Finding past and future articles from Our Daily Bread can be found online on both the website and the app. However, each of these platforms has a different timeframe for the content that is available. Please select the links below to read more about what articles are available where and how to find them.
Website
Our Daily Bread Ministries has updated our website and web address for United States readers! Please select odbm.org if you are a website user from the United States, otherwise, select odb.org below.
odb.org
Devotional archives on the odb.org website go back as far as 1/1/1994.
The future devotionals will be available 1 month ahead. (On March 12, everything up to April 12 will be available.)
To access past or future devotionals use the calendar drop down option to navigate to the date you wish to view.
You can also search for a specific date using the following URL, changing the date to the one you wish to view, and putting into you internet search bar using the link format below:
odb.org/US/YYYY/MM/DD
So odb.org/US/2006/01/15 is the article from January 15, 2006 and so on.
odbm.org
The archives allow you to access devotionals from the past ten years. For articles older than that, you will need to reach out via email at odb@odb.org or select "Contact Us" in the lower right corner of this page.
There are multiple ways to find the avaialble devotionals and resources on this website.
Search Bar
You can always use the search bar in the upper left side of the screen to search by author, month, topic, or title.
Then you can sort your results as desired by using the selector on the right side of the results page:
Daily Devotional Page Day Selector
For recent dates, you can navigate a previous or future devotional by selecting "Previous Day" or "Next Day" at the top of the daily devotional to the left and right of the devotional date.
At this time there is not a calendar selector on the devotional page itself. However, we have a new devotional index page where you do have that option.
Devotional Index
The devotional index allows you to look for devotionals through a calendar selector, a variety of preset filters, as well as a search bar to search any keywords you might be looking for.
You can navigate a previous or future devotionals by selecting the "Devotionals" drop down at the top of the home page and selecting "Daily Devotional" from the drop down menu. This will take you to the "Devotional Index"
You will find the filters on the left side of the screen. To find a previous devotional select the "From Date" and " drop down and "To Date" and select a date range. The date-range results will populate automatically.
To look at a different month, use the arrow options to the right and left of the current month displayed.
You can also filter the results by "Topics", "Authors", and "Life Issues" by selecting the check box next to the field you want to include in your filter. Select "Show More" to see more filter options.
If there are no devotionals that meet your filter criteria you will the following.
ODB App
The devotional archives on the app go back the year 2000 and forward to the coming month. (ex. April devotions are available in March.)
You can find the archives under the "Devotionals" tab.
Select "BROWSE ARCHIVES" at the top of the Devotionals page.
A date filter will appear. Once you choose the year and month you want select "Apply Filters" You will then be able to choose the devotional you are looking for.
*Please make sure that you select the Year first if you don’t see the month you are looking for.
Utmost Website
The Utmost archives go back through all 365 days of the devotional rotation.
To access past devotionals open utmost.org, select and then just below the title of the article on the left side, select the around next to today's date (circled in red below).
This will open a calendar where you can go back as early as January and forward as far as December.
Then you can use the arrows (circled in yellow below) to scroll through the different months of the year to access other month's devotionals.
