Daily Bible Verses

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  • Variety: Psalm 29

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-02-5-psalm-29-r25 

    Ascribe to the Lord, you heavenly beings,
        ascribe to the…

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  • [They[ Do not cry out or shout aloud,  or make their voice heard in the streets; 
    But faithfully they bring true justice  refusing to be wavered or crushed, 
    until true justice is established on earth.  —Isaiah 42:2–4 

    Richard Rohr identifies the elusive nature of prophetic leadership:  

    The normal power systems of our world worship themselves and not God. For that reason, prophets almost never hold official positions, like…

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  • The king gave a banquet lasting seven days. […] The garden had hangings of linen, fastened to silver rings on marble pillars. […] There were couches of gold and silver. Served in goblets of gold, the royal wine was abundant. […] On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits, he commanded that Queen Vashti be brought before him, in order to display her beauty. But Queen Vashti refused to come.  ESTHER 1:5, 6a, 7, 11–12

    Margaret …

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  • There appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.  Luke 13:11–13 

    Nadia Bolz-Weber considers how healing can be a painful process:  

    I found myself wondering if it hurt ……

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  • 17 One day while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem were sitting nearby, and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. 18 Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and lay him before Jesus,

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  • I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:16-18)

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  • Variety: John 9v38

    “Lord, I believe,”  (John 9:38)

    Disability rights activist and author Amy Kenny challenges the implications of Jesus’ healing of “the blind man” in John 9, whom she refers to as Zach or Zechariah, which means “God remembers.” 

    Zach is so much more than his blindness…. Structurally, the focus [of John 9] is not on the physical but on something deeper and richer that Jesus offers to Zach. It is true that Jesus cured people’s bodies as part of his ministry, but…

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  • Variety: Luke 7v50

    Your faith has saved you” (Luke 7:50)

    Richard Rohr offers one way we might understand the exorcisms Jesus performed:  

    When a person has a constantly changing reference point, they have a very insecure life. They will take on any persona, negative or positive, and become incapable of much personal integrity. This is the celebrity-obsessed world in which we are living today. The biblical tradition uses the language of “having a demon” to describe such…

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  • Variety: Psalm 57:8

    Awake, my soul!     Awake, harp and lyre!      I will awaken the dawn. (Psalm 57:8)

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  • A leper came to him begging…, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!” —Mark 1:40–41 

    Walter Brueggemann emphasizes that we are all in need of Jesus’ healing touch: 

    Jesus touched him. He put his strong hand into the sore skin. He risked touching the contagious skin and thereby making himself, as well, socially unacceptable and ritually impure. He risked all of…

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  • And the king will answer them, “Truly, I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.” —Matthew 25:40

    Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis reflects on how we are called to love imperfect people imperfectly:

    This is the kind of love Rabbi Jesus was talking about. If they’re in prison, if they’re hungry, if they’re naked, if they’re lonely, if they’re a stranger, a widow, a child, if they’re an outsider, if they’re last, they…

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  • Variety Col 1v19-20

    19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Richard Rohr explains how he has been freed from his tendency to focus on “what’s wrong” with himself, others, and the world: Christianity has as its central symbol of transformation a naked, bleeding man who is the picture of failing, losing, and dying, yet who is really winning… more
  • 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-01-24-it-is-well… more
  • But who can discern their own errors?       Forgive my hidden faults. 
    Keep your servant also from wilful sins      may they not rule over me. 
    Then I will be blameless,      innocent of great transgression. 
    May these words of my mouth       and this meditation of my heart 
    be pleasing in your sight,   …

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  • ‘Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck…

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  • For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (1 Cor 13:12)

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-01-22-what-we-dont-understand-r25 

     

  • Variety: Job 2v13

    Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was. (Job 2:13)

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-01-20-bridge-r25

     

  • Variety: Acts 17v6

    “people who are turning the whole world upside down” (see Acts 17:6)

    An essential aspect of Franciscan spirituality is what Richard Rohr calls “the integration of the negative.” Rather than insisting that God values perfection or an idealized morality, Francis of Assisi intuited, through the example of Jesus’ life and death, that God could be found in all things, even those our religion and culture urge us to reject. 

    I…

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  • Jesus taught them, “But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” —Matthew 5:44 

    Richard Rohr describes how loving our enemies is a practice of “integrating the negative,” accepting what we find unacceptable within ourselves: 

    Our enemies always carry our own shadow side, the things we don’t like about ourselves. We will never face our own shadow until we embrace those who threaten us (as…

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  • Variety: John 8v32

    And you will know the truth , and the truth will set you free  (John 8: 32) 

    Based on some thoughts of spiritual teacher Mirabai Starr

    One of the things it means to be fully human is to bow at the feet of your everyday existence, with its disappointments and…

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  • Variety: Amos 5v 24

    But let justice roll on like a river,
        righteousness like a never-failing stream!

     

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-01-17-elijah-part-3-our-voice-r25

     

  • Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. (Matthew 5:15)

    Archbishop Romero (who was murdered while leading worship by the authorities in Argentina) said:  

    A Christian community is evangelized in order to evangelize. A light is turned on in order to give light. “People do not light a candle and put it under a basket,” said Christ. “They light it…

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  • Then Moses said to the Israelites, ‘See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills – to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver, and bronze,  to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts.’  (Exodus 35:30–33) 

    Dr John Dennison from London…

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  • 33 He told them still another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about thirty kilograms of flour until it worked all through the dough.’

    Richard Rohr describes why role models and personal examples often inspire change more effectively than right ideas and beliefs:  

    Correct ideas and church mandates cannot cause the kind of change that the soul needs. The…

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  • 36 ‘Which of these three do you think was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?’

    37 The expert in the law replied, ‘The one who had mercy on him.’

    Jesus told him, ‘Go and do…

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