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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."
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Undaunted Faith #8 -- Joshua 2:8-24 -- Are you an ezer?
Courage is simply what we do when we love someone or something more than we love ourselves. When we love someone or something more than we love ourselves we do courageous stuff! And courage is closely related to undaunted faith, right?
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Undaunted Faith #7 -- Joshua 2:1-12 -- You are seen and known and loved!
Among the people of northern Natal in South Africa, the most common greeting, like hello in English, is the expression: Sawu Bona. It literally means, I see you. You are seen. If I don't see you, far more importantly, God does. In fact, a...
Undaunted Faith #6 -- Joshua 1:7-9 -- Who gets your ears?
Hey what voices are getting your ears right now? Or what influencers are getting your scrolling eyes right now? There are voices out there that some of you have listened to all your life. Some of them were bad voices; made you feel like you had...
Undaunted Faith #5 -- Joshua 1:1-9 -- Don't be afraid, God is with you!
In this episode, we are going to talk about the most common command in the Bible and the most common promise. The two of them go together, (God's most common command and God's most common promise) to give birth to an undaunted faith. If you are...
MORE #5 -- Colossians 2 -- No one else can bring you life like Jesus!
Can I tell you what I believe, what I've experienced... there's a desire, a deep desire in each of us, it goes deeper than our hearts, it's woven into the very fabric of our souls. We were born with it, created for it. On this si...
Undaunted Faith #4 -- Numbers 14 -- God is greater than your giants!
When Joshua and Caleb came back from the land of promise with 10 others, having spied out the land, one thing they all agreed upon was that there giants in the land. But where they differed was that 10 thought the giants were too much for them,...
Undaunted Faith #3 -- Numbers 13 -- What is your step of faith?
In Hebrews chapter 11, the author is describing a faith, hall of fame and he writes these words in verse 6: "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he reward...
Undaunted Faith #2 -- Isaiah 64:1-8 -- It's not so bad to be clay, if God is the potter!
Isaiah 64:1-8 is a corporate prayer. It's a corporate lament for the presence of God from a people who were missing God. They want more God. But that corporate lament ends with hope, when Isaiah prays, "And yet, O Lord, you are our Father...
Undaunted Faith #1 -- Isaiah 64:1-4 -- Just wait a minute!
In this episode we are making our way to the Old Testament book of Joshua for a series on faith, a faith that is undaunted! And as we make our way to Joshua, we are going to ponder the call to wait but the call to wait is in a prayer that is ad...
MORE #4 -- Colossians 1:15-29 -- Jesus is nothing less than all-In for us!
This is episode #4, of my current teaching series at Calvary. We are going through the book of Colossians. In this episode, I'll ask some questions. Like, "Who do you say that Jesus is?" and "Who does your life say that Jesus is?" and "Am I all...
Some of My Favorite Prayers -- Philippians 1:3-11 -- "God 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...
Some of My Favorite Prayers #4 -- 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. I have t admit, it's not easy calling this one of my favorite prayers. But it has...
Some of My Favorite Prayers #3 -- I Chronicles 4:9-10 -- The Prayer of Jabez
The name Jabez in Hebrew, literally means "pain" or even worse, "bringer of pain." Can you imagine being given that name? Every time someone called his name, it was a reminder of pain. A reminder that his life was a disappointment or a hardship...
Some of my Favorite Prayers #2 -- Exodus 33 -- "God I want to be your friend..."
This prayer is not only a favorite prayer, one of my core prayers, it's prayed by my biblical mentor, Moses. "God I want to be your friend." What would happen, how would your life change, if you prayed that prayer and God answered it?
Some of my Favorite Prayers #1 -- Mark 4:35-41 -- "Breathe Deeply"
This five episode series will give me a bit of a break before we start the next MTB series on the Old Testament book of Joshua. We'll go chapter by chapter, story by story to see what "undaunted faith" looks like! But for now, we are looking at...
Prayer Matters #14 -- Luke 11:1-13 -- God is your Father, that's why prayer matters!
No teaching of Jesus was any more outlandish and theologically incorrect (in Jesus day) than the teaching that God is our Father. In Luke 11, when Jesus was asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, He gave them a model, an outline of sorts...
Prayer Matters #13 -- Mark 9:9-29 -- What's missing in your valley?
One last look at this mountain top encounter that leads to deep valley impact. So the crowd watches in awe and then we have that church fight and then Jesus heals a young boy brought by his father. His father brought him to Jesus. Why do ...
Prayer Matters #12 -- Mark 9:1-29 -- God has a purpose for your life!
You have a purpose, a calling, a mission. God created you for a purpose and we see it here in this story of a mountain top experience that has a limited duration and ends with Jesus leading the way back into the valley. Why? Because...
Prayer Matters #11 -- Mark 9:1-9 -- Jesus again...Amaze us!
It wasn't necessarily my plan. I don't plan ahead that well. But this episode and the last one on Colossians, really go hand in hand. So let me ask you, "Have you lost your wonder of Jesus? Has He just become ho-hum, just Jesus?" If so, I hope ...
MORE #3 -- Colossians 1:15-20 -- Jesus, would you amaze me?
In this episode I'm asking a question that I sensed Jesus asking me as I pondered Paul's words in Colossians 1. The question was, "Dan, have you lost the wonder?" How about you? Have you lost your wonder of Jesus? Maybe you grew up withJesu...
Prayer Matters #10 -- Mark 9:1-8 -- Do you want a mountain-top experience?
Some of my very best, in fact I think I could say that many of my best mountain-top experiences have involved prayer. Prayer matters. In this episode and the next one or two, we are looking at a moment in Jesus' life called "The Transfiguration...
Prayer Matters #9 -- Mark 11:12-25 -- A house of prayer filled with people of prayer...
In Mark 11, we hear Jesus say, (or maybe Jesus yell) "My house shall be called a House of Prayer." He could have also said, "My people will be called a people of prayer." Is worship important? Yes, but he didn't say my house will be a house of ...
Prayer Matters #8 -- Mark 11:12-25 -- Do you have any sacred places?
Over the years, millions and millions of people have gone on a pilgrimage to Israel. A pilgrimage is just a journey to a sacred place. Before Lynn and I were given the opportunity to go, (we actually have gone twice) I used to joke that I...
Prayer Matters #7 -- John 14:9-12 -- Can we do anything greater than what Jesus did?
I kind of hope that you will be tempted to respond to the question that titles this episode with a quick and resounding no. Absolutely not. We cannot do anything greater than what Jesus did. And if that's how you responded, that will make John ...
MORE #2 -- Colossians 1:6-14 -- There's more to you than you see!
Paul says in Ephesians 2:10, that you are God's masterpiece, created anew in Christ to do the good works He's prepared in advance for you to do. God is all-in on you. You are what God does and no matter where you find yourself at this moment, I...