Today’s Walk in the Word

Great Expectations

By Joe Barnett / April 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Great Expectations

What is impossible with men is possible with God.                                      —Luke 18:27 Over seventy years ago, J.B. Phillips wrote a book titled Your God Is Too Small. In it, he sketched common conceptions (or misconceptions) of God, one […]

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Serious Business

By Joe Barnett / April 10, 2025 / Comments Off on Serious Business

People are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.            —Hebrews 9:27 “All who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who done what is evil will rise to be condemned” (Jn […]

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It Was Here Already

By Joe Barnett / April 9, 2025 / Comments Off on It Was Here Already

There is nothing new under the sun.                   —Ecclesiastes 1:9 Automobiles, airplanes, telephones, and personal computers bring to mind the names of Henry Ford, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Medical advances are stunning: vaccines, drugs, surgical procedures, gene sequencing—the list […]

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Critics

By Joe Barnett / April 8, 2025 / Comments Off on Critics

The way of fools seems right to them.               —Proverbs 12:15 He was the Bible class nightmare. He interrupted, challenged, and pontificated. He knew everything about everything. A lady who’d had it up to here with his disruptions finally said to him, “I wish I was as certain about […]

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Courage

By Joe Barnett / April 7, 2025 / Comments Off on Courage

Be strong and courageous.              —Joshua 1:9 We think of courage as the grit to stand our ground and say “Yes!” or “No!” in the face of external opposition. That’s a piece of it, for sure. But the greatest challenge to courage is oneself—standing strong at the testing point of […]

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For Five Minutes

By Joe Barnett / April 4, 2025 / Comments Off on For Five Minutes

Do this in remembrance of me.      —1 Corinthians 11:24 On the night of his betrayal, Jesus hosted his final Passover meal with his disciples, at which time he inaugurated the Lord’s Supper: “Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup,” he said, “do it in remembrance of me.” Later, in Gethsemane, he […]

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Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary

By Joe Barnett / April 3, 2025 / Comments Off on Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary

[He] bore our sins in his body on the cross.                              —1 Peter 2:24 In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress dream, he saw Christian at the slough of Despond: “Because of the burden on his back, Christian began to sink.” Later: “At the top […]

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When Your Burdens Are Too Heavy

By Joe Barnett / April 2, 2025 / Comments Off on When Your Burdens Are Too Heavy

Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you.          —Psalm 55:22 “There are some burdens we must bear alone,” goes the saying. It sure seems that way sometimes, doesn’t it? But at the deepest and most encouraging level, it isn’t true. The New International Version has Psalm 68:19 this […]

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A Cathedral and a Little Girl

By Joe Barnett / April 1, 2025 / Comments Off on A Cathedral and a Little Girl

Let the little children come to me.                        —Luke 18:16 A fictional story pictures a famous architect gazing proudly at his magnificent, just-completed cathedral. Then, his eye is drawn to a scrawny waif at his elbow. Abused? Abandoned? Homeless? If he had to make a […]

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Ambition

By Joe Barnett / March 31, 2025 / Comments Off on Ambition

Do nothing out of selfish ambition.                 —Philippians 2:3 Wanting to do what we do as well as it can be done is a healthy ambition. On the other hand, a desire to get top billing and snag the lion’s share of credit is a misguided ambition. “Do […]

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