Guidelines For Living Devotional

How Do You React When Trouble Comes?

When missionary Ray Rising was riding his motorcycle back to Loma Linda, the headquarters of the group he was working with in Colombia, on the night of March 31, 1994, little did he realize how his life was about to change.

3 Guidelines To Start Encouraging Others

Charles Schwab, the one-time president of Bethlehem Steel, once said, "I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and the approval of the people for whom he is working." 

Has Your Heart Grown Cold?

Like a barber who is not satisfied with his haircut and keeps snipping away, I feel like some things still need to be said in this current series of chats on worldliness. 

Have You Journeyed Back Into The World?

Have you discovered that the longer the explanation of something, the more uncertain you become as to what is really being said? 

You Are Called To Stand Out

Writing to the men and women who lived in the capital of the world, the ancient city of Rome, the Apostle Paul wrote, “Don’t let the world force you into the mold” (Romans 12:2, Phillips). 

The Danger Of Being Misunderstood

In their rather controversial book The Seduction of Christianity, authors Dave Hunt and T. A. McMahon contended that Christianity is facing its greatest challenge: the challenge of acceptability, of striving to please the masses at the cost of integrity of the faith. 

Start Showing Compassion

The movie, The Doctor, was the story of a young surgeon, Dr. Jack McKee, whose future is drastically changed by a cough that won’t go away and a raspiness in his voice. 

Forgive And Be Forgiven

In a small, rather out-of-the-way cemetery in Upper New York is an unmarked tombstone bearing the single word, "FORGIVEN!" 

Practice Compassionate Forgiveness

Long ago Moses told us that we were created in the image of God, but with the fall, it’s certain that some of those gracious, compassionate attributes seemed to get lost. 

4 Guidelines To Settling An Argument

If you should visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, you will find an old, weathered door dating back to the year 1492.