Today’s Walk in the Word

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence.                —Hebrews 4:16 The writer of Hebrews holds Jesus up and asks us to have a good look: “Fix your thoughts on Jesus” (Heb 3:1); “Keep your eyes on Jesus” (Heb 12:2, TLB). Jesus is not out to get […]

Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?                                —Isaiah 6:8 You’re being pulled in a dozen directions by people and projects wanting—sometimes demanding—your time and attention. Life is zipping by more rapidly than you ever imagined. You alone […]

Faith is being sure of what we hope for.                      —Hebrews 11:1 Hedonists take the short view of life: eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Christians take the long view: weighing present decisions on future scales. Present pleasure may bring pain in the […]

God is not ashamed to be called their God.                          —Hebrews 11:16 God said, “Those who honor me I will honor” (1 Sm. 2:30). The patriarchs were far from faultless, but they took God at his word and were “still living by faith when […]

Jesus . . . for the joy set before him endured the cross.     —Hebrews 12:2 Your cross is the heaviest piece of furniture in the house, and sometimes you get tired of carrying it; exhausted from struggling with a problem that seems to have no solution and no end. The writer of Hebrews […]

[Be] strengthened in the faith . . . and overflowing with thankfulness.                 —Colossians 2:7 My physician says the “Greatest Generation” had almost no feeling of entitlement, but a huge sense of responsibility; and that today’s generation has a huge sense of entitlement, but almost no feeling of […]

Generations come and generations go. —Ecclesiastes 1:4 Today’s obituaries will be largely forgotten before the week is over. But not by those who deeply loved one of the dear departed. A glance at a shelf across the room reveals adored faces, lovingly framed. There’s your dad. You remember his smile, his smell, his gait, his […]

Remember me when you come into your kingdom.                                 —Luke 23:42 Eat the bread. Drink the wine. “In remembrance of me.” In our worship, when we hit the pause-the-noise button and sit a few moments in silent remembrance of him, […]

Set them an example by doing what is good.                                —Titus 2:7 When nineteenth century preacher Phillips Brooks was asked why he was a Christian he replied, “I think I am a Christian because of my aunt, who lives in Teaneck, […]

What is man that you are mindful of him?                           —Psalm 8:4 There are three ways you can look at life. A bombastic accident. Big bang! Twenty billion years ago—give or take a few billion—all matter was compressed into a dense hot mass […]