Tag: Our Daily Bread

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/18/19)[:]

[:en]BEYOND LABELS Many times, we allow labels to define who we are.  We see ourselves as wonderful or terrible, capable or helpless.  We also assign them to others.   But God’s grace defies labels because it is rooted in His love, not in our self-perception. The Lord  accepts us as we are.  He invites us to… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/18/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/17/19)[:]

[:en]JUST LIKE DAD Children are great imitators.  They listen to  what their parents are saying.  They observe what they are doing.  And they copy their actions. Jesus is also doing exactly what the Father did – reaching out to the lost, helping the needy, and healing the sick.  He said:  “the Son can do nothing… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/17/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/16/19)[:]

[:en]DEEP ROOTS The sequoia tree is one of three species of redwwods.  It is among the world’s largest and most enduring organisms.  It can grow to 300 feet in height, weight over 2.5 million pounds (1.1 million kg), and live for 3,000 years.  Thje majestic sequoia owes much of its size and longevity to what… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/16/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/15/19)[:]

[:en]ARE YOU BEING PREPARED? David was just a shepherd boy.  But he had fought and killed a lion and a bear to save the sheep.  When Israel was challenged  to send someone to fight Goliath, he bravely volunteered to fight with him.  King Saul was reluctant to send him but David said:  “The Lord who… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/15/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/14/19)[:]

[:en]FACE TO FACE With the advance technology, the world is conncected electronically instead of physically.  We have less time together in person to share laughter and emotions with each other face to face., During the Old Testament times, people cannnot talk to God directly .  The priest acted as an intermediary between God and the… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/14/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/13/19)[:]

[:en]INTIMATE DETAILS The universe that God has made is astonishingly grand.  The moon is spinning around us at nearly 2,300 miles per hour.  Our earth is spinning around the sun at 66,000 miles an hour.  Our sun is one of 200 billion other starts and trillions more planets in our galaxy, and that galaxy is… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/13/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread”(7/11/19)[:]

[:en]GIVING IN TO JESUS There is a foot-shaped impression in the granite on a hill beside a church in Ipswich, Massachusetts called “The Devil’s Footprint”.  According to local legend, the “footprint” happed one fall day in 3740, when the evangelist George Whitefield preached so powerfully that the devil leaped from the church steeple, landing on… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread”(7/11/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/10/19)[:]

[:en]GETTING AWAY WITH IT Beckie Scott, a Canadian cross-country skier, won bronze medal on an Olympic competition in June 2004 at Utah.  Months later, the two athletes before her were disqualified when it was discovered that they had used banned substances. Although Scott had eventually received her gold medal, but gone forever was the moment… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/10/19)[:]

[:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/9/19)[:]

[:en]A JOYFUL HEART When Solomon dedicated the temple,  Israelites celebrated with praises. (2 Chron. 7:5-6).  They may have sung Psalm 100 which declares:  “Shout for the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness’ come before Him with joyful songs …. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from “Our Daily Bread” (7/9/19)[:]