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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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The Jesus Way #61 -- Luke 15 -- The Jesus-Way leads...

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2026/04/13

Send me a Text Message! I know Luke isn't John, but Jesus is still Jesus and Luke 15 contains one of Jesus' most well-known stories. We're living with homesick hearts. We can't quite shake this sense that something's missing. But when Jesus walked out of the tomb on Easter morning, He was flinging open the door to the home we couldn't find. Easter isn't just about Jesus coming back to life it's about us coming back home. I think that's part of the reason why this story is such a ...

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The Jesus Way #60 -- John 20:24-31 -- Are you looking...

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2026/04/10

Send me a Text Message! I think so often, when am I wrestling with doubt, I start asking for a sign. Have you ever done that? John said that he recorded a series of signs in his gospel, so that we would believe. Seven signs were given so that we would believe. But it's important to realize that a sign, even if we're given a sign, the sign gives direction, but it's not the destination. In fact, once you reach the destination, there is no longer any need for signs. Sign or not, the destin...

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The Jesus Way #59 -- John 20:19-31 -- Believing ain't...

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2026/04/09

Send me a Text Message! As we are coming to the end of John's gospel, we are coming back to the beginning of the Jesus Way. What is the beginning of the Jesus Way? It all starts with faith, believing, trusting Jesus. But sometimes believing is hard. Over and over again, the writers of scripture, Jesus himself over and over again connects an uncommonly good life, a life uncommon in both it's quanity and quality; he connects that kind of life with faith, with believing. It seems...

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The Jesus Way #58 -- John 20:19-23 & Colossians 4:2...

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2026/04/08

Send me a Text Message! At a Leadership Summit, a few years ago, Angela Duckworth laid out her research that suggests that every successful person, every person who makes a true impact on the world, has one unique charecteristic. She called it grit. And she defined grit as the child of passion and persistance. Persistance and passion together equals grit. So let me ask you, "Are you passionately persistant in prayer?" Or am I distracted, living with the illusion that I am a great multi-tasker...

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The Jesus Way #57 -- John 20:1-23 -- What if He sent...

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2026/04/07

Send me a Text Message! In this episode we are going to hear the words from Jesus, "As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you." With all my heart I believe that that message was not just made for a handful of people who saw the risen Jesus, it's for each of us. As the Father sent Jesus, Jesus is sending us. Think of all that entailed, all that was involved in Jesus' sending. What if in the same way, for the same purpose, Jesus has sent you? Coming out of the Easter season, coming at the ...

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The Jesus Way #56 -- John 20:1-16 -- It's Personal!

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2026/04/06

Send me a Text Message! We think of tombs as endings, final pages of the story. But for God every tomb is a transition. Think of the amazing global transition that started in Jesus' tomb. God reset the world and life will never be the same. What if the Easter tombstone is really your stepping stone? You know what a stepping stone is right? A stepping stone is something we need to go to a place we could never reach on our own. What if the trouble you're facing; the doubt, the darkness, t...

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The Jesus Way #55 -- John 18-19 -- Such a dark,...

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2026/04/03

Send me a Text Message! I am recording this episode for Good Friday. That first Holy Week Friday, the one before the first Easter, no one would have called it Good Friday. Traumatic Friday. End-of-Hope Friday. Last Friday. Dark Difficult Deadly Friday. It’s only looking back that we call it good. I’m going to do something a little bit different in this episode. Mostly, I’m just going to read the story. The gospel of John has 21 chapters, 2 of them, about 10% of the biography of Jesus is focus...

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The Jesus Way #54 -- John 13 -- We follow a King...

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2026/04/02

Send me a Text Message! Yes it appears to be a bit of a regression from John 17 back to John 13. But think of it as a recap to our look at John 14-17. John 13 is where it all started. The Lord's supper, last supper before the cross. If you listen to these as they drop, today is Thursday of Holy Week, the day that Jesus started the tradition of what we now call communion. And as we revisit that table meal, we are reminded that we follow a King whose crown is a towel. AND serving is His Way to ...

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The Jesus Way #53 -- John 17:20-26 -- Is his glory...

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2026/04/01

Send me a Text Message! Few prayers have driven and shaped my heart and my ministry like this prayer; Jesus’ prayer. And you know he prayed it with great fervency in the last hours of his life. It is his prayer for us, that we would be one, that we would be one, just like the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one. He prays that we would live in such a compelling community that everyone wants to be part of it. But it's not easy, right? None of us are perfect, all of us are flawed and we br...

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The Jesus Way #52 -- John 17 -- The great dream on...

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2026/03/31

Send me a Text Message! There is a prayer in John 17, a prayer between Jesus and his Father, just before Jesus goes to the cross. At the heart of that prayer is a simple request, "Father make them one. All those who will believe in me, make them one." Honestly I find myself grieved by how easily we minimize the unity at heart of his dream. He's praying that we would form a glory-saturated community that would reveal Jesus to the world around us. And in fact, I will suggest that Jesus g...

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The Jesus Way #51 -- Luke 19:36-46 -- Tears in his...

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2026/03/30

Send me a Text Message! We are starting a new series at Calvary called "Homecoming" and I'll be putting them on each Monday. This episode is on the Palm Sunday story. It gives us a look at this reality. Often when Jesus comes into a city, a neighborhood, a school, he comes in with tears in his eyes and a fire in his heart. He comes in with tears in his eyes for those who are missing their encounter with him, and a fire in his heart for those who let it happen. Which one do you need to see? Th...

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The Jesus Way #50 -- John 15:26-16:15 -- What fills...

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2026/03/27

Send me a Text Message! What are you filled with? What fills your life, right now? We can be filled with a lot of stuff, good and bad. What are you filled with today? In John 14-17, Jesus begins to talk about the Spirit of God. If you remember back in John 7, he talked about the Spirit of God so filling us up that rivers of living water flow out of our souls! It's an uncommon call to be filled with the Spirit. We may not exactly be sure what it means. But we do know what it'...

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The Jesus Way #49 -- Matthew 15:1-11 -- Stick close...

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2026/03/26

Send me a Text Message! John 14-16 is an amazing piece of scripture. Jesus is sharing his last thoughts before he dies on a cross, and changes the story of the world. It's his locker-room talk before his team goes out to play the most important game of their lives. And he is talking to them about life, about what they need to thrive in the hard times to come. In the space of a few minutes, he will use the word "remain" at least 8 times. That's the word that I want us to hang onto. "Remain" or...

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The Jesus Way #48 -- John 15-16 -- If hope is...

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2026/03/25

Send me a Text Message! As you know I’m kind of stuck in John 14-17. Which isn’t a bad thing at all, if you took my advice and have been reading those four chapters every day, maybe even multiple times a day. So in the last episode, I ended with this thought. I didn’t develop it much, but I threw it out there at the end, the thought was simply this, "If hope is contagious, love is how it spreads." If hope is contagious, love is how it spreads, so if we want to spread hope, we might need a lov...

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The Jesus Way #47 -- John 15-16 -- Hope is contagious!

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2026/03/24

Send me a Text Message! Remember in a recent episode, talking about prayer, I said that while helplessness is a great initiator of prayer, helplessness is not enough. We need hopefulness to sustain prayer. But when our helplessness meets His hopefulness, something pretty amazing can happen. So I want to talk a bit again about that hopefulness. And here is the statement that I'm going to make... Hope is contagious! I'm praying that contagious hope fills every heart that listens to this e...

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The Jesus Way #46 -- John 14:15-31 -- Are you seeking...

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2026/03/23

Send me a Text Message! What is peace? In our culture today, we typically define peace in terms of absence. It's the absence of noise, the absence of storms, the absence of conflict and anxiety. But when Jesus spoke of peace, he used the Hebrew word, shalom. Shalom is fullness and wholeness, not absence. Shalom is well-being in the widest sense of the word. It's the blessing of God which sums up all other blessings. Shalom is more about fullness than emptiness, more about presence than ...

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The Jesus Way #45 -- John 15-16 -- It's time to...

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2026/03/20

Send me a Text Message! Expectancy is a tenacious hope that never stops believing that the best is yet to come. In this episode we will hear Jesus tie together expectancy, child-birth, and travailing prayer. Travailing prayer is the painful work of giving birth to something new. The Bible seems to speak little of casual prayer. It's pages are filled with examples of people who wrestled with God, travailed, groaned and cried out in prayer to see God's purposes birthed in their lives and the wo...

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The Jesus Way #44 -- John 14-17 -- What is your --...

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2026/03/19

Send me a Text Message! It would probably be a good thing for you to read on your own all of John 14-17 multiple times as you listen to the next 5-6 episodes. These four chapters are Jesus last words before he gives his life for a world in trouble. So imagine this, you're with Jesus, sitting by a fire in a cabin, or talking a walk in the afternoon. You're walking through a vineyard and you don't know it but Jesus is sharing his last words before he dies on a cross. Most scholars call these fo...

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The Jesus Way #43 -- John 13:17-38 -- What are we...

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2026/03/18

Send me a Text Message! In our culture today, Christians are known by and known for a handful of things, to be honest to many of those things are not good things. We are known for our politics. We are known for our moral stands on issues that matter to us. But are we known for the way we love each other? What are we known for?

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The Jesus Way #42 -- John 13:1-17 -- What is the full...

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2026/03/17

Send me a Text Message! It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. He knew that all power had been given to Him, so he decided to show his disciples the full extent of his love, show them that he loved them to the very end. Just stop for a moment and think about that. He is about to show his followers, the full extent of his love. What is the full extent of your love? How far does you...

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