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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."
More Than Bread
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 heart becomes the great prayer on Christ's lips. This is the longest recorded prayer of Christ in the Bible. The whole prayer is the whole chapter of John 17. We are just
looking at the last section of his prayer, because that's where he prays for us. He prays first for himself, then he prays for his friends. And then he looks down through the centuries to come and he prays for you and me.
So you might say, that as we listen to Christ's prayer, we're kind of on holy ground. As we listen in on Jesus' prayer for us, your name is in there. And what is his prayer? "Father make them one. Help them to love better."