Today’s Walk in the Word

Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man.                          —Matthew 7:24 The world says: “The way to win is to follow your dreams.” Jesus says: “The way to win is to follow me.” The world […]

Make the most of every opportunity.                    —Colossians 4:5 Today you will see everything for the first and the last time. You will see your grandchild for the first time, because it’s not the same child you saw yesterday; and the last time, because tomorrow the child […]

All Scripture is God-breathed.            —2 Timothy 3:16 There is incredible power in the ABC’s, the 26 letters of our alphabet. Everything you learned in school was communicated to you through those 26 letters. Everything people say to you is made up of those 26 letters. Everything you know about God […]

Our Father in heaven.      —Matthew 6:9 Most of us know The Lord’s Prayer by heart; a good thing, but putting us in danger of mouthing words without giving much thought to what we’re saying. What are we saying when we pray, “Your will be done”? We are saying we want God to do […]

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him.            —Luke 24:31 Jesus seldom comes with fanfare and fireworks. He usually comes quietly, unexpected. Future apostles were slogging through their regular 9 to 5 when he tapped them on the shoulder with a quiet “Follow me.” A lost and lonely Samaritan […]

So that in him we might become the righteousness of God.            —2 Corinthians 5:21 God enters the Garden and asks Adam and Eve two questions … “Where are you?” They’re hiding; ashamed and afraid. “What is this you have done?” The one thing God told them not to do is […]

I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer.         —Job 30:20 Sometimes prayer feels like shooting an arrow into the dark; or reaching for a hand you cannot find. You’ve probably felt Job’s despair: “I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer.” You pray, […]

I will show you my faith by what I do.                         —James 2:18 There is a lot of truth in the well-worn prayer: “We have done things which we ought not to have done and left undone things which we ought to have done.” […]

He always lives to intercede for them.                      —Hebrews 7:25 Jesus prayed for the small group of disciples that companied with him. And then—long before you were born—he prayed for you: “I am not praying only for these men but for all those who will believe […]

The Father … has entrusted all judgment to the Son.          —John 5:22 We are judged. Every day … By the face that looks back at us from the mirror. By the people we love, and the people we don’t. By what our children do, and don’t do. By the roads we […]