Which Master?
No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things,...
The Devil Is In The Details
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? – 1 Corinthians 5:6. It was just a little mistake, a little typing error that could cost UBS Warburg (a financial services firm) over $100 million. A trader for the company typed a sell order of 610,000 shares...
The Psychic Sham
Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortunetelling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God,...
Spreading God’s Love
eloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. – 1 John 4:7. Valentine’s Day has been officially banned in Saudi Arabia. As a result of the ban, shops are prohibited from selling red roses, and couples are prohibited from displaying public affection. Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the...
Flee From Temptation
Today’s devotional is from an article written by my son, Clark Wrather, for his church newsletter. Clark is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. The title and Scripture were added for the devotional. But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the...
The Cure For Loneliness
He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love...
Inseparable
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than...
What Were They Thinking?
The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. – Proverbs 12:5. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. – Proverbs 15:26. We have to wonder sometimes what people are thinking like Bob Bowling, who while practicing his quick...
Ban The Devil!!
Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to...
The Benefits of Giving
Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. – Philippians 4:15-16. Some of the top...