Guidelines For Living Devotional

Scores of people pray the Apostles’ Creed and affirm, "I believe in God the Father, maker of Heaven and Earth..."

A stockbroker who writes a large check to his favorite charity, a Buddhist priest who with shaven head goes on a long journey, and a young woman who takes a vow of chastity and goes into a convent don't have much in common, but there is one thing which they do share.

Carol Tullar was working alone one Friday morning at a popular, rather swinging dinner spot which features salad selections in a large bathtub filled with ice.  Carol heard the doorbell ring and went to see who was there. 

An authority of Bible prophecy, Dr. Charles Ryrie, said, "Someone has calculated that actually there are more than 300 prophecies concerning various aspects of the first coming of Christ. 

What chance is there when it comes to the laws of probability?  If you answer, "Not much!"

The four most difficult words to say in any language are these, "I'm sorry; forgive me." 

Seldom does a writer really open his heart and reveal his soul, yet there are times when individuals pull up the window shades and let you see within, where their stark naked thoughts reveal struggles and conflicts that are not readily apparent.

A century ago John Stockton wrote, "Only trust Him, only trust Him, Only trust Him now; He will save you, He will save you, He will save you now." 

One of the strangest of all musical compositions ever conceived was that drafted by the avant-garde American John Cage. 

This one-time-cynic-turned-believer understood that the only thing which dispels darkness is light, and turning on the light in our lives spiritually is not always as simple as throwing a switch which immediately dispels the darkness.