Guidelines For Living Devotional

There’s Hope For Tomorrow!

What are your plans for tomorrow?  You are not sure, right?  Some have is the attitude, "Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die!"  If that describes you, the something important is missing in your life--it is hope, hope that tomorrow will hold the answers to the questions and problems that have you baffled today.

Why We Struggle With Doing Wrong

The press called it, "Sunday a Hero, Monday a Bum!"  It is the strange story of a man who risked his life one day to save an eleven-year-old boy from certain death, his clothing aflame, while at least fifty people stood by and did nothing.  The next day the same man was charged with burglary.

10 Proven Tips For Parenting Well

While there are many ways to fail as a parent, there are also some sure-fire, 100% ways guaranteed to help you succeed.  No, I haven't copyrighted them, but I have certainly tested them.  They work, provided you will put them into practice.
I call them Guidelines for Successful Parenting.

Is There Meaning To Our Existence Without God?

Any college student who has read Albert Camus for a philosophy class understands that Camus was an existentialist, and his brand of existentialism left no room for God.  Flat outright, he was an atheist.

The One Thing That Transforms Prejudice

“Prejudice,” once wrote a pundit, “is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.”  Indeed, most of us, being absolutely honest would have to admit that we don’t love or even like, everyone equally.  We have a predisposition towards loving people who love us and looking down on those who are different--whether the difference is race, religion, politics, or favorite sports team.

5 Tips For Aging Well

"Dear Dr. Sala," writes a friend, "Would you have any suggestions to help people who have reached their eighties and feel they have nothing to live for?  I admit feeling very useless at times.  I am 82, in a wheel chair, and have little energy."

Don’t Give Up!

He rowed alone across the Pacific Ocean 8,990 miles but fell short of his goal 33 miles away.  Peter Bird attempted to become the first man to single- handedly row from San Francisco in the United States across the Pacific.  He almost succeeded, but approaching the east coast of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Bird encountered stormy weather and choppy seas.  He was looking for a passage through the coral.  Actually, he was within one nautical mile of the reef when he had to radio for help fearing that he could not make it.

Here Is What Real Love Demands

It was 3:00 in the afternoon on one of the last days of July, 1941 when the men of Block 14 were digging gravel outside the Auschwitz concentration camp.  Suddenly the sirens began to shriek and German sentries shouldered their guns.  There had been an escape.  Silently the men of Block 14 prayed that the escapee had not been from their block.  That evening their worst fears were confirmed.  The missing prisoner had been from Block 14.  The entire camp was punished and received no evening meal, which usually consisted of a dried piece of bread and some cabbage soup or gruel.

How Faith And Logic Are Connected

Long ago a poet remarked that birds can fly and we cannot because birds have perfect faith and we do not.  Aeronautical engineers will tell you that it is impossible for birds to fly because of the way they are made; but birds, not knowing that they cannot fly, rise to heights above.

3 Things Hard Times Do For You

When I asked Fred Whiteman how old he was, he replied, "I'm 47 on the outside, 31 on the inside.  I've had more trouble that most senior citizens, and I still look at life through the eye of a child."  What kind of an answer is that?  Chronologically, Fred had seen 47 birthdays.  Within his chest cavity beat the heart of a man 31 years old--the result of having had a heart transplant.  Has Fred really seen more trouble than most senior citizens?