Today’s Walk in the Word

There is nothing new under the sun.                 —Ecclesiastes 1:9 On November 11, 1918, World War I ended. The death count was 9 million combatants and 13 million civilians. During the same year, the Spanish flu terminated more lives than the war—50 million. There was a collective hope […]

It is God who works in you to will and to act.    —Philippians 2:13 Oswald Chambers, author of the classic My Utmost for His Highest, said, “Every moral question or call comes with an ‘ought’ behind it.” Pesky word, ought. You ought to do this; you ought to do that. One way to deal […]

What we will be has not yet been made known.             —1 John 3:2 Gutzon Borglum is best known as the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The massive 60-foot granite faces depict U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and […]

I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance.              —1 Timothy 1:13 Bill had avoided traffic for months by taking a back-alley shortcut. There was a no-trespassing notice posted, but he never saw it. He was ticketed and had to pay the fine, even though his infraction was unintentional. […]

Our only goal is to please God.            —2 Corinthians 5:9 In ancient Greek religion, Zeus was “the sky and thunder” god. Greek artists pictured him with a thunderbolt in his raised right hand. He was depicted as a terrorist god, using violence to get his way. When he got angry, […]

Be patient until the Lord returns.                       —James 5:7 We drum our fingers on the steering wheel, waiting for the light to change. We boot our computer and wait for the operating system to kick in: “Come on, come on!” We don’t like to wait. […]

Please pray for me.   —Ephesians 6:19 “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of,” wrote British poet Alfred Tennyson. Paul opened his letter to the Ephesians saying that he was praying for them (1:16) and closed it asking them to pray for him (6:19). Does it come as a shock that […]

Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant.                    —Mark 10:43 Martin Luther King Jr. preached one of his stem-winder sermons based on Jesus’ words, “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant.” “Everybody can be great,” said King, “because everybody […]

The glory of the One and Only.                     —John 1:14 In 47 BC, Julius Caesar led his Roman troops to a five-day rout of the Pontic army. Caesar’s Latin declaration of victory was brief: “Veni, vidi, vici”—“I came, I saw, I conquered.” Eighty years later, those […]

The intelligent person restrains his words.                                —Proverbs 17:27 The late President Harry Truman had a temper but disciplined himself to exercise restraint. He had a rule that any letter he wrote in anger had to sit on his desk for […]