More Than Bread Devotional for 7/28/08

1 Thessalonians 3:7-9
7 Therefore, brothers, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. 8 For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. 9 How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/24/08

Nehemiah 9:1-3
1 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their heads. 2 Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers. 3 They stood where they [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/23/08

Matthew 20:10-15
10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 7/22/08

Matthew 12:48-50
48 He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Have you ever sang that song, “The Family of [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/21/08

John 8:12
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
My kids love to play with stuff that lights up.  They like flashlights and lanterns and glow-in-the-dark toys and lamps.  There is something about [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 7/18/08

Matthew 19:23-26
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/17/08

Job 38:1-3
1 Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind.  He said:
2 Who is this who obscures [My] counsel
with ignorant words?
3 Get ready to answer Me like a man;
when I question you, you will inform Me.
Have you ever tried to tell God how to do something?  I mean, really we all probably know better, but [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 7/16/08

Matthew 9:9
9 As 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.
Every journey begins with a step or so the saying goes.  For those of us who choose to follow Jesus, that first step is [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 7/15/08

Luke 12:32-34
32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/14/08

Colossians 1:19-20
19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
The word “shalom” in Hebrew is often translated simply as peace, but it embodies [...]