Today’s Walk in the Word

What Is Your God?

By Joe Barnett / December 11, 2018 / Comments Off on What Is Your God?

Their own strength is their god.          —Habakkuk 1:11 God showed up out of the blue and commissioned Gideon to save Israel from their seven-year Midianite oppression. Talk about a lopsided fight—the Midianites had 135,000 soldiers; Gideon was able to round up 32,000: four to one odds. God told Gideon he had […]

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Standing on the Promises of God

By Joe Barnett / December 10, 2018 / Comments Off on Standing on the Promises of God

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.                             —James 4:7 Jesus answered each of Satan’s wilderness temptations with scripture: three temptations; three scriptures. Game over. Old Scratch glanced at the scoreboard and hightailed it for the Exit. Abraham, “the father […]

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Hooray for Abigail

By Joe Barnett / December 7, 2018 / Comments Off on Hooray for Abigail

May you be blessed for your good judgment.                        —1 Samuel 25:33 Abigail was on a mission of damage control. Nabal, her rich, surly husband had hurled insults at David. Justifiably furious, David and 400 of his soldiers strapped on their swords and stormed toward […]

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You May Want to Try This

By Joe Barnett / December 6, 2018 / Comments Off on You May Want to Try This

Give ear, O Lord, and hear.        —2 Kings 19:16 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was on a map-altering campaign, savagely conquering kingdoms. In an arrogant letter to Hezekiah, king of Judah, he demanded unconditional surrender. Hezekiah counterattacked with an unusual move: “He went up to the temple of the Lord and spread [the […]

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In Time of Trouble

By Joe Barnett / December 5, 2018 / Comments Off on In Time of Trouble

My times are in your hands.         —Psalm 31:15 In 1895, missionary Andrew Murray (1828–1917), suffering severe pain, wrote: “In time of trouble, say: “First, God brought me here. It is by His will I am in this strait place; in that I will rest. “Next, He will keep me in His […]

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Look for the Lovely

By Joe Barnett / December 4, 2018 / Comments Off on Look for the Lovely

Look at the lilies . . . Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.                         —Luke 12:27 I was miffed; someone littered my landscape with a discarded garbage bag. Actually, it polluted no more than one percent of […]

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Don’t Keep Score

By Joe Barnett / December 3, 2018 / Comments Off on Don’t Keep Score

[Love] keeps no record of wrongs.        —1 Corinthians 13:5 At the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, the father of the groom gave advice that would have made Dear Abby proud. He told about a football coach who kept the score on the lighted scoreboard all week when his team lost, […]

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Jubilee in Seattle

By Joe Barnett / November 30, 2018 / Comments Off on Jubilee in Seattle

Love your neighbor as yourself.           —Mark 12:31 For renters, a notice from the landlord slipped under the door is unsettling. But for tenants of the Lunde Apartments in Seattle, it was an unexpected gift. Owners Kory Slastthaug and his wife Mickey decided to give everyone in the eleven-unit building a […]

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An Admired Legacy

By Joe Barnett / November 29, 2018 / Comments Off on An Admired Legacy

[Jesus] did not come to be served, but to serve. —Mark 10:45 I recently presided at the funeral of one of the best men I’ve known—a quiet, humble man of servant spirit. Many of those who gathered for the service had a feeling of severe loss: he had touched their lives with warm friendship and […]

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Getting Better and Better

By Joe Barnett / November 28, 2018 / Comments Off on Getting Better and Better

Your faith is growing more and more.            —2 Thessalonians 1:3 Stephen Curry, arguably the best shooter in NBA history, entered the 2018 season with a 67.5 percent probability of sinking a basket every time the ball left his hands. Stephen isn’t satisfied with that. He spent the summer working on […]

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