Today’s Walk in the Word

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought.      —Romans 12:3 Essayist JaneYolen wrote: “The best writers are the ones who really, in their heart of hearts, aspire to the byline Anon [Anonymous]. The story told is important, not the storyteller.” The late Dr. Norvel Young, past president of Pepperdine University, often […]

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.                —Proverbs 18:10 My firstborn’s safe place was my lap, with two fingers of his right hand in his mouth and his left hand clutching the corner of a frayed security blanket, […]

A true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.                            —John 1:47 When Nathanael was told that Jesus of Nazareth was the one Moses and the prophets had written about, he sneered: “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” I give a thumbs-down […]

I’ll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.                         —Hebrews 10:17 Alexander Hartdegen, the protagonist in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, built a vehicle that hurled him more than 800,000 years into the future. He had hoped to use it to change the […]

If you reject God’s teaching, you will pay the price.   —Proverbs 13:13 A West Virginia state trooper pulled a woman over for going fifteen miles over the speed limit. After he wrote her a ticket, she asked, “Don’t you give out warnings?” “Yes ma’am,” he said; “they’re all up and down the road. They […]

The Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words.         —Romans 8:26 John White was a praying man: diligent in private; eloquent in public. At the end of every visit I had with him, he said, “Let’s pray before we part.” When his doctor’s stethoscope detected a problem […]

He has clothed me with garments of salvation.     —Isaiah 61:10 Die-hard joggers run in all kinds of weather. Where seasonal temperatures are extreme, most prefer winter to summer because they can add layers in cold weather, but can only take off so much in a sizzling summer without being arrested. The apostle Paul […]

I meditate on your precepts.       —Psalm 119:15 In a roundtable discussion about The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, a participant said, “I prefer stories in books rather than movies.” “Why?” he was asked. “With a book,” he said, “I can stay there as long as I want.” I’m with him. A […]

You are a letter from Christ.     —2 Corinthians 3:3 President Ronald Reagan wrote regularly to his beloved Nancy when he was on the road or in the air. His successor in office, George H.W. Bush, was a prolific note-writer. My late friend Leonard Waggoner penned a poem to his wife Elizabeth every day. […]

Be still, and know that I am God.                —Psalm 46:10 On June 19, 1865—nearly two and a half years after President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation—General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the slaves were free. Today you can watch—in real time—the signing of […]