Walkup's Walkabout

Chapter 1 1: 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers an...

A shower of leaves fall as the cold wind snapping through the autumn air splatters about my office window.   A rust brown squirrel bounds al...

I will begin posting from my commentary on Philippians.  Years ago I memorized the book and then began writing on it.  I hope this is a bene...

A Friend died    Years have passed       The days of time linger            Stands taken               Hands shaken                   D...

I am not quite sure when I realized I wasn’t good enough for something and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t do it but that realization ...

Our four-year old son drew a picture for me yesterday. It had four circles in a vertical row on one side and next to them were two much bigg...

A friend of mine told me recently that he was talking with a researcher who was studying the effect of chronic back pain on the sufferers an...

I was once asked by one of my children what would happen if everyone in the world jumped at the same time? Would it crack the earth apart? ...

We have come to the end of the line or maybe the line has come to the end of us. Is the stuff of our lives that intoxicating that we think ...

I have started each day writing down a line of blessings. It has just been a three day discipline but already it feels like stretching out ...

It seems like faith is mostly grim-faced determination. You gut out faith. Faith means you're not happy about something, you are tired o...

Last night I had a Christian song playing as Benjamin and I got ready to read a book together in bed when I switched the ipod to a smooth Mi...

For the second time in seven months my laptop has been stolen out of my car. The thief stole the quarters out of my ashtray, the cokes and ...

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 ...