Today’s Walk in the Word

Now is the day of salvation.        —2 Corinthians 6:2 URGENT! A June letter said I needed to renew a gift subscription immediately—even though the expiration date wasn’t until December. URGENT! A July alert said I needed to renew my magazine subscription immediately—even though I was paid up through January. URGENT! An August […]

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.     —1 Corinthians 12:4 At checkout, the young lady at my local Subway presses her index finger to a pad that unlocks the cash register and credit card terminal. Hers is the only one that will work the magic, for no two fingerprints are […]

We are God’s workmanship, created . . . to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.                       —Ephesians 2:10 “Find what you like to do, and do it so well that people will pay you to do it.” That old […]

Be kind and compassionate to one another.                           —Ephesians 4:32 He was on the median at FM 1960 and Cutten Road, holding a cardboard sign: Vietnam Veteran. Out of work. When a stalled car created gridlock, he limped through the chaos, got behind […]

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all.          —Romans 8:32 Remember when you left your child at school that first day? And the day she backed out of the driveway and headed off to college? Gulp! Every year you had to give up a […]

Come down from the cross and save yourself!       —Mark 15:30 “Those who passed by hurled insults at him . . . ‘save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!’” (Mt 27:39, 40). “In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the […]

Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you.         —1 Peter 1:13 Bible scholars are nearly unanimous in the belief that Mark’s gospel is a record of Peter’s preaching. If so, the source of the gospel account of Peter’s denial of Jesus was Peter himself. We are more inclined […]

He began to be deeply distressed and troubled.        —Mark 14:33 Three times in Gethsemane Jesus prayed for deliverance. Mark inked powerful verbs to describe his angst: distressed . . . troubled . . . overwhelmed. But after submitting to his Father’s will, he awakened his sleeping disciples and serenely said: “The hour […]

Not what I will, but what you will.                   —Mark 14:36 Is your will ever at odds with the will of your Father? If so, Jesus understands, for he faced that disparity of wills: in Gethsemane his will and the Father’s were not in sync. He prayed […]

(He) made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.                             —Philippians 2:7 Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard spun a tale entitled The King and the Maiden that went something like this . . . […]