tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123767892024-02-20T06:29:45.929-06:00Daily BreadDaily Bread - Readings about life and the Word of God.Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comBlogger3955125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-80438156236176237162020-07-29T21:31:00.001-05:002020-07-29T21:31:35.986-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Bridging the Gap Through SpaceDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Are we stretching the truth too far to say that God personally loves each of us individually even more than our earthly father has loved us when we were little? Your heart-answer "yes" or "no" will determine your happiness here and hereafter. When we read the four Gospels we see that the great burden on Jesus' heart was Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-81591933900755342482020-07-23T21:31:00.001-05:002020-07-23T21:31:38.361-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Twisting in the Wind of Public ExposureDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," If King David were writing his Psalm 51 today, instead of praying, "Lord, blot out my transgressions," he might pray, "Lord, erase all those video and audio and Internet clips! Please blot out all the newspaper and magazine reports so I can go down in history with a clean moral record!" But God is not a magician--even He cannot Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-46212493149744010052020-07-22T21:11:00.001-05:002020-07-22T21:11:45.629-05:00Dial Daily Bread: It's Time for Unbelief to GoDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Jacob, the famous "Supplanter," tricked his father Isaac into giving him the birthright instead of to the elder brother (by-a-few-minutes) Esau. Esau was so angry that when he discovered what had happened, he threatened to kill him, and Jacob fled. The first night of his exile the disheartened man dreamed of the ladder to heaven, and Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-10931619054758969522020-07-21T21:36:00.001-05:002020-07-21T21:36:40.652-05:00Dial Daily Bread: The "Us" in Paul's Letter to the EphesiansDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," In Paul's letter to the Ephesians there is some evidence that the apostle intended the letter to go to everybody, not only to the believers in that city. About half of the letter is concerned with telling the world what Jesus Christ did for us even before any of us were born. He "has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-53676783024918155102020-07-20T21:51:00.001-05:002020-07-20T21:51:34.647-05:00Dial Daily Bread: The Message That Will "Lighten the Earth With Glory"Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," The Bible specializes in Good News which is "the power of God to salvation" (Rom. 1:16). There is power in the word itself, as there is in the seed that sprouts. Those who wait for the second coming of Christ will demonstrate that power so fully that their message will "lighten the earth with glory." The message itself, not Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-48353530871843657972020-07-18T21:56:00.001-05:002020-07-18T21:56:34.955-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Elijah Is Alive Somewhere in God's Great UniverseDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Some have criticized Elijah for being so abrupt and confrontational in dealing with his majesty King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. Weren't the two the appointed leaders of God's work of that day? Hadn't the Lord wonderfully blessed Ahab's leadership of Israel with great success economically and militarily? Hadn't King Jehoshaphat, Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-66556848626316692932020-07-15T21:46:00.001-05:002020-07-15T21:46:32.816-05:00Dial Daily Bread: The Cleansing Process--A Discipline That Takes TimeDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Where's the person who hasn't at some time or other exploded with what he or she thought was "righteous" indignation? And then came to realize that some "self" was woven in! Rather humbling, isn't it? In fact, you can get grey with what you think are sanctified years and still make a fool of yourself. A prime Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-30932974240383916672020-07-14T21:51:00.001-05:002020-07-14T21:51:43.370-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Turn Your Thoughts to the Cross of ChristDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Turn your thoughts today to the cross of Christ, in a special sense. Contemplate what crucifixion meant in the days of the old Roman Empire. It was the utmost humiliation that could be inflicted on a human being. Dear old Moses didn't help in that regard, for he had said that "if a man ... is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, ... Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-52809704303352574872020-07-13T22:16:00.001-05:002020-07-13T22:16:32.855-05:00Dial Daily Bread: A Bright Spot in WitnessingDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Probably all of us have studied about how weshould witness more, how it is ourduty to do so, and what wemust do, possibly resulting in guilt for not doing more. But there is a bright spot: Christ's death was complete for the whole world--for every human being. As a wise writer has said, "The atonement for a lost world wasUleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-87420493907133481232020-07-09T22:21:00.001-05:002020-07-09T22:21:35.391-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Thousands of "Elijahs" All Around the WorldDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," In studying the story of Elijah many misread that Elijah walked into Ahab's office and told him there would be no rain nor dew until the Lordchose to send it. But the Bible says that the prophet told the king, "There shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at myword" (1 Kings 17:1). (The Hebrew says, myword, and Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-91941814409951758722020-07-07T21:41:00.001-05:002020-07-07T21:41:39.874-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Does God Take Young People Seriously?Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Does the Lord respect the prayerful commitment of a teenager? Or, because he or she is so young, does He trivialize it? The Lord very seriously noticed the devotion of teenage Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees when the boy insisted on worshipping the one true God, the God who made the moon rather than worship the moon itself, as his father Terah didUleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-91329181863325124092020-07-06T21:36:00.001-05:002020-07-06T21:36:31.658-05:00Dial Daily Bread: There IS "Word From the Lord"Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," King Zedekiah in terror asked the prophet Jeremiah, "Is there any word from the Lord?" The prophet's answer was succinct: "There is" (37:17; 38:2, 3). The Lord had a solution for them that would be Good News: surrender to the king of Babylon and accept the humiliating chastisement of the Lord for their good, and at least Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-32820602779610247672020-07-02T21:56:00.001-05:002020-07-02T21:56:38.465-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Can You Know for Sure That God Has Chosen You to Be Saved?Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Can you know for sure that God has chosen youto be saved? Many sincere Christians believe that He has chosen some to be saved and left others to be lost. What does He say to us in the Bible? On its very last page, He makes it clear that no one has been left out of God's gift of eternal life, so He says once more as His parting word, Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-32356707940407557252020-06-30T21:01:00.001-05:002020-06-30T21:01:37.355-05:00Dial Daily Bread: The Hardest Step We’ve Ever Had to TakeDear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,” You'd think it would be the easiest thing in the world to do--just believe, "God loves me." Actually, it's hard to believe, maybe the hardest step we've ever had to take. People much wiser than I am say so. Paul says, "The carnal [natural] mind is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7). And yes, everybody has the Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-88789288276778799132020-06-25T21:24:00.001-05:002020-06-25T21:24:37.276-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Two Lifestyles--What's the Difference?Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," You take your temperature when you think you have a fever, but can you take a self-test to see if you are living under the Old Covenant, or under the New? At Mount Sinai, ancient Israel voluntarily enslaved themselves under Old Covenant darkness that shadowed their history thereafter until finally they destroyed their nation and crucified their Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-33918796654812429812020-06-24T21:39:00.001-05:002020-06-24T21:39:46.223-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Do You Have Jesus on Board in Your Life?Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Perfect love, which is agapein the New Testament, works a miracle in every human heart where it finds residence--it casts out anxiety and fear. This is stated in 1 John 4:17, 18: "Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love;Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-29552500348551454782020-06-23T21:51:00.001-05:002020-06-23T21:51:54.187-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Does the Lord Need Our Help?Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Does the Lord need humans to do things that He wants done "on earth as it is in heaven"? When we pray the Lord's prayer, we are confessing that His will be done "on earth as it is in heaven"; but who is to accomplish that? Angels are His "ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvationUleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-85686983597549328482020-06-22T21:51:00.001-05:002020-06-22T21:51:37.684-05:00Dial Daily Bread: The Day the Whole World DiedDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," There was a day when the whole world died, and we need to understand how and why it happened. We usually don't see it that way: we think only One man died on that Friday. Here's the story: "We judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died" (2 Cor. 5:14). How could this be? The Son of God became man, "Immanuel, ... &#Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-42308497308587565722020-06-20T21:26:00.001-05:002020-06-20T21:26:34.566-05:00Dial Daily Bread: A Soul-winning Ministry Going on That We Don't Know AboutDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," As the sun rises for another day, it looks down upon billions of people, each created in the image of God, each redeemed by the blood of the Son of God, but so few who understand His great sacrifice. The world is dark with misapprehension of God. And the statistics tell us that the percentage of Christians to world population is steadily shrinking.Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-56482597952789954622020-06-18T21:31:00.001-05:002020-06-18T21:31:35.658-05:00Dial Daily Bread: The Greatest Temptation Jesus Had to FaceDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," What do you suppose was the greatest temptation Jesus had to face? You know of course He was tempted--the Bible says "in all points like as we are" (Heb. 4:15; King James Version). His temptations were real--they bored in to His inmost soul. Well, the greatest temptation He had to face was the temptation to doubt who He was. And if Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-1256240670046700162020-06-17T21:46:00.001-05:002020-06-17T21:46:43.416-05:00Dial Daily Bread: One of the Strangest Anomalies of HistoryDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," One of the strangest anomalies of history is the fate of Israel held in Egyptian slavery. That was something that was not supposed to be! How could it ever have happened? The Lord told Abraham that his descendants "will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. ... [And] Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-11190969288417528722020-06-15T22:01:00.001-05:002020-06-15T22:01:40.169-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Allow Christ to Join You in Your “Walk”Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Behold the compassion of the resurrected Jesus! One might think that in the enthusiasm of His newly resurrected life He is eager to be off on His new assignment in the heavenly sanctuary, but His heart is with His disappointed, discouraged ones here. His name is still "Immanuel, which is translated, 'God with us'" (Matt. 1:23).Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-35733296809633593872020-06-11T21:11:00.001-05:002020-06-11T21:11:40.446-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Heaven's Final CallDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," The Bible is revered by both Muslims and Christians, the latter accepting it as the inspired Word of God. Its clear teaching is that for more than 170 years we have been living in the cosmic Day of Atonement, the grand original of which the ancient Israelite day of atonement was a type or symbol. This was the most solemn day of their year, the onlyUleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-27769530170286998342020-06-10T21:21:00.001-05:002020-06-10T21:21:35.143-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Can We Make the Good News Too Good?Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," Can we make the Good News of the gospel too good? When Jesus says, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matt. 11:30), can we be naïve and take Him too seriously? Do we need some special intelligence not to be misled? To challenge us further, He tells Saul of Tarsus that it's "hard" to go on being lost (Acts 26:Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12376789.post-27654860541364290862020-06-09T21:11:00.001-05:002020-06-09T21:11:37.247-05:00Dial Daily Bread: Let Your Soul Feast on the PsalmsDear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread," As we face the tumultuous events of the last days of earth's history, our Savior feels for us. He says, "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me" (John 14:1). Psalm 23:4 says, "I will fear no evil; for You are with me." What the Bible means is don't give your permission for your heart to &Uleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484865630577013932noreply@blogger.com