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Two Men Praying, Thirty Miles Apart

2026-11-06T18:57:36

Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them. — Acts 10:20 Into the Word Cornelius was a centurion stationed in Caesarea, a Gentile officer in the Roman army. Luke describes him as “a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and… Continue reading Two Men Praying, Thirty Miles Apart

What We Cannot Find in Ourselves

2026-11-05T19:06:35

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?— 1 Corinthians 1:13 Into the Word Corinth had more spiritual gifts than it could handle. Paul says the believers there were enriched “in all speech and all knowledge” and were “not lacking in any gift” (1 Cor. 1:5,… Continue reading What We Cannot Find in Ourselves

What If the Gift You Buried Was God’s Trust in You?

2026-11-04T18:59:09

“Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground.” — Matthew 25:24–25 Into the Word Jesus tells of a man who leaves on a long journey and puts… Continue reading What If the Gift You Buried Was God’s Trust in You?

What Does It Mean to Be “In Christ”?

2026-11-02T18:58:03

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. — Romans 8:1 Into the Word Paul could have written that there is no condemnation for those who try hard, or for those who feel forgiven. He wrote “for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1). If we count close variations… Continue reading What Does It Mean to Be “In Christ”?

Can We Be Right and Still Lose Love?

2026-11-01T19:04:05

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. — Revelation 2:4 Into the Word Of the seven churches in Revelation, Ephesus received the first letter. It was the leading city of the Roman province of Asia, home to the great temple of Artemis, and the place where… Continue reading Can We Be Right and Still Lose Love?

Untied to Be Tied Again

2026-10-31T17:59:25

Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine. — Genesis 49:11 Into the Word Jesus sent two disciples ahead into a village near Jerusalem with an unusual errand. They would find a colt “tied at a door outside in the street” (Mark 11:4), one no one had ever ridden.… Continue reading Untied to Be Tied Again

Why Did God Appear Through a Thornbush?

2026-10-30T17:58:53

The Deliverer, Part 3. On the bush that was not consumed. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. — Exodus 3:2 Into the Word Moses was tending his… Continue reading Why Did God Appear Through a Thornbush?

How God Turns the Years That Look Wasted Into a Calling

2026-10-29T17:57:36

The Deliverer, Part 2. On forty years in the wilderness. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. — Exodus 2:24–25 Into the Word Moses sat down by a well in Midian (Exod. 2:15). He had left Egypt… Continue reading How God Turns the Years That Look Wasted Into a Calling

What Did Moses Learn in Pharaoh’s Palace?

2026-10-28T17:59:18

The Deliverer, Part 1. On the right heart and the wrong way. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. — Exodus 2:12 Into the Word Stephen tells us Moses was forty years old when it came into his heart to visit… Continue reading What Did Moses Learn in Pharaoh’s Palace?

Who Was Waiting at the River

2026-10-27T17:58:13

The River, Part 4. On who God had waiting at the river. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” — Exodus 2:6 Into the Word The basket was not left completely alone. Moses’ sister… Continue reading Who Was Waiting at the River

If You Could Give Your Child Only One Thing

2026-10-26T18:04:52

The River, Part 3. On the basket she wove. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. — Exodus 2:3 Into the Word Pharaoh… Continue reading If You Could Give Your Child Only One Thing

Can Fear Save You?

2026-10-25T18:01:30

The River, Part 2. On the midwives who feared God. But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. — Exodus 1:17 Into the Word Pharaoh’s first plan had failed. He worked the Hebrews from morning to night, hoping exhaustion would keep… Continue reading Can Fear Save You?

Egypt Forgot Joseph. Israel Carried His Bones.

2026-10-24T17:57:22

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. — Exodus 1:8 Into the Word Egypt forgot more than a name. It forgot that it had once been starving. Through seven years of famine, the grain Joseph had stored kept the country alive (Genesis 41:53-57), and Pharaoh gave Joseph’s family the… Continue reading Egypt Forgot Joseph. Israel Carried His Bones.

The Hand That Lets Go

2026-10-23T17:56:42

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves. — Romans 1:24 Into the Word Three times in one chapter Paul writes the same verdict. “God gave them up” (Romans 1:24, 26, 28). The verb is paredōken (παρέδωκεν), to hand over, to deliver… Continue reading The Hand That Lets Go

The Bay That Changed Its Name

2026-10-22T18:45:03

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations. — Matthew 28:19 Into the Word Not long ago, I listened to a missionary’s report. After seminary, she had left for a small island nation. She is still there. There were no impressive numbers and no dramatic breakthroughs, only someone staying in a difficult place because she… Continue reading The Bay That Changed Its Name

Love Cannot Be Done Alone

2026-10-21T22:30:18

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. — John 15:9 Into the Word Love cannot be done alone. Love with no one to receive it goes nowhere. A heart with no one to hold it stays only a feeling. The very word love points beyond the one… Continue reading Love Cannot Be Done Alone

When the Home Becomes a Church

2026-10-20T18:03:30

“These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” — Deuteronomy 6:6–7 Into the Word Look at… Continue reading When the Home Becomes a Church

The Father Who Lost a Son

2026-10-19T17:57:38

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? — Romans 8:32 In loving memory of a precious young life, and in prayer for his grieving family. Into the Word Yesterday, a two-year-old boy from a missionary… Continue reading The Father Who Lost a Son

The Land I Will Show You

2026-10-18T18:43:33

Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. — Genesis 12:1 Into the Word Look closely at the tense. The land that I will show you. Not a land already surveyed, not a place Abram had visited and… Continue reading The Land I Will Show You

The Sentence Adam Never Said

2026-10-17T20:01:16

The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate. —Genesis 3:12 Into the Word Read the sentence slowly and watch where it travels. It starts with the woman. It ends with I ate, which is the only honest clause in it. But the middle is… Continue reading The Sentence Adam Never Said

The Root We Cannot See

2026-10-16T18:03:31

But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’— Genesis 3:9 Into the Word The serpent’s offer was not crude. It was almost reasonable. “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4), he said, and in one sense he was right. Adam lived to be nine hundred and thirty (Genesis… Continue reading The Root We Cannot See

Why Temptation Starts With a Question

2026-10-15T18:39:04

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” — Genesis 3:1 Into the Word One command had been given in the garden. Eat freely from… Continue reading Why Temptation Starts With a Question

Dust That Breathes

2026-10-14T18:00:35

Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. — Genesis 2:7 Into the Word Through the whole first chapter of Genesis, God speaks and creation answers. “Let the earth bring forth living creatures” (Genesis 1:24),… Continue reading Dust That Breathes

Everything Else Is the Strap

2026-10-13T15:54:45

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. — Genesis 1:31 Into the Word Nothing names its own purpose. A cup never decided to hold water. Someone was thirsty, shaped clay around that thirst, and the purpose existed before the cup did. This is why the question of what… Continue reading Everything Else Is the Strap