Today’s Walk in the Word

[T]here is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.   —Proverbs 18:24 In 1957, Sam Rayburn—the longest-tenured Speaker of the House of Representatives in history—received the news late one night that a friend’s teenage daughter had died in an accident. Early the next morning Sam walked through his friend’s front door, went to the […]

If one falls down, his friend can help him up.                   —Ecclesiastes 4:10 At a Special Olympics race—where children with disabilities were competing—a cute kid named Timmy quickly took the lead and was far ahead. He was nearing the finish line when he looked back and saw […]

[W]e shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.     —1 John 3:2 When we were children, we put our small feet in dad’s or mom’s big shoes. We couldn’t wait to be big enough to wear grown-up shoes. My dad has been gone for years, but his shoes are […]

[F]rom generation to generation we will recount your praise.      —Psalm 79:13 Patek Philippe, the luxury Swiss watch manufacturer, buys full-page ads in classy magazines—mostly white space, with this brief text: You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely take care of it for the next generation. You may not be ready to […]

[Y]et will I hope in him.        —Job 13:15 Norman turns every positive into a negative with, “Yeah, but . . .” “Isn’t this weather gorgeous?” “Yeah, but it won’t last.” “Hear you got a raise.” “Yeah, but inflation and taxes will eat it up.” Norman finds a worm in every apple. Habakkuk […]

[H]e chose us in him before the creation of the world.      —Ephesians 1:4 On April 21, 2018, Nabi Tajima died in Kikai, Japan, at the age of 117 years, 260 days. Nabi was the world’s oldest certified living person—the last living human to have been born in the nineteenth century. There’s a bristlecone […]

[G]row in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.              —2 Peter 3:18 Have you been back to your old hometown lately? Not the same as it was, is it? I was recently in two towns where I once lived. One is a vibrant, up-n-at-’em community. […]

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.             —Isaiah 40:29 Dashrath Manjhi’s wife died because he was unable to get her the medical care she needed in time. Manjhi—who became known as “Mountain Man”—spent twenty-two years after his wife’s death carving a road through […]

[J]ustified freely by his grace. —Romans 3:24 Gregory Counts was convicted of rape in 1992. On May 7, 2018, his conviction was vacated because the alleged victim confessed that the crime never happened and new DNA testing proved his innocence. Gregory Counts had spent over half his life—twenty-six years—in prison for a crime he didn’t […]

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.                 —John 15:13 Lloyd Ogilvie, Chaplain of the United States Senate from 1995-2003, recounted an incident concerning an eight-year-old girl in a Pennsylvania orphanage who had been terribly abused. She was understandably […]