Today’s Walk in the Word

From the beginning God chose you.             —2 Thessalonians 2:13 You’re on God’s team. And you weren’t the last kid to be picked. He chose you before the creation of the world (Eph 1:4). When he started putting his team together, he pointed at you and said, this one is […]

Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light.           —Luke 12:3 Coronavirus had shuttered services at Bertha’s church, so she was live-streaming a sermon on Sunday morning. The minister was lamenting how depersonalized life had become. He said, “A person doesn’t even need to go to […]

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous.                                     —1 Peter 3:12 When I first tried to talk to the two-year-old next door, he covered his eyes with his hands. His mother explained that he was bashful, […]

His mercy endures forever.              —Psalm 136:1 Ours is a culture of disposables. Much of what we purchase is designed to be used, then tossed: beverage bottles, paper plates, plastic eating utensils—also the grocery bag in which you brought them home and the pen with which you signed the credit […]

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.       —Luke 5:31 Landfills are choking on discarded mattresses. Tim Keenan saw it as a business opportunity. He hired a dozen people to extract the dumped bedding components for recycling: foam, fabric, springs. Colorado Springs journalist Bill Vogrin wrote: “Of all […]

Encourage the timid, help the weak.            —1 Thessalonians 5:14 In Romans 12, Paul wrote, “We have different gifts.” Then he named some of them: serving, teaching, leading, giving, and encouraging. Most of those gifts are limited. One is unlimited. Teaching is a wonderful gift, but not everyone can do it—and […]

There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.                                    —Ecclesiastes 7:20 Running for office activates a dilemma—the desire to be known against the fear of being known. The […]

He will deliver you . . . from the deadly pestilence.            —Psalm 91:3 “In profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the herald of prosperity, this monument was erected by the citizens of Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama.” So reads the inscription on the base of […]

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.    —Romans 12:12 On September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln ended a speech with a story about an Eastern monarch who charged his advisors to create a sentence that would be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They produced these words: “And this, […]

His mercies begin afresh each day.              —Lamentations 3:23 On March 9, 2015, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg lifted off from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in their Solar Impulse 2. On July 26, 2016, their multi-stage 26,000-mile journey ended at the same site, completing the first circumnavigation […]