Today’s Walk in the Word

Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.                                  —Matthew 10:30 God knows everything about you. Everything. Your shoe size. Your favorite color. Your blood pressure. The color of your eyes. The shape of your nose. The number […]

Be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.                                           —Matthew 10:16 The serpent is the logo of the evil spirit; the dove the logo of the Holy Spirit. As strange as it seems, […]

Two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”                   —Matthew 9:27 Here is a trio of verses that display the compassion of Jesus: He had compassion on them and healed their sick (Matt. 14:14). Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his […]

Without warning, a furious storm came up on the lake.         —Matthew 8:24 When a hurricane makes landfall, an earthquake rearranges the furniture, or a tornado hurls bullet-speed shards of glass, you’re a hostage of Mother Nature. You are equally helpless when personal storms waylay you. The biopsy is positive. Your son […]

It will be done just as you believed it would.                                    —Matthew 8:13 A Roman army officer—as unlikely a believer as you’ll find—asked Jesus to heal his servant. “I will go and heal him,” Jesus said. “Lord,” he responded, […]

The winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.                                       —Matthew 7:25 Disappointment and despair come at you with hurricane force, packing a devastating punch. […]

Do to others what you would have them do to you.                                     —Matthew 7:12 This is one of those verses that most everyone knows—and that most everyone turns a deaf ear to in practice. It is one of […]

Ask and it will be given to you.                —Matthew 7:7 Jack LeVein asked Sir Winston Churchill, “Why did you choose me to be your film biographer?” “No one else asked me,” answered the Prime Minister. Can you imagine? Only one person asked for the privilege of filming the […]

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?                                       —Matthew 7:3 It doesn’t take the intelligence of a turnip to see […]

In the same way you judge others, you will be judged.       —Matthew 7:2 Neither Moses nor God could do anything right—every discomfort was their fault and sent the Israelites into grumbling tantrums. And the church barely got its legs before there was grumbling that some of the widows weren’t getting a fair […]