Guidelines For Living Devotional

Scotland of the 1840's was as barren as the nursery rhyme cupboard of Old Mother Hubbard.

It can fairly be said that in the history of Christendom, never has so much been owed to one man as is owed to a pugnacious, argumentative preacher by the name of Athanasius.

If you had been falsely accused of a sex crime you didn't commit and had been thrown in prison with no real hope for release, and you could have three wishes, what would you ask for?

When difficulties come, on what do you focus?  Some look back.  They are the ones who try to drive looking in the rear view mirror.

"A tree is best measured when it is down," says Chuck Swindoll.  Michael Powell would agree with that statement.  

Anyone who visits the Middle East will eventually find himself walking on the large weathered and cracked paving stones buried hundreds of years ago by Roman work crews.  

A young man who grabbed a watch in the open market and stuffed it in his jeans was arrested and taken before a judge and charged with theft.  "How do you plead?" asked the judge.

In Russia and Slovak countries, when someone is converted, he doesn’t speak of being saved or even born again. 

Two brothers ran a store where they consistently used weights that were too light. 

Charles Spurgeon called him "The Iron Prophet!" Ahab, the king of Israel, called him "the troubler of Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries called him things even a great deal less complimentary.