Today’s Walk in the Word

Well done, good and faithful servant!                        —Matthew 25:21 She has closets and cabinets full of stuff that has never been used: silverware, china, crystal, linens, candles, perfume. She’s saving them for some special occasion that never seems to arrive. Unused silver tarnishes. Linens turn […]

Not my will, but yours be done.                   —Luke 22:42 It’s okay to make your case with God—to express your fears and state your preferences. Conditionally. God told Ananias that Saul was in the neighborhood, and he wanted him to go visit him. Ananias protested that Saul […]

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.                                      —James 5:11 The Diary of Anne Frank is an extraordinary book written by a Jewish teenager. It’s a journal of her family’s two years in hiding during the German […]

Do not fear, for I am with you . . . I will strengthen you and help you.                        —Isaiah 41:10 In The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant noted that “during the past 3,421 years, only 268 have been free of war.” The […]

Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.        —Philippians 1:3 Guess what Gina Hamadey did last year. She wrote 365 thank-you notes. Gina is a busy lady with two little kids and a consulting business. Nevertheless, she was squandering time scrolling through media feeds—which frequently sent her spiraling […]

No immoral, impure or greedy person . . . has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ.                            —Ephesians 5:5 Choosing to live in the ghettos of immorality and impurity instead of in God’s neighborhood can get you booted from the kingdom. But […]

In the same way you judge others, you will be judged.           —Matthew 7:2 In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Joseph, a stern, judgmental character, throws Bible bombs of condemnation at people. Nelly describes him as “the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and […]

Love does not insist on its own way. —1 Corinthians 13:5 Early in their marriage, Garvin wondered how to gauge his wife’s preferences. Was it okay for him to play golf with his friends on Saturdays, or did she want him to reserve the weekends for her? Instead of taking a stab in the dark, […]

The Lord is your protection.               —Psalm 91:9 Five-year-old Levan Merritt fell twenty feet into the gorilla enclosure of the English Channel Jersey Zoo. Horrified onlookers gasped. Jambo, a 353-pound Silverback gorilla, got between the unconscious boy and the other gorillas and began to gently stroke the youngster’s back. […]

A good name is worth more than the finest perfume.      —Ecclesiastes 7:1 Gip Hardin named his newborn son after the renowned cleric John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. But John Wesley Hardin picked a different path than his preacher father had hoped for—he became a notorious outlaw, claiming to have killed forty-two men. […]