Today’s Walk in the Word

Who will get what you have stored up?                          —Luke 12:20 There’s a good chance that a self-storage building will soon be coming to a location near you. Before long they may outnumber McDonald’s. The largest building on my block is self-storage. I sometimes […]

Death has been swallowed up in victory.                —1 Corinthians 15:54 Surgeons at the Medical Center saved the life of a victim of a car crash on a Houston freeway but said he would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Some victories are limited. […]

The guards shook with terror.         —Matthew 28:4 The guards at Jesus’ tomb were prepared to repel any attempt by his disciples to snatch the corpse and spread the rumor that he had risen from the dead. But they were not prepared to take on an angel who showed up and rolled […]

A time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice. —John 5:28 I wonder what Mary Magdalene was thinking that Sunday morning as she trudged the garden path in the predawn darkness to the tomb where Jesus had been buried. She didn’t have the slightest hope of seeing him alive […]

He is not here; he has risen.          —Matthew 28:6 Jesus began his ministry “to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah . . . the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned” (Mt […]

Let God save him, if he wants to.            —Matthew 27:43 The religious leaders mocked Jesus as he hung on the cross (Mt. 27:41–43). “He trusted God,” they said, “so let God save him if he wants to.” Heaven stayed silent. Jesus said he could ask his Father, and he would […]

Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!     —Matthew 27:40 “Those who passed by hurled insults at [Jesus], shaking their heads and saying, ‘You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son […]

Christ died for sins . . . the righteous for the unrighteous.                 —1 Peter 3:18 Turning his bruised and bloody face toward Jesus, the robber asked, “Are you doing this for me?” “Yes. And for that soldier with the club hanging from his belt—the club he’s going […]

Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.                   —1 John 3:16 Many Bible exegetes contend that the cross on which Jesus died was intended for Barabbas, a notorious terrorist who was in custody. It was Pilate’s custom at Passover to free one prisoner, of the people’s […]

You are worth more than many sparrows.                                   —Luke 12:7 Looking out my window on an uncommonly cold morning, I watched a sparrow waging a wing-flapping war with the wind. Life isn’t a continuous succession of fair weather days. […]