Today’s Walk in the Word

His blood purifies us from all our sins.                                —1 John 1:7 Convalescent plasma therapy dates back more than a century, when similar treatment was effectively administered during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918—and more recently in the Ebola and SARS […]

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.        —John 13:34 The conversation in the church foyer was mostly monologue—one brother railing about something he found wrong in the other. When the assailed brother turned away, the aggressor snapped, “Don’t ignore me. What’s happened to you?” “You’ve known me a […]

The Lord looks at the heart.           —1 Samuel 16:7 Your doctor is less concerned about how you look on the outside than what’s going on inside. So off you go for an X-ray and a blood draw. God, too, is interested in your insides. When God sent Samuel to Jesse’s […]

Let him have all your worries and cares.                                —1 Peter 5:7 Sam worried about everything: politics and pollution, job and jihadists, family and future. He drove family and friends nuts with his hand-wringing negativity. Suddenly, that all changed. Sam was […]

Teach us to number our days . . . help us to spend them as we should.                      —Psalm 90:12 Swedish inventor Fredrik Colting’s “Tikker” watch is designed to calculate your life expectancy—counting down how much longer you have to live. I’ll not be ordering a […]

Let us test and examine our ways.             —Lamentations 3:40 It wasn’t law enforcement that initiated the go-into-your-house-and-stay-there quarantine; it was a microscopic virus. We resent routine—until it’s interrupted. The pesky commutes, commitments, and chores suddenly seem preferable to mandated stay-at-home seclusion. Social life, shopping, work, school, and church have […]

The eyes of the blind [will] be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.                          —Isaiah 35:5 Life hands us the exhilaration of highs and the devastation of lows. Sometimes we hear and see God. Job’s lows were catastrophic—but his life ended on […]

Let the little children come to me.                  —Matthew 19:14 Do you know the origin of Sunday School? Earlier local efforts had been launched, but the Sunday School movement as we know it began with British journalist and philanthropist Robert Raikes, who had a passionate concern for poor, […]

The testing of your faith develops perseverance.           —James 1:3 Dara Torres was the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games—an Olympic career spanning twenty-four years. Dara became the world record-holder in three events and a 12-time Olympic medalist. When she retired, at age forty-one, she was […]

Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.      —Job 13:15 In C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, senior devil (Screwtape) writes to junior devil (Wormwood), explaining a vulnerability when trying to turn someone away from God. “Our cause is never more in danger,” writes Screwtape, “than when a human . . . looks […]