3 Guidelines For Running The Race Of Life
July 7, 2020
Races have a certain hype or excitement to them, whether it is horses or people who pit their energies and strength against one another. Anyone who has ever participated in a race, be it a 5 or 10-kilometer run, or a marathon, realizes that pacing yourself is very, very important. The individual who exhausts his energies early in the race has nothing to draw upon when the finish is near and he needs that extra reserve, that extra kick, to finish and win.
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There are 66 books that make up the Bible, but when it comes to devotional reading, the book that most people are probably least likely to select, might be the Old Testament book of Leviticus. The word Leviticus came from the tribe of Levi, who were the priests and worship leaders of the Jewish people. Leviticus was written as an instruction book for the new nation of Israel. Leviticus instructs in right living a people who were following a divine King—God, rather than a human king.
July 6, 2020
Defining the problem is easy; knowing what to do about it is the difficult part. Every time the earth circles the sun, there are 250 new people that have been born. United Nations data projects that there will be 11 billion people by 2100. These figures, of course, are statistics--numbers which scientists, biologists, and demographers argue over. They draw lines and battle over how many people the earth can sustain versus our human potential to provide for a growing population through science and technology.
July 3, 2020
"Dear Dr. Sala," writes a friend of Guidelines. "I do have one question that has been bothering me for a long time.... How do I know that I can claim a promise of Scripture when it is (in the context of the Bible) spoken to someone else?" Our friend went on to quote Mark 11:24, where Jesus said, "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
July 2, 2020
Sitting on the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee, Jesus taught people in a talk known as the Sermon on the Mount. Found in the Bible book of Matthew, chapter 5, he assigns blessings to people with curious personality or situational traits, and in some cases, what we'd call flaws. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3) is where Jesus begins and it’s where each of our own spiritual journeys, our relationship with God, starts.
July 1, 2020
He is known for being strong willed, stubborn, and doubting. His name: Thomas, one of the twelve disciples who walked with Jesus. Mentioned a dozen different places in the New Testament, Thomas is usually thought of as a "show me" sort of person, short on faith and long on doubt. But, is this characterization really accurate? Or was Thomas a perpetual pessimist, the kind of person who describes the partially filled glass of water as "half empty" instead of "half full?"
June 30, 2020
Parenting is one of the most tedious, even scary, things that a person ever does in his lifetime. Walk a tight wire over Niagara Falls, free-fall out of an airplane, climb Mt. Everest, or hang glide over Tokyo and you are apt to walk away from it. But this business of parenting can do you in for sure. It comes with no guarantees, and there are no return lines where you can trade in a kid and start over.
June 29, 2020
William Gladstone, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, spoke of the Old Testament book of Psalms, saying, “All the wonders of Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than is this simple book of the Psalms.” No book in all the literature of the world is as remarkable as these 150 selections grouped in five books. But many people have never learned what a choice anthology of poetry, history, prose, and prophecy is found in this book. They have yet to discover the rainbow of emotions and feelings found in the Psalms.
June 26, 2020
Did you ever hear the old joke church people used to like to tell about each other? It goes like this: To live above with saints we love; oh that will be glory. But to live below with saints we know; well that’s a different story! There is truth to the corny humor. It can be hard to live well with one another on this journey called life. When a crisis hits, it can seem almost impossible.
June 25, 2020
When stress erupts and disruption turns life upside down, each of us handles the storm differently. Mental health advocate, Kay Warren, points out that, in a crisis, we all might be battling the same storm, but not everyone has the same emotional resources with which to weather it. If a storm of tumultuous times hits when you are in a relatively healthy place emotionally and financially, you might be able to make it through like someone aboard a stable yacht. Others may find themselves rowing mightily in a leaky rowboat or worse, down in the waves, desperately clinging to only a log.
June 24, 2020
When Simon and Chana Taub decided to disagree and couldn’t resolve their conflicts, a judge ordered a wall built right down the center of their three-story house, separating the angry couple from each other. I’m not sure whether or not the judge had heard the story about Solomon’s decision to divide a child down the middle, thereby finding out which one of the women was actually the mother of the child. But I do know that when hearts are divided, those same walls divide the hearts of children as well.
June 23, 2020
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