Walkup's Walkabout

Today I was reading the history of the Baptist church where I was raised, baptized and ordained to preach. No pastor in its fifty years of ...

I am more often than not a glass is half empty guy who refuses to quit. Just the other day I read once again Einstein’s famous determinatio...

Twenty five years married and it is just a moment in a flash...Looking at the wedding book and pondering how antiquated even my glasses were...

I am not sure why it is so tough to give up some things: cokes, nail biting, fear of failure, poisonous comments, critical self-righteous th...

As the clouds roll in today and the heat wave dissipates, I am struck by how quickly our circumstances can shift. One day we are hot and ...

The other night I was sleeping soundly and in the middle of a stirring dream when I was suddenly startled by a voice at three in the morning...

My brother is a hero. His friend friend and partner Ian Leong is a hero. And so is Paul Starzyk, who lost his life a hero. All three are pol...

There were four indications that the Christians in Corinth were living anti-God lives. They were suffering from bouts of boiling anger. Th...

1 Corinthians 3: 1-7 GJW And I brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual ones but as in the flesh, as to babies in Christ. 2 Mil...

I have in the past few weeks become accutely aware of my need for the Holy Spirit to overwhelm me and dominate my interests and desires. It...

As some of you know we lost our kitten Saturday. I have called this little creature Beelzebub for good reason. She greets me many mornings b...

From the newsletter of the radio station KFAX, I got this interesting list of facts about the good old days... 100 Years ago... One home in ...

I am not convinced this election is over...We face perhaps the biggest internal crisis in over 50 years as a nation and the Christian commun...

With the election looming before us, the undecided vote is becoming smaller and smaller and yet the question, "How do you know" is...

Last Sunday our worship service attendance was forty. But...this past week as I was praying I was unprepared for the vision that came to me....

1 Corinthians 1: 18-25 GJW 18 For the word of the Cross to the ones being destroyed is foolishness but to the ones continually being saved, ...

Corinthians 1: 26-31 GJW 26 Now look at your calling brothers. From a fleshly perspective not many of you were wise ones, not many powerful...

I am excited about my new journey of faith! My sister-in-law Kitty recommended a book that she and her family are using and it has already ...

It is so easy to get caught up in what is wrong and yet we have in scripture a completely different view of things. It is what is right tha...