Today’s Walk in the Word

When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites.       —Matthew 6:5 “I desire then that in every place men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling” (1 Tm 2:8). Here Paul lays down two ingredients of acceptable prayer: First, it must come from a pure heart—“lifting holy hands.” So […]

I tell you to pray for all people.                —1 Timothy 2:1 Some politicians are downright unlikable. Someone said that politics seems to draw people with the dual traits of a gigantic ego and an inferiority complex. When Paul told us in 1 Timothy 2 to pray for all […]

He himself bore our sins . . . that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.                         —1 Peter 2:24 Resolutions move in one of two directions: starting what you ought to start—or quitting what you ought to quit. Carl started smoking […]

Christ died for sins once for all.                   —1 Peter 3:18 The call from his son was urgent. He was behind on his mortgage and had received notice of foreclosure unless the bank received full remittance by ten o’clock the following morning. So, dad overnighted a check […]

I am the Lord, and there is no other.                    —Isaiah 45:5 I don’t know why a tornado demolishes one house and skips over the one next to it. I don’t know why cancer ravages the body of a devoted wife and mother and leaves a drunken […]

O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you.                       —2 Samuel 7:22 Musing on the sovereignty of God, Charles Swindoll noted a smaller word nested inside the big word sovereignty: reign—sove-reign-ty. Sovereignty means our all-knowing, all-powerful God reigns in ways beyond our understanding, causing […]

By the grace of God I am what I am.              —1 Corinthians 15:10 Matthew Henry wrote: “Wherever the Providence of God casts us, we should desire and endeavor to be useful; and, when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we […]

[God’s blessings] are new every morning.                      —Lamentations 3:23 How did your day begin? I’m guessing pretty much the same as yesterday—and the day before yesterday and the day before that. We seldom wake up hearing an angelic choir belting out the “Hallelujah Chorus.” But from […]

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.                  —Psalm 141:3 Once a word is spoken, it can’t be unspoken. Damage done by harsh words can’t be undone. Churches are split, feelings are hurt, and relationships are splintered by biting […]

Rejoice in the Lord always.        —Philippians 4:4 If you’ve been around for a while, you’ve learned that you’re not going to get through life without encountering some storms. Jesus shoots straight with you, saying, “In this world you will have trouble” (Jn 16:33). So, when Paul writes, “Be joyful always . . […]