Guidelines For Living Devotional

When you face a critical decision, would you be more confident if you could sit down and actually talk over the situation with Jesus Christ?

The founder of a large newspaper used to put the following statement on his editorial page: "There is no hope for the satisfied man." 

Anyone who viewed the 400-meter semi-finals in the Olympics of 1992 will never forget it. 

Theologians call it sanctification.  George MacDonald, the man who greatly influenced C. S. Lewis, would have called it remodeling. 

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.