Guidelines For Living Devotional

Blessed: A Deeper Meaning Unveiled

Discovering Light: Jesus Illuminates Life

One of the amazing things about life is the fact that we know so little about some things which are very common, and we take those things for granted--not sensing how very important they are to our survival.

Illuminating Faith in a Gloomy World

Second by second 2000 years have trickled through the hourglass of time since Jesus Christ walked the shores of ancient Galilee. 

Facing Troubles: Turning Point Choices

If you think that you have troubles, let me tell you about Albert Kruger.  He had one of those days that will haunt him for years. 

Seeking Wisdom, Embracing Patience

Do you ever feel like the person who prayed, "God, give me patience, and give it to me right now"? 

Always Be Of Good Cheer

When you greet someone do you say, "Howdy!" "Hello," or just "Hi there"?  It may depend on your age or your culture, or the person to whom you are speaking; yet greetings and farewells are all-important. 

Instruments of God's Transformative Peace

"Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace..." prayed St. Francis of Assisi long ago.  How better to begin a day than by saying, "Lord, make me an instrument of peace today.""

Wisdom in Future Planning

Wise is the person who thinks ahead and plans for the future, right?  But at what point does planning become presumption?  Suppose you are a businessperson, and business has been brisk. Your warehouses are overflowing.  Would it not make sense to enlarge? 

Thriving Amid Life's Challenges

You think you have problems?  I suspect you would not trade your challenges for those confronting the Apostle Paul.  Of the 13 books that he wrote, none is more intimate or personal that his second letter to the Corinthians.  In this he wrote, "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed" (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).  What Paul faced would have sent the average person either into deep depression or flight, but Paul not only took it in stride, he actually seemed to grow with it.

Reflecting On The Blessings Of God

The headmaster of New College in Edinburgh, Scotland used to ask the blessing at the noon meal by praying, "O Thou who has endowed us with so many gifts, now grant to us just one more--a grateful heart."