Today’s Walk in the Word

The rain came down, the streams rose . . . and beat against that house.”        —Matthew 7:27 Hundreds of thousands of Houston-area residents have built or bought homes in floodplains. Some weren’t warned about the risk by officials or builders. Others knew the danger and moved in anyhow. In the backwash of […]

[D]o this in remembrance of me.     —1 Corinthians 11:24 During the Passover meal the night before his crucifixion, Jesus gave his disciples bread, representing his body, and told them to eat it “in remembrance of me.” He gave them the cup, representing his blood, and told them to drink it “in remembrance of […]

These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.          —Joshua 4:7 Finally, after forty years in the wilderness, the Israelites were on the verge of entering the Promised Land. But between their camp and Canaan, the Jordan River roared at flood stage. Joshua ordered the priests to […]

Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.       —Exodus 12:17 On the night of Israel’s emancipation from slavery, Moses instructed them to kill a lamb and brush its blood on the doorframes of their houses. Then they were to prepare and eat the Passover meal, so named because […]

[M]ay the whole earth be filled with his glory.   —Psalm 72:19 After viewing earth from space, Payload Specialist Charles Walker said: “I felt strangely unfulfilled. Here was a tremendous visual spectacle, but viewed in silence. There was no grand musical accompaniment, no triumphant, inspired sonata or symphony. Each one of us must write the […]

I know my sheep and my sheep know me.                             —John 10:14 “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” These words, written by Anna Warner in 1860, quickly became, and remain, one of the best-known and most-loved […]

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?                    —Matthew 27:46 In Gethsemane Jesus prayed to be delivered from the agonizing ordeal coming at him. Silence. A few hours later he was impaled on a cross. “He trusts in God,” slanderers sneered; “let God deliver him […]

[I]n Christ all will be made alive.            —1 Corinthians 15:22 Trust is tested when the cold winds of sorrow and loneliness blindside you. The words of the hymn ’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus were written in the darkest hours of Louisa Stead’s life. Her husband drowned, attempting to […]

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor.                   —1 Chronicles 29:11 God didn’t allow King David to build the temple, but he let him warehouse a large inventory of priceless supplies that his son Solomon would […]

[T]he Lord has assigned to each his task.                    —1 Corinthians 3:5 According to a 2012 Reader’s Digest article, contacts in a national survey were asked to finish this sentence: “For one day, I would like to trade places with . . .” Here are some of […]