Today’s Walk in the Word

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.     —Luke 12:34 At my age, the first thing I do each morning is grab the newspaper and turn to the obituaries. If I’m not in there, it’s a good day. Joking. Most people don’t read their newspaper straight through from front to back. […]

He has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin.         —Hebrews 10:14 Uncertain about a verb tense in one of these devotionals, I ran it through an online grammar-checker. When finished, I moved the cursor over the article and hit delete. I failed to cover the first letter with the […]

Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.         —John 3:16 I believe that Jesus is the resurrection and the life and that those who believe in him, even though they die, will live again (Jn 11:25). In Daniel Silva’s novel, The Other Woman, Alistair Hughes, an American falsely […]

He gives to all life, breath, and all things.                     —Acts 17:25 I believe that life is a gift from God. I believe that there is a God-designed reason you and I were born. I believe that God gives us the freedom to live this life […]

To him be the glory forever.        —Romans 11:36 I believe that God is all-powerful; that he is God, and there is no other—that he does what he pleases, and what he has planned he will do (Is 46:8–11). I believe that it is the Lord’s plan—not human plans—that will prevail (Prv 19:21); […]

He is Lord of lords and King of kings.               —Revelation 17:14 I believe that Jesus was with God in the beginning. I believe that he gave up his place in heaven and came to earth in human form, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin […]

Work as if you were doing it for the Lord, not for people.     —Colossians 3:23 The Jews were so steamed about Paul’s conversion they plotted his assassination. They posted around-the-clock lookouts at the Damascus gates, determined to drop him in his tracks the minute he split. But a cagey crew of disciples hatched […]

Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit.     —2 Kings 2:9 God was about to take the prophet Elijah home. “What can I do for you before I am taken from you?” Elijah asked Elisha, his protégé. Elisha replied, “Leave me a double share of your spirit” (2 Kgs 2:9). I can’t […]

Keep on praying and never give up.    —Luke 18:1 It’s only a guess on my part, but I have a hunch that you struggle a bit in your prayer life. Maybe it’s just that I want company, feeling that my own prayer time is feeble and deficient. Why, since Jesus bids us to ask, […]

I have been with you wherever you have gone.    —1 Chronicles 17:8 What has been your greatest disappointment? A business that didn’t gel? A job that you didn’t get? A promotion that didn’t come? A marriage that didn’t work. Something else? King David resolved to build a temple for the Lord. God nixed the […]