Guidelines For Living Devotional

Start Trusting God's Promises

Do you ever feel like giving up?  One of our listeners wrote saying that he had prayed about something, and that God did not answer his prayer, so he was just giving up on the idea. 

In Desperation, Find God's Power

What do you do when you get to the end of the rope?  Do you drown your grief in tears? 

Breaking the Chains of Despair

It is often difficult for adults to understand the thinking of a youth, especially in relationship to the dark side of adolescence.

A Lesson in Faith and Navigation

Jesus urged the disciples to "Behold the fowls or the birds of the air..."  In a world fraught by worry and fear, His words of advice are good for today. 

How To Embrace Life's Challenges

In the event that his name isn’t familiar to you, let me brief you. When Moses selected 12 spies to enter Canaan and check out the land, 10 of the 12 came back with an overwhelmingly negative report.

God's Power Unleashes Extraordinary Potential

The next time you feel that your life does not really count, that because you are just a single individual, you cannot do much to right the wrongs in life-- remember that a paper clip, a tiny one-inch paper clip, saved a 500,000-pound experimental plane from crashing and breaking into pieces.

This Is Why Excuses Are A Barrier To Salvation

"The man who is good for excuses," said wise, old Benjamin Franklin, "is good for little else." 

Four Anchors for Life's Storms

When a winter storm began to toss their vessel, sailors aboard that old ship, hearing the creaking and groaning of the timbers, feared their ship would break up.  After all, things like that happened.

Redefining Success Beyond Achievements

Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904.  He was the son of an immigrant German textile merchant. 

Transform Your Generosity

A lad was walking down the street with his mother when a gust of wind carried some trash across the walk way, blowing several large bills across his feet.