Today’s Walk in the Word

I am going there to prepare a place for you.       —John 14:2 Jesus came down from his place to our place … A place where there’s not enough food to go around—where starving children go to bed crying until they become too weak to cry. A place where people do terrible things […]

Eutychus … was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on.                  —Acts 20:9 Critics in Corinth ridiculed Paul’s preaching: “you have never heard a worse preacher,” they squawked (2 Cor. 10:10 TLB). Over in Troas, Eutychus said “Amen” by nodding off and tumbling out […]

None of us lives to himself alone.              —Romans 14:7 Splash! A pebble thrown in a pond triggers ever-widening ripples. Every choice you make, every action you take, every word you speak, is your pebble in the pond … kindness or cruelty compassion or coldness gentleness or hostility patience or […]

Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.      —Ecclesiastes 1:2 Solomon isn’t the only one who found life meaningless. Many are stranded in a life in which they find no pleasure or purpose. Take the gal that dropped out of high school and has been stuck in a minimum-wage dead-end job ever since. Or the doctor […]

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.                                —Mark 4:9 Somewhere in those India paper pages of your Bible there is a question that is your question—probably the most important question of your life. We work ourselves into a […]

Do this is remembrance of me.       —1 Corinthians 11:24 When Jesus met for his final Passover with his disciples he broke the bread and picked up the cup: “This is my body … my blood.” When you eat the bread and sip the cup in coming days, “Do this in remembrance of […]

He is not here; he has risen.            —Matthew 28:6 Nuclear weapons in the wrong hands give us the jitters. Internet predators give us the willies. Shrill voices screeching that global warming is going to leave us with a scorched planet give us the sweats. Superbugs that thumb their noses at […]

We are going up to Jerusalem.                —Mark 10:33 Jesus turned water into wine and sinners into saints. He empowered disciples and excoriated hypocrites. He walked on water and patched up paralytics. He preached all day and prayed all night. He healed the sick and raised the dead. But […]

Your sins are forgiven.        —Luke 7:48 She dared to crash the party and wash Jesus’ feet with her tears. Accustomed to being scorned, she ignored the contempt of the Pharisee host. Jesus, too, brushed off the censure of the self-righteous host and said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.” Most commentators […]

Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man.                          —Matthew 7:24 The world says: “The way to win is to follow your dreams.” Jesus says: “The way to win is to follow me.” The world […]