The land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. Leviticus 25:23
Biblical scholar Ched Myers writes of the prominence of immigrants in the Scriptures.
Torah and the Prophets warned Israel not to discriminate against economic or political refugees, since in YHWH’s eyes even the chosen people were “but aliens and tenants” (Leviticus 25:23). Instead, they were to treat the “sojourners in your midst” with dignity and justice (...
másBut godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Timothy 6:6)
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss, inevitable for us all, and yet somehow for me and everyone I know,...
másRejoice Always 1 Thessalonians 5:16
‘Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.’ PSALMS 100:1-2
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3).The injunction to rejoice cannot be interpreted as a general exhortation to Christians to ‘be happy at...
másJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. The devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.’
Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone.”’ LUKE 4:1–4...
másDo not press me to leave you
or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people,
and your God my God.
Where you die, I will die—
there will I be buried.
(Ruth 1:16–17)Theologian Julia Lambert Fogg presents a biblical story of intergenerational immigration:
Ruth is the story of a mother and a daughter-in-law who cross...
más‘Save me, O God,
for the waters have come up to my neck.
I will praise God’s name in song
and glorify him with thanksgiving.’ PSALM 69:1, 30
Lord, help me to be realistic about the difficulties I face and be determined to focus on your love, power, and faithfulness.
Sometimes we have to push through to joy in the Lord. We often see this...
más- https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-14-behold-the-man-r25 1One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ 2 He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: ‘“Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins... más
He prayed to the Lord, ‘Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. (Jonah 4:2)
There are many things which are true: I could have been more patient, spent more time with my...
más38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She...
más‘About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.’ ACTS 16:25–26
Pray: Father, I don’t claim to understand the link between worship and freedom, but I thank you for Paul’s prison doors opening...
más‘Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.’ PSALM 100:4
Lord, I have so much to be grateful for… (list at least ten!)Joy and gratitude are linked. Researcher Brené Brown found, without exception, that every person she interviewed who described living a joyful life...
másDeep within them I will plant my law, writing it on their hearts. Then I will be their God and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33).
Richard Rohr presents the journey of the prophets as one that ends in trusting God’s unconditional love and grace. He uses the prophet Jeremiah as an example:
The first covenant between YHWH and Israel appeared to be bilateral: “If you obey my voice and hold fast to my covenant, you of all the nations shall be my very own” (...
más“From God’s fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” John 1:16
Richard Rohr insists that grace is the essence of who God is.
The goodness of God fills all the gaps of the universe, without discrimination or preference. God is the gratuity of absolutely everything. The space in between everything is not space at all but Spirit. God is the “goodness glue” that holds the dark and light of things together, the free energy that carries all death...
más‘Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
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to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and...‘You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.’ JOHN 15:14–15
Lord, I long for true friendship with you. Help me to hear your voice and obey your commands.
Pray Continually:...
más1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2...
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19 ‘There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 ...
más‘For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him’ (Colossians 1:16).
Sam Brown, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity writes ….
When I was 17, I heard something on a podcast I’m still thinking about today.
How do you account for the essential meaninglessness...
másJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (Luke 4:1)
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And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life...‘… and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’ MATTHEW 28:20
Lord Jesus, thank you that you are with me always. May I become more conscious of your presence.
Think how different our lives would be if we were constantly aware of God’s presence with us – his loving, welcoming presence. If we allowed his life to flow...
másThey will come with weeping;
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they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead them beside streams of water
on a level path where they will not stumble,
...18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20...
más9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour:
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10 if either of them falls down, one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who...Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honour the emperor. (1 Peter 2:17)
https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-3-do-you-want-to-walk-r25 ...
másJesus Wept John 11:35
Richard Rohr considers Jesus a model of prophetic tears.
The realisation that all things have tears, and most things deserve tears, might even be defined as a form of salvation from ourselves and from our illusions. The prophets knew and taught and modelled that anger must first be recognised, allowed—even loved!—as an expression of the deep, normally inaccessible sadness that each of us carry. Even Jesus, our enlightened one, “...
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