Guidelines For Living Devotional

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. 

Words convey powerful images, and once that image is fixed in your mind, it’s difficult to attach picture or meaning to it. 

Getting married is easy.  Staying married is more difficult.  Being happily married is life’s greatest challenge. 

Tell me what is important in your life, and I’ll tell you who your God really is. 

Joe Stowell calls it "the ragged edge of reality."  That's the place you want to avoid, if at all possible, the realization that your life is out of control, and what bothers you more than anything else is that you don't know what to do about it.  

Have you ever been on a white-water rafting trip?  Or should I call it an experience?  

Heroes can be larger than life itself, and it doesn’t take a public relations firm or a good photographer who can doctor the negative to turn the rascal into a hero. Such was a character who lived long ago.