Daily Bible Verses

⁸ Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
    Call on his name.
    Make what he has done known among the peoples.
⁹ Sing to him.
    Sing praises to him.
    Tell of all his marvellous works.
¹⁰ Glory in his holy name.
    Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
¹¹ Seek Yahweh and his strength.
    Seek his face forever more.
¹² Remember his marvellous works…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 
²² For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 
²³ but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 
²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God; 
²⁵ because the…

We preach Christ crucified: a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, (1 Cor 1:23)

Richard Rohr describes how Paul’s understanding of Jesus’ death critiques both the conservatives and liberals of his day: 

One of the dialectics that Paul presents is the perennial conflict between “conservative” and “liberal”, to use today’s terms. In his writings, Paul’s own people, the Jews, are the stand in for pious, law-abiding traditionalists; the Greeks provided his model for liberal intellectuals and cultural critics. Paul sees the Jews trying…

Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel explore how we can live out the biblical virtue of solidarity: 

While recognising the value of every vantage point, faith-rooted community organising also understands that a fair hearing of differing perspectives is necessary for truth to emerge. Fair hearings for those with low social status are hard to come by, however. In contrast to a society that gives inordinate weight to the perspective of those with more social status, we read in 1 Corinthians 1 that “God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose…

Wisdom is another way of knowing and understands things at a higher level of inclusivity, which we call “transformation” or nondualistic thought.  
—Richard Rohr, Things Hidden 

Richard Rohr considers wisdom a path of transformation based on humility and honesty and grounded in reality.    

There is a necessary wisdom that is only available through the liminal spaces of suffering, birth, death, and…

1 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what…

The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.  1 Corinthians 6:13

The Old and New Testaments affirm that sexual intercourse belongs exclusively within the covenant of marriage. For many today, this approach to sex is a big reason for rejecting the Bible, even though many of the values our culture insists on – individual rights, gender equality, consent for intimacy – have come from the Bible and were revolutionary in their time.

In his letters, Paul draws a sharp contrast between the values of the…

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 you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies. (1 Corinthians 6v18…

³¹ those who use the things of the world, [should live] as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away. 1 Corinthians 7:31

Francis and Clare of Assisi were not so much prophets by what they said as in the radical, system-critiquing way that they lived their lives. They found both their inner and outer freedom by structurally living on the edge of the inside of church and society. Too often people seek either inner freedom or mere outer freedom, but seldom—in my opinion—do people seek and find both. Francis…

.. the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, …