More Than Bread Devotional for 5/26/08

Psalm 116:5-115 Adonai is merciful and righeous; yes our God is compassionate.6 Adonai preserves the thoughtless; when I was brought low, He saved me.7 My soul, return to your rest! for Adonai has been generous toward you.8 Yes, you have rescued me from death, [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 5/23/08

Lamentations 3:18-2318 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.” 19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20 I well remember them, [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/22/08

Galatians 1:10Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
All of us like to be appreciated. We like approval. That isn’t wrong. God made us [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/21/08

1 Corinthians 8:1-31 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But the man who loves God is known by God.
This is an interesting verse. [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/20/08

Romans 15:5-75 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, 6 so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/14/08

Psalm 131 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/13/08

1 Thessalonians 5:16-1816 Be joyful always; 17 pray continually; 18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
One of the hardest parts of Scripture are these blanket statements made by Paul. It isn’t that they are hard to understand really; it is that they are very hard [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/9/08

John 7:41-4441 Others said, “He is the Christ.” Still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? 42 Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?” 43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. 44 Some wanted [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/7/08

Matthew 9:9As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
Call me simplistic if you will, but it seems to me that sometimes we overcomplicate simple things. When Jesus called His disciples, He simply [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 5/6/08

Hebrews 13:1-31 Keep on loving each other as brothers. 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
I had the most amazing [...]