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More Than Bread

Dan Nold (Pastor of Calvary Church)

675 episodes

1 day ago

Send me a Text Message! In this episode we going to focus on a promise and a challenge from Jesus. The promise is "Where your treasures lead, your heart will follow." The challenge is "so put your treasures in heaven, because your heart is made for heaven." Where your treasures lead your heart will follow. So where are you storing your treasures? Where is your heart? In the grand scheme of collecting stuff and counting stuff and saving stuff and spending stuff, whatever you do, don't lose you...

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Send me a Text Message! In this episode we going to focus on a promise and a challenge from Jesus. The promise is "Where your treasures lead, your heart will follow." The challenge is "so put your treasures in heaven, because your heart is made for heaven." Where your treasures lead your heart will follow. So where are you storing your treasures? Where is your heart? In the grand scheme of collecting stuff and counting stuff and saving stuff and spending stuff, whatever you do, don't lose you...

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Religion & Spirituality

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More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #61 -- Matthew 6:19-24 -- Whatever you do, don't lose your heart!

Send me a Text Message! In this episode we going to focus on a promise and a challenge from Jesus. The promise is "Where your treasures lead, your heart will follow." The challenge is "so put your treasures in heaven, because your heart is made for heaven." Where your treasures lead your heart will follow. So where are you storing your treasures? Where is your heart? In the grand scheme of collecting stuff and counting stuff and saving stuff and spending stuff, whatever you do, don't lose you...

1 day ago

18 minutes

More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #60 -- Matthew 6:5-15 -- Daddy, come here!

Send me a Text Message! Sometimes we make prayer so complicated! And yes, there are depths to prayer that I may never fully explore or understand, because there are depths to God that will ever be mysterious to me. But at the same time, there is meant to be a simplicity and an ease to prayer that is the ease of a son or daughter coming to their Father, their Papa God. Stop trying to earn it. You can't anyway, but we don't come into His presence because we earn it. We come in...

4 days ago

21 minutes

More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #59 -- Matthew 6:5-15 -- Learning to pray like His kid...

Send me a Text Message! I believe that the most important part of Jesus teaching on prayer in Matthew 6:5-15 is the Father part. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray he said, "Ok, when you pray...say Father." Much of the Lord's prayer was not all that different from the standard Jewish liturgical prayers of the day; one big difference, "When you pray, call Him Father." When Jesus lived, what he had to say about God blew away the routine categories of God-pictures.&nb...

5 days ago

19 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #58 -- Matthew 5:48 -- I'm not an oopster, but I am His kid!

Send me a Text Message! I think our greatest problem is a Sin-Soaked Heart. It keeps us from thriving, leads to addiction, ravages marriages and breaks families, it hardens hearts & creates anxiety filled minds, it drains joy and reaps discouragement..it causes us to hate or even worse ignore our neighbors. We sacrifice our kids on the altar of success and we care about so much that matters so little. Yet in the midst of my sin, my greatest hope is that we are relentlessly pursued b...

6 days ago

21 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #57 -- Matthew 5:17-48 -- I've got a problem!

Send me a Text Message! How many of us have a problem? I wonder if you could make a case that we are defined, at least in part, by the problems we embrace. What's your problem? Sometimes we call it a holy discontent; an external problem so deep in your heart that it's hard to go to sleep without pondering it's solution. Maybe it's not just your problem, it's broader and you want to see it solved for others. What's your problem? Perhaps it's lonliness, or depression or orphans or world h...

1 week ago

20 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #56 -- Matthew 5-7 -- We need a different church!

Send me a Text Message! I know sometimes "the church" is a mess & right now it's nowhere near the center of attention in central PA (or wherever you live). But "the church" is where eternity is aimed. If you hate the church, heaven's going to be a bit awkward. The sermon on the mount is the blueprint for the life of the church because it's all about becoming like Jesus. Could that be our greatest problem today? Can I tell you why we aren't the center of attention in centra...

1 week ago

36 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #55 -- Matthew 5:43-47 -- God please help me fly!

Send me a Text Message! When my daughter Katy was about 3, for a season of time, one of her favorite prayers was, "And God please help me fly." She had watched the movie Dumbo. I was just glad she wasn't asking God for big ears! But that's my prayer at the end of this episode. God please help us to fly. Give us a love that soars. This is the dream on the heart of Christ for his church. That our love would soar. That we would be known for the size of our hearts. Listen, we can do t...

1 week ago

19 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #54 -- Matthew 5:43-47 -- What is Jesus dreaming?

Send me a Text Message! Jesus once said that we would be known as His apprentices by how we love. You are not know as Jesus followers by how you dress or where you live or how successful you are, certainly not by how you vote, but by how you love. Some of you grew up with those four letters, WWJD (What Would Jesus Do). They were meant to be a guideline for life, but sometimes I think it's helpful to ask WIJD (What is Jesus dreaming). What is Jesus dreaming? What matt...

1 week ago

20 minutes

More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #53 -- Matthew 5:38-48 -- I want a don't-quit, gritty, astoundingly generous grace!

Send me a Text Message! As we finish the story of Louis Zamperini...let me say this, "I don't know your story, I don't know your life, I don't know your hurt, your trauma, or your sin, but I do know that the grace of Christ is greater and goes deeper and heals more." And when real-life grace flows into your life from Christ and out of your life to others, you will be a real-life blessing. Paul writes these words in 2 Corinthians 9:6, "The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap s...

1 week ago

22 minutes

More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #52 -- Matthew 5:38-42 -- Has my generosity ever astonished anyone?

Send me a Text Message! Astonishing generosity. In the midst of NT Wright’s book, entitled, Jesus and the Victory of God, he uses those two words to describe a key characteristic that Jesus’ expected of his followers. Astonishing generosity. Let those two words roll around in your brain a bit, those who follow Jesus should be marked by astonishing generosity, not just marked by the astonishing generosity of Jesus to us, but because of his generosity to us, we should be marked by our astonishi...

2 weeks ago

22 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #51 -- Matthew 7:24-29 -- Thriving in the Midst of the Storms...

Send me a Text Message! My goal and prayer for this episode as we are coming to the end of Jesus' mountain-top message is that we would love His Words. It's that simple. There's no breakthrough without His Words. We won't thrive in the storms of life without His Words. So we listen to the words of Jesus, we learn His principles and practices, and then we lean in by relentlessly responding. Listen, learn and lean. Without His Words, we will not live different. This episode is my message from t...

2 weeks ago

34 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #50 -- Matthew 5:33-37 -- When we get real with God...

Send me a Text Message! Hypocrisy is hiding what's inside. Authenticity is transparency, revealing what's inside. But integrity goes deeper, integrity requires a transformation of what's inside. And here's the blessing of integrity; when we get real with God, the real God shows up. Can I tell you what I fear most? I fear missing out on the real God showing up. I want to experience God's presence. I want to be a conduit of God's power. I want to experience God at work in our commun...

2 weeks ago

22 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #49 -- Matthew 5:33-37 -- Does my outside match my inside?

Send me a Text Message! It's a question of integrity. When you see the brilliant reds of a maple tree in the fall, you don't have to guess if they are hanging on an oak tree. When you are out hunting and you see horns, you don't need to guess the gender of the deer. Because in God's creation, what's on the outside is a good indicator of what's on the inside. But when it comes to people, that's not always the case. Sometimes the outside lies. There's no integrity. Integrity is not ...

2 weeks ago

20 minutes

More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #48 -- Matthew 5:31-32 -- What is the shape of a soft heart?

Send me a Text Message! If I could say anything to you, that you will remember from this episode, it's simply this, "Just let God love you." That's where a life that thrives gets it's start. We love because He first loved us. Let Him love you. Don't put up walls, keep your heart soft. Toward him and others. Let grace heal wounds and even overflow in the broken places around you. Let his forever-love be your journey's guard and guide. Let His love give you boldness to a...

2 weeks ago

21 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #47 -- Matthew 5:31-32 -- Everyone needs a soft heart...

Send me a Text Message! In this two verses Jesus deals with an area of brokennes, sin and failure that is all too often all too common in our world today. Divorce. He goes from adultery to divorce. In this episode we'll start by talking about marriage and the heart of a wedding and from there will be a challenge to guard your heart. But here's the deal, we don't guard our hearts by hardening our hearts...because when it comes to the pain of divorce... Everyone needs a soft heart.

3 weeks ago

20 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #46 -- Matthew 7:13-23 -- Living Different is a Choice

Send me a Text Message! At Calvary in our current series "Live Different" we are nearing the end of Jesus' mountain-top message. Which means we are nearing the end of this podcast series, but...we still probably have 8-10 more episodes to go. So buckle up and enjoy the ride! :) This episode is the most recent message I gave at Calvary. It's a look at the "narrow way with a narrow gate" and the "broad way with a wide gate." It's a challenge to make the "master-choice." It was a pretty powerful...

3 weeks ago

34 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #45 -- Matthew 5:27-30 -- How far will God go to love me?

Send me a Text Message! As we get into this episode on sex, lust and adultery... you may be asking the question, "How far will God go to love me?" That's the question I'll be answering before we put this episode to bed. And to be honest, my best answer is simply this. The cross is our reminder that God will go so far as to come down and give his life for you to show you his love. God will go so far as a cross to pursue us with all our heart. Never forget that truth!

3 weeks ago

21 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #44 -- Matthew 5:27-30 -- It's (not) all about sex...

Send me a Text Message! Our next section of Jesus' mountain-top message is on sex, adultery, and lust. And let me just say upfront, that one of the reasons why this is such a tough and tender topic is because there are so many people crying on the inside. Something you did, something done to you, a decision you regret, sometimes there's this deep sense of hidden inner shame. You're crying on the inside. And if that's you, you need to hear these words of Jesus within a context of knowing...

3 weeks ago

19 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #43 -- Matthew 5:21-26 -- Do I truly value relationships?

Send me a Text Message! Do I truly value relationships? You will hear some form of that question over and over again in this episode. If you want to be the light of the world, if you want to be a real life blessing, if you want to be a reconciler with a heart that won’t quit, you have to make relationships a priority. If you know anything about religion in Jesus day, presenting a sacrifice was a big deal. The common people had the opportunity to present a sacrifice maybe 2-3 times a yea...

3 weeks ago

21 minutes

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His Sermon, My Story #42 -- Matthew 5:21-26 -- Murder or Reconciliation?

Send me a Text Message! In talking about his football team, the legendary coach Vince Lombardi once said, "The difference between mediocrity and greatness is the feeling these guys have for each other. If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another." In some ways, he was just echoing the words of Jesus, when Jesus said that people would know; there would be an unmistakeable recognition that we are his apprentices by the quality of our love and the size of our h...

4 weeks ago

21 minutes