Today’s Walk in the Word

Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its decrees.                                                  —Ezra 7:10 Various translations of this text emphasize three things about […]

Weren’t ten men healed? Where are the other nine?          —Luke 17:17 Their situation was hopeless. They were lepers—ten of them, grasping at straws when they approached Jesus. He sent them on their way, and as they were going, they were healed. One of them turned in his tracks, came to Jesus, […]

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith.    —2 Corinthians 13:5 While Bob and Eloise were having breakfast, they looked out the kitchen window and saw their new neighbor hanging clothes out to dry. Eloise said, “That laundry is dirty.” For several days, every time their neighbor hung clothes on the […]

[Nothing] in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God.                   —Romans 8:39 I was pulled kicking and screaming into the personal computer age. Now it’s the first thing I turn on in the morning and the last thing I turn off […]

Close the door and pray to your Father.                             —Matthew 6:6 Abraham was alone when God told him he would make him into a great nation (Gn 12:1–3). Jacob was alone when God renamed him Israel (Gn 32:24–28). Moses was alone when […]

We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.    —2 Chronicles 20:12 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a brilliant young theologian, vocally opposed Hitler’s regime—a losing battle in the sense that he was imprisoned in 1943 and hanged in 1945. Bonhoeffer’s favorite verse was, “We do not know what to do, but our […]

Why should it use up the soil?                     —Luke 13:7 For three years he had been looking for fruit on his fig tree but found none. So, he told the gardener, “Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?” The tree was drawing sustenance […]

I will fear no evil, for you are with me.                            —Psalm 23:4 The Bible is packed with stories of divine deliverance. Lot’s deliverance from Sodom. Isaac’s deliverance from the altar of sacrifice. Joseph’s deliverance from prison. Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. Elijah’s deliverance […]

The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.                                            —Luke 19:10 In Luke 15, Jesus delivered a trilogy about a lost sheep from a flock of 100, a lost coin from […]

Repent and be baptized, every one of you.                                      —Acts 2:38 Gene Polvado had a burden on his heart: he was concerned about an elderly man in a town where he had once ministered. They had developed a […]