Today’s Walk in the Word

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins.                        —1 John 1:9 Instant replay eliminated missing a game-changer. Any dazzling “How-did-he-do-that?” feat will be replayed on your screen again and again—and again in slow motion. The flip side is […]

The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.            —Luke 19:10 On February 18, 1952, the SS Pendleton was snapped in half in a gale ten miles off the Massachusetts coast. Forty-one sailors were trapped inside the ship’s sinking stern. When word of the disaster reached the […]

[Whoever] does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God.                               —2 John 9 In 1820, ex-president Thomas Jefferson took a razor blade and sliced out portions of the New Testament that he found distasteful. He deleted all […]

Do not forget to do good.         —Hebrews 13:16 If you were to be described in five words, what would those five words be? Here are the five that Peter used to picture Jesus: “He went about doing good” (Acts 10:38). Declared beliefs are suspect unless verified by action. Knowing the playbook […]

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.                             —John 13:35 Rolling through a small town with a Sojourners caravan, Jimmy pointed to a sign in front of a church—“The Original Church of God, Number […]

He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.                                  —1 Peter 5:7 Toothy-grin face masks make me smile. But I secretly wonder what’s on the inside of the mask. Smiling on the outside, hurting on the […]

Come to me . . . and I will give you rest.                             —Matthew 11:28 I have written and posted more than 2,000 of these devotionals. I’ve rarely hit the “send” button without a feeling of apprehension because I fear my words […]

If we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.       —Romans 8:25 “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Really? “Tomorrow is another day.” Really? These bromides make me laugh—they are so obvious, they’re silly. Still, they make a crisp point about patience: it takes time to build […]

A happy heart makes the face cheerful.                           —Proverbs 15:13 Joseph Hubisz and his wife decided that they would need to take a vacation when the coronavirus pandemic ended. Joseph taped a world map to the refrigerator, handed his wife a magnetic dart, […]

The lazy will not get what they want, but those who work hard will.             —Proverbs 13:4 Author Annie Dillard wrote: “You do not have to sit outside in the dark. The stars neither require it nor demand it. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will […]