Today’s Walk in the Word

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.                    —Hebrews 11:1 Sometimes God gives us immediate victory. Sometimes he doesn’t. Hebrews 11:32–35a names some people of faith who were triumphant in this life. Then 11:35b–38 notes some of […]

He is not here; he has risen.               —Matthew 28:6 Nuclear weapons in hostile hands scare the daylights out of us. Internet predators give us the willies. Superbugs that thumb their noses at antibiotics put us on edge. But the resurrection of Jesus tells us that in the long […]

We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard                   —Acts 4:20 Acts 4 finds Peter and John before the Sanhedrin, being ordered to quit talking about Jesus. “With all due respect, sirs, that isn’t going to happen. You crucified him, but God raised him […]

This is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.        —1 John 2:25 Early Sunday morning, following Friday’s crucifixion, grieving women trudged to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. The tomb was empty. “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” an angel asked. “He is not here; […]

Christ has indeed been raised from the dead.                      —1 Corinthians 15:20 (I am allotting today’s space to words from the apostle Paul.) If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our […]

Because I live, you also will live.                      —John 14:19 When Jesus said, “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it,” he was pointing to his resurrection. He would soon be crucified, and the gates of hades [the gates of […]

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. —John 3:36 Jesus is the resurrection and the life, and those who believe in him, even though they die, will live again (Jn 11:25). In Daniel Silva’s novel, The Other Woman, Alistair Hughes, an American falsely accused of spying, is murdered. At the gravesite, his colleague Arthur […]

Go into all the world and preach the good news.          —Mark 16:15 What is the good news? Is it that God is a loving Father, not a hostile deity? Or that God’s grace, accepted by faith, brings his gift of salvation? Or that we get to go to heaven when we […]

Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live.                  —John 11:25 In a commencement address at Stanford University, the late Steve Jobs said, “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.” Many people […]

They were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.      —Hebrews 11:6 Early Christians collided with harsh circumstances: confiscation of property and possessions—even loss of life. They didn’t endure such treatment with “Why me?” bitterness. They accepted it joyfully because they knew that even in this life, what they had gained was better than […]