Today’s Walk in the Word

You have heard of Job’s perseverance.                           —James 5:11 Most of us grew up hearing the phrase, “She has the patience of Job,” to describe someone who calmly faced adversity. My reading of the book of Job shows him to be far from […]

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart.    —Psalm 9:1 Izaak Walton was thankful for what he had—but most of all, for what he didn’t have: “Every misery that I miss is a new mercy,” he said. When Walton heard of people afflicted with terrible diseases or victims of horrible accidents, […]

I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me.             —Psalm 139:14 On the table is a bowl. In it are ten slips of paper, numbered from 1 to 10. If you reach in and draw one slip, the chance of drawing number 1 on the first try […]

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.                        —Colossians 3:15 “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Ps 118:24). This is a day of choices. God chose to make it. You choose how to […]

I know whom I have believed.             —2 Timothy 1:12 The apostle Paul was transparent about his spiritual weaknesses (Rom 7:14–25). But there is magnetic power in his certainties. He speaks of them with unshakable confidence: I know whom I have believed (2 Tm 1:12) I know that the Spirit […]

The body is not made up of one part but of many.  —1 Corinthians 12:14 Charlie Grimm spent most of his baseball career as player and then manager of the Chicago Cubs. A scout for the Cubs called Charlie one day, so excited he could hardly talk. “Charlie, I’ve been watching the greatest young pitcher […]

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.                             —John 15:13 When a 200 mph tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, Bethany Lansaw’s husband, Don, covered her body with his to protect her from flying […]

God will meet all your needs.          —Philippians 4:19 Joseph, Job, and Jesus defined trust by declaring it, not when things were wonderfully good, but when things were terribly bad: Joseph: “You intended to harm me but God intended it for Good” (Gn 50:20). Job: “Though he slay me, yet will I […]

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.                 —James 1:1 An ossuary was a twenty-inches-long and eleven-inches-wide limestone box that was commonly used in New Testament times to store the bones of the deceased. Perhaps you heard about the one that created such a […]

If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.                   —James 4:15 “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money” (James 4:13). My friend Allen Isbell has noted six […]