Church & Community
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Addicted to Outrage
So, how do you feel about the people running your country, your ...
Day Before
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The Impact of Grace
When someone shows you some sort of kindness, even just the smallest ...
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Your Contribution to Peace
Question: how do wars end? Answer: after a protracted conflict with ...
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One Size Does Not Fit All
I think we’ve all had the exceedingly frustrating experience of ...
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The Message from the Beginning
Love is such a simple word. And when you think about being loved – ...
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The Ultimate Goal of God’s Love
I’d like you, if you would, please, to picture the face of the most ...
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Forgiveness is a Lovely Idea, Until …
Can I be honest with you? I used to be … well, not a very nice ...
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Simply Being There
Anyone who’s ever brought up children knows how important it is to ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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Be Amazed
I don’t know how many church services you’ve sat through in your ...
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The Essence of Empathy
Empathy is one of the most poignant and powerful expressions of love ...
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Go Fast or Go Far
Teamwork is lauded everywhere you look – in successful companies, ...
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Stop Arguing
It doesn’t seem to matter all that much what group of people you ...
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God Will Keep You Strong
Perseverance is a word that we don’t much like, you and I, because ...
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Grace and Peace to You
When you run into someone whom you haven’t seen in a while, how do ...
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Don’t Ignore the Red Flags
I think we’d agree that looking for the good in others, seeing ...
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The Death of Gossip
Gossip has the power to ruin reputations. A rumour here, a whisper ...
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The Blind Leading the Blind
The clear and present danger for anyone who puts their trust into ...
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The Dangers of Religion
It’s quite remarkable really, how easy it is to take God’s mercy ...
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Be Kind, Generous and Fair
You know what I think? I think that it’s all too easy to ...
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How You Treat Your Staff
Anyone who’s ever been in a leadership role will know that it ...
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Those Who’ve Gone Before
In this fast paced, technology-driven world where you can order up ...
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Ditch Your Secret Sins
Over the years you and I have seen a good many high-profile Christian ...
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Avoid This Bad Habit
When you and I place our confidence in ourselves, in our own ...
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No Ministry Too Small
One of the things I like to be with you is real; open, transparent ...
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Simply Showing Up
I think I can say with a hundred percent degree of certainty that you ...
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The Pitfalls of Tradition
Traditions have their upside and their downside. On the one hand, ...
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Bringing Comfort
Sometimes you can find yourself in a deep, dark hole. It’s just the ...
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False Teaching
Here’s a crazy statistic: there are over twenty thousand Christian ...
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Teach Me
There are, it would seem, two types of people in this world; those ...
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Never Go it Alone
Few people realise the very significant burden that leaders carry. ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that ...
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Know Your Worth
Have you ever felt like trash; as though the world’s chewed you up, ...
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Who is Your Role Model?
I don’t think there’s any one of us who doesn’t want a better ...
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Absolutely Worthless
A great part of what it means to grow up, to mature over the years, ...
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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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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building ...
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Seeking Grace
Christmas is a special time … a very special time. But it’s also ...
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The Golden Rule of Communication
Yesterday we chatted about the absence of civility in public ...
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Just a Little Bit of Pride
Do you know that feeling of wanting people just to think a little bit ...
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A Beautiful Strategy, but…
Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British ...
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Your Risk-Reward Ratio
We each have a different risk-reward ratio at play in our lives. Some ...
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Don’t Rush into Evil
Sometimes we do stupid things on the spur of the moment. Everything ...
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God Has a Job For You
One of the things that many people struggle with is a lack of purpose ...
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The Status Quo is Not an Option
Sin – turning our backs on Jesus and doing the wrong thing – is ...
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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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Valuing the Efforts of Others
Have you ever been trying your hardest, and yet people don’t seem ...
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Don’t Disappear Down This Rabbit Hole
It’s easy these days to get drawn into crazy arguments … all too ...
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The World’s Fastest Growing Religion
It’s been said that the world’s fastest growing religion is … ...
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To Love Kindness
This week we’re unpacking what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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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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Oh Please!
You see some amazing things on social media … I mean, mind blowing ...
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The Church to Look Out For
I don’t know where you’re at in terms of your relationship with ...
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The Power to Be Holy
Victory over sin –especially that one sin that keeps on coming back ...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Being Small
We’ve all felt small and insignificant from time to time – ...
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The Trap of “Group-Think”
One way to maintain harmony, is to tell people what we think they ...
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Every Sinner Has a Future
It was October 15, 1995, that I walked through the doors of a church ...
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Defending Your Rights
If the rhetoric of Christians in the social media feeds that I ...
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The Great Temptation
The great temptation these days is to edit the Bible, delete this ...
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Culture Wars
The thing I find most frightening about 21st Century Christianity, is ...
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Your Home Forever
Well, that’s it. Christmas is done and dusted, over for another ...
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Your Love Must be Real
When you think about it, there’s a lot of shallow love going round ...
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You Don’t Have to Go it Alone
Anyone who’s set their heart like flint to follow hard after Jesus, ...
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Who Exactly are the Children of God?
So, I’m sitting in a Bible study the other day with a bunch of ...
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Don’t Be Fooled by Half Truths
One of the consequences of the rising tide of evil in this world is ...
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If Wombs Had Windows
The Bible seems silent sometimes on important issues. One of those ...
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Gentleness and Respect
We live in a time of great division, where the toxic cocktail of ...
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Individualism vs Collectivism
Seeing the faces of both young and old buried en masse in their ...
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The Angry Boss
It’s easy to get the impression that the Bible – the thing that ...
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Will We Never Learn?
I never cease to be amazed by my own propensity to be spiritually ...
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Do you know what I find really, really scary? It’s the people who ...
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Filling an Empty Life
The sense of emptiness that we sometimes feel – that sense that ...
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Impacted by Negativity
The negativity of other people has a habit of dragging us down with ...
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A Powerful Combination
As we saw yesterday, when you and I operate in a spirit of ...
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Excellence Stands Out from the Crowd
People who operate in a spirit of excellence are exceptionally rare ...
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Selfie-Culture
If you’d used this ubiquitous term “the selfie” back when I was ...
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Don’t Brag
There’s no doubt that we’d all like to be liked. There’s no ...
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Spoiling the Vineyard
At the end of the day, good, strong, enduring, loving, supportive ...
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Three Blind Mice
Have you ever wondered to yourself, How come that person could see ...
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The Sin of Sodom
Most of us last night slept in a soft, warm bed with a roof over our ...
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Ever Been in a Church Where …
Church services, when you stand back from them, are kind of a strange ...
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Dinner with Jesus
The idea that I wasn’t good enough for God is what kept me from ...
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The Blah, Blah, Blah, Treatment
Preaching … sermons … can that really still be a thing in the ...
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We Are Now One People
The way we treat those with whom we disagree shows how well we’ve ...
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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Hanging Around
I wonder … how do you choose your friends? Most of us befriend ...
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Guarding the Watch
Abject poverty is so widespread in this world today, that all too ...
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The Bus Driver
The more technologically sophisticated we become, the more distant ...
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Pastor Jesus
For many people, church is great – not for everyone, mind you, but ...
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Church Evacuation Plan
The easiest thing to do as a Christian is to give up on church. But ...
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Maximum Impact
How we use the freedom we have in Christ speaks to others about the ...
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Communicating in a Connected World
How much time do you spend plugged into technology rather than ...
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Boys and Beds
No, you can’t solve global poverty on your own. But yes, you can ...
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That Smelly Guy
Some things in life are pretty cut and dried. There’s right over ...
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It’s Black and White
Okay, so this may be a bit uncomfortable, but the fact is that many ...
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Lousy Service
People are getting scratchy, have you noticed? There seems to be an ...
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Teamwork is Good Work
It’s easy to get all hot and bothered by the inadequacies and ...
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The Tree and It’s Fruit
Don’t you just hate it when someone pretends to be something on the ...
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Nice Little Doggy
I hope you don’t think me rude, but as you look at your disposable ...
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When Good Men Do Nothing
Stand up for what’s right; help those who are in need.