Bread of Life

10/28/2026

A prayer adapted from "The Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer.
The Infinitude of God

"My Heavenly Father, Let me see Your glory, if it must be from the shelter of the cleft rock and from beneath the protection of your covering hand. Whatever the cost to me in loss of friends or goods or length of days let me know You as You are, that I may adore You as I should. Through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen"

10/27/2026

10/14/2026

The Bible teaches us that ,as Christians, born from above, we are free from the bo***ge of a tyrant, even our sin nature, which always leads us to death, not because we have earned our freedom through our own labors but because another has paid the price for our freedom that we might, by faith in what He has done, no longer be a slave to sin but rather use this freedom to become a slave to One who is the perfect Master, even Jesus Christ, who always gives us life and that more abundantly!

10/07/2026

We profoundly need each other. We are immersed in the Christian life together. There is no merely private faith – everything we are and do as individuals affects the church community. Yet many believers are not sure what the church is for. Some have denigrated the need for it altogether. We have produced a me-centered faith that would be foreign to most Christians throughout history. We have made a false gospel with individualized communion-on-the-go kits.

But if Christianity is not only about my individual connection with God, but is instead about God calling, forming, saving, and redeeming a people, then the church can never be relegated to “elective” status. Christ did not send His Holy Spirit only to individuals. He did not merely seek personal relationships with His followers. The good news is not simply that I can believe and thus make it to heaven, or even that I can believe and live out my life among a band of Christian friends.

Jesus sent His Spirit to a people. The preservation of our faith and the endurance of the saints is not an individual promise; it is a promise that God will redeem and preserve His church! We know Him in His fullness because we are joined to Him in His Body, the church. In this joining, we do not lose our individuality or our individual stories of conversion and encounter with Christ. Instead, our own small stories are wrapped up in the story of all believers throughout time, which are together part of the eternal story of Christ.

(The Liturgy of the Ordinary – Sacred Practices of Everyday Life – Tish Harrison Warren)

10/07/2026

A prayer adapted from "The Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer.
The Omnipotence of God

"My Heavenly Father, I have heard You say, “I am the Almighty God, walk before Me and be perfect.” But unless You enable me by the exceeding greatness of Your power, how can I, who am by nature weak and sinful, walk in a perfect way? Grant that I may learn to lay hold on the working of the mighty power which wrought in Christ when You did raise Him from the dead and set Him at Your own right hand in the heavenly places. Amen"

10/03/2026

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09/26/2026

We sang this song last Sunday at Bread of LIfe, and I was struck with the truth of how God answers our prayers in ways that seem so contradictory from what we expect, but He knows just what is needed to achieve just what we asked for. A very old song but so true!!!

ASKED THE LORD THAT I MIGHT GROW
(Words by John Newton (1779)

I asked the Lord that I might grow
In faith and love and ev’ry grace
Might more of His salvation know
And seek more earnestly His face

‘Twas He who taught me thus to pray
And He, I trust, has answered prayer
But it has been in such a way
As almost drove me to despair

I hoped that in some favored hour
At once He’d answer my request
And, by His love’s constraining pow’r
Subdue my sins and give me rest

Instead of this, He made me feel
The hidden evils of my heart
And let the angry pow’rs of hell
Assault my soul in ev’ry part

Yea, more with His own hand He seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed
Humbled my heart and laid me low

“Lord, why is this,” I trembling cried
“Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death?”
“’Tis in this way,” the Lord replied
“I answer prayer for grace and faith.”

“These inward trials I employ
From self and pride to set thee free
And break thy schemes of earthly joy
That thou may’st find thy all in Me.”

Words by John Newton (1779). Music: traditional. Public Domain.Fo...

09/22/2026

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09/16/2026

A prayer adapted from "The Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer.
The Immutability of God

"O Christ my Lord, You have been my dwelling place in all generations. As conies to their rock, so have I run to You for safety as birds from their wanderings, so have I flown to You for peace. Chance and change are busy in my little world of nature and men, but in You I find no variableness nor shadow of turning. I rest in You without fear or doubt and face my tomorrows without anxiety. Amen"