Author: Lisa Samra

Books

A Grace Disguised

In today’s sermon, God’s Quiet Grace, Jim quoted from Jerry Sittser’s book, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss, including this section that

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Our Daily Bread

Eclipse

Do you remember all the excitement surrounding the total eclipse that was visible in West Michigan during summer 2017? That unique experience became the basis

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Response to Current Events

A Word for Today – May 1

Today’s video looks at 2 Corinthians 8, where Paul writes about the power of churches giving to support other churches in times of need. We

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Response to Current Events

A Word for Today – April 16

In today’s video, we address different ways of responding to the pandemic.  I spoke about the comfort from Lamentations 3:19-24 when feeling personally overwhelmed by

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Our Daily Bread

Curtained Off

Again today, if you read the Our Daily Bread booklet you would not have seen one of my devotionals; however, if you have the ODB

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Our Daily Bread

The Full Reveal

If you read the Our Daily Bread booklet you would not have seen one of my devotionals; however, if you have the ODB app, it

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Response to Current Events

Paper Plate Congregation

It was such a delight to walk into the sanctuary today and see so many “faces” looking back at us.  Some friends organized a social

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Christian Life

A Word for Today – April 2

Today’s word of encouragement comes from Psalm 68, especially verses 4-6:  4 Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the

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Crosswalk

Holy Week Reading Plan

Holy Week begins this Sunday, April 5 with Palm Sunday.  Although I long to remember the hope we have in Jesus because of his death

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Our Daily Bread

Delight in the Book

One unique aspect of writing for Our Daily Bread is that the process from submission to publication is at least one year, which means the

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Our Daily Bread

Ever-Present Presence

With several soccer fans in the family, we were excited to watch the 2018 World Cup.  When Colombian forward Radamel Falcao scored in a game against

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