Daily Bible Verses

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4 Sing to God, sing in praise of his name,
    extol him who rides on the cloud;
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14 When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them. 15 As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with…

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.   Ecclesiastes 3:11

Last month, I swam, biked, and ran the Copenhagen Ironman.

Yes, I desperately want you to ask me how my summer was so I can not-so-casually drop it into conversation. Yes, I want you to ask, ‘How far is it?’ just so I can see your eyes widen. Yes, it was a high like no…

When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realised that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.  (Acts 4:13)

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Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the person in charge of the banquet.’ So they took it. When the person in charge tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), that person called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk.…

Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. They appeared in glory and were speaking about his exodus, which he was about to fulfil in Jerusalem.    Luke 9:30–31

In a small Christian community in Nicaragua, everyday people reflect on the meaning of Jesus’ transfiguration, especially his conversation with Moses and Elijah. Writing from within the liberation movement, Ernesto Cardenal shares their insights: 
TOMÁS: “And those two dead men that appear…

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16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. …

Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (Matthew 16:24)

Right now, there are few cultural figures more worthy of our attention than Yungblud.

The rockstar, born Dom Harrison in Doncaster, is on a stratospheric rise. He’s scored hit albums worldwide, his US arena tour sold out in one minute, and he’s an unstoppable social media force. He’s heir…

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14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family^[…

‘And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with Jesus and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.’

Matthew 9:10–13

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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11v1)

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“You cannot serve God and mammon” (Luke 16:13)
Many of us, myself included, have a confused, guilt-ridden, obsessive attitude about money. There’s hardly anybody who can think in a clear-headed way about it. At the end of Luke’s parable of the so-called dishonest steward, Jesus creates a clear dualism between God and wealth, or what he calls “mammon”: “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Luke 16:13). Mammon was the god of wealth, money, superficiality, and success. Jesus…

³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever wants to save their life^[b] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will…

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…

‘The time has come,’ he said. ‘The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!’ (Mark 1:15)

What some call “liminal space” or threshold space (in Latin, limen means a threshold) is a very good phrase for those special times, events, and places that open us up to the sacred. All Saints Day and…

12 Jacob had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the …

He said to the paralytic –  ‘I say to you, stand up, take your mat, and go to your home.’ And he stood up and immediately took the mat and went out before all of them, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, ‘We have never seen anything like this!’  Mark 2:10b–12

Supernatural stories of extraordinary miracles may discourage some people from taking the Bible seriously. There seems to be a disconnect between the world we inhabit, where the laws of…

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Matthew 26:73  After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, ‘Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.’

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed those who were ill. Matthew 14:14

Among his other functions it is clear that Jesus functioned as a prophet. In both his teaching and his very presence, Jesus of Nazareth presented the ultimate criticism of the royal empire consciousness…. The way of his ultimate criticism is his decisive solidarity with marginal people.

Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion.…

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
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God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,…

²⁹ ‘Truly I tell you,’ Jesus replied, ‘no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel ³⁰ will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields – along with persecutions – and in the age to come eternal life. ³¹ But many who are first…

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Proverbs 3v1-12

1 My son, do not forget my teaching,
    but keep my commands in your heart,
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22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a…

‘Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and he divided the two fish among them all. And all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.’   Mark 6:41–44

Food shapes our daily routines. So it’s striking that one of Jesus’ most famous miracles is about a meal – the…