Category: Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

Loving Leadership

Happy Mother’s Day! Today’s devotional was inspired by the viral video of a mama bear attempting to get her four cubs across the street (the

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Art

Drops of Red

I first saw one of van Gogh’s olive trees paintings more than 30 years ago and I’m still entranced by them. A reproduction of one

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Lent

Perfect Sacrifice

As we begin Holy Week, I am reminded that Jesus fulfilled the entire law so that when he died on a cross he could open

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Marriage

Rejoicing Love

Remember Covid weddings? Zoom bridal showers. Masks except during the ceremony when everyone stood six feet apart. Streaming the service. 25 guests or fewer. And

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Our Daily Bread

Always Hope

“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” is a soulful Black spiritual song of lament and sorrow. It’s a modern day psalm that inspired this article

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Marriage

Love that Forgives

I love this 1941 wedding picture of Jim’s great-uncle Pete and great-aunt Ruth. They are so young. Little did they know that their love story

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Christmas

Shining in the Darkness

Due to a “once-in-a-generation” blizzard, one of our favorite holiday traditions likely won’t be held today — the Christmas Eve candlelight service. Even though we

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Our Daily Bread

Legacy of Faith

A study that highlighted the significant spiritual impact of mothers and grandmothers in their families became the springboard for this devotional. The full study can

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Christmas

Christmas Light

Our friends Angel and Warren invited us to their house to see their Christmas tree lit with real candles! That beautiful scene (and the delicious

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Books

Walk On

A few years ago, I happened upon a podcast about Ben Malcolmson’s experience as a walk on at the University of Southern California’s football team

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Our Daily Bread

Hallelujah!

Handel’s magnificent Messiah oratorio is beloved around the world. It is powerful not just because of the beauty of his composition but also because it

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Our Daily Bread

Rediscovered

The Gilmore Car Museum, a world-renowned collection of cars, is located among vast stretches of farmland outside Kalamazoo, Mich. I don’t know much about classic

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Art

Crushed and Beautiful

This painting, Consider the Lilies, is part of a collection of stunning art by Makoto Fujimura that inspired today’s devotional. Fujimura employs an ancient style of

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