Today’s Walk in the Word

Is It All About You?

By Joe Barnett / September 1, 2021 / Comments Off on Is It All About You?

Who will get what you have prepared for yourself?              —Luke 12:20 Jesus pictured a man who worked hard to achieve a comfortable retirement—and got there. Financially secure, he said to himself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be […]

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How Will He Know It’s Me?

By Joe Barnett / August 31, 2021 / Comments Off on How Will He Know It’s Me?

The eyes of the Lord are everywhere.                    —Proverbs 15:3 “Omniscient” means that God knows all and sees all, all the time. The word doesn’t appear in the Bible—but the truth of it does: “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight” (Heb 4:13). Alfred Lord […]

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Daybreak

By Joe Barnett / August 30, 2021 / Comments Off on Daybreak

My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning.                     —Psalm 130:6 “The soul of many a man has its eastward aspect,” wrote F.W. Boreham. He was referring to those who live in darkness but yearn for dawn. We are too quick […]

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Confession and Forgiveness

By Joe Barnett / August 27, 2021 / Comments Off on Confession and Forgiveness

I will confess my transgressions . . . and you [will] forgive the guilt of my sin.                                —Psalm 32:5 You have to admire King David, for when he was confronted with his sin, he immediately confessed, “I have sinned against […]

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Cleansed of All Sin

By Joe Barnett / August 26, 2021 / Comments Off on Cleansed of All Sin

The blood of Jesus Christ . . . cleanses us from all sin.           —1 John 1:7 Martin Luther had a dream in which he saw a hideous fiend writing his sins on the walls of his room: sins of thought, word, and deed; known sins and secret sins. When the […]

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Influence

By Joe Barnett / August 25, 2021 / Comments Off on Influence

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.                            —Proverbs 22:6 Homiletics professor Dr. Fred Craddock was asked who, other than his parents, was the most influential person in the formation […]

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A New Wardrobe

By Joe Barnett / August 24, 2021 / Comments Off on A New Wardrobe

[If] you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.         —Romans 8:13 In Colossians 3, Paul counsels Christians to put to death five destructive behaviors, abandon five speech flaws, and dress in a new wardrobe. Five behaviors to be put to death (v. 5): sexual immorality impurity lust […]

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You Are a Billionaire

By Joe Barnett / August 23, 2021 / Comments Off on You Are a Billionaire

[Make] the most of every opportunity.                       —Ephesians 5:16 If you live an average lifespan, you will have been granted over 2 billion seconds on Earth. You are a billionaire! Use the time wisely. By the time we reach junior high, we’ve mastered the nasty […]

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God Loves This World—and You

By Joe Barnett / August 20, 2021 / Comments Off on God Loves This World—and You

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.           —Genesis 1:1 Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, to study the outer Solar System. At the time of this writing (August 2021), it is 14.2 billion miles from Earth. In 1990, when it was only 4 […]

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The Persecuted

By Joe Barnett / August 19, 2021 / Comments Off on The Persecuted

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.                      —Matthew 5:10 The ancients believed that suffering was a sign of God’s displeasure—that the sufferer was being punished for some sin committed. In this beatitude, Jesus reversed that view—but […]

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