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About Our Daily Bread   

Since it was first published in 1956, Our Daily Bread has become the resource for which RBC Ministries is best known. The daily devotional thoughts published in Our Daily Bread help readers spend time each day in God’s Word.

Our Daily Bread is published and distributed worldwide in more than 40 languages by RBC Ministries offices around the globe.  RBC Ministries also produces a variety of other Bible resources, which are available for the asking.  RBC Ministries is not funded or endowed by any group or denomination, many people, making even the smallest of donations, enable RBC Ministries to reach others with the life-changing wisdom of the Bible.

Our Daily Bread radio is a daily audio program that features insights from the pages of Our Daily Bread. Each daily thought is designed to draw the listener into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ and to evoke responses of worship, love, trust and obedience.

Today, Our Daily Bread is distributed via print, large-print, radio, podcast, email, rss and mobile. For social networking users, find Our Daily Bread on Twitter and Facebook.

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No Risk
http://odb.org/2013/06/17/no-risk/
Published: June 17, 2013 5:00am
A colleague recently shared an experience I don’t intend to try personally—bungee jumping. I found his description of the event both fascinating and terrifying. To think of jumping headfirst from a bridge hundreds of feet in the air suspended only by
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Strength Of A Man
http://odb.org/2013/06/16/strength-of-a-man/
Published: June 16, 2013 5:00am
Some years ago I found myself in an elevator with a couple of men. It was late at night, and we all looked weary. The elevator came to a stop, and a larger-than-life cowboy ambled in, wearing a battered hat, an old, stained sheepskin coat, and rundow
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To God Be The Glory
http://odb.org/2013/06/15/to-god-be-the-glory/
Published: June 15, 2013 5:00am
When Jason was asked to sing at a church he was visiting, he was delighted to participate even though he wasn’t asked until a few minutes before the service started. He chose a familiar hymn, “To God Be the Glory,” because it was a song that was espe
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Imaginary Friend?
http://odb.org/2013/06/14/imaginary-friend/
Published: June 14, 2013 5:00am
Not long ago, I heard about this billboard along the highway: “God is an imaginary friend—choose reality. It will be better for all of us.”
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Stay Connected
http://odb.org/2013/06/13/stay-connected/
Published: June 13, 2013 5:00am
I woke up one morning and discovered that my Internet connection was not working. My service provider conducted some tests and concluded that my modem needed to be replaced, but the earliest they could do so was the next day. I panicked a little when
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Unfinished Business
http://odb.org/2013/06/12/unfinished-business/
Published: June 12, 2013 5:00am
At age 99, Leo Plass received his college diploma from Eastern Oregon University. He had stopped working on his teaching degree during the 1930s when he left college to earn an income in the logging industry. Seventy-nine years later, he completed th
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Savor Every Bite
http://odb.org/2013/06/11/savor-every-bite/
Published: June 11, 2013 5:00am
My wife Martie often tells me, “Joe, you eat too fast! Slow down and enjoy your meal.” I’m usually done long before she is, because she takes the time to savor every bite.
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A Letter From C. S. Lewis
http://odb.org/2013/06/10/a-letter-from-c-s-lewis/
Published: June 10, 2013 5:00am
In September 1961, Harvey Karlsen, a high school student in Brooklyn, New York, wrote to C. S. Lewis in England. Harvey had read Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters and asked the author, “When you wrote this book, did Satan give you any trouble, and if
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Obedience Is Worship
http://odb.org/2013/06/09/obedience-is-worship/
Published: June 9, 2013 5:00am
While I was traveling with a chorale from a Christian high school, it was great to see the students praise God as they led in worship in the churches we visited. What happened away from church was even better to see. One day the group discovered that
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Where Did I Come From?
http://odb.org/2013/06/08/where-did-i-come-from/
Published: June 8, 2013 5:00am
My 7-year-old African-American friend Tobias asked me a thought-provoking question the other day: “Since Adam and Eve were white, where did black people come from?” When I told him we don’t know what “color” they were and asked him why he thought the
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