Our Daily Bread

• Sitting with the Suffering March 13, 2026
  “Daddy, my head hurts.” “Daddy, I’m so cold.” “Daddy, can you rub my feet?” A high fever, chills, and body aches recently descended cruelly upon my teenage daughter. She wanted me to make it better. But mostly she just wanted me near. Eventually, we took her to urgent care. “Virus,” we were told. Nothing to […]
  Adam R. Holz
• The Cost of Commitment March 12, 2026
  A group of twenty-two Christian leaders traveled half a day to secretly meet and learn from a pastor who came from another country. If caught, the pastor would be deported, and the others would spend three years in prison. Eighteen of the twenty-two had already been imprisoned for their faith in Jesus. After the pastor […]
  Xochitl Dixon
• Rebellion and Return March 11, 2026
  The Wild One is a 1953 movie starring Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler, a troubled, brooding leader of a motorcycle gang. In one scene, a young woman notices a gang member’s jacket with the initials, B.R.M.C. When she learns that the “R” stands for rebels, she laughs and touches the arm of Brando as he […]
  Mike Wittmer
• The Hope Jesus Brings March 10, 2026
  It began with an email a grieving father sent to me. He had lost his daughter Alyssa—a college junior—in a car accident, and he needed to hear from someone who understood his wrenching pain. Nearly three hundred emails and four years later, Craig and I were finally able to meet in person. His job had […]
  Dave Branon
• True Satisfaction in God March 9, 2026
  Thirty years ago, I participated in an activity at an unemployment workshop that I still remember today. My fellow laid-off co-workers and I were asked to write our retirement speeches. Huh? We were looking for work and far from retirement age. But the facilitator revealed the purpose of the activity by saying, “Your speech will […]
  Katara Patton