Today’s Walk in the Word

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love.                                  —Romans 12:10 Paul ends his list of the attributes of love with a snapshot of four ways it treats people. It always protects. It never drags the mistakes of others into […]

[If I] do not have love, I am nothing.               —1 Corinthians 13:2 The tabloids get prime space at the grocery checkout. There’s a voracious appetite for the lurid. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20). What the Bible brands as evil is championed […]

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.                        —Proverbs 19:11 Have you ever been mistreated? Unjustly judged? Been trash-talked? Probably. And there’s nothing you can do about it. But there is something you can do about […]

He who is slow to anger quiets contention.                               —Proverbs 15:18 A peculiarity of anger is that it is sometimes the vice of the virtuous—a blemish on the personality of an otherwise nice person. We all know someone who is attractive […]

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.            —Philippians 2:4 People demanding their rights are usually loud. Often angry. Sometimes threatening. We live in a culture that is concerned with rights more than duties; that insists on privilege more than […]

Be gentle and polite to all people.                            —Titus 3:2 “Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.” —Eric Hoffer “To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire.” —Arthur Schopenhauer […]

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.                    —James 4:6 C.S. Lewis said, “Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” Boasting is unjustified since everything we have is a God-given gift. “What do […]

Envy rots the bones.   —Proverbs 14:30 Bette Midler said: “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” Some find it easier to weep with those who weep than to rejoice with those who rejoice. Love isn’t envious of the success of others; it delights in their talent […]

Be kind and compassionate to one another.                            —Ephesians 4:32 We’ve all known Christians whose résumé could read: Devoted. Loyal. Involved. Faithful. Moral. Unkind. Paul said if we have mountain-moving faith but don’t have love, we are nothing. Nothing! That’s the ground on […]

Love. We talk about it, write about it, sing about it. But the real power of love is what we DO about it. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul’s well-known chapter on love, he says that without love we are nothing. Nothing. In verses 4–7, he gives the ingredients of love: what it is and does […]