Guidelines For Living

Harold Sala

How To Have A Life Of Enough

June 1, 2020

Enough.  That’s the elusive measurement so many of us chase after, hour after hour, day in and day out, year after year.  Can you relate to the confession of social activist, Lynne Twist? 

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Question: Would you hire a contractor to build a house for you who comes up with the cheapest bid, though you have read about his being sued for cheating on materials he has used for others, substituting inferior products for the more expensive ones called for in the specifications?
May 29, 2020
Your greatest enemy, in all probability, is within.  It’s the nagging doubt, the belief that you just don’t have what it takes to live the Christian life.  Most of the time, we can keep the voices quiet but, especially when we are tired or discouraged or afraid, they invade our minds.  Writer and speaker Elisabeth Elliott used to say, “Our enemy delights in disquieting us.  Our Savior, our Helper, delights in quieting us.”  The Bible says that our enemy “...the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8).  Maybe you don’t have to be convinced that He is the enemy of your soul, yet quite often we don’t fully understand how he often defeats us by influencing our thinking.
May 28, 2020
When the 21-year-old spacecraft, Columbia, disintegrated on its reentry into Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, a new pantheon of heroes was born--men and women who knew the risks they were taking yet chose to take that chance.  With that understanding of the dangers involved, each astronaut was asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding his wishes for a memorial service--who should do it, what he or she wanted said, what kind of a memorial he or she would like--should they not come back.
May 27, 2020
What a world!  Surprises!  This year, for a lot of us, surprises were not limited to reading about changing world events.  For some of you, surprises were not always welcomed.  A position opened up in your company, and you expressed an interest in it.  But when your boss interviewed you, he informed you that not only had management decided not to fill that position, but that the company was eliminating your job as well.  Surprise! 
May 26, 2020
It was a shocking story that gripped the nation. In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her bed in the middle of the night in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her family searched for her in vain. Nine months later she was recognized while walking down a street with her abductor. 
May 25, 2020
Your telephone rings or you meet someone in the parking lot of the church and you are asked, “Have you heard about (and the name of a popular Christian leader is mentioned)?  Your friend begins to relate a sordid story of moral failure and your immediate reaction is, “I never thought it could happen to that person!  I just saw a feature on his leadership and accomplishments in a leading periodical.  I just can’t believe he would do that!” You are shocked and stunned. Yes, you know that the best of men are but men at their best, but you always felt that this person was a cut above the moral failures that have besmirched the cause of Christ and brought shame and reproach to a broken-hearted wife and family. 
May 22, 2020
The country of Turkey is 99% Muslim and if you are a Christian young person, life can be hard. At school, your loyalty to your country can be questioned; you feel excluded, explains educator Catherine Hoard.  This is why every year many Christian children attend Christian camps where both they and their faith are embraced and nurtured.  A child may be the only Christian in their school, but at camp they are surrounded by those who, just like them, believe in Jesus.
May 21, 2020
What do you do when you are afraid? That is the question that Andrew Brunson asks.  Brunson is a soft-spoken man with a kind-looking face.  He is also a man that knows something about fear.  Brunson is an American pastor who was unjustly imprisoned by the Turkish government for two years, held as a political pawn on outlandish, false charges.   Under three life sentences, he sometimes suffered in solitary confinement and at other times he was jammed in cells that were crowded to double capacity. Brunson was the only non-Muslim.  Conditions alternated between brain-boiling hot in the summer and mind-numbing freezing cold in winter.
May 20, 2020
Good marriages have a lot of things in common, while unhappy marriages are as different in as many ways as there are unhappy people married to each other.  Yet the factors which make for either being happy or unhappy are often far more predictable than most folks think.  Dr. John Gottman is a psychologist and researcher and based upon his findings published in the Journal of Family Psychology, it is indeed possible to predict, with 94% accuracy, which marriages will end in failure long before the couples are ready to call it quits.
May 19, 2020
For 88 years, the Royal Bank of Canada produced a monthly letter that had a huge readership.  "It has become almost habitual in these grim days," the letter opened with in 2003, "for political and economic commentators to speak of a ‘crisis of confidence.'  Looking back, if we thought we were in a crisis of confidence then, today, we can apply that phrase to governments, global health, the economy and personal relationships.  Belief and trust have given way to doubt and skepticism.  The confidence that we once may have had in an institution, or a person, or even the future, has eroded and what we have left is a crisis marked by uncertainty and conjecture. 
May 18, 2020
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About Guidelines For Living

Start your day with hope, confidence, and purpose by listening to the Guidelines for Living daily devotional with Harold Sala! This 5-minute program offers insightful teaching from God’s Word and practical application for living out your faith in the day-to-day. Strengthen your relationship with Jesus by adding this short devotional to your daily routine.  Guidelines for Living is the longest running five-minute program in Christian radio!  

About Harold Sala

Speaker, author and Bible teacher, Dr. Harold Sala founded Guidelines in 1963 and pioneered the first 5-minute Christian program on radio.  Dr. Sala holds a Ph.D. in biblical text and has taught at conferences, seminars and churches the world over.  An author of over 60 books published in 19 languages, his most recent release is 40 Unstoppable Women (Rose Publishing).

 

 

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