Today’s Walk in the Word

Those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciple.                  —Luke 14:33 Many fitness center owners are okay with people paying a membership fee, showing up a few times, and then becoming no-shows. Fitness trainer Jesse Jones isn’t. He terminates your membership […]

The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends.        —John 15:13 On January 11, 2007, President George W. Bush presented the prestigious Medal of Honor to Corporal Jason Dunham. Posthumously. Corporal Dunham’s squadron was manning a checkpoint in western Iraq on April 14, 2004, when a grenade was […]

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.                         —Psalm 136:1 Ferocious wind. Torrential rain. Destructive hail. Then, power failure. Lights. Fans. Air conditioning. Computer. Television. Clocks. Refrigerator. Microwave. Keurig. Hot water. All kaput. Hours into this “lights out” ordeal, I prayed. You […]

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.                    —Matthew 6:1 The Pharisees had a ravenous appetite for human praise: “They loved praise from men more than praise from God” (Jn 12:43). As master pulpiteer Charles Spurgeon put it, […]

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift.                      —2 Corinthians 9:15 The apostle Paul had a first-rate education and a top-notch vocabulary. But he couldn’t come up with an adequate word to describe God’s gift of Christ—he said the gift was “indescribable.” God gave us […]

Who are you to judge your neighbor?                          —James 4:12 Journalist Leslie Flynn noted that fifty-three residents of a Connecticut neighborhood signed a petition to stop speeding drivers on their streets. The police set a watch and caught five violators of the speed limit. […]

All are justified freely by his grace.                    —Romans 3:24 Dag Hammarskjöld said: “Around a man who has been pushed into the limelight, a legend begins to grow as it does around a dead man. But a dead man is in no danger of yielding to the […]

The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.    —2 Corinthians 5:17 Endings also bring new beginnings. The end of a year launches the beginning of a new one. The end of a pregnancy brings the beginning of a new life outside the womb. The end of an old life is the beginning […]

Blessed are the merciful.        —Matthew 5:7 Mercy has three elements: Conception—seeing the need. Compassion—being touched by the need. Consummation—meeting the need. In Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:30–35), the priest and the Levite both saw the need (conception), but neither was touched by the need (compassion) nor met the need […]

The memory of the righteous is a blessing.                               —Proverbs 10:7 I recently came across this quiz. See how you score. Name the ten wealthiest people in the world. Name the last ten Heisman Trophy winners. Name ten people who have […]