Today’s Walk in the Word

Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.                —Mark 13:33 There have been self-declared prophets in every generation who have clucked that they have nailed down the exact date of the world’s end. They have all been wrong. No surprise there, for […]

I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!                                       —Mark 9:24 There was mixture in this dad’s heavy heart—a hybrid of belief and unbelief. It wasn’t one person saying, “I believe” and a different person saying, “help […]

All these evils come from inside and make a man “unclean.”              —Mark 7:21 Jesus rattled the Jewish dietary cage when he told them to forget this “kosher” nonsense; it’s what goes into your heart, not your stomach that corrupts. It is the thought-life that defiles you. For from within, […]

Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down.                      —Mark 6:51 He had agreed to join them, but evening came and “Jesus had not yet come to them” (Jno. 6:17). Their boat was being tossed like a toy by vicious wind […]

Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place.                                         —Mark 6:31 “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where […]

Isn’t this the carpenter?          —Mark 6:3 Carpenters do two things: they make things and fix things. Jesus was a carpenter. He made us: “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” But we stumbled, fell, got broken. We need to be fixed. He can […]

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.                          —Mark 4:9 President Franklin Roosevelt loathed formal reception lines at the White House. All show no substance. People don’t hear a word you say, he complained. One day his mischievous side won out. Each […]

Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.                                            —Mark 1:41 His hand was hideously deformed—a silent sufferer, neither seeking Jesus’ attention, nor asking for his help. But his affliction awakened an ache in […]

Very early in the morning … Jesus got up … and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.                                         —Mark 1:35 A polished violinist was asked, “What is the secret of your success?” “Planned […]

I am with you always.  —Matthew 28:20 “In this world you will have trouble,” Jesus said. Not “In this world you may have trouble,” but “In this world you will have trouble.” If you’ve been around for a spell you’re saying, “Yep.” But he also made you a promise—a promise that when trouble comes calling, […]