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More Than Bread
It's not enough to get into God's Word, we need to let His Word get into us. "More Than Bread" is a podcast featuring Pastor Dan Nold from Calvary Church in State College, PA. It focuses on simply reading the Bible (with a few comments) in the hopes that listening to God's Word, learning from God's Word and leaning into God's Word will shape our hearts, minds, and souls to bring us life. As Jesus said, "We do not live by bread alone, we live by every Word that comes from the mouth of God."
Episodes
793 episodes
Our Unfinished Story #7 -- Nehemiah 1 (review) -- "I need a breakthrough!"
In the midst of all the rubble, all the pain, all the conflict, all the brokenness in our world, I am reminded of this. I am reminded that God is our Unwavering Certainty in the midst of uncertainty. He is our Loving Father who covers us in his...
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Our Unfinished Story #6 -- Nehemiah 1:4-11 -- Are we owning our rubble?
Are we owning our rubble? That's the question that will end this episode. Remember the BLESS acronymn that gives us some rebuilding, story-writing, principles? B is for "Be Still." L is "Look for the rubble." Nehemiah allows his heart to be sat...
Our Unfinished Story #5 -- Nehemiah 1:4-11 -- Have you ever travailed in prayer?
You won't find much written on travailing prayer today. If you want to read about travailing prayer you have to read old books, and listen to old sermons, sermons and books birthed in revival. And yet, the Bible's pages are filled with examples...
Our Unfinished Story #4 -- Nehemiah 1:1-11 -- What is my holy discontent?
In this episode, I'll start with a question for you to ask yourself, "When I look around at a broken world, what grabs my heart? What is broken in the world, or who is broken in the world, that breaks my heart?" Another way to ask that question...
Our Unfinished Story #3 -- Nehemiah 1:1-6 -- Is there glory in your story?
Over and over again, through the years, I've prayed Tozer's prayer, "Lord make me a person to whom you can entrust your glory." But Nehemiah is a reminder that we probably won't see His glory without some of groaning on our part. Awhile back, w...
Our Unfinished Story #2 -- Haggai 2 -- God stir up our spirits!
Vance Havner, a preacher and revivalist born in 1901 once wrote these words,"The early Christians did not need a shot in the arm every Sunday to keep them going. They knew Jesus and they upset the world and worried the devil and gave wic...
Our Unfinished Story #1 -- Haggai 1 -- Time for a turn of the page?
Your story is unfinished. Sometimes we look at certain chapters of our life and we think, "That’s the story of my life. We usually say those words in the midst of hard times. Sometimes we say them in despair and discouragement as we look at the...
The Jesus Way #68 -- John 20:21 -- SENT to love like Jesus!
You are sent to love people all the way to Jesus. It's not enough to be like Jesus, and love like Jesus, on the Jesus Way we are sent to love others all the way to Jesus. That's our purpose. That's our "why." What if the most critical issue fac...
The Jesus Way #67 -- John 1/Review -- We can't love Jesus if we don't love the Word!
As we come to the end, I'll go back to the beginning to summarize. John 1. Jesus is the Word. Don’t miss this, the connection between Jesus and the Word. It's a connection that goes beyond metaphor into the land of mystical. It goes beyon...
The Jesus Way #66 -- John 21 (FINAL) -- Home for Breakfast!
This episode is another weekend message from Calvary as we continue on our "Homecoming" series. It just so happens to hit John 21. Yes if you have listened to all of the episodes on John 21. You will remember that story. But it's one of my favo...
The Jesus Way #65 -- John 21 -- 3 Kindling points for a burning heart!
I know you are probably getting a bit tired of this story in John 21. Almost done. :) But in this episode, I want to challenge you to enter the story. I want to challenge you to live your life in such a way that it attracts people to the fire o...
The Jesus Way #64 -- John 21 & Acts 2:41-47 -- We need a passion revolution!
At Calvary we have a vision/mission to "build a church without walls." It's a CWOW vision. Part of our description of that puts it this way, "Envision a community so passionate about Jesus Christ and the glory of God that God doesn't just...
The Jesus Way #63 -- John 21:1-19 -- What do I love more than Jesus?
What I hope you will get every time you come to "More than Bread" is something more than bread. With all my heart I believe God wants to speak to you through this time. And then if you have been with me for a bit, you know that it’s not enough ...
The Jesus Way #62 -- John 21:1-19 -- What's your passion?
Every Good Friday at Calvary we have an immersive experience that we call the Way of the Cross. It’s all about the the passion of Jesus. In the cross that passion is not just an overwhelming, emotional or even sexual desire. That's too often ho...
The Jesus Way #61 -- Luke 15 -- The Jesus-Way leads home!
I know Luke isn't John, but Jesus is still Jesus and Luke 15 contains one of Jesus' most well-known stories. We're living with homesick hearts. We can't quite shake this sense that something's missing. But when Jesus walked out of t...
The Jesus Way #60 -- John 20:24-31 -- Are you looking for a sign?
I think so often, when am I wrestling with doubt, I start asking for a sign. Have you ever done that? John said that he recorded a series of signs in his gospel, so that we would believe. Seven signs were given so that we would believe. But it'...
The Jesus Way #59 -- John 20:19-31 -- Believing ain't easy!
As we are coming to the end of John's gospel, we are coming back to the beginning of the Jesus Way. What is the beginning of the Jesus Way? It all starts with faith, believing, trusting Jesus. But sometimes believing is hard. Over and over agai...
The Jesus Way #58 -- John 20:19-23 & Colossians 4:2 -- Are you a gritty pray-er?
At a Leadership Summit, a few years ago, Angela Duckworth laid out her research that suggests that every successful person, every person who makes a true impact on the world, has one unique charecteristic. She called it grit. And she defined gr...
The Jesus Way #57 -- John 20:1-23 -- What if He sent you?
In this episode we are going to hear the words from Jesus, "As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you." With all my heart I believe that that message was not just made for a handful of people who saw the risen Jesus, it's for each of us. A...
The Jesus Way #56 -- John 20:1-16 -- It's Personal!
We think of tombs as endings, final pages of the story. But for God every tomb is a transition. Think of the amazing global transition that started in Jesus' tomb. God reset the world and life will never be the same. What if the Easter tombston...
The Jesus Way #55 -- John 18-19 -- Such a dark, difficult, and in the end very good Friday...
I am recording this episode for Good Friday. That first Holy Week Friday, the one before the first Easter, no one would have called it Good Friday. Traumatic Friday. End-of-Hope Friday. Last Friday. Dark Difficult Deadly Friday. It’s only looki...
The Jesus Way #54 -- John 13 -- We follow a King whose crown is a towel...
Yes it appears to be a bit of a regression from John 17 back to John 13. But think of it as a recap to our look at John 14-17. John 13 is where it all started. The Lord's supper, last supper before the cross. If you listen to these as they drop...
The Jesus Way #53 -- John 17:20-26 -- Is his glory enough?
Few prayers have driven and shaped my heart and my ministry like this prayer; Jesus’ prayer. And you know he prayed it with great fervency in the last hours of his life. It is his prayer for us, that we would be one, that we would be one,...
The Jesus Way #52 -- John 17 -- The great dream on Jesus' heart...
There is a prayer in John 17, a prayer between Jesus and his Father, just before Jesus goes to the cross. At the heart of that prayer is a simple request, "Father make them one. All those who will believe in me, make them one." Honestly I find ...
The Jesus Way #51 -- Luke 19:36-46 -- Tears in his eyes, and a fire in his heart!
We are starting a new series at Calvary called "Homecoming" and I'll be putting them on each Monday. This episode is on the Palm Sunday story. It gives us a look at this reality. Often when Jesus comes into a city, a neighborhood, a school, he ...