Friday, October 24, 2025

HOPE

JEREMIAH 31:17 (CEB)
There’s hope for your future,
declares the LORD. 
Your children will return home!

EPHESIANS 2:7 (CEB)
God did this to show future generations the greatness of his grace by the goodness that God has shown us in Christ Jesus.

THE ESSENCE
There is hope for the future, evident in what Christ has done for us.  

DAILY FODDER
The current moment is so intense that it is hard to adequately remeber the past or project realistic hopeful outcomes for the future. But when we are in the presence of Christ Jesus, the angst of the current moment is disarmed. By grace we catch a glimpse of what he has done for us in the past and the future he has planned. All that changes our outlook on the current moment.

PRAYER
Loving God, thank you for breaking into our world to disrupt the system, projecting us onto a new future. I confess that I let the troubles of today swallow the hope that you've given to us. Restore the hope. I want to challege the news of each day with the hopeful outlook that comes through our solidarity with Christ Jesus. Amen. 

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
     we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
     so that everything that happens here will align
     with what is happening in heaven.
Give us enough food for today.
Forgive us our wrongdoing,
     and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
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DAILY TEXTS

The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul.

The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston

TRANSLATIONS

ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon

CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)

CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)

NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)

NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)

NRSVUE = New Revised Standard Version (© 2021 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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