More Than Bread Devotional for 9/30/08

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
15 According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the [...]

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 7/23/08

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 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 for 7/11/08

Matthew 24:26-27
26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Just [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/7/08

Proverbs 7:1-4
1 My son, keep my words
and store up my commands within you.
2 Keep my commands and you will live;
guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding your kinsman;
I was thinking a few [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 7/3/08

Ruth 1:16-18
16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May [...]