Our Daily Bread

Topic:Run Toward Challenge Bible in a Year: 2 Samuel 21–22 Luke 18:24–43 He looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha 2 Kings 6:8–17 Tom chased the young men who were stealing his poor friend’s bike. He didn’t have a plan. He only knew he needed to get it back. To his surprise, …

Topic:Divinely Aligned Bible in a Year: 2 Samuel 19–20 Luke 18:1–23 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Romans 11:33–36 I was deeply troubled and woke in the night to pace the floor and pray. Frankly, my attitude was not one of prayerful submission …

Topic:The Saddest Goose Bible in a Year: 2 Samuel 16–18 Luke 17:20–37 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 Why is there a football in the parking lot? I wondered. But as I got closer, I realized the greyish lump wasn’t a football: it was a goose—the …

Our Daily Bread The Cross & Covid-19 It’s almost impossible to talk about anything but coronavirus and the chaos that has enveloped our world. The fact that Easter is just around the corner seems like an afterthought. But we need to remember the big picture. I doubt that in 2,000 years people will still be talking about coronavirus. And yet …

Topic:Two Are Better Bible in a Year: Deuteronomy 1–2 Mark 10:1–31 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. Ecclesiastes 4:9 In the 1997 Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii, two women fought to stay on their feet as they hobbled toward the finish line. Exhausted, the runners persevered on wobbly legs, until Sian Welch bumped …

Topic:Plans Disrupted Bible in a Year: Numbers 34–36 Mark 9:30–50 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21 Jane’s plans to become a speech therapist ended when an internship revealed the job was too emotionally challenging for her. Then she was given the opportunity to write for a magazine. She’d …

Topic:Live Wire Bible in a Year: Numbers 31–33 Mark 9:1–29 We were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16 “I felt like I had touched a live wire,” said Professor Holly Ordway, describing her reaction to John Donne’s majestic poem “Holy Sonnet 14.” There’s something happening in this poetry, she thought. I wonder what it is. Ordway recalls it as …

Topic:Fully Known Bible in a Year: Numbers 28–30 Mark 8:22–38 Before I formed you . . . I knew you. Jeremiah 1:5 “You shouldn’t be here right now. Someone up there was looking out for you,” the tow truck driver told my mother after he had pulled her car from the edge of a steep mountain ravine and studied the …

Topic:A Call to Leave Bible in a Year: Numbers 26–27 Mark 8:1–21 At once they left their nets and followed him. Matthew 4:20 As a young woman, I imagined myself married to my high school sweetheart—until we broke up. My future yawned emptily before me and I struggled with what to do with my life. At last I sensed God …

Topic:A Goal and a Purpose Bible in a Year: Numbers 23–25 Mark 7:14–37 My only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me. Acts 20:24 In 2018, endurance athlete Colin O’Brady took a walk that had never been taken before. Pulling a supply sled behind him, O’Brady trekked across Antarctica entirely alone—a …