A Corrupted Conscience
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. – Titus 1:15. In Albuquerque, New Mexico Amadeo Salguero was arrested for the carjacking of an Acura at the point of a gun...
Weeds of the Heart
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. – Luke 6:45. The Fire Department in Denver, Colorado...
Serving Him
Today’s devotional was written by my son, Clark Wrather. Clark is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a...
God’s Resources
And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:19. Moses was provided with a supernatural resource from God to use in confronting the Egyptian Pharaoh and leading the people of Israel to freedom. The supernatural resource provided to...
Confronted By Truth
The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come there to draw.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come here.’ The woman answered and said, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You have well said, I...
Words or Actions?
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. – 1 John 3:18. City Councilman Angel Ortiz of Philadelphia has a little problem. For the past 25 years, he has been driving without a license. Seventeen of those years he was either...
Are You Willing?
Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a...
Right Counsel
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. – Proverbs 12:5. In Jacksonville, Florida, a fire truck was sent to take an elderly man to the hospital. The man was accidentally struck and killed by the truck that was sent to help....
Oops!
There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you,...
The Unexpected
So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. – Luke 4:16. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the...