Guidelines For Living Devotional

This Is How To Raise Kids In A Violent World

Your home can be an ark of safety or a prison of isolation.  What it is depends on what you want it to be. 

5 Guidelines to Living with GRACE

“Gray hair is a crown of splendor,” says the writer of Proverbs, but most of us would just as soon avoid what it represents—growing old. 

This Is How To Inherit Eternal Life?

Anyone who has ever visited ancient Jericho can testify to the reality that in the summer it can be unbearably hot. 

Start Giving God 5 Minutes of Your Day

OK, you have decided to take five minutes a day and focus on God.  You've made the decision to try it.  What can you expect?  For one thing, you'll discover that Murphy's law, "Anything that can happen, will happen," has your name on it. 

What Does Your Life Say About You?

It's a rather sobering thought to realize that the world judges God by what they see of Him in the lives of His children--in my life.  So we look at our lives, and recognize that instead of mirroring His love, justice, character, and peace, we often project a somewhat distorted picture of God, one fogged over by our human failure.  "Not good enough!" cries our incriminating conscience.  Then in failure we feel like turning away.

God Will Take Us Through The Storm

Have you ever had one of those times when all of a sudden something that you’ve read a thousand times jumps out at you, and you then see something that has been there all along and it just hadn’t grabbed you before? 

Here Is How To Give Thanks

Is it a holiday, an attitude, or the reflection of your heart?

Why Does Encouragement Matter?

You may have heard of the sad plight of the man who, greatly discouraged, crawled out on the ledge of a very high building and contemplated suicide. 

Are You Addicted to Busyness?

For a few moments take inventory.  Ask yourself, “Am I programmed from the time I wake up in the morning until I go to bed at night?”  More to do today than, say, you did last year or the year before? After a while you begin to think of your self-worth strictly in terms of production and output—whether it is the number of trips to take your kids somewhere, how many hours you can work, or how many meetings or church services you can crowd into your schedule. Saying “No” gets more and more difficult.

Understand What It Means To Trust

Alistair Begg tells of the time he and his wife saw a cyclist with—and they could hardly believe their eyes—with a rather large dog on his back.