More Than Bread Devotional for 10/8/08

Ephesians 4:15-16
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Paul directs this comments to [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 10/6/08

Hebrews 10:25-25
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 10/3/08

Galatians 6:6
Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor.
This is a great verse.  It reminds us that God can show truth to anyone who is willing to study His Word.  I have led Bible studies for years and am always excited when the people in those studies participate [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 10/2/08

Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 [...]

More Than Bread for 10/1/08

Psalm 1:1-3
1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 9/29/08

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Today is a very exciting day.  [...]

More Than Bread 9/11/08

Isaiah 46:8-9
8 “Remember this and be brave;
take it to heart, you transgressors!
9 Remember what happened long ago,
for I am God, and there is no other;
[I am]God, and no one is like Me.
This can never be said enough.  There is no one like God.  He is above all things.  When we remember who He is and [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 9/10/08

Matthew 3:13-15
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” [...]

More Than Bread Devotional 9/9/08

John 4:25-26
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
Do you sometimes find yourself wishing that God would just speak plainly to you?  I don’t know about you, but there are times I [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 9/8/08

John 12:25-26
25 The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
There are a lot [...]