Today’s Walk in the Word

By the grace of God I am what I am.                —1 Corinthians 15:10 Did you know there was an AA before AA? It was called the Washington Temperance Society; it was established in 1840, a century before AA. It began with a group of six men who regularly […]

I pondered the direction of my life.                        —Psalm 119:59 What are your three greatest talents? What three abilities do you apply most effectively? What three attitudes do you have that cause people to be drawn to you? What three attitudes do you have that […]

[You] eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.       —Joshua 24:13 The AARP Foundation reports that over 10 million seniors in the U.S. face hunger every day. Paying for electricity or prescription refills means staring into empty pantries and refrigerators. The numbers nudge me to be aware of others’ […]

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes.       —John 19:23 In her biography, The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom recounted the humiliation of being forced to take off all their clothes and file past grinning guards at Ravensbruck, the notorious women’s extermination camp. During one of those demeaning drills, Corrie remembered […]

Acts of the sinful nature are obvious.                    —Galatians 5:19 The light rail line in Houston, Texas, has been a fiasco of cars crashing into trains. Despite dozens of posted “Do Not Turn” signs, illegal turns have been the cause of most of the smashups. Transit engineers […]

Death is swallowed up in victory.           —1 Corinthians 15:54 We met at the Ritz for Saturday matinees, vicariously living our childhood shoot-’em-up fantasies. Cowboys were our heroes. After the feature film, there was a nail-biting reel, ending with a white-hatter facing a no-way-out catastrophe—fading to the words: “To Be Continued […]

People harvest only what they plant.                        —Galatians 6:7 You harvest what you plant. It’s that simple—and that certain. Some people limp through life feeling mistreated—by a parent, spouse, child, teacher, employer, coworker, or friend. And maybe they are. You may have been dealt a […]

Oh, the joys of those who trust the Lord.                           —Psalm 40:4 After their mother died of cancer, C.S. Lewis and his brother Warren endured some miserable years at Wynyard, an English boarding school in Hertfordshire, England. Headmaster Robert Capron ruled by sheer […]

When Jesus saw their faith . . .                   —Mark 2:5 In Bible times, paralysis was considered permanent and hopeless. But we meet four men who didn’t buy it. When they heard that Jesus was in town, each grabbed a corner of the cot of their paralyzed […]

Let us keep in step with the Spirit.                   —Galatians 5:25 “Live by the Spirit,” wrote Paul, “and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the […]