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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
405 episodes
Valuing God's Words #5 -- John 15:1-11 -- Just imagine the impact of a fruitful life!
"If you remain in me, your life will be filled with fruit!" Jesus is saying that if we connect with him and his words go deep into us and stick, our lives will be fruitful. You will make a difference in people's lives. You will have an im...
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Season 5
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Episode 405
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22:49
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Valuing God's Words #4 -- John 15:1-11 -- Am I sticking close to Jesus?
Everytime we open the Bible, it can be like sitting down with Jesus. I really believe that, no matter what page we are on. So here's what I want you to do for just a few moments; picture yourself with Jesus, walking by a stream, catching up ove...
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Season 5
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Episode 404
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21:43
Valuing God's Word #3 -- James 1:16-26 -- Can God be trusted?
On this podcast, I often talk about the three L's; if we want to thrive on every word that comes from the mouth of God; we need to listen, we need to learn, and we need to lean in. Listening and learning, I find those two L's to be a bit easier...
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Season 5
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Episode 403
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22:07
The Value of God's Word #2 -- James 1:16-26 -- "Who's asking God for meekness?"
This episode is about two different character qualities... trust and meekness. Do you trust God and do you receive His Word with meekness. Some of us think the reason we can't believe is because of our minds... when really the problem is our he...
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24:39
The Value of God's Word #1 -- James 1:16-25 -- Why more than bread?
As we get started back up with this podcast, I want to take some time, after 400 episodes to remind us why we are doing this. In Psalm 119:72, the psalmist writes, "The words of your mouth are better to me than thousands of shekels of gold and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 401
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23:25
Praying Scripture #40 -- James 5:13-18 -- "When you need a miracle, but all you get is a whisper..."
As we close our series on "Praying Scripture" it’s a bit different episode; not so much a prayer in scripture, as it is a scripture for praying people, or a scripture about a praying person. The scripture is in James 6, and the praying man is E...
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Season 5
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Episode 400
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23:24
Praying Scripture #39 -- Luke 10:38-42 -- "Only one thing is worthy of your concern..."
As we make our way to the end of our series, "Praying Scripture," we are continuing to look at the other side of prayer. Listening. If prayer is a conversation with God, the other side of prayer is listening. In this episode we are going back t...
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Season 5
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Episode 399
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22:01
Praying Scripture #38 -- Mark 5:1-20 -- "Jesus I need a breakthrough..."
As we near the end of our current series, "Praying Scripture" we are talking about the other side of prayer. If prayer is a conversation with God, and we never listen to God, we are woefully ignorant of the greatest blessing of prayer. So we ar...
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Season 5
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Episode 398
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22:44
Praying Scripture #37 -- John 15:5-8 -- "Jesus I'm listening..."
So to wrap up our praying scripture series and keep our focus on the value of every word that comes from the mouth of God. In this episode and at least the next, I want to talk about the other side of prayer. The listening side. Prayer was neve...
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22:08
Praying Scripture #36 -- Hebrews 10:19-22 -- "Our all-access invitation into God's presence!"
The book of Hebrews is written for people who had lost a measure of their passion for Jesus, people who had gotten so distracted by other pursuits that they rarely paid attention to God. They didn't have video games, social media, netflix, or 2...
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Season 5
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Episode 396
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24:00
Praying Scripture #35 -- I Timothy 2:1-8 -- "Is Prayer Your First Thing?"
In I Timothy 2, Paul challenges Timothy, his young partner, to make prayer his first thing. I think today, Paul might say it like this, "So here's the deal. My heart's desire is that pple would pray everywhere; that people would pray in t...
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Season 5
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Episode 395
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24:00
Praying Scripture #34 -- Colossians 1:3-12 -- "God help me make a difference in my world!"
When I was a kid, church wasn't terrible but it wasn't at the top of my wanna-do list. I was always looking for reasons not to go. You name the excuse I tried to use it. And one of the things my father never said was, "Hey it's up to you. As lo...
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Season 5
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Episode 394
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22:08
Praying Scripture #33 -- Philippians 1:3-11 -- "God of the second chances, help me finish well!"
In this episode we are looking at a prayer from Paul in the book of Philippians. I’ve called it a finishing prayer. It’s a prayer to finish life well. In Bobby Clinton’s research on leaders, he found that about 1/3 of Christian leaders finish w...
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Season 5
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Episode 393
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23:05
Praying Scripture #32 -- Philippians 4:6-7 -- "The secret sauce for anxiety--gratitude!"
All through the New Testament is an often overlooked spiritual discipline meant shape our prayers. It's the discipline of gratitude, thanksgiving to God. "Don’t be anxious, don’t worry about anything," Paul writes in Philippians 4. But in every...
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Season 5
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Episode 392
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23:39
Praying Scripture #31 -- Ephesians 3:14-21 -- After 36 hours of prayer & worship, this is my prayer!
This one is a bit different. A combination of a report on joining with 10 other congregations and two campus ministries for 36 hours of non-stop prayer and worship and another look at my favorite prayer in all of scripture.Enjoy!
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Season 5
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Episode 391
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24:15
Praying Scripture #30 -- Ephesians 3:14-21 -- "Ask Him for more..."
Sometimes people make a distinction between praying big prayers and praying small prayers. But do you realize that according to Paul in Ephesians 3:14-21, every prayer we will ever pray is smaller than His power to accomplish it. T...
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Episode 390
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23:50
Praying Scripture #29 -- Ephesians 1:15-23 (part 2) -- "God I need help...."
Ephesians 1:15-23 is a prayer for power, resurrection power that is available for us. Can I tell you why this is so important? It's so important because what we need we can't get on our own. Who we need to become we can't become on our ow...
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Season 5
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Episode 389
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23:45
Praying Scripture #28 -- Ephesians 1:15-23 -- "Open the eyes of my heart, so I can know you!"
In Ephesians 1:15-23, Paul prays a prayer for his friends and in the midst of this prayer are the words, the request, "God give them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that they can know you better." Later he will ask God to open the eyes o...
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Season 5
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Episode 388
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24:46
Praying Scripture #27 -- Romans 8 & 15:13 -- "God of hope, I need some hope!"
The prayer for this episode is found in Romans 15:13. It’s a very simple but powerful prayer that Paul prays for his friends. Here it is: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with ho...
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Season 5
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Episode 387
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21:41
Praying Scripture #26 -- Acts 4:1-31 -- "Give us courage to share Jesus with others..."
In Acts 4, the church prays for courage and boldness in the face of threats and persecution. I've seen this in other places, Myanmar, Iran. Courage and compassion in the midst of hardship and persecution. And so often the partnering activity in...
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Season 5
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Episode 386
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24:18
Praying Scripture #25 -- John 17:20-26 -- "Father help us to love better..."
John 17 contains a dream on Christ's heart. His dream is to unleash upon the world a people who love more, and love deeper, and love longer than anyone else in the world. And so it's not surprising that in John 17, the great dream on Christ's h...
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Season 5
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Episode 385
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22:27
Praying Scripture #24 -- Luke 5:17-26 -- "Jesus would you do something amazing?"
I call this story in Luke 5, the fellowship of the mat. Four guys bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus. But here's the point that grips me, Jesus told the four friends that their faith is what brought their friend in need, a miracle. This is r...
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Season 5
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Episode 384
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24:39
Praying Scripture #23 -- Mark 9:14-29 -- "Jesus I believe...and I don't. Help me in my doubt!"
In Mark 9, a man come looking for Jesus. This man came with a need; a parent who found the child of his heart beaten up and locked up by some force beyond his control. He had tried everything else, but nothing worked. Then he heard about Jesus....
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Season 5
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Episode 383
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21:07
Praying Scripture #22 -- Mark 5:21-34 -- "Just a touch Jesus, that's all I need."
Mark 5 contains a prayer for healing. A woman who had experienced chronic brokenness that left her spiritually, relationally, and emtionally isolated. She heard about Jesus, so she came. A somewhat common beginning to prayer. She heard about Je...
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Season 5
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Episode 382
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21:53
Praying Scripture #21 -- Matthew 26:36-46 -- "I surrender..."
Be honest, there is at least a bit of our heart that sees the title, "I surrender..." and thinks, maybe I'll just pass this prayer by...get back into it tomorrow. Matthew 26 contains a prayer of surrender made by Jesus before he went to the cro...
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Season 5
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Episode 381
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23:15