Today’s Walk in the Word

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial.                                    —James 1:12 Duffy Daugherty was football coach at Michigan State 1954–1972. In demand as an after-dinner speaker, the colorful coach gave his rubber-chicken speech hundreds of times, proclaiming you only […]

We eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.                 —Galatians 5:5 Paul closed his love eulogy with the triad tribute: “Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (1 Cor 13:13). Love gets top billing. But don’t slight faith and […]

The cheerful heart has a continual feast.                          —Proverbs 15:15 I confess that I have a negative attitude toward Christians with a negative attitude. To be sure, there’s a bunch of rotten stuff going on in our world. But the Christian has reason to […]

Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.                                              –Philippians 2:3 It was on television for the world to see: our at-the-time president rudely shoving smaller-nation leaders out of the way so he […]

He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen.         —Isaiah 50:4 “Call me anytime,” Carl said. “I have my cell phone on 24/7/365.” Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year strikes me as somewhat excessive for human availability. But not for divine connection, where […]

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much.                          —Luke 16:10 Trustworthy discipleship is a life of faithful attention to each day’s frequent and familiar tasks, however small and insignificant they may seem. It’s easy to be indifferent toward […]

In him all things hold together.              —Colossians 1:17 In The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill wrote about the months prior to the Nazi blitzkrieg that leveled much of London: “The future was heavy with foreboding.” Ours is a different day, but we know the foreboding. Many of us pay more […]

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought. —Romans 12:3 I’m writing this as political campaigns are at full bore (pun intended). Getting to the top doesn’t live up to its promises: contentment, fulfillment, and satisfaction aren’t achieved by being the big cheese. Nevertheless, exaggerated need to seem important is often addictive and […]

Stand up and lift up your heads. —Luke 21:28 Without heaven, history is in the hands of humanity. Unless there is a heavenly home beyond this earthly habitation, life on this planet is the final word. The feeling that the world is in a sorry state creates a heavenly longing. The gospel implants hope for […]

Let us not neglect our church meetings.                        —Hebrews 10:25 “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be . . . boastful, proud, abusive . . . ungrateful, unholy . . . unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the […]