Guidelines For Living

Harold Sala

How to Talk to a Man... or a Woman

March 18, 2019

Men and women just don't communicate the same way, contends sociologist Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand--Women and Men in Conversation.  Ever since the days of Adam and Eve, however, women have been telling us that men and women don't talk the same language. Even scientists have been telling us that there are differences in brain patterns between men and women which affect our ability to communicate with each other.  Again, no great surprise to women.  One veteran of many unsuccessful bouts to get through to a non-communicative husband wrote, and with a stroke of resignation, she said, "He has lazy speech muscles--that's all!" 

 

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Abdul Rahman was on death row with little prospect of avoiding execution. The case against him was air-tight. He confessed his crime, one allegedly committed some 16 years before. There was a public outcry as well to execute the bearded, sad-faced man for what he had done. Thousands of people rallied in the streets demanding that he be executed.  And what was the crime that he had committed? 
March 15, 2019
Everything in life is relative! What seems to be a major catastrophe to some is a mere bump in the road to others. Some suffer in silence, never letting others know the pain or heartache they are enduring, while others broadcast the slightest wrong they have suffered.
March 14, 2019
Living in a broken world creates a kind of spiritual skepticism in our lives, especially when we see human failure mirrored in the lives of those whom we have put on pedestals thinking of them as a cut above the ordinary. Then when they fail you, you ask, “Is there anyone who really lives the life, instead of simply of using the language and saying the right things?”
March 13, 2019
“There’s No Pulpit Like Home” read the catchy title of an article in Timemagazine, a news publication that used to be distributed pretty much all over the English-speaking world.  It told of a fellowship of believers who meet together in a home, sing and share their thoughts—their tribulations, their challenges, their problems. They talk and pray, and cry together. There is a reading from the New Testament book of Hebrews followed by more discussion. In the course of their time together, they share a practice that believers have observed from the days of the Upper Room: they break bread and take a cup reflecting on the death and resurrection of Christ. “Communion” they call it.
March 12, 2019
“Dear Harold,” writes a regular listener to Guidelines, “as a member of a large mainline denomination, I have often been disenchanted with the liberalism that seems to pervade the church. We have one of the finest choirs and most beautiful buildings in the city. And yet, one is hard pressed to hear the preaching of the Gospel…. Such churches may be very wealthy indeed, and yet, they appear to be very poor.”
March 11, 2019
It's a well-established fact: how you get along with your mate can either keep you healthy or kill you, and I'm not suggesting that your mate kill you.  It's how you get along with each other that can drive your blood pressure over the top, producing hypertension, and, yes, eventually a heart attack.  A three-year study done by the University of Toronto Medical School tracked 103 couples, each one of whom had one party who had hypertension.  And what did they find at the end of the study?  They divided couples into the "happily married" group or the "not-so-happily-married" group who argued and fought a lot.  At the end of the three-year study, those who were happily married were spending more time with each other and were healthier, while those who were not so blessed had seen their blood pressure go up by an average of six points and were spending less time together. 
March 8, 2019
He was highly educated, one of the most prestigious and powerful of his society, and he used that power ruthlessly. By today’s standards, we might call him a right-wing Nazi extremist.  He hated a certain group of people so much that he made it his purpose in life to go around dragging them from their houses and throwing them in prison. It was said he uttered threats with every breath and wanted to kill.
March 7, 2019
When you have heart pains, you should go to a cardiologist.  The word comes from two Greek words cardiaand logia.  The first word is translated, "heart"; the second means the study of something.  Hence, a cardiologist is one who has studied the heart, a heart-doctor.  
March 6, 2019
When the renowned German surgeon, Dr. Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) was in medical school, he had an idea.  He believed that if a small tube were inserted into an artery and run into the heart, then the diseased heart was x-rayed, it would be possible to diagnose the problem and thus save many lives.  His professors, however, were horrified and forbade him to do the experiment.
March 5, 2019
An anonymous observer wrote that it "doesn't complain about the condition of the weather, seeks no 'social security' and never asks for a vacation.  It will work best when treated well, but will do its utmost to give good service when working conditions are unduly taxing its strength."  No, it isn't your dog--man's best friend--who sits by the gate and awaits your arrival with wagging tail.  It is your heart, located six inches below your collarbone slightly off-center on the left side of your body.
March 4, 2019
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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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