse was named Drummer Boy One of mounts carrying British soldiers into battle during the famed Charge of the Light Brigade the animal showed such bravery and stamina that his assigned commander Lieutenant Colonel de Salis decided his horse deserved a medal as much as his valiant men This was done even though their military action against enemy forces failed Yet the cavalry rsquo s valor matched by the courage of their horses established the clash as one of Britain rsquo s greatest military moments still celebrated today The confrontation however shows the wisdom of an ancient Bible [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 11, 2021
He Knows Your Name
After breaking with our longtime church my husband and I reunited with the fellowship after three long years But how would people treat us Would they welcome us back Love us Forgive us for leaving We got our answer on a sunny Sunday morning As we walked through the big church doors we kept hearing our names ldquo Pat Dan It rsquo s so great to see you rdquo As children rsquo s author Kate DiCamillo wrote in one of her popular books ldquo Reader nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 25, 2021
Brave Love
The four chaplains weren rsquo t known as ldquo heroes rdquo But on a frigid February night in when their transport ship the SS Dorchester was torpedoed off the coast of Greenland during World War II the four gave their all to calm hundreds of panicked soldiers With the ship sinking and injured men jumping for overcrowded lifeboats the four chaplains calmed pandemonium by ldquo preaching courage rdquo a survivor said When life jackets ran out each took his off giving it to a frightened young man They had determined to go down with the ship so that others might [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 20, 2021
Safely Ashore
In Papua New Guinea the Kandas tribe awaited with excitement the arrival of New Testament Bibles printed in their language To get there however both the books and their visitors had to travel on the ocean in small boats to reach the village What gave them courage to travel across great waters Their seafaring skills yes But they also know who created the seas He is the One who guides each of us across our life rsquo s churning waves and deepest waters As David wrote ldquo Where can I go from your Spirit rdquo Psalm ldquo If I go [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 23, 2021
Better with God
On her college volleyball team my granddaughter learned a winning principle When the ball came her way no matter what she could ldquo better the ball rdquo She could make a play that left her teammates in a better situation mdash without throwing tantrums blaming or making excuses Always make the situation better That was Daniel rsquo s response when he and three Hebrew friends were taken into captivity by Babylon rsquo s king Nebuchadnezzar Although they were given pagan names and ordered to three years of ldquo training rdquo in the enemy rsquo s palace Daniel didn rsquo t [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 09, 2021
Finding Joy in Praise
When the famous British writer C S Lewis first gave his life to Christ he initially resisted praising God In fact he called it ldquo a stumbling block rdquo His struggle was ldquo in the suggestion that God Himself demanded it rdquo Yet Lewis finally realized ldquo it is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence rdquo to His people Then we ldquo in perfect love with God rdquo find joy in Him no more separable ldquo than the brightness a mirror receives rdquo from the ldquo brightness it sheds rdquo The prophet Habakkuk arrived at [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 30, 2021
Wisely Weeding
My grandchildren are running around my backyard Playing games No pulling weeds ldquo Pulling them up by the roots rdquo the youngest says showing me a hefty prize Her delight as we tackled weeds that day was how much we enjoyed plucking the weedy roots mdash clearing away each pesky menace Before the joy however came the choice to go after them Intentional weeding is also the first step in removing personal sin Thus David asked the Lord ldquo Search me God and know my heart See if there is any offensive way in me Psalm ndash What a wise [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 28, 2021
Never Give Up
ldquo Time went by War came in rdquo That rsquo s how Bishop Semi Nigo of the Keliko people of South Sudan described delays in his church rsquo s long struggle to get the Bible in their own language Not one word in fact had ever been printed in the Keliko language Decades earlier Bishop Nigo rsquo s grandfather had courageously started a Bible translation project but war and unrest kept halting the effort Yet despite repeated attacks on their refugee camps in northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo the bishop and fellow believers kept the project [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 06, 2021
Recovering What’s Lost
At the phone store the young pastor steeled himself for bad news His smart phone accidentally dropped during our Bible class was a total loss right Actually no The store clerk recovered all of the pastor rsquo s data including his Bible videos and photos She also recovered ldquo every photo I rsquo d ever deleted rdquo he said The store also ldquo replaced my broken phone with a brand new phone rdquo As he said ldquo I recovered all I had lost and more rdquo David once led his own recovery mission after an attack by the vicious Amalekites [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 26, 2021
Free at Last
Twenty long years passed before British journalist John McCarthy mdash a five-year hostage during Lebanon rsquo s grueling civil war mdash met the man who negotiated his release When McCarthy finally met U N envoy Giandomenico Picco McCarthy simply said ldquo Thank you for my freedom rdquo His heartfelt words carried great weight because Picco had risked his own life during dangerous negotiations to secure freedom for McCarthy and others We as believers can relate to such hard-won freedom Jesus gave up His life mdash enduring death on a Roman cross mdash to secure spiritual freedom for all people including [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 13, 2021
Our Compassionate God
The winter night was cold when someone threw a large stone through a Jewish child rsquo s bedroom window A star of David had been displayed in the window along with a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah the Jewish Festival of Lights In the child rsquo s town of Billings Montana thousands of people mdash many of them believers in Jesus mdash responded to the hateful act with compassion Choosing to identify with the hurt and fear of their Jewish neighbors they pasted pictures of menorahs in their own windows As believers in Jesus we too receive great compassion Our Savior [... more]
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