Today’s Walk in the Word

Do not run like someone running aimlessly.                          —1 Corinthians 9:26 Carl Lewis won four gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was confident that his first leap had been good enough to win the gold in the long jump. […]

How good is a timely word.          —Proverbs 15:23 NBA star Michael Jordan seemed to be a shoo-in for the Most Valuable Player award in 1990. Without question, he was professional basketball’s most outstanding athlete. Many consider him the greatest roundballer ever to hit the hardwood. But Jordan wasn’t voted MVP. The […]

We are each responsible for our own conduct.                                   —Galatians 6:5 Donald Jensen was umpiring a Little League game in Terre Haute, Indiana, when someone took exception to a call and threw a baseball bat at him, hitting him […]

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others.                    —1 Peter 4:10 The daily-devotional book My Utmost for His Highest has occupied space on my coffee table for many years. Back story. Oswald Chambers was appointed to serve as chaplain to Australian […]

O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you.                              —2 Samuel 7:22 I confess that I do not know how to reconcile God’s sovereignty with humanity’s free will—but I believe in both. I admit that I cannot explain how God’s providence […]

Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.                      —Ephesians 4:24 My good friend Allen Isbell wrote the following, which strikes a chord with us grayheads. We were born before television, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, […]

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.                    —Hebrews 11:1 Sometimes God gives us immediate victory. Sometimes he doesn’t. Hebrews 11:32–35a names some people of faith who were triumphant in this life. Then 11:35b–38 notes some of […]

He is not here; he has risen.               —Matthew 28:6 Nuclear weapons in hostile hands scare the daylights out of us. Internet predators give us the willies. Superbugs that thumb their noses at antibiotics put us on edge. But the resurrection of Jesus tells us that in the long […]

We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard                   —Acts 4:20 Acts 4 finds Peter and John before the Sanhedrin, being ordered to quit talking about Jesus. “With all due respect, sirs, that isn’t going to happen. You crucified him, but God raised him […]

This is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.        —1 John 2:25 Early Sunday morning, following Friday’s crucifixion, grieving women trudged to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. The tomb was empty. “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” an angel asked. “He is not here; […]