Blessing
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The Power is the Proof
Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to change just a single bad ...
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Where are You At?
Might I ask you quietly, plainly, directly … where are you at in ...
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The Chosen
If only some days we’d lift our gaze to the cosmos and realise how ...
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Being Beethoven
All too often, the gifts and abilities that God’s woven into our ...
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On That Day …
Most of us consider accountability to be a good thing. We should all ...
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The True Test of Character
There are times in life when, as the expression goes, we feel the ...
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Having a Curious Mind
Have you ever felt that you’re living life in a rut? You know what ...
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Perseverance isn’t Passive
The temptation to do the wrong thing is something that comes our way ...
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So, Do Not Fear
Do you believe in Jesus? If so, then your faith in Him is meant to ...
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Faith Comes by Hearing
Why is it that children need to be both encouraged and admonished by ...
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Re-evaluating the Company You Keep
Our faith in God – yours and mine – isn’t meant to wax and ...
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Don’t Let Your Faith Dwindle
Have you ever found your faith in God waning? Once, way back when, ...
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A Radically Balanced Life
If someone came along and offered you contentment … you know … ...
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Blessed Beyond Measure
What are the blessings that you’re hoping will come your way soon ...
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The Lord be With You
Just living out each day honouring God, following Jesus wherever He ...
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Jesus Came to …
I feel the need today to chat with you about the little compromises ...
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More Power
The truth be known, no matter how strong a person you may be, there ...
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A Stern Warning
I’ll tell what really scares me: people who’ve convinced ...
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Pride Plunders
Over the years, I’ve come across some really clever, successful ...
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Exquisite Peace
Sometimes just living out your life can feel like you’ve been ...
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Your Fingerprint
It’s a sad thing when we compare ourselves with others and in our ...
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Don’t Squander Your Liberty
Yep, it’s the fourth of July. No matter where on this planet you ...
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Your New Life Should Be …
When things aren’t ticking along quite as you’d planned, when ...
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Is it Making a Difference?
As Jesus walked the dusty roads of 1st century Israel, He did and ...
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Removing Sin’s Stain
When you do something that you know is wrong, the reality of that sin ...
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Encourage Each Other
No doubt you’ve had the experience of feeling a bit down, and then ...
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Walk a Mile
Doubtless, you’ve heard that saying that to understand someone, you ...
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Right in God
Any husband and wife will tell you that arguments are one thing, but ...
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The Message
We love getting good news, no matter what’s going on in our lives. ...
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Your Destiny
So did you choose God, or did He choose you? Which came first, the ...
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The Simple Blessings of God
Despite all the incredible advances in science down through the ...
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The Highest Privilege
Having done the whole “kids” thing in my younger years, I ...
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Always Wanting More
The world that God’s created for us to enjoy is so rich and ...
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Dead to Sin
Why is it that God, in His Word, appears sometimes to say the same ...
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While We Were Still Weak
I wonder if you’ve ever heard of “Maundy Thursday”. Well, ...
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But I’m a Good Person
When I first became a Christian, I used to wonder why Jesus had to ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (6)
There are times in our lives when our circumstances are far from ...
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If Only…
Regret is an emotion that, obviously, we wish we’d never ...
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Dr Livingstone I Presume
When something’s truly important it’s worth saying twice, would ...
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The Gold Standard
Who or what we allow to influence our thoughts and actions is ...
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The Marque of Spiritual Maturity
Question … what does spiritual maturity look like? What’s the ...
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All I Want Is…
So, what matters most to you? What do you place the highest value on ...
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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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Insisting on Your Rights
In your life here and now, with all that you have going on, what are ...
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We’re Praying for You
Well, today is your final instalment in the “behind the scenes ...
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The Lord Gives Us Confidence
It’s an odd feeling, you know, sitting on this side of the Fresh ...
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What’s the Point?
There seems to be three different phases in life. Things can be going ...
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It’s Not a Comfortable Life
If you’ve ever read the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ public ministry ...
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Embrace Your New Life Today
If you were able to join me yesterday, you’ll recall that I ...
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How Does Grace Change Your Perspective?
Can I ask you something? On a scale of zero to ten, to what degree ...
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More Grace Than We Can Ever Imagine
The more time you spend looking at and thinking about the grace of ...
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He Chose You for a Reason
Do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe that He died to pay the price ...
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He’s Already Blessed Your Socks Off
Inevitably, as we compare this past year that’s just been with the ...
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Sharing the Unpopular Gospel
The Christmas season is a time when, more than ever, we have a ...
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Be Prepared to Zip Your Lip
Family gatherings like Christmas can be a great blessing. Catching up ...
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Preparing for a Family Christmas
Because we’re heading into Christmas next week, we’re chatting ...
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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? ...
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To Whom Does God Listen?
There was a time in Israel’s history when they’d turned their ...
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Trouble Has a Purpose
When we’re going through times of trouble, as we all do from time ...
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It All Begins with the Heart
If there’s one thing in life that’s perhaps more important than ...
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The Privilege of Work
If you had a choice between a life of hard work doing what you’re ...
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Only God Truly Knows
You and I would like to think that we know ourselves pretty well – ...
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The Truth of the Matter
Allow me to ask you plainly today, do you believe in Jesus? If so, ...
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When God Goes Missing
We all have days when God appears to go missing from our lives. In ...
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Secret Thoughts
We all have a secret thought life. We think things that we don’t ...
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The Whole Point of Victory
We all love that word “victory”. It’s about winning – ...
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Blessed is Anyone Who…
Here’s the thing about temptation. It’s so alluring. It’s so ...
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Freedom from Sin
There’s a real risk, I think, that we can mistake what God’s ...
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A Decaying Civilisation
Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ...
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The Word or the World
The world we live in today has changed so much from even twenty years ...
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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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Tolerance
If only everyone on this planet would think the way we do. If only ...
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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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My Cup Runneth Over
Some people are natural pessimists. They’re typically the detailed ...
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Growing Old Productively
None of us likes to see waste. I mean, it’s senseless, isn’t it? ...
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I’m Entitled #Not
It’s easy these days with the “I’m entitled” mentality that ...
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Sustained by God
Scripture is often quoted out of context. One of the most common ...
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The Art of Believing
We all, to some extent, wear tinted glasses. In other words, we see ...
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A Helping Hand
When you see someone heading in the wrong direction, about to make a ...
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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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Can You Be Over-Inclusive?
Diversity and inclusion are very highly valued commodities in this ...
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Giving Without Sparing
Have you ever asked yourself, “How much should I give”? Perhaps ...
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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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Whom Does the Lord Save?
When you find yourself in hot water, which of course happens from ...
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An Attitude of Gratitude
There’s one word that will completely, radically, change your life. ...
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O God, You Are My God
Over the last few days, we’ve been discovering that Jesus is not ...
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The Thorny Weed of Wealth
The reinvention of Jesus – who He is and what He said – has been ...
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Black is Still Black
As we look back on the events of history, we tend to judge the things ...
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Alive or Dead
Even though we’ve all faced difficulties in our lives, tragedies ...
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With a Willing Heart
As I look back on the journey that God’s brought me on, I can see ...
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Beware False Teachers
Whenever we believe something passionately, as I certainly do when it ...
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Criticising Leaders
The more individualistic we become in our outlook on life, the more ...
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Too Much Pretending
There is so much pretending that goes on in the world today in ...
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Set Your Imagination Loose
Can I ask you, what mountain needs moving in your life just at the ...
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Reading Your Own Death Warrant
We’ve been reading this week about dealing with the difficult ...
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Leaning on God
As we’re growing from childhood through those awkward teenage years ...
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Your Inner Core Strength
There are people in this world who will oppose you – some for the ...
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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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Enjoying the Rules
From the youngest age, each one of us has been subject to rules. Our ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...