Today’s Walk in the Word

Can [you] by worrying add a single hour to your life?                                        —Matthew 6:27 How are you handling your tomorrows today? We all know someone whose worry about their tomorrows wrecks their today with anxiety. In fact, […]

All his days he eats in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.                         —Ecclesiastes 5:17 Have you ever been mistreated by a spouse, parent, child, teacher, employer, or coworker? Probably. Has it made you bitter? Bitterness breeds a lot of problems but never […]

[We are] created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.                          —Ephesians 2:10 A common question asked in a job interview is, “What skill set do you bring that would contribute to the success of […]

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”      —Ecclesiastes 7:10 Reliving your yesterdays may be tempting if the biggest slice of your life is past tense. Back then, life was exciting. Health was robust. Loved ones and friends were alive and as near as a phone call. Now, those days […]

Come, follow me.   —Matthew 4:19 Jesus recruited his first disciples with three words, “Come, follow me.” It was an abrupt career interruption: a call to four fishermen to abandon their boats—and to one tax collector to give up his lucrative position. Jesus’ life was a three-year marathon of planned ministry—frequently interrupted: “My little daughter […]

[God] frustrates what people intend to do.                                —Psalm 33:10 The first thing I see when I turn on my computer each morning is my schedule for the day. The second thing I see is a list of emails, some calling […]

There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.                            —Ecclesiastes 4:8 “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have” (Heb 13:5). How do we pull that off? […]

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.                                —Proverbs 12:22 John Adams was the second president of the United States. Thomas Jefferson was the third. They died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the last two living signers of […]

Teach us to number our days.                 —Psalm 90:12 When I asked an octogenarian how he was feeling, he said, “I feel good, except for the parts that hurt.” As we grow older and realize that this machine we live in has a lot of miles on it, […]

Do you love me?   —John 21:16 Nearly a century has passed since Roy Riegels scooped up a Georgia Tech fumble in the 1929 Rose Bowl and ran sixty-five disoriented yards toward his own goal. For the rest of his life, he was saddled with the nametag “Wrong Way Riegels.” I suspect that if you […]