Read: Genesis 39:1–12 | Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 13–15; John 7:1–27 Play/PauseMute/UnmuteVol+Vol-Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes But he refused. Genesis 39:8 A swimming instructor in New Jersey saw a car sinking into Newark Bay and heard the driver inside screaming “I can’t swim” as his SUV quickly sank into the murky waters.…

Our Choices Matter — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada

Read: Matthew 6:5–9 | Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 10–12; John 6:45–71 Play/PauseMute/UnmuteVol+Vol-Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes Pray to your Father. Matthew 6:6 Madeleine L’Engle made it a habit to call her mother once a week. As her mother moved into her later years, the beloved spiritual writer called more frequently, “just to…

Keep in Touch — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada

Read: Psalm 116:1–7 | Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 7–9; John 6:22–44 Play/PauseMute/UnmuteVol+Vol-Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes He turned his ear to me. Psalm 116:2 In the book Physics, Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss ask: “When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no animal is nearby to hear it,…

You Are Heard — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada

Read: Zephaniah 3:17–20 | Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 4–6; John 6:1–21 Play/PauseMute/UnmuteVol+Vol-Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes He will take great delight in you. Zephaniah 3:17 Researchers at Emory University used MRI scans to study the brains of grandmothers. They measured empathetic responses to images that included their own grandchild, their own adult…

Grandmother Research — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada

Read: Isaiah 43:1–7 | Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 1–3; John 5:25–47 Play/Pause Mute/Unmute Vol+ Vol- Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1 The Sunday after I’d started working as a youth leader at a church…

God Remembers Names — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada

Read: John 1:6–13 | Bible in a Year: 2 Kings 24–25; John 5:1–24 Play/PauseMute/UnmuteVol+Vol-Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes To all who did receive him . . . [Jesus] gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 In 1859, Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States. Norton had made—and lost—his…

Who Am I? — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada

Read: Psalm 19:1–6 | Bible in a Year: 2 Kings 22–23; John 4:31–54 Play/PauseMute/UnmuteVol+Vol-Download Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one. Isaiah 40:26 In 2021, a multination effort led to the launch of the…

Exploring the Stars — Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada