Adversity
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Your Pain Will Turn to Joy
God has this knack of taking our greatest disasters and turning them ...
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Don’t Worry
At this very moment, all that’s happened up to this point in your ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it ...
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The Challenge of Control
The best way to ensure that things turn out the way you want them to, ...
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The Lord Gives You Strength
When things turn against us, when strife, confusion and pain come at ...
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Where to Find Rest
When I mention the word “rest”, what image springs to mind? ...
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Will You Decide to Rest?
It’s a real paradox, a conundrum, that even if you’re managing to ...
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Be Washed in the Spirit
It’s strange that whilst we wash our clothes as they become ...
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Be Confident in Uncertain Times
Whatever situation you and I find ourselves in at the moment, ...
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You Can Climb that Big Mountain
When was the last time that you were confronted by a mountain so big ...
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A Bountiful Eye
Sometimes when I’m being spiritually rather thick, I’ll have to ...
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The Intentional Disciple
The word “equality” is highly misunderstood these days. Many are ...
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Easily Deceived
Let me throw something at you and see what you think: Any Christian ...
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Revenge or Restoration?
So when was the last time that you felt insulted, miffed, hard done ...
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Tackling Criticism
Resilience is something that we need to instil in our children as ...
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Things That Break Your Heart
Suffering is one of those conundrums in life that can easily destroy ...
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Take the Pressure Down
Have you ever wondered why there’s so much trouble in this world? ...
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Lifting the Load
We all carry burdens around in our lives. For some they’re heavy ...
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Rescued from the Hand of the Wicked
Don’t you hate it when evil people get the better of you? It rocks ...
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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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It’s Not an Easy Road
So, can I ask you … how’s your family doing? How deep, how strong ...
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Disappointment & Discouragement
I don’t know about you, but I get up out of bed each day hoping and ...
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Completely Unshakeable
The brutal onslaught of this world against the faith of Christians ...
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A Cry for Help
One of the jobs of any parent is to protect their children. And as a ...
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Joy Amidst Trouble
Can I ask you, what is it that brings you joy in your life? At the ...
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Making Mistakes
It’s one of life’s great annoyances that when you set out to do ...
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Walk a Mile
Doubtless, you’ve heard that saying that to understand someone, you ...
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Seeing Things Differently
It amazes me how two people can look at the same issue, the same ...
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At War Inside
Fights and arguments – who needs them? Who wants them? Conflict is ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that ...
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Run Hard
Anyone who’s ever decided to follow Jesus will know that some days ...
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Over and Over Again
There have been times in my life (and no doubt, in yours too) where ...
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Nothing is Too Hard for Him
You and I need reminding on a regular basis of just how big and ...
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How to Be a Bad Example
The thing that I’d most hate to be seen as is a hypocrite – not ...
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What’ll Upset Your Apple Cart?
There is – both out there in the world, and even amongst God’s ...
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Satan’s Greatest Success
Might I ask you … this Christmas, are you going to tell anyone ...
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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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Bridging the Gap
One day … yep, one day God is going to do a powerful work through ...
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Have a Plan
Trust in God. We all know that we should. If you’ve ever opened a ...
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Blessed to Suffer
When we go through times of suffering (as we all do), the last thing ...
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When It’s Difficult to Love
From time to time, we all come across people who rub us the wrong way ...
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Don’t Be So Shy
By and large, pride is far from a good thing. When we’re full of ...
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Keep Going
Sin is a fact of life. I know that’s not such a popular concept in ...
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Your Protector
Personal safety is one of our highest order needs. It follows on ...
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The Big Squeeze
Just at the moment, many of those who believe in Jesus are feeling ...
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Peace and Destruction
One of the great arguments against the existence of an all-powerful, ...
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I’m Entitled #Not
It’s easy these days with the “I’m entitled” mentality that ...
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Why You Can’t Change the Other Guy
One of the most frustrating things in relationships is that other ...
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The Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, ...
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Verify the Facts Before Throwing Stones
There’s a world of difference between fact and opinion. We know ...
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Don’t Plan for Evil
Living in a country, as I do, where pretty much every native animal ...
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Bad Thoughts Ruin Lives
There are times in our lives when dark thoughts invade our ...
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Why Christ Offends
One of the key strategies of those who oppose Christianity is to ...
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The Price of Peace
Most of us consider wealth to be a good thing. Who doesn’t want to ...
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Speaking Without Accusing
Sometimes you’ll be having a conversation with someone, and what ...
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Shaken But Not Stirred
“The fear of God” is perhaps the strangest notion you’ll ever ...
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Blind Fool That I Am
None of us wants to admit to ourselves (let alone to the rest of the ...
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Sidestepping Your Mistakes
Accepting correction and instruction is something that, by and large, ...
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Overcoming the Wicked
There’s no shortage of wicked people in this world – none ...
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An Offensive Saviour
None of us likes being offended. Sometimes we take offense, because ...
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The Not So Popular Jesus
These days, people who have a positive impact on this world tend to ...
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The Negative Jesus
One of the biggest criticisms of Christians today is that they’re ...
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Hatred is Verboten
When I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to use the word “hate”. ...
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Putting Sorrow in Perspective
None of us want bad things to happen to us, and yet they do. None of ...
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Justice in God’s Time
It’s a strange old world we live in. On the one hand, you can have ...
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Leaning on God
As we’re growing from childhood through those awkward teenage years ...
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Don’t Lose the Plot
Truth, as things turn out, is a difficult thing to hold on to in ...
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Memorial Day
No matter what country you happen to live in, there are men and women ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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Don’t Get Carried Away
It’s easy to come to the conclusion that being a Christian, ...
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The Faithful Love of God
So, at what point did we come to the conclusion that it’s all up to ...
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The Happy Warrior
So, another question for you today. When you speak up in defence of ...
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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many ...
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A Mother’s Teaching
The things that our parents taught us tend to remain with us for the ...
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Don’t Expect Them to Applaud
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the moment we set out to live a ...
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Don’t Sound the Retreat Just Yet
There’s a trend these days amongst some of God’s people to see ...
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Standing Up For Your Rights
I was taken recently … no, “taken” is entirely the wrong word! ...
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It is Well With My Soul (6)
There’s something about the hymns of old that reaches deep into our ...
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All is Well With My Soul (5)
Over these last couple of years, with a pandemic sweeping the globe, ...
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It is Well With My Soul (4)
All too often when disaster strikes, when we’re suffering as a ...
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It is Well With My Soul (3)
Have you ever had this terrible sense of foreboding that something ...
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It is Well With My Soul (2)
“Sin” is the central dilemma of humanity. No, it’s not a ...
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It is Well With My Soul (1)
The world, life … call it what you will … has an uncanny way of ...
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Keep Your Emotions in Check
We’ve been reading the last couple of days about our emotions ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
Everyone you know, no matter how much they love you, will at some ...
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That Emotional Fog
Have you ever had the situation where you’re driving on a road at ...
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You Can’t Be Serious
Despite all that Jesus had told His disciples about His coming ...
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All Gone Quiet
On this day every year, I close my eyes and put myself inside the ...
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Doom and Gloom Merchants
Over these past couple of years, there’s been a lot of doom and ...
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Treating Burnout
With all that’s been happening in the world over these last couple ...
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Relative Deprivation
When was the last time that you looked at what someone else had and ...
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The Day of the Lord is Coming
There’s a great business bestseller called “The Seven Habits of ...
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Monday Mornings
Many people struggle with “Mondayitis”. It’s this sense of ...
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Persecution Rising
There’s no doubt that the persecution of Christians is on the rise. ...
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Sin Kills
Death is something that you think more and more about, the older you ...
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Powerful Kindness
There are few things in this world that are at the same time simpler, ...
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Fight the Good Fight
Living out your faith in Jesus, man, there are some great times. ...
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Expect Criticism
I think one of the most difficult things to deal with is when you cop ...
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A Cry for Help
There are times in our lives when we need God to step in to help. ...
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Making it Through
As we saw yesterday, turning away from what we know is wrong to do ...