Today’s Walk in the Word

We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.           —Romans 8:37 It took me less than five minutes to write down the names of ten acquaintances who have faced difficult issues in the past year. You could jot down a similar list. In a paragraph that will freeze your […]

God has crowned you with glory and honor.                                   —Psalm 8:5 Can you get the president’s attention? Not likely. Can you get God’s attention? You already have. Twinkling stars on the backdrop of a black sky filled David with […]

I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty.         —1 Samuel 17:45 Eighty times—each morning and evening for forty days—the giant Goliath strutted into the valley and shouted, “Give me a man and let us fight each other.” Every time he shouted, Saul’s soldiers shook in their sandals. Not […]

Though he is dead, he still speaks.                  —Hebrews 11:4 That picture on your wall, table, or shelf is like a window on the past. It brings memories. Let it speak to you. On a nearby shelf is a picture of my mother. When I am critical and […]

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.         —Revelations 21:6 The Library of Congress is the largest literary repository in the world. It occupies three buildings in Washington D.C., with a collection of more than 40 million books. Half of them are in English, every one of […]

I am the Alpha and the Omega.             —Revelation 1:8 The “I am’s” of Jesus proclaim his incomparable eminence: “I am the bread of life.” “I am the light of the world.” “I am the door.” “I am the good shepherd.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” […]

[Your beauty] should be that of your inner self.                                      —1 Peter 3:4 Physical beauty isn’t a vice, but it is a danger—to both the one who has it and the one who observes it. The one who […]

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength.                  —Psalm 90:10 I recently asked an 80-year-old friend how he was feeling. He said, “I feel good, except for the parts that hurt.” Looking in the mirror that evening, I thought, “I’m […]

To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever.            —1 Peter 4:11 In 1 Peter 4:10, the apostle charges us to “serve one another with the particular gifts God has given each of you” (1 Pt 4:10). In verse 11, he specifies two crucial activities of the […]

Let us not become weary in doing good.                           —Galatians 6:9 At the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, there is a statue of a dog: Hachikō. Hachikō’s master, Hidesabuō Ueno, was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. Every afternoon, Hachikō came to […]