Today’s Walk in the Word

Why should it use up the soil?                   —Luke 13:7 Jesus pictured a vineyard owner who’d had it with a fruitless fig tree: “For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should […]

They are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.                  —2 Peter 2:20 Kids find it hard to resist throwing a rock through the window of an unoccupied house. Emptiness invites mischief. Jesus told a story about an evacuating demon, wandering for a spell […]

We have this treasure in jars of clay.              —2 Corinthians 4:7 If you’ve purchased a pricey piece of jewelry, it was probably gift-wrapped on a black velvet background, designed to draw the recipient’s eye to the gem, not the packaging. Paul wanted his readers to know that the gem […]

Go now and leave your life of sin.                          —John 8:11 There, for all to see, was the photo of a high-profile politician caught in a prostitution sting. How embarrassing! Another photo pictured a notorious sleazebag, being arrested for a Ponzi scam. How embarrassing! […]

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards.     —Song of Songs 2:15 Foxes invade vineyards, eat the grapes, and trash the vines. The foxes must be destroyed, or they will destroy the vineyards. The little foxes of greed, deceit, and envy are more deceptive than the big foxes of […]

[There is] a time to weep and a time to laugh.                           —Ecclesiastes 3:4 It was a small town where everybody knew everybody. Our little church was growing. We were running out of space. We needed to build. Dwight Mann was a prominent […]

I am going there to prepare a place for you.                               —John 14:2 Sarah and her husband were preparing to move her elderly mother to live with them, but they knew it would be a difficult transition for her. Wanting to […]

My help comes from the Lord.              —Psalm 121:2 When his dad drove up, young Bill Frey was grubbing tree stumps on the family farm. After watching his son wrestle unsuccessfully with a stubborn one for a while, he said, “I see what your problem is. You’re not using all […]

Can [you] by worrying add a single hour to your life?                                        —Matthew 6:27 How are you handling your tomorrows today? We all know someone whose worry about their tomorrows wrecks their today with anxiety. In fact, […]

All his days he eats in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.                         —Ecclesiastes 5:17 Have you ever been mistreated by a spouse, parent, child, teacher, employer, or coworker? Probably. Has it made you bitter? Bitterness breeds a lot of problems but never […]