Guidelines For Living Devotional

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.

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." 

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

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). 

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

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