Today’s Walk in the Word

Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.         —Hebrews 4:7 “Strike three!” “Rats!” squawked Charlie Brown. “I’ll never be a big-league player. I just don’t have it. All my life I’ve dreamed of playing in the big leagues, but I know I’ll never make it.” “You’re thinking too […]

You remain the same, and your years will never end.       —Hebrews 1:12 No one has to tell you that we live in a changing world, because you’ve faced changes that are personal and painful—loss of health, fractured relationships, deaths of those you love. But there’s another verse to that song … some […]

After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.                                  —Hebrews 1:3 “Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same […]

Your love has given me great joy and encouragement.            —Philemon 7 This won’t take long and won’t require anything you don’t already have—a pen, a piece of paper, an envelope, a stamp, and a kind thought. Jot a note … A line of appreciation to someone who has blessed your […]

Eager to do what is good.           —Titus 2:14 “Good” is a big word in Titus … The church leader is to be “one who loves what is good” (1:8). Older women are “to teach what is good” (2:3). Titus is to set an example “by doing what is good” (2:7). […]

We wait for the blessed hope— the glorious appearing of … Jesus Christ.                            —Titus 2:13 The words crushed his disciples’ hearts—“I will be with you only a little longer” (Jn. 13:33). The only thing that made those unbearable words bearable was the […]

The Lord knows those who are his.                  —2 Timothy 2:19 Psalm 139 is breathtaking. “O Lord … you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar […]

The things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also … teach others.                                                 —2 Timothy 2:2 “For the support of this […]

Christ Jesus … has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light.                                 —2 Timothy 1:10 Jesus doesn’t guarantee a trouble free life. But he does promise that however rough the road, you have “life in all its […]

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth.                                —1 Timothy 6:17 Life is a trip between two “nothings.” We brought nothing into this world, and we will take […]