Daily Bread Pastor Mike Anderson 2026

Click Here to Read or Listen to 1 John 4 in NIV or TPT Translation A Warning against False Teaching 1Delightfully loved friends, don’t trust every spirit, but carefully examine what they say  to determine if they are of God, because many false prophets have mingled into the world. 2Here’s the test for those with the genuine Spirit of God: they will confess Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh.  3Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from God has the spirit of antichrist, which you heard was coming and is already active in the world. As teachers come into the church or you listen to teachers from other churches, you should be careful and discerning and take note of their teaching.  The most important aspect of their message is what they teach about who Jesus is. Most importantly they must teach that Jesus is the Messiah. No one can confess Jesus is Lord apart from the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3.  Jesus came in the flesh, meaning he became a hum...

Click Here to Read or Listen to 1 John 3 (TPT) 1See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. Part of knowing God is becoming part of His family. Just as a husband and wife start a family and have kids as a product of their love for each other, so the Father has chosen us through the Son and given us the Holy Spirit, as a downpayment of our future inheritance. (Ephesians 4:13). If you wonder why the world often does not connect with Christians, it is because they does not know the Father or the Son.  Though we are children of God now, we will experience more of what that means when Jesus returns. ...

I am going to be using The Passion Translation (TPT) for the Daily Bread in 2025. To give you a taste of it, the following the link will contain both the NIV and TPT side by side, so you can compare and contrast both translations. There are also study notes that you can hover over for the TPT. You can still listen to the NIV by hitting the sound icon in the top left.  There is no perfect translation and new translations can add new insights to traditional translations. I.e. NIV was written in 1984 and TPT in 2020.  Click Here to Read 1 John 2 in NIV and TPT 1My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. John, of course doesn't want the believers to sin, but he reminds them they have an advocate who stands before the Father to intercede for them. Since He isright...

Click Here for An Overview of the Letter of 1 John Click Here to Read or Listen to 1 John 1 The Incarnation of the Word of Life 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our joy complete. John's letter begins pretty much the same as his gospel. He focuses on the fact he and his fellow disciples were eyewitnesses of Jesus.They heard him speak the Word , they saw the Word, and they touched the Word . Not just any Word, but the Word of Life, Jesus.  They proclaim something they have seen, heard, and touched. ...

Click Here to Listen to or Read 2 Peter 3 3 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles. Peter confirms that he wrote both 1 Peter and 2 Peter. He equates the words of the prophets with the words of the apostles. Peter is likely referring to himself, as Jesus commissioned him to be an apostle. It also assumes that they would have known the words spoken to them by the prophets of old like Jeremiah or Isaiah, which indicates he is writing to Jewish believers.  Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that l...

Click Here to Read or Listen to 2 Peter 2 False Teachers and Their Destruction 2 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. Peter continues on the subject of false prophets. False prophets will always be among us, because our enemy Satan is always trying to influence our minds with lies. He is the " father of lies ". John 8:44 He mentions " destructive heresies ". A heresy is the same as false teaching. A heresy can be destructive if it contains lies about the person of Jesus. A heresy usually tries to undermine ...

Click Here to Read or Listen to 2 Peter 1 Overview of 2 Peter - Insight for Living - Chuck Swindoll 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,  To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:  2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Simon was Peter's given name, and Peter was the name given to him by Jesus. The name Peter meant "rock". I.e. When Jesus said, "On this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hades will not overcome it!" - Matthew 16:18 Peter was first of all a "servant". He had given up his rights as a disciple of Christ. The Greek word is "doulos", and also means "bond-servant". Second, he was sent as an apostle, or messenger of the Good News. The servant described who he was, and the apostle described his calling.  We receive faith as a gift. It is the most precious gift we will eve...