Today’s Walk in the Word

Run in such a way as to get the prize.              —1 Corinthians 9:24 Ours is a winner-oriented world. In sports, business, and politics, it’s winning that counts—and winners that count. It filters down even to the trivial. I received an email from a lady who told me she had […]

Do not worry about tomorrow.              —Matthew 6:34 Peter wrote that with the Lord “a thousand years are like a day” (2 Pt 3:8). I confess that I can’t get my head wrapped around that. My life is measured by the calendar: years, months, weeks, and days. God is timeless, […]

Be gentle toward everyone.                —Titus 3:2 An incident of road rage or a random freeway shooting reveals the breaking point of someone who has spun out of control. Most people never reach that stage—even so, in every vehicle there’s a story being played out in real time. Each […]

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.                                    —James 4:7 Satan messed up Eve’s garden with a one-point game plan: He got her to covet the one thing that was off-limits. Eve lived in paradise, a farm […]

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.                                        —Isaiah 5:20 John Wayne said, “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you’re living. You […]

Leave it alone for one more year.                    —Luke 13:8 When the vineyard owner said to chop down the fruitless tree, the vinedresser asked for one more year: “If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.” It’s the gospel of another chance. […]

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! […]