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More Than Bread

Dan Nold (Pastor of Calvary Church)

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."

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20:53

A Life of Prayer #35 -- James 4:6-10 -- Worse than...

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2025/07/30

Send me a Text Message! When I think of the state of the church of America, actually let me personalize it, when I think of the state of my own heart. Here is the thought that comes to mind. "It's worse than we think and it could be better than we can imagine." Some of you may not be ready to hear me say this, because it requires a softness of heart, an inclination of our souls to God. It requires a posture of surrender and brokenness and humility. It requires a choice to chase Christ w...

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A Life of Prayer #34 -- James 4:1-10 -- What is your...

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2025/07/29

Send me a Text Message! Sometimes I look around me at the beauty of creation, family and friends around me, good things happening in people lives, and answers to prayer. In moments like that, do you know what's hard to believe? It's really hard to believe that we are living in a war zone. Every night before I go to bed, I google the war-news about Myanmar and the Ukraine. I don't have to imagine their war zone. But sitting in my office, it's hard to believe I'm in a battle. But that's the mes...

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A Life of Prayer #33 -- James 3/Luke 8:11-15 -- What...

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2025/07/28

Send me a Text Message! In Luke 8, Jesus tells a story that in many ways sums up James 3. He shares a parable about seeds and soils and a 100 fold return in the harvest. But really it's all about words, and hearts, and a great return on investment in the lives of peole. It's about having the kind of heart that overflows with life on the people around us. So I can't help but ask the question, what is the texture of a good heart? That's wht this episode is all about.

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A Life of Prayer #32 -- James 3/Luke 8:4-8 -- Looking...

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2025/07/25

Send me a Text Message! What if I told you, that I am a stock guru? And if you will invest $100 using my method you will gain $10,000 by year end, a 100 fold increase. What would you say? The promise of a 100 fold return on investment seems almost too good to be true. But if it's true -- it's good. Isn't it? Apply that to any area of your life, education, exercise, a 100x return on investment sounds too good to be true. But if's true, it would be good, right? In this episode...

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A Life of Prayer #31 -- James 3:15-18 -- Something we...

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2025/07/24

Send me a Text Message! It's something we desperately need today, a wisdom that comes from above. We are living in a time when much of our culture is living by a wisdom that comes from below, filled with a me-first selfish-ambition. But a wisdom that comes from above is peace-loving and willing to yield. It's graciously humble and generously compassionate. It's a wisdom that is from above and we desperately need it today!

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A Life of Prayer #30 -- James 3:13-18 -- We need a...

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2025/07/23

Send me a Text Message! If I declare to you, "We need a radical heart-revolution!" what would you think I mean? I have a sneaky suspicion that James would say that it's all about humility. We need a radical heart-revolution that takes us out of the center of the world, even out of the center of our own world. One of the key characteristics of God's way--is described by James as "Doing good works with humility." This humility thing is so illusive. What does humility look like?&nbs...

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A Life of Prayer #29 -- James 3:6-12 -- What's at the...

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2025/07/22

Send me a Text Message! When I was a kid, my mom would often challenge me with this phrase, "Garbage in, garbage out." GIGO. It was her way of saying, you can't control your tongue, but you can control what's at the source. Sooner or later what's at the source, what's in your heart and mind is going to come out of your mouth. And how do we clean up the source? We let God's Words saturate our souls, our hearts and our minds? We let God's Words into our hearts, before our words go out our...

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A Life of Prayer #28 -- James 3:1-12 -- Do you need a...

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2025/07/21

Send me a Text Message! There is power in words. We know it because we’ve been on the receiving side of words that encouraged and words that destroyed. There are times when you've been so impacted by words, that in your heart of hearts you know what Solomon meant when he wrote in Proverbs 15:4, "The tongue the brings healing is a tree of life, but a lie crushes the spirit." Words can hurt. Words can give life. Words can seem to be heaven-sent and words can burn like hell. And sometimes,...

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A Life of Prayer #27 -- James 1-2 -- So prove it!

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2025/07/18

Send me a Text Message! We are back to the book of James. In this episode we will review James 1-2 a bit, and then in the next episode we dive into chapter 3. You know in reality the book of James is all about wisdom, practical wisdom, not just philosophical wisdom, but how to live life right. Wisdom that works. James says a lot about prayer, but he also says a lot about the Word. No spiritual practices are more important than the Word and prayer. It's that breathing in and breathing ou...

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A Psalm Pause #7 -- Psalm 51 (Part 3) -- Way more...

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2025/07/17

Send me a Text Message! This is my last Psalm Pause. I know, if you read the notes, I said that about the last one, but catch-up from vacation is...well...full. The next episode gets us back to the book of James and a life of prayer. I've been taking a bit of a break after 100 downloads and during my vacation. I've been reposting some Psalms that specifically hit some themes from our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. &n...

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A Psalm Pause #6 -- Psalm 51 (part 2)

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2025/07/16

Send me a Text Message! I've been taking a bit of a break as a reward for 100k downloads and as a pause during my vacation. But during this week+ break, I'm reposting some Psalms that I've chosen, specifically to hit some themes of our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. This is the last Psalms Pause...next episode is James 3. As I look around us, as I look among us, and as I look within me, I would say that a sin-soaked heart ...

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A Psalm Pause #5 -- Psalm 51 -- A prayer for the mess...

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2025/07/15

Send me a Text Message! I'm taking a bit of a break as a reward for 100k downloads and as a pause during my vacation. But during this week+ break, I'm reposting some Psalms that I've chosen, specifically to hit some themes of our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. If you are anything like me, reading the book of James brings some stuff to the surface of my heart that brings conviction of my mess. Psalm 51 takes us into t...

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A Psalm Pause #4 -- Psalm 37 (part 2) -- Do you have...

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2025/07/14

Send me a Text Message! I'm taking a bit of a break as a reward for 100k downloads and as a pause during my vacation. But during this week+ break, I'm reposting some Psalms that I've chosen, specifically to hit some themes of our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. So we are looking again at Psalm 37; too much for one episode and a great principle from James that we see here as well. God wants to give us the land...but th...

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A Psalm Pause #3 -- Psalm 37 -- The essence of a life...

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2025/07/11

Send me a Text Message! I'm taking a bit of a break as a reward for 100k downloads and as a pause during my vacation. But during this week+ break, I'm reposting some Psalms that I've chosen, specifically to hit some themes of our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. Psalm contains one of my favorite verses. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." There are so many goo...

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A Psalm Pause #2 -- Psalm 5 -- A Hopeful Lament?

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2025/07/10

Send me a Text Message! I'm taking a bit of a break as a reward for 100k downloads and as a pause during my vacation. But during this week+ break, I'm reposting some Psalms that I've chosen, specifically to hit some themes of our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. One thing I love about the writers of the psalms is that they bring their real self to the game. They don't try to hide the pain or the doubt. They don't sanit...

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A Psalm Pause #1 -- Psalm 1 -- How do I live a...

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2025/07/09

Send me a Text Message! I'm taking a bit of a break as a reward for 100k downloads and as a pause during my vacation. But during this week+ break, I'm reposting some Psalms that I've chosen, specifically to hit some themes of our current series, "A Life of Prayer." The themes include scripture, prayer, trusting God, and thriving. In Psalm 1 word that I cannot escape in Psalm 1 is the word "blessing." Psalm 1 is a description of the blessed life, the way of blessing, like a tree planted ...

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A Life of Prayer #26 -- James 2:14-26 -- How about a...

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2025/07/08

Send me a Text Message! Over and over again in the last part of James 2, we hear something like, "faith without works is dead." Faith that does not lead to action is useless. Faith is as faith does and if it doesn't, it probably isn't. I think what James is trying to say is that we can trust God, the real question is "Can He trust us." The question that we so frequently ask God, perhaps He is asking us, "Can I trust you?" James 2:14-26 gives us both a diagnostic for the condition of our faith...

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A Life of Prayer #25 -- James 2:8-13 -- Mercy beats...

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2025/07/07

Send me a Text Message! "Love your neighbor like you love yourself." Paul, James and Jesus all echo that challenge, that way of life. "Let the way that you love yourself set the standard for the way that you love your neighbor." In other words, ask yourself, What if my neighbor was me? How would I treat me? If I could wrap my neighbor in my skin and he was me, how much wld I love me? So that all the happiness that I seek for myself I would seek for my neighbor. What I seek for my kids, I woul...

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A Life of Prayer #24 -- James 2:5-13 -- Do you want a...

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2025/07/04

Send me a Text Message! Did you know that there's a royal law in the Bible? James calls it the royal law of love. Love your neighbor as you love yourself; the royal law. The Bible makes it incredibly clear that nothing matters more than relationships--nothing--first with God and second with people. In fact that very royal love, "Love your neighbor as yourself" is so stuck in the heart of God that it gets repeated in the Bible not once, but nine different times. In fact, the Bible seems to sug...

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A Life of Prayer #23 -- James 2:1-7 -- What's so good...

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2025/07/03

Send me a Text Message! I can't get away from James' words, "God has chosen the poor to be rich in faith." It reminds me of Jesus' words in the Beatitudes, "Blessed are the poor in Spirit." Blessed are the broken, the desperate. Blessed are those standing without pretense before God, stripped of all self-sufficiency, self-security, and self-righteousness. That's not easy for us to hear. Can I be honest? Growing up my heroes were not the poor and desperate. It wouldn't be far from true t...

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