What Does Agape Love Look Like?
October 7, 2020
When Sir Ernest Shackleton was exploring in the Antarctic, he faced a very difficult hour as their rations became depleted. Finally, the last few biscuits were given out to the men. There was not a crumb of anything left. That night Shackleton lay awake in his sleeping bag with their peril heavy on his mind. He knew that death by starvation was near unless something happened.
Featured Offer
Shine
In this booklet, you will find devotional readings from each of Guidelines' daily and weekly devotionals: Reset with Bonnie Sala, Guidelines for Living with Harold Sala, and Encouraging Words with Darlene Sala. Let God's Word shine in your life every day!
Archives
Marriage, said an unknown pundit, is the art of two incompatible people learning to love compatibly together. Anyone who has been married for more that 24 hours would agree that sustaining a marriage takes more than romantic feelings. It takes a deep commitment of love which reaches beyond your emotions and feelings to meeting the needs of another. It’s costly, too! But its currency isn’t monetary. We pay by repressing the desire to always be right, by giving up the desire to win every round. Yes, love learns to compromise, to yield, but triumphs in the end.
October 6, 2020
When you learn that your bitterest enemy has really “gotten it in the neck,” how do you feel? Do you quietly—or perhaps not so quietly—rejoice? “Good!” you think, “Got just what he deserved! I never liked that person anyway.”
October 5, 2020
When the cartoonist Charles Schulz dined in the home of a friend, the host remarked that he had just what Schulz needed to set off his dinner jacket. He disappeared and then returned in a few minutes with a heavy chain from which a medallion hung. Across the face of the medallion were the letters L O V E. Schulz fingered it for a few minutes and then handed it back to the host. With a wry "Charlie Brown" smile on his face, he said, "It's just a little too much for me. Do you have one that says, L I K E?"
October 2, 2020
One of the greatest orators of all times was Sir Winston Churchill, and who would deny the power of his words during Britain's darkest hours? Yet, says 1 Corinthians 13 from the New Testament, the greatest orator in the world is nothing apart from love. That is why it is so necessary to translate love into the kitchen where you face dirty dishes, and into the laboratory where you rub shoulders with unlovable men and women, and into the classroom where you must learn to love those who disagree with you and actually dislike you.
October 1, 2020
What keeps the world running? Is it the Internet, markets or governments that print money as needed? It's definitely not politicians! No, the reality is that these all threaten to bring the world to its knees. In one word, it is faith! You have faith that another nation will keep its alliances and treaties, faith in your coworkers and faith in your husband or wife that he or she will live up to the promises you made to each other.
September 30, 2020
Overconfidence can be your most deadly enemy! So learned a young man who once stood guard on the walls of ancient Pergamos when an enemy force laid siege to the city. What you don't know is that the wall of the ancient city was almost impregnable. I use the word almost because nothing is absolutely impenetrable.
September 29, 2020
Anyone who has ever looked at the stars on a dark night has, at times, been awe-struck by their vastness and the greatness of space, yet only twelve men in history have been privileged to stand on the moon and look back towards the blue planet, as Earth has been described. Standing on the surface of the moon, the Earth is some 229,000 plus miles away, and, according to Jim Irwin, one of those 12 who saw it from that perspective, the Earth appears to be the size of a walnut.
September 28, 2020
Are you constantly busy? Did you know that God mandates rest for his people? It is a matter of physical, mental, and spiritual health.
September 25, 2020
Jeremiah the prophet was a man who needs to be rediscovered today. The circumstances surrounding his life and world have so many parallels to life today. And how so? Well, for one thing, instability had gripped the world. Jeremiah's beloved nation was about to be chewed up by the powerful tiger of Babylon. Social structures were failing. Families were being torn apart, and truth and morality had been sacrificed in the process. The priesthood had become politicized and suffered a bad case of moral laryngitis. No wonder Jeremiah seemed out of sync with his day, an old prophet who castigated the moral and spiritual decline. No wonder he was publicly scorned and privately castigated.
September 24, 2020
"Where is Zebedee?" asked George Stormont in Pointers. He continued, "I've been looking for him for nearly fifty years. The New Testament is haunted by his name. You read of his sons, his wife, his hired servants, his fishing; but you never meet him."
September 23, 2020
See More Episodes
Loading...
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
W
Listen to Guidelines For Living on
Amazon Echo
Learn How
Learn How
Featured Offer
Shine
In this booklet, you will find devotional readings from each of Guidelines' daily and weekly devotionals: Reset with Bonnie Sala, Guidelines for Living with Harold Sala, and Encouraging Words with Darlene Sala. Let God's Word shine in your life every day!