Today’s Walk in the Word

Honor your father and your mother.                   —Exodus 20:12 I was born in the fourth year of the Great Depression. But because of my father, I didn’t worry about things like income taxes, car payments, or mortgages. Those items landed on his desk. The bills got paid, […]

My son, pay attention to my wisdom.                             —Proverbs 5:1 One more batch of lessons I learned from my dad. I learned that . . . I can’t choose where I came from, but I can choose where I am going. The […]

My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment.                                   —Proverbs 3:21 A few more lessons I learned from my dad. I learned that . . . I shouldn’t let the attitudes and actions of others govern my behavior. My best […]

My son, do not forget my teaching.                      —Proverbs 3:1 Here are some more lessons I learned from my dad. I learned that . . . Where I am is less important than the direction I am moving. Strong minds rise above misfortune. Things turn out […]

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction.                             —Proverbs 1:8 Next Sunday is Father’s Day. I’m going to devote a few posts this week to some lessons I learned from my dad. Most of these are not his words; they are my […]

People ruin their lives by their own foolishness.      —Proverbs 19:3 The world’s first electronic general-purpose computer, ENIAC, unveiled in 1945, at the cost of $6,300,000 in today’s money, weighed twenty-seven tons and could perform 385 calculations per second. Your smartphone can execute more than 2,000,000,000 (yes, that’s with a “b”) calculations per second. […]

The holy Scriptures . . . are able to make you wise.    —2 Timothy 3:15 On the grounds of Ashton Villa, at 2328 Broadway in Galveston, Texas, a statue of General Gordon Granger commemorates the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, officially ending slavery in Texas. Texas slaves were the last to know. General Granger’s […]

The kingdom of God belongs to such as these.       —Luke 18:16 New Testament scholar William Hendriksen, penned his longing for the faith of his childhood poetically . . . Make me, O Lord, a child again, So tender, frail, and small, In self possessing nothing, and In thee possessing all. O Savior, […]

I can do all things through Christ, because he gives me strength.       —Philippians 4:13 In 2014, José Altuve became the first professional baseball player in eighty years to rack up 130 hits and 40 stolen bases; from 2014–2017, he led the American League, with 200+ hits each season; in 2017, he won […]

This is how it will be when the Son of Man comes again.           —Luke 17:30 In Noah’s day, God wiped a generation from the face of the earth because of their wickedness. In Lot’s day, the stench of immorality was so repugnant God eliminated Sodom and everyone in it. Jesus […]