Hearts of Clay

Today’s devotional was written by my son, Clark Wrather, who is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Broken Bow, Oklahoma.  Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers...

Pt 5 Loving God More

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. – Mark 12:30. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a...

Pt 4 Loving God More

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. – Mark 12:30. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing...

Pt 3 Loving God More

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. – Matthew 22:37-38. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out...

Pt 2 Loving God More

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. – Matthew 22:37-38. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you....

Loving God More

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. – Matthew 22:37-38. In order for any relationship to grow it must be cultivated and nurtured. Our relationship with God requires that...

It is High Time!

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and...

The One and Only

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. – James 4:7-8. Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, has made it official that...

Jesus Knows

…Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. – Hebrews 2:9. Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood. He Himself likewise...

The Glitz of Horror

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. – Ephesians 5:11. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places....