Today’s Walk in the Word

We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.    —2 Chronicles 20:12 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a brilliant young theologian, vocally opposed Hitler’s regime—a losing battle in the sense that he was imprisoned in 1943 and hanged in 1945. Bonhoeffer’s favorite verse was, “We do not know what to do, but our […]

Why should it use up the soil?                     —Luke 13:7 For three years he had been looking for fruit on his fig tree but found none. So, he told the gardener, “Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?” The tree was drawing sustenance […]

I will fear no evil, for you are with me.                            —Psalm 23:4 The Bible is packed with stories of divine deliverance. Lot’s deliverance from Sodom. Isaac’s deliverance from the altar of sacrifice. Joseph’s deliverance from prison. Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. Elijah’s deliverance […]

The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.                                            —Luke 19:10 In Luke 15, Jesus delivered a trilogy about a lost sheep from a flock of 100, a lost coin from […]

Repent and be baptized, every one of you.                                      —Acts 2:38 Gene Polvado had a burden on his heart: he was concerned about an elderly man in a town where he had once ministered. They had developed a […]

Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.                               —1 Chronicles 22:16 There’s something you need to do, right? Write that note? Begin that exercise regimen? Wrap up that project? You intend to do it and have promised yourself […]

It is by grace you have been saved.                 —Ephesians 2:8 During his early teens, Robert Robinson (1726-1791) hung out with a gang of hoodlums and led a life of debauchery. When he was seventeen, Robert attended a George Whitefield evangelistic meeting: he walked in a scoffer and […]

Do not worry about your life.             —Matthew 6:25 In my neck of the woods, weather warnings trigger a lot of hand-wringing. The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on June 1 and ends on November 30. On December 1, some breathe a sigh of relief and get on with life. […]

How long shall I put up with you?                   —Matthew 17:17 Most children go through a period when they are exasperating—and you just have to put up with it. Your spouse? You just have to put up with it. I had to put up with some contrary […]

When he appears, we shall be like him.                              —1 John 3:2 Men’s Wearhouse, a coast-to-coast men’s clothing chain, achieved big-time recognition by flooding the market with television commercials, ending with founder George Zimmer’s trademark line, “You’re going to like the way […]