Walkup's Walkabout

Have you ever been confounded by some lack of a particular spiritual experience…felt impoverished some way in your life with God?    No on...

What constitutes spirituality?  Is it an interest in religious matters?  Is it  the capacity to tease out the main idea in a Biblical te...

Is it wrong to want others to like us, to value us and respect us?  Should it not be a noble goal to have people speak highly of us at o...

What makes you so certain you have all the facts?  Do you know everything you need to know when you make your decisions?  Are you clear ...

There is with each of us a great mountain of unexplored territory.  Our personality is beyond our grasp, even the smallest parts of it. ...

The moment we begin to dwell upon ourselves, our mental state, our condition, our circumstances, our finances, the things we have or wan...

Why do the ramifications of being born again startle us?  When a child is born into a family, it is a complete revelation to the home, a r...

Have you come to the spot where you notice something wrong with another person?  Do you see clearly that person’s flaws, moral inadequac...

The God twitch is a spontaneous turning of one’s spasmodic concentration to God.  It is the sudden, spontaneous reaction to the Holy Spir...

There are times when we are irritated and irritable and nothing satisfies us.  We are unhappy with ourselves and unhappy with everyone  ...

When David danced wildly before the Lord as the Ark was being brought into Jerusalem, he offended his wife Michal.  In hindsight, most of ...

How many times do we make an assessment or give a justification for some action of ours or inaction and frame it as an indisputable fact...

The Great Moment of our "turn around" is never at the spot when everything changes but at the point at which we decide for God. ...

D o you know a "hard case", someone who is so far from God that he seems to be impossibly lost?  Have you come across the soul w...

It is one thing to choose Jesus Christ for your salvation; another matter altogether to decide He is Lord.  We circumvent the question  by...

The most gracious work of God that occurs for the developing believer is the realization he is inconsequential.  His knowledge base is min...

The problem we face as Christians who sincerely want to see our neighbors and friends come to Christ is the misconception we have about wh...

The most frustrating of people are those who have been born again but turned away from the Lord and dismissed His fellowship.  We have t...

What seems to frustrate us most, at least for those who live actually, acknowledging  tragedy and wreckage are  the normal parts of life, ...

Jesus told us not to rejoice that the demons fear us but that our names are written in heaven.  Christianity has become to a large degree ...