J. D Walt

Bible scholar, author, and worship songwriter, J. D. Walt, invites groups and individuals to journey into the New Testament book of 1 Peter to catch a vision of the church that Jesus is building. Daily readings encourage spiritual growth and inspire action in our world that is desperate for spiritual awakening. This book helps followers of Jesus see themselves as Jesus sees them--people indwelled with his Spirit being built up to impact the world....

Who are these people and what did they say? This Daily Text series begins in the celebrated eleventh chapter of the book of Hebrews. "People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own" (Heb. 11:14). J. D. Walt leads readers all the way back to Genesis, examining the storied lives of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob, Rachel, and Leah. From there the journey jumps to the book of Exodus, which takes us from...

A disciple of Jesus must become a student of Jesus in every conceivable fashion. As we are baptized into his death, we are raised into his life. As we are raised into his life, we are filled with his Spirit. As we are filled with his Spirit, we learn to think after his thoughts and to discern his mind to do the stuff of his work. In the Gospels, we see what it looks like when the Holy Spirit perfectly and completely inhabits, possesses, and empowers...

The Awakened Life is an invitation for a long-haul journey. It is an invitation to the people of God to band together and sow for a great awakening. Not a passing revival or a spiritual renewal or a refreshing, but a full-scale awakening. It's time for us to recognize that as essential as our institutions of governing, education, and healing are to our world, they lack, even combined, the capacity to provide for the desperate needs all around us....

The day of Pentecost is not coming sometime in the future. Nor is it a one-and-done event that happened in the past. The day of Pentecost came, is come, and is now here. In fact, Pentecost is an eternal day-it inaugurated the Age of the Holy Spirit. Once that day came, it never stopped coming. We either wake up into that day or we slide into another intervening day of slumber. In Still Day One, J. D. Walt calls the church to wake up to that new day...

When people mention "the domino effect," they are typically talking about setting up dominos end over end and arranging them into some kind of design in order to tip the first one and begin the chain reaction. But there's another type of domino effect in which a two-inch tall domino can topple a larger domino, which can topple an even larger domino, and eventually topple the Empire State Building. And so it is with Colossians, a treasure trove of...

Creed-A Seven-Week Reflection Guide on the Apostles' Creed is a seven-week individual or group study on the Apostles' Creed. It is designed to be used independently or in conjunction with Timothy Tennent's This We Believe.

Through this Daily Text discipleship resource, James will implore us day after day to become real Christians. There are many people all around us who have been hurt by hypocrisy and who will only be healed by seeing the genuine article. Widows, orphans, and so many caught in the cruelty of inescapable poverty wake up every day with hopes of meeting their first real Christian. Jesus has all their numbers, and James has ours. He's looking for more friends...

In What Happens in Corinth, J. D. Walt digs in to the apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Paul was writing to a fledgling community of about 150 people in a city of 150,000. And these 150 believers were a hot mess. Paul doesn't spend any time wishing for a better church; he works with what God gave him. He knows it only takes a few truly consecrated souls to turn the world upside down. Though what happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas,...

No matter how far along on the journey, you never progress beyond this core aspiration: I want to know Christ. It is ever in front of us. It can take time to get there; and be even more challenging to stay there. So why would we make such a declaration? Only one reason-Jesus has already made this kind of declaration toward us. This is the invitation. Paul believed because Jesus had attained to the resurrection of the dead in this life, that it was...