Today’s Walk in the Word

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 […]

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.                              —Psalm 118:1 The middle chapter of the Bible is Psalm 118. It has some comforting words for times like these— “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures […]

Sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts.                  —Colossians 3:16 She’s been dead for 105 years (died February 12, 1915), but her words will be quoted more this Sunday than those of any theologian—because multiplied thousands of worshippers will voice them. Her name is […]

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.                —John 3:16 Has someone written you off as hopeless? Insignificant? Useless? Don’t listen to them. They’re wrong. Wait! I’m not through. Have you done the same thing—written yourself off as hopeless? Insignificant? Useless? Don’t listen […]