“People who are governed by their sinful nature are hostile to God; they do not submit to God’s law, nor can they do so” (Romans 8:7). Humans are born spiritually dead and...

“But those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires” (Romans 8:5b). A new Christian’s spiritual growth might be slow, but the...

The Psalmist wrote, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my...

Way back after we had purchased our home on Fort Cobb Lake, there were four routes you could take to get to where we lived. Sometimes we would change the road we took just...

“We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do”...

“Now while Paul waited for them (Silas and Timothy) at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols” (Acts 17:10). The most...

“And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and...

For years and years (more than I care to remember, actually), I have been a sports freak. Perhaps it is because my mother went into labor with me while at the Astrodome....

“And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one...

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God” (Ephesians 1:1a). God chose Paul from his birth to be an apostle (Galatians 1:15). Trying to be something that God...

You never can tell what might happen on any given day when you live in a small town U.S.A, and that goes the same in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Carnegie has had some pretty well...

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another...

“For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by...

Shortly after the wife and I married in 1960, we both found employment with George and Iva Kaufman, who operated Kaufman's GE Appliance & Hardware Store, located on...

“But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30). The most important wisdom...