Today’s Walk in the Word

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.       —Luke 5:31 Landfills are choking on discarded mattresses. Tim Keenan saw it as a business opportunity. He hired a dozen people to extract the dumped bedding components for recycling: foam, fabric, springs. Colorado Springs journalist Bill Vogrin wrote: “Of all […]

Encourage the timid, help the weak.            —1 Thessalonians 5:14 In Romans 12, Paul wrote, “We have different gifts.” Then he named some of them: serving, teaching, leading, giving, and encouraging. Most of those gifts are limited. One is unlimited. Teaching is a wonderful gift, but not everyone can do it—and […]

There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.                                    —Ecclesiastes 7:20 Running for office activates a dilemma—the desire to be known against the fear of being known. The […]

He will deliver you . . . from the deadly pestilence.            —Psalm 91:3 “In profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the herald of prosperity, this monument was erected by the citizens of Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama.” So reads the inscription on the base of […]

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.    —Romans 12:12 On September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln ended a speech with a story about an Eastern monarch who charged his advisors to create a sentence that would be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They produced these words: “And this, […]

His mercies begin afresh each day.              —Lamentations 3:23 On March 9, 2015, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg lifted off from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in their Solar Impulse 2. On July 26, 2016, their multi-stage 26,000-mile journey ended at the same site, completing the first circumnavigation […]

If your gift is encouragement, devote yourself to encouraging.               —Romans 12:8 What’s on your agenda today? Do you have it all laid out, ready to start scratching things off your to-do list? Maybe it’ll work out that way; maybe not: “You don’t know what the day will bring” […]

As we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone.     —Galatians 6:10 Transferring data from my outdated computer to a new one, Jimmy clicked on a box beside the sentence: “I have read and agree to the terms of service.” He said, “I hope God won’t zap me for saying I’ve read something […]

Don’t you remember?       —Mark 8:18 In every age, God’s people have been afflicted with poor memory. The Israelites quickly forgot God’s miraculous deliverance from slavery and went into whine mode: bitter water, bad food. When Moses took a forty-day hiatus to meet with God, they forgot his heroic leadership and opted for […]

I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.     —Psalm 23:6 Charlotte Elliott’s Just As I Am is reputed to have touched more lives than any hymn in history. It was Billy Graham’s signature hymn at his 417 crusades, attended in-person by eighty-four million people. In churches, large and small, we have […]