Walkup's Walkabout

When Moses went up Mt. Sinai to the top to meet with God and receive the rest of the law, he firmly ordered Aaron and the other older lead...

No part of any day is as big as the present moment.  Unlike the Lord who can live within each moment equally, we can only live perfectly...

We have bought into the proposition that everything is natural and random, originating in the mindlessness of circumstance.  Even as far b...

The miracle of the Cross is not sublime at all!  There is a mistaken teaching that has been passed around for hundreds of years that when ...

It is never the crisis that unsettles us but rather the deviation away from Christ.  We are so infatuated by how things will turn that we ...

The brevity of a day is just the space God needs to make a planet spin, a sun explode and a soul find refuge.  Perhaps the great oddity ...

If we give in to the corrosive habit of whining, the very point for which we are made is lost.  The image of God is not latent;  in Christ...

If there is one thing we are never quite ready to do, it is laying down our lives  for anyone we haven't got the utmost respect and af...

Nothing diminishes us more than the desire to be someone else--to possess in ourselves a benefit someone else has.  At perfect points in o...

An individual has no accountability to anyone.  He does as he pleases when he wants.  The person has merged with the personhood of God and ...

One of the most elegant descriptions of how God wants his people to be is the little aside found in John telling us of the boy who gave hi...

An individual has no accountability to anyone.  He does as he pleases when he wants.  The person has merged with the personhood of God and ...

We shuffle back and forth between believing God, questioning His goodness and forgetting His existence.  There is something God wants to ...

How often do we trick ourselves into thinking we've got it but those around us don't.  Far too soon in our Christian journey we com...

Don't think it is so odd that Lot hesitated before leaving Sodom.  It is the most human of all tendencies; to flinch at the moment...

Why do we think we have developed a heightened level of spirituality when we give up on praying and stifle our love of Christ in a mufflin...

Be careful about declaring what God will do before He says it Himself.  The pretentious trend in Christian circles of deciding what God mus...

The difference between wanting and demanding is quite clear when you are dealing with your children but seems nebulous when it is found in...

Is there not a point at which we must stop making excuses for ignoring God and no longer blame the other person for our behavior?  When S...

Be careful of the gift that seems so timely and needed.  Hagar probably was given to Sarai during her sojourn in Egypt and that gift became...