Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the spirit of Jesus, and so be free of sin and death

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
²For the law of the Spirit of…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be joined to you today, producing your fruit

¹Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law),
that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
²For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives,
but if the…

June 2 Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live by the spirit of your laws rather than the letter

^7:6But now we have been discharged from the law,
having died to that in which we were held;
so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to face up to our failings today.

¹⁰The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
¹¹for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me,
and 5through it killed me.
¹²…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to serve you today.

²¹I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
²³but I see a different law in my…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace, to be in Christ today, so that, by your Spirit, we put to death the deeds of the body

⁸Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of…

Heavenly Father, Send your spirit on us to that we may live in hope and liberty

¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”…

Heavenly Father, send your spirit on us in our weakness, so that we may live in hope.

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
²³Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for…

From the beginning of time until now, the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth. —Romans 8:22 

Richard Rohr writes of an evolutionary faith informed by Scripture and a foundational trust in God’s never-ending love and creativity:  

In this passage, St. Paul seems to fully acknowledge evolution. It’s always seemed completely strange to me that there should be any resistance whatsoever to evolution or evolutionary thinking in Christian theology or practice. Christians should have been the first in line to recognize…

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  …