Daily Bible Verses

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.  (Revelation 22v1-2)

Richard Rohr identifies in Revelation, the last book in the Bible, a “return to the garden” for all of creation: 
The whole Bible is trying to return us to the garden. By the end, in the book of Revelation…

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God – the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake.    Romans 1v1–5

Have you ever noticed how today we usually say ‘…

Give us grace to belong to Jesus Christ today, living faithfully, as he lived faithfully, not being afraid of anything which brings death, but having peace arising from the power of his resurrection from the dead

^1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, ²which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, ⁴who was declared…

Give us grace to live faithfully in a caring community today, where we give and receive support and encouragement through prayer and through gifts

^1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. ⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. ^11…

Give us grace to live faithfully as Jesus lived faithfully, and so be part of your revelation of your righteousness and your power

^1:13Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. ^16…

Give us grace today to avoid all that is ungodly and unrighteous, but be open to your revelation of yourself

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. ²⁰For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that…

Ever since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—God’s eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, because they are understood through the things God has made. —Romans 1:20 

This Scripture [from Paul] is consistent with an Indigenous worldview—that the nature of the Creator is evident in the creation. What does creation tell us about God’s divine nature?… 

Faithfulness. In the environment where I live, in the foothills of Pahto, the sacred mountain of the region, I see the faithfulness of the Creator with each…

The Dignity of Attention - Richard Rohr 
Nature itself is the primary Bible. As Paul says in Romans 1:20, “What can be known about God is perfectly plain, for God has made it plain. Ever since God created the world, God’s everlasting power and deity is there for the mind to see in all the things that God has created.” The world itself is the primary locus of the sacred and provides all the metaphors that the soul needs for its growth. 
Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century theologian and Doctor of the Church, put it this way: 
God brought things into…

Give us grace today to avoid all that is ungodly and unrighteous, but be open to your revelation of yourself

²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ²³and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves; ²⁵who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served…

Give us grace today to have our knowledge based in you.

²⁶For this reason (their suppression of the truth of God in unrighteousness), God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. ²⁷Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. ²⁸Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge…