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Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 23, 2024
We know Leonardo da Vinci as the renaissance man His intellectual prowess led to tremendous advances across multiple fields of study and the arts Yet Leonardo journaled of ldquo these miserable days of ours rdquo and lamented that we die ldquo without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men rdquo ldquo While I thought I was learning how to live rdquo said Leonardo ldquo I was learning how to die rdquo In this he was closer to the truth than he may have realized Learning how to die is the way to life After Jesus rsquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 14, 2024
As Dust Bowl sandstorms ravaged the USA during the Great Depression John Millburn Davis a resident of Hiawatha Kansas decided to make a name for himself A self-made millionaire with no children Davis might have invested in charity or economic development Instead at great expense he commissioned eleven life-size statues of himself and his deceased wife to stand in the local cemetery ldquo They hate me in Kansas rdquo Davis told journalist Ernie Pyle Local residents wanted him to fund the construction of public facilities like a hospital swimming pool or park Yet all he said was ldquo It rsquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 28, 2024
The topic was Leviticus and I had a confession to make ldquo I skipped a lot of the reading rdquo I told my Bible study group ldquo I rsquo m not reading about skin diseases again rdquo That rsquo s when my friend Dave spoke up ldquo I know a guy who believed in Jesus because of that passage rdquo he said Dave explained that his friend mdash a doctor mdash had been an atheist He decided that before he completely rejected the Bible he rsquo d better read it for himself The section on skin diseases in Leviticus fascinated [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 04, 2024
Maggie rsquo s guest showed up in church shockingly dressed No one should have been surprised though her young friend was a prostitute Maggie rsquo s visitor shifted uneasily in her seat alternately tugging at her much-too-short skirt and folding her arms self-consciously around herself ldquo Oh are you cold rdquo Maggie asked deftly diverting attention away from how she was dressed ldquo Here Take my shawl rdquo Maggie never evangelized in the traditional sense Yet she introduced dozens of people to Jesus simply by inviting them to come to church and helping them feel comfortable The gospel had a [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 05, 2024
Today is Epiphany mdash the event described by the carol ldquo We Three Kings of Orient Are rdquo It rsquo s the time when Gentile wisemen visited the child Jesus Yet they weren rsquo t kings they weren rsquo t from the Far East as Orient formerly meant and it rsquo s unlikely there were three of them There were however three gifts and the carol considers each When the magi arrived in Bethlehem ldquo They opened their treasures and presented Jesus with gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh rdquo Matthew The gifts symbolize Jesus rsquo mission Gold represents His [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 01, 2024
Ernest Hemingway rsquo s first full-length novel features hard-drinking friends who have recently endured World War I They bear the scars literal and figurative of the war rsquo s devastation and try to cope with it via parties grand adventures and sleeping around Always there is alcohol to numb the pain No one is happy Hemingway rsquo s title for his book The Sun Also Rises comes straight from the pages of Ecclesiastes nkjv In Ecclesiastes King Solomon refers to himself as ldquo the Teacher rdquo He observes ldquo Everything is meaningless rdquo v and asks ldquo What do people [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 02, 2023
In Joseph Stalin rsquo s doctor advised him to reduce his workload in order to preserve his health The ruler of the Soviet Union accused the physician of spying and had him arrested The tyrant who had oppressed so many with lies could not abide the truth and mdash as he had done so many times mdash Stalin removed the one who told him the facts Truth won anyway Stalin died in The prophet Jeremiah arrested for his dire prophecies Jeremiah ndash told the king of Judah exactly what would happen to Jerusalem ldquo Obey the Lord by doing what [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 10, 2023
Too late Tom felt the chilling ldquo click rdquo beneath his combat boots Instinctively he bounded away in an adrenaline-fueled leap The deadly device hidden underground didn rsquo t detonate Later the explosive ordnance disposal team unearthed eighty pounds of high explosives from the spot Tom wore those boots until they fell apart ldquo My lucky boots rdquo he calls them Tom may have clung to those boots simply to commemorate his close call But people are often tempted to consider objects ldquo lucky rdquo or to even give them the more spiritual label ldquo blessed rdquo Danger arrives when [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 31, 2023
Ronit came from a religious but non-Christian family Their discussions about spiritual matters were dry and academic ldquo I kept praying all the prayers rdquo she said ldquo but I wasn rsquo t hearing from God rdquo She began to study the Bible Slowly steadily she inched toward faith in Jesus as the Messiah Ronit describes the defining moment ldquo I heard a clear voice in my heart saying lsquo You rsquo ve heard enough You rsquo ve seen enough It rsquo s time to just believe rsquo rdquo But Ronit faced a problem her father ldquo My dad was [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 15, 2023
Kizombo sat watching the campfire pondering the great questions of his life What have I accomplished he thought Too quickly the answer came back not much really He was back in the land of his birth serving at the school his father had started deep in the rainforest He was also trying to write his father rsquo s powerful story of surviving two civil wars Who am I to try to do all this Kizombo rsquo s misgivings sound like those of Moses God had just given Moses a mission ldquo I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 22, 2023
Dale Earnhardt Jr describes the awful moment he understood his father was gone Motor racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr had just been killed in a horrific crash at the end of the Daytona mdash a race in which Dale Jr had also participated ldquo There rsquo s this noise coming outta me that I can rsquo t re-create rdquo said the younger Earnhardt ldquo It rsquo s this bellow of shock and sorrow mdash and fear rdquo And then the lonely truth ldquo I rsquo m gonna have to do this by myself rdquo ldquo Having Dad was like having [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 27, 2023
The timing couldn rsquo t have been worse After making a small fortune engineering bridges monuments and large buildings Cesar had aspirations of starting a new endeavor So he sold his first business and banked the money planning to reinvest it soon During that brief window his government seized all assets held in private bank accounts In an instant Cesar rsquo s lifesavings evaporated Choosing not to view the injustice as a cause to complain Cesar asked God to show him the way forward And then mdash he simply started over In one awful moment Job lost far more than [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 22, 2023
In his poem ldquo The Witnesses rdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ndash described a sunken slave ship As he wrote of ldquo skeletons in chains rdquo Longfellow mourned slavery rsquo s countless nameless victims The concluding stanza reads ldquo These are the woes of Slaves They glare from the abyss They cry from unknown graves We are the Witnesses rdquo But who do these witnesses speak to Isn rsquo t such silent testimony futile There is a Witness who sees it all When Cain murdered Abel he pretended nothing had happened ldquo Am I my brother rsquo s keeper rdquo he [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 27, 2023
When Tun rsquo s country suffered a coup the military began terrorizing believers in Jesus and killing their farm animals Having lost their livelihood Tun rsquo s family scattered to various countries For nine years Tun existed in a refugee camp far from his family He knew God was with him but during the separation two family members died Tun grew despondent Long ago another people group faced brutal oppression So God appointed Moses to lead those people mdash the Israelites mdash out of Egypt Moses reluctantly agreed But when he approached Pharaoh the Egyptian ruler only intensified the oppression [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 17, 2023
The letter from ldquo Jason rdquo an inmate surprised my wife and me We ldquo foster rdquo puppies to become service dogs assisting people with disabilities One such puppy had graduated to the next training phase which was run by prisoners who have been taught how to train the dogs Jason rsquo s letter to us said ldquo Snickers is the seventeenth dog I rsquo ve trained and she is the best one When I see her looking up at me I feel like I rsquo m finally doing something right rdquo Jason isn rsquo t the only one with [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 25, 2023
In the late s a young man discovered a mysterious depression on Nova Scotia rsquo s Oak Island Guessing that pirates mdash perhaps even Captain Kidd himself mdash had buried treasure there he and a couple of companions started digging They never found any treasure but the rumor took on a life of its own Over the centuries others continued digging at the site mdash expending a great amount of time and expense The hole is now more than feet meters deep Such obsessions betray the emptiness in the human heart A story in the Bible shows how one man [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 09, 2023
A carved wooden figure mdash a household god mdash had been stolen from a woman named Ekuwa so she reported it to the authorities Believing they had found the idol law enforcement officials invited her to identify it ldquo Is this your god rdquo they asked She said sadly ldquo No my god is much larger and more beautiful than that rdquo People have long tried to give shape to their concept of deity hoping for a handmade god to protect them Perhaps that rsquo s why Jacob rsquo s wife Rachel ldquo stole her father rsquo s household gods [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 23, 2023
Aunt Margaret rsquo s frugality was legendary After she passed away her nieces began the nostalgically bittersweet task of sorting her belongings In a drawer neatly arrayed inside a small plastic bag they discovered an assortment of small pieces of string The label read ldquo String too short to use rdquo nbsp What would motivate someone to keep and categorize something they knew to be of no use Perhaps this person once knew extreme deprivation When the Israelites fled slavery in Egypt they left behind a life of hardship But they soon forgot God rsquo s miraculous hand in their [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 13, 2023
Rossetti a poet and devotional writer found that nothing came easily for her She suffered from depression and various illnesses throughout her life and endured three broken engagements Eventually she died of cancer When David burst into Israel rsquo s national consciousness it was as a triumphant warrior Yet throughout his life David faced hardship Late in his reign his own son along with his trusted advisor and much of the country turned against him Samuel ndash So David took the priests Abiathar and Zadok and the sacred ark of God with him and fled Jerusalem vv ndash nbsp After [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 28, 2023
Their precise ages are unknown One was found on the steps of a church the other knew only that she rsquo d been raised by nuns Born in Poland during World War II for nearly eighty years neither Halina nor Krystyna knew about each other Then DNA test results revealed them to be sisters and led to a joyful reunion It also revealed their Jewish heritage explaining why they rsquo d been abandoned Evil people had marked the girls for death simply because of their identity Imagining a frightened mother who leaves her threatened children where they might be rescued [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 14, 2023
ldquo One man is dead Another man rsquo s life is at stake rdquo says the judge somberly in the classic film Angry Men The evidence against the young suspect appears overwhelming But during deliberations it rsquo s the brokenness of the jury that becomes exposed One of the twelve mdash juror number mdash votes ldquo not guilty rdquo A heated debate ensues in which the lone juror is mocked as he points out discrepancies in the testimony Emotions escalate and the jury members rsquo own murderous and prejudicial tendencies come to light One by one the jurors switch their [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 17, 2023
ldquo Do you see it brother Tim rdquo My friend a Ghanaian pastor flashed his torchlight on a carved object leaning against a mud hut Quietly he said ldquo That is the village idol rdquo Each Tuesday evening Pastor Sam traveled into the bush to share the Bible in this remote village In the book of Ezekiel we see how idolatry plagued the people of Judah When Jerusalem rsquo s leaders came to see the prophet Ezekiel God told him ldquo These men have set up idols in their hearts rdquo God wasn rsquo t merely warning them against idols [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 24, 2022
The Barker family Christmas video was perfect Three robe-clad shepherds the family rsquo s young sons huddled around a fire in a grassy field Suddenly an angel descended from the hilltop mdash their big sister looking resplendent except for the pink high-top sneakers As the soundtrack swelled the shepherds stared skyward in amazement A trek across a field led them to a real baby mdash their infant brother in a modern barn Big sister now played the role of Mary Then came the ldquo bonus features rdquo when their dad let us peek behind the scenes Whiny kids complained ldquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 19, 2022
William Shakespeare was a master of the insult a ldquo quality rdquo that actor Barry Kraft adeptly leverages with his Shakespeare Insult Generator The clever little book consists of obscure insults drawn from Shakespeare rsquo s plays For instance you might disparage someone by saying ldquo Thou thrasonical logger-headed rampallian rdquo mdash which is so much more creative than saying ldquo You brag a lot and you rsquo re not very smart you scoundrel rdquo Kraft rsquo s light-hearted book is in good fun But an ancient king of Moab once tried to pay a mysterious prophet not merely to [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 10, 2022
It was and something was killing thousands of people in London It must be the bad air people thought And indeed as unseasonable heat baked the sewage-fouled River Thames the smell grew so bad it became known as ldquo The Great Stink rdquo But the worst problem wasn rsquo t the air Research by Dr John Snow would show that contaminated water was the cause of the cholera epidemic We humans have long been aware of another crisis mdash one that stinks to high heaven We live in a broken world mdash and we rsquo re prone to misidentify the [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 19, 2022
It had been an awful week for Kevin and Kimberley Kevin rsquo s seizures had suddenly worsened and he rsquo d been hospitalized Amid the pandemic their four young children mdash siblings adopted from foster care mdash were taking cabin fever to a new extreme On top of that Kimberley couldn rsquo t scrounge up a decent meal from the fridge Oddly at that moment she craved carrots An hour later there was a knock at the door There stood their friends Amanda and Andy with an entire meal she rsquo d prepared for the family Including carrots They say [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 13, 2022
For more than a year his legal name was ldquo Baby Boy rdquo Discovered by a security guard who heard his cries Baby Boy had been abandoned mdash hours old and wrapped only in a bag mdash in a hospital parking lot Soon after his discovery Social Services called the people who would one day become his forever family The couple took him in and called him Grayson not his real name Finally the adoption was complete and Grayson rsquo s name became official Today you can meet a delightful child who mispronounces his r rsquo s as he earnestly [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 09, 2022
Despite living much of his life as a pagan the Roman emperor Constantine ndash ad implemented reforms that stopped the systematic persecution of Christians He also instituted the calendar we use dividing all of history into bc Before Christ and ad Anno Domini or Year of our Lord A move to secularize this system has changed the labels to ce Common Era and bce Before the Common Era Some people point to this as yet one more example of how the world keeps God out But God hasn rsquo t gone anywhere Regardless of the name our calendar still centers [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 22, 2022
ldquo There are different questions a young artist can ask rdquo says singer songwriter Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine ldquo One is lsquo What must I do to be famous rsquo rdquo Detweiler warns that such a goal ldquo swings the door open to all manner of destructive forces from both within and without rdquo He and his wife have instead chosen a less flashy musical road in which they ldquo continue to grow over the course of an entire lifetime rdquo The name of Jehoiada isn rsquo t readily recognized yet it rsquo s synonymous with a lifetime [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 31, 2022
Kelly was battling brain cancer when the COVID- crisis hit Then fluid developed around her heart and lungs and she had to be hospitalized again Her family couldn rsquo t visit because of the pandemic Her husband Dave vowed to do something Gathering loved ones together Dave asked them to make large signs with messages They did Wearing masks twenty people stood on the street outside the hospital holding signs ldquo BEST MOM rdquo ldquo LOVE YOU rdquo ldquo WE ARE WITH U rdquo With the help of a nurse Kelly made her way to a fourth-floor window ldquo All [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 25, 2022
Many years ago Joni Mitchell wrote a song called ldquo Woodstock rdquo in which she saw the human race trapped in a ldquo bargain rdquo with the devil Urging her listeners to seek a simpler more peaceful existence she sang of a return to ldquo the garden rdquo Mitchell spoke for a generation longing for purpose and meaning Mitchell rsquo s poetical ldquo garden rdquo is Eden of course Eden was the paradise God created for us back in the beginning In this garden Adam and Eve met with God on a regular basis mdash until the day they made [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 22, 2022
The ornate ceremonial bow and quiver had hung on the wall of our home in Michigan for years I rsquo d inherited them from my father who acquired the souvenirs while we were serving as missionaries in Ghana Then one day a Ghanaian friend visited us When he saw the bow he got a strange look on his face Pointing to a small object tied to it he said ldquo That is a fetish mdash a magic charm I know it has no power but I would not keep it in my house rdquo Quickly we cut the charm from [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 08, 2022
An Atlanta police officer asked a driver if she knew why he had stopped her ldquo No idea rdquo she said in bewilderment ldquo Ma rsquo am you were texting while driving rdquo the officer gently told her ldquo No no rdquo she protested holding up her cell phone as evidence ldquo It rsquo s an email rdquo Using a cell phone to send an email doesn rsquo t grant us a loophole from a law that prohibits texting while driving The point of the law isn rsquo t to prevent texting it rsquo s to prevent distracted driving Jesus [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 26, 2022
In a young Russian artillery officer viewed the battlefield carnage occurring far below his cannon rsquo s hilltop placement ldquo It rsquo s a funny sort of pleasure rdquo Leo Tolstoy wrote ldquo to see people killing each other And yet every morning and every evening I would spend hours at a time watching rdquo Tolstoy rsquo s outlook soon changed After seeing firsthand the devastation and suffering in the city of Sevastopol he wrote ldquo You understand all at once and quite differently from what you have before the significance of those sounds of shots which you heard in [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 14, 2022
In the early s a prominent astronomer who didn rsquo t believe in God wrote ldquo A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics as well as with chemistry and biology rdquo To this scientist rsquo s eye the evidence showed that something had designed everything we observe in the cosmos He added ldquo There are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature rdquo In other words everything we see looks as if it was planned by Someone And yet the astronomer remained an atheist Three thousand years ago another intelligent man [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 15, 2022
Today apos s Our Daily Bread Devotional [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 13, 2022
Eli Wiesel rsquo s novel Night starkly confronts us with the horrors of the Holocaust Based on his own experiences in Nazi death camps Wiesel rsquo s account flips the biblical story of the Exodus While Moses and the Israelites escaped slavery at the first Passover Exodus Wiesel tells of the SS arresting Jewish leaders following Passover Lest we criticize Wiesel and his dark irony consider that the Bible contains a similar plot twist On the night of Passover Jesus expected to free God rsquo s people from suffering instead permits Himself to be arrested by those who would kill [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 20, 2022
Upset with the corruption and extravagance plaguing his kingdom Korea rsquo s King Yeongjo ndash decided to change things In a classic case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater he banned the traditional art of gold-thread embroidery as excessively opulent Soon knowledge of that intricate process vanished into the past In Professor Sim Yeon-ok wanted to reclaim that long-lost tradition Surmising that gold leaf had been glued onto mulberry paper and then hand-cut into slender strands she was able to recreate the process reviving an ancient art form In the book of Exodus we learn of the extravagant [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 22, 2022
In the early twentieth century Italian poet F T Marinetti launched Futurism an artistic movement rejecting the past scoffing at traditional ideas of beauty and glorifying instead machinery In Marinetti wrote his Manifesto of Futurism in which he declared ldquo contempt for women rdquo praised ldquo the blow with the fist rdquo and asserted ldquo We want to glorify war rdquo The manifesto concludes ldquo Standing on the world rsquo s summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars rdquo Five years after Marinetti rsquo s manifesto modern warfare began in earnest World War I did not [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 06, 2022
Aaron Burr anxiously awaited the result of the tie-breaking vote from the US House of Representatives Deadlocked with Thomas Jefferson in the race for the presidency Burr had reason to believe that the House would declare him the winner However he lost and bitterness gnawed at his soul Nurturing grievances against Alexander Hamilton for not supporting his candidacy Burr killed Hamilton in a gun duel less than four years later Outraged by the killing his country turned its back on him and Burr died a dour old man Political power plays are a tragic part of history When King David [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 04, 2022
Resolutions it seems are made to be broken Some folks poke fun at this reality by proposing New Year rsquo s vows that are mdash shall we say mdash attainable Here are a few from social media Wave to fellow motorists at stoplights Sign up for a marathon Don rsquo t run it Stop procrastinating mdash tomorrow Get lost without any help from Siri Unfriend everyone who posts their workout regimen The concept of a fresh start can be serious business however The exiled people of Judah desperately needed one Just over two decades into their seventy-year captivity God brought [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 03, 2021
ldquo Never trust anyone over thirty rdquo said young environmentalist Jack Weinberg in His comment stereotyped an entire generation mdash something Weinberg later regretted Looking back he said ldquo Something I said off the top of my head became completely distorted and misunderstood rdquo Have you heard disparaging comments aimed at millennials Or vice versa Ill thoughts directed from one generation toward another can cut both ways Surely there rsquo s a better way Although he was an excellent king Hezekiah showed a lack of concern for another generation When as a young man Hezekiah was struck with a terminal [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 01, 2021
A decade ago they didn rsquo t know the name of Jesus Hidden in the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines the Banwaon people had little contact with the outside world A trip for supplies could take two days requiring an arduous hike over rugged terrain The world took no notice of them Then a mission group reached out shuttling people in and out of the region via helicopter This gained the Banwaon access to needed supplies crucial medical help and an awareness of the larger world It also introduced them to Jesus Now instead of singing to the spirits [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 30, 2021
Leisa wanted a way to redeem the season So many of the autumn decorations she saw seemed to celebrate death sometimes in gruesome and macabre ways nbsp Determined to counter the darkness in some small way Leisa began to write things she was grateful for with a permanent marker on a large pumpkin ldquo Sunshine rdquo was the first item Soon visitors were adding to her list Some entries were whimsical ldquo doodling rdquo for instance Others were practical ldquo a warm house rdquo ldquo a working car rdquo Still others were poignant like the name of a departed loved [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 12, 2021
In the early nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle gave a manuscript to philosopher John Stuart Mill to review Whether accidentally or intentionally the manuscript got tossed into a fire It was Carlyle rsquo s only copy Undaunted he set to work rewriting the lost chapters Mere flames couldn rsquo t stop the story which remained intact in his mind Out of great loss Carlyle produced his monumental work The French Revolution In the waning days of ancient Judah rsquo s decadent kingdom God told the prophet Jeremiah ldquo Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 27, 2021
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving tells of Ichabod Crane a schoolteacher who seeks to marry a beautiful young woman named Katrina Key to the story is a headless horseman who haunts the colonial countryside One night Ichabod encounters a ghostly apparition on horseback and flees the region in terror It rsquo s clear to the reader that this ldquo horseman rdquo is actually a rival suitor for Katrina who then marries her Ichabod is a name first seen in the Bible and it too has a gloomy backstory While at war with the Philistines Israel carried the [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 13, 2021
Friday was market day in the rural town in Ghana where I grew up After all these years I still recall one particular vendor Her fingers and toes eroded by Hansen rsquo s disease leprosy she would crouch on her mat and scoop her produce with a hollowed-out gourd Some avoided her My mother made it a point to buy from her regularly I saw her only on market days Then she would disappear outside the town In the time of the ancient Israelites diseases like leprosy meant living ldquo outside the camp rdquo It was a forlorn existence Israelite [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 15, 2021
Sam rsquo s father had to flee for his life during a military coup With the sudden loss of income the family could no longer afford the crucial medicine that kept Sam rsquo s brother alive Seething at God Sam thought What have we done to deserve this A follower of Jesus heard about the family rsquo s troubles Finding he had enough money to cover the medicine he bought a supply and took it to them The life-saving gift from a stranger had a profound impact ldquo This Sunday we will go to this man rsquo s church rdquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 12, 2021
When Conner and Sarah Smith moved five miles up the road their cat S rsquo mores expressed his displeasure by running away One day Sarah saw a current photo of their old farmhouse on social media There was S rsquo mores in the picture Happily the Smiths went to retrieve him S rsquo mores ran away again Guess where he went This time the family that had purchased their house agreed to keep S rsquo mores too The Smiths couldn rsquo t stop the inevitable S rsquo mores would always return ldquo home rdquo Nehemiah served in a prestigious position [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
June 21, 2021
Aubrey bought a fleece-lined coat for her aging father but he died before he could wear it So she tucked a note of encouragement with a bill into the pocket and donated the jacket to charity Ninety miles away unable to endure his family rsquo s dysfunction any longer nineteen-year-old Kelly left his house without grabbing a coat He knew of only one place to turn mdash the home of his grandmother who prayed for him Hours later he stepped off a bus and into grandma rsquo s arms Shielding him from the winter wind she said ldquo We rsquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 22, 2021
After Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space he parachuted into the Russian countryside A farmwoman spotted the orange-clad cosmonaut still wearing his helmet and dragging two parachutes ldquo Can it be that you have come from outer space rdquo she asked in surprise ldquo As a matter of fact I have rdquo he said Soviet leaders sadly turned the historic flight into anti-religious propaganda ldquo Gagarin went into space but he didn rsquo t see any god there rdquo their premier declared Gagarin himself never said such a thing As C S Lewis observed ldquo Those who do [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
April 24, 2021
For you can buy a new McLaren S sports car The vehicle comes with a V engine pumping horsepower mdash considerably more than you rsquo ll need for your morning commute Of course you might be tempted to use all that power One Virginia driver learned his McLaren was so fast it could go from an upscale showroom to the scrap heap in just twenty-four hours One day after buying the car he slammed it into a tree Thankfully he survived Just three chapters into the story of the Bible we learn how a different bad choice and a tree [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 08, 2021
Named for a tough blue-collar neighborhood in Cincinnati Ohio the grassroots musical group Over the Rhine sings about a transformation that takes place each year in the city ldquo Whenever we rsquo d get our first real snowfall of the year it felt like something sacred was happening rdquo explains band co-founder Linford Detweiler ldquo Like a little bit of a fresh start The city would slow down and grow quiet rdquo If you rsquo ve experienced a heavy snowfall you understand how it can inspire a song A magical quietness drapes the world as snow conceals grime and grayness [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 16, 2021
In the late th century William of Orange intentionally flooded much of his nation rsquo s land The Dutch monarch resorted to such a drastic measure in an attempt to drive out the invading Spaniards It didn rsquo t work and a vast swath of prime farmland was lost to the sea ldquo Desperate times call for desperate measures rdquo they say In Isaiah rsquo s day Jerusalem turned to desperate measures when the Assyrian army threatened them Creating a water storage system to endure the siege the people also tore down houses to shore up the city walls Such [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 24, 2021
The little Bible college in northern Ghana didn rsquo t look impressive mdash just a tin-roofed cinder-block building and a handful of students Yet Bob Hayes poured his life into those students He gave them leadership roles and encouraged them to preach and teach despite their occasional reluctance Bob passed away years ago but dozens of thriving churches schools and two additional Bible institutes have sprung up across Ghana mdash all started by graduates of that humble school During the reign of King Artaxerxes ndash bc Ezra the scribe assembled a band of Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem But [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 12, 2020
A post-surgical stroke had robbed Tom of his ability to speak and he faced a long rehab journey Weeks later we were pleasantly surprised when he showed up at our church rsquo s Thanksgiving service We were even more surprised when he stood up to speak Searching for what to say he jumbled his words repeated himself and confused days and time But one thing was clear he was praising God It rsquo s possible to have your heart break and be blessed at the same moment This was that kind of moment In the ldquo pre-Christmas story rdquo we [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 22, 2020
He was an aging military veteran rough-edged and given to even rougher language One day a friend cared enough about him to inquire about his spiritual beliefs The man rsquo s dismissive response came quickly ldquo God doesn rsquo t have space for someone like me rdquo Perhaps that was just part of his ldquo tough-guy rdquo act but his words couldn rsquo t be further from the truth God creates space especially for the rough the guilt-ridden and the excluded to belong and thrive in His community This was obvious from the beginning of Jesus rsquo s ministry when [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 07, 2020
In one of Dr Seuss rsquo s whimsical stories he tells of a ldquo North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax rdquo crossing the Prairie of Prax Upon meeting nose to nose neither Zax will step aside The first Zax angrily vows to stay put mdash even if it makes ldquo the whole world stand still rdquo Unfazed the world moves on and builds a highway around them The tale offers an uncomfortably accurate picture of human nature We possess a reflexive ldquo need rdquo to be right and we rsquo re prone to stubbornly cling to that instinct in rather [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 03, 2020
The verse on the card Lisa received didn rsquo t seem to match her situation ldquo Then the Lord opened the servant rsquo s eyes and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha rdquo Kings I have cancer she thought in confusion I rsquo ve just lost a baby A verse about angel soldiers does not apply Then the ldquo angels rdquo began to show up Cancer survivors gave her their time and a listening ear Her husband got released early from an overseas military assignment Friends prayed with her But [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
September 10, 2020
While riding in the Chihuahuan Desert in the late s Jim White spotted a strange cloud of smoke spiraling skyward Suspecting a wildfire the young cowboy rode toward the source only to learn that the ldquo smoke rdquo was a vast swarm of bats spilling from a hole in the ground White had come across New Mexico s Carlsbad Caverns an immense and spectacular system of caves As Moses was tending sheep in a Middle Eastern desert he too saw an odd sight that grabbed his attention mdash a flaming bush that didn rsquo t burn up Exodus When God [... more]
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