There is desirable treasure, and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man squanders it. – Proverbs 21:20. The United States Congress in January passed legislation for “earmarked” projects with many of them appearing wasteful. Iowa is receiving $50 million for developing an indoor rain forest. Florida is...

Today’s devotional was written by my son, Clark Wrather, who is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Clark may be contacted at fbcbb@pine-net.com. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and...

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, and...

But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be...

Today’s devotional was written by my son, Clark Wrather, who is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Broken Bow, Oklahoma.  Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said,...

Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. – Matthew...

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all...

Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in...

Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the LORD. – Lamentations 3:39-40. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there...

And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. – Hebrews 10:24-25 NKJV. For where two...