Daily Bible Verses

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  • Variety Joshua1v1-9

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-11-1-of-good-courage-r3

    Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh,[a] Yahweh spoke to…

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  • Variety: Psalm 33

    18 Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
        on those who hope in his loving kindness,
    19     to deliver their soul from death,

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  • Variety: Luke 15v25-32

    Beware of thinking “It’s not fair” https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-10-16-a-tale-of-two-sons-r3 25 “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. 27 He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and… 更多
  • Variety: Romans 8:28-30

    And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

    Gerry Hughes (1924–2014) in  

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  • Variety: Revelation 21v1-4

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-10-14-the-love-of-god-r3

    I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy…

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  • variety: Luke 4v14-30

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-10-11-family-tp-r3

     

    16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him…

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  • Variety: John 11:25 -27

    25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

    27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

  • Variety: John 11v35

    Jesus wept

    I keep being more and more convinced that tears are an appropriate response to reality. I think they always will be, yet I don’t equate that with modern depression or cynicism. It’s the acceptance of what we cannot change that normally makes people cry: He’s dead forever; I’m never getting well; the church I love has never been perfect. The part of us that can surrender to that reality is somehow bright. Remember, God is always present in reality as it…

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  • Variety: Esther 4v14

    For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a

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  • Variety: Luke 17v21

    The kingdom of God is in your midst (Luke 17:21)

    Human history is one giant wave of unearned grace, and each of us is now another wave crashing onto the sands of time, edged forward by the many waves behind us. We are fully loved and adopted children in God’s one eternal family which is open to all. To accept such an objective truth is the best and deepest understanding of how the Risen Christ spreads his forgiving heart through history. It is Love that we are passing from age to age—…

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  • I am 
    the bread of life - i will provide for you
    the light of the world - I will bring light to you
    the gate - I will open opportunities for you  - a way through to safety and my presence
    the good shepherd - I will lead you well, I will heal you and protect you 
    the resurrection and life - I have overcome death and I do bring life
    the way, the truth and the life - and the truth will set you free
    the true vine - I will cause you to be fruitful 

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  • Variety: 1 John 4v7-12

    Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might…

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  • Variety: Job 38v1-7, 34-41

    Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you shall declare to me. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings…

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  • Variety: Matthew 5v3,6

    “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
        for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven

    The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who do not possess adequate resources

    Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

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  • Variety: Genesis 1v1-3

    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
    God said, “Let there be light,”…

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  • Variety: 2 cor 12:9

    My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.  
    —2 Corinthians 12:9 

    It is sufficient to recognise one’s weakness and to abandon oneself as a child into God’s arms.

    People who follow this more humble and honest path are invariably more loving, joyful, and compassionate, and have plenty of time for simple gratitude about everything

  • variety: Acts 2:42-47

    42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.

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  • Variety: Isaiah 41

    “Keep silent before me, islands,
        and let the peoples renew their strength.
    Let them come near,
        then let them speak.
      …

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  • Variety: Luke 9:1-6

    When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal those who were ill. He told them:

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  • Variety: 1 John 4v7

    “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God”.  (1 John 4:7)

    If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. 

    We are invited to encounter a love that just keeps opening to us, and then pass on the same by “opening and opening” to the increasingly larger world around us, willingly falling into the “bright abyss,” where all…

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  • Variety: Matthew 5:8

    Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

    Imagine living with one purpose: to have a heart centred on the will and love of God, so that this determines all our actions each day. 

    Being committed to something keeps life expanding for us, even when we think that there’s…

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  • Variety:Matthew 28:20

    Jesus said 20  Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

    You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. 

    You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture.

    To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention. 

    Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred.…

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  • variety: Isaiah 46v3-4

    3 ‘Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. 4 Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you

    . https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-09-27-autumn-r3 

  • Variety: Psalm 149

    Praise the Lord.[a]

    Sing to the Lord a new song,

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  • Variety: Matthew 6:33

    “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”

    Authors Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee envision what a “new monasticism” could mean today:  

    Monastic [life], then, represents for us a complete commitment to the transformative journey, … which takes us into the fullness of our humanity, allowing divinity to flower within us in increasing degrees of love, compassion, joy, sorrow, and wisdom. The…

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  • Variety: John11v3-7

    Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is sick.’
     
    When he heard this, Jesus said, ‘This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be…

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  • Variety: Acts3v1-10

    One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer – at three in the afternoon. Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.

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  • Variety: Luke 6v27-28

    27 ‘But to you who are listening I say: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who ill-treat you. (Luke 6)

    Franciscan peacemakers Rosemary Lynch and Alain…

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  • Variety: Matthew 6v1-4

    “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving[a]

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  • Variety: Hebrews 10v19-25

    19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, 21 and having a great priest over God’s house,

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  • Variety: Luke 3v21-22

    21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

    John Dear writes:…

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  • Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,  since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (COLOSSIANS 3:23–24)

    In these verses, Paul instructs the Colossians to work in all contexts with all their heart. Our culture presents hard work as the endless grind, morning routines that start before the sun is awake…

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  • Variety: Matthew 5v44

    But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

    Rev. James Lawson (1928–2024), an influential teacher of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, insists on the effective power of nonviolence: 

    There is impracticality to violence. It’s ineffective and has been ineffective throughout the world for too many years. We must not let people who romanticize or mythologize violence persuade us that it has proven to be…

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  • Variety: Matthew 5:9

    Blessed are the peacemakers: They shall be recognized as children of God.  
    —Matthew 5:9  

    Richard Rohr considers what it means to be a peacemaker:  

    This verse in Matthew’s Gospel is the only time the word peacemakers is ever used in the whole Bible. Peacemakers literally are the “ones who reconcile quarrels.” We can clearly see Jesus is not on the side of the violent but on the side of the nonviolent. Jesus is saying there must be a…

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  • Variety: Romans 12:21

    21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

    Nonviolence teacher Ken Butigan understands God’s love to be at the center of nonviolence. 

    Our true calling is to love one another as God has loved us. When we take this seriously, we are transformed into lovers who care for all beings. In practical terms this means resisting the tendency of the violence system to divide the world into various enemy camps. A fundamental…

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  • Variety: Psalm 104v2-4

    The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;
        he stretches out the heavens like a tent
    and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.  He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.  
    He makes winds his messengers,
        flames of fire his servants. - Psalm 104:2-4

    Dear Heavenly Father,

    One glance at a sky full of clouds and I can see your majesty and grandeur.  What a…

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  • Variety: Romans 15v13

    13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

     

    https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-09-18-overflow-with-hope-r3

  • Variety: Matthew 6:12

    “forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”  

     

    Brian McLaren identifies how prayers of petition help us to experience forgiveness:   

    Since being wounded or sinned against is a terribly common experience, I suspect we need to pay more attention to it. In fact, being wronged is directly linked in the Lord’s Prayer to the reality of doing wrong; we pray, “forgive us…

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  • Variety: Matthew 20:28

    The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” Matthew 20:28

    I’m not called to die on a cross. But I am called to do last night’s washing up without expecting a medal.
    Simon Martin from London Institute for Contemporary Christianity writes:  

    The latest season of one of my favourite shows, 

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  • Variety: Mark 4:35-41

    35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side.’ 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 

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  • Variety: Matthew9v9-13

    As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. ‘Follow me,’ he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.  10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.…

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  • Variety: Romans 15v13

    May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • Variety: Luke 23v34 (3)

    Father forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing. 

    Many of us pray similar words of Jesus when we say, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”

    When we pray this when we meet for Gathered Worship and in our personal prayers, sometimes we are not challenged by these words, but at other times we are struck how hard it is to forgive someone who has deeply offended and hurt us…. It is difficult to let go of the past and be present now to…

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  • Variety: Luke 23v34 again

     

    “Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.” —Luke 23:34 

    Author Megan McKenna considers Jesus’ ability to forgive and how we are called to the same:  

    We were created to be the friends of Jesus, the friends of God, friends with one another…. And so, we begin this journey of becoming, this way of being in the world guided by Jesus’s own words and actions that we will repeat over and over again in all our relationships and in…

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  • The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
        He makes me lie down in green pastures,
    he leads me beside quiet waters,
        he refreshes my soul.
    He guides me along the right paths
        for his name’s sake.
    Even though I walk
        through the darkest valley,
    I will fear no evil,…

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  • Variety Ephesians 2:1-10

    You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But…

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  • Variety: Psalm 73:23-26

    23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you.
        You have held my right hand.
    24 You will guide me with your counsel,
       …

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  • xPsalm 107v1-

    Give thanks to Yahweh,[a] for he is good,
        for his loving kindness endures forever.

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  • Matthew27v38-44

    Heavenly father
    lead us not into the temptation of taking it out on other people when we are suffering ourselves. 

    38 Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
    39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads 
    40 …

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  • xExodus 3v4-

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to

    When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”
    He said, “Here I am.”
    He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.” 

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