Today’s Walk in the Word

… encourage one another and build each other up …                                    —1Thessalonians 5:11 Marathon. What a sport! Unlike football, baseball, or basketball, there are no catcalls, no boos. Only cheers. That is the way life should be lived—cheering for […]

You have forsaken your first love.                —Revelation 2:4 That was a fine church in Ephesus. In Paul’s letters to churches he usually pinpointed flaws in their fellowship that needed to be corrected. There’s not a single line about such a flaw in his letter to the church in […]

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault.                                       —Jude 1:24 You wonder if you are good enough to go to heaven. You aren’t. That’s […]

I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us.            —3 John 1:10 Diotrephes was a dictatorial church leader who insisted on being top dog. The Apostle John exposes three of his sins: he refused hospitality to missionaries; he drove those who opposed him out of the […]

Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ.                         —2 John 1:3 Grace. Mercy. Peace. Awesome gifts. Grace is the undeserved favor of God. Mercy is the unmerited compassion of God. Peace is the unequaled gift of God—conferred when the […]

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.                                   —1 John 5:21 “You shall have no other gods before me,” was the first commandment, and the second was, “You shall not make for yourself an idol” (Exo. 20:3, 4). God doesn’t […]

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!                                    —1 John 3:1 In the ancient world an adopted child had all the rights of a birth child. Natural-born […]

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins.                  —1 John 1:9 You have to admire King David, for when he was confronted with his sin he immediately confessed, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And you have to love God, […]

The blood of Jesus Christ … cleanses us from all sin.        —1 John 1:7 Martin Luther had a dream in which he saw a hideous fiend writing his sins on the walls of his room. Sins of thought, word, and deed. Known sins and secret sins. When the ogre was done Martin […]

You ought to live holy and godly lives.                          —2 Peter 3:11 When Ludwig Nobel died in 1888 a French journalist mistakenly thought the deceased was Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and posted a front-page story calling him, “The dynamite king! Merchant of […]