Category: Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

Kindness for the Suffering

This unattributed quote speaks to the choice we have in how we respond to others. It’s also the encouragement we glean from Obadiah in today’s

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Our Daily Bread

Gratitude to God

Happy Thanksgiving (to all my Canadian friends and family)! Today’s devotional recognizes that countries celebrate a national day of thanksgiving on different days throughout the

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Our Daily Bread

Being a Blessing

Am I willing to speak up or “do good” for a friend if it disadvantages me? What about for a rival? I Thessalonians 5:15-18, the

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Our Daily Bread

Love of Freedom

I’m honored that the Our Daily Bread devotional that appears on Juneteenth 2025 is one I wrote about a remarkable woman named Phyllis Wheatley. Enslaved

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Our Daily Bread

Language of Love

One of the groups that I’m grateful that the Lord has connected me with as a key partner in international church planting is Europe Collaboration.

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Art

As One

I’ve loved the painting, That They May All Be One, from the first time I saw it hanging in Wolfson College more than 20 years

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Our Daily Bread

God’s Great Power

Today’s devotional took place at Calvary Church (I had to edit out the reference). I love the idea of the church as a staging center

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Lent

I Am Thirsty

For two years, our son has been part of a Filter of Hope team to provide water filters to families in rural communities to ensure

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Our Daily Bread

God-Given Skills and Talents

In the article that inspired today’s devotional, Mohr was quoted as describing himself as “just a piano tuner who loves the Lord.” But he was

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Art

Let My People Go

The beauty of art is that it can move us to consider even a familiar story in a new way. The painting, Let My People

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Christmas

Welcome Baby Jesus!

For weeks and months, your family (especially if you have little ones) have been anticipating Christmas morning. On the very first Christmas morning the wait

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Christmas

The Spirit of Christmas

At our church’s annual party for new international families to our community, I heard a beautiful Middle Eastern Christmas carol, Laylat Al-Milad, that offered a

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