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...

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...

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...

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...

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:13-14....

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. – Romans 3:23. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. – Hebrews 9:27. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in...

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. – Matthew 13:44. In Australia a man has lost his treasure. A middle-aged Irishman...

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. And they asked each other about their well-being, and they went into the tent. – Exodus 18:21. I was shocked to read this morning about a man in southern Vietnam who has been sentenced to nine...

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 (He was called to be the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Yukon, Oklahoma in 2012). The title and Scripture were added...

And the Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. – Revelation 22:17. To quench our thirst we drink water. We know what that is like. But what...