Discovering Meaning
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What’s in a Name?
Do you, like me, sometimes struggle to remember a person’s name two ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” ...
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A Different Perspective
It’s becoming more and more difficult for anyone whose faith is in ...
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Be Careful How You Live
We all have but one life to live on this earth, and time’s slipping ...
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Don’t be Lazy
When does the need for rest become our excuse for laziness? We all ...
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Don’t Be Surprised
There’s an incredible finality about death. You stop breathing, ...
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The Power of a Question
If only life were simple … but it simply isn’t. It’s messy, ...
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A Plan for Tomorrow
It’s funny, isn’t it, that although we know that one day we’ll ...
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Wise Up Early
Do you remember being young and stupid? I certainly do; the things I ...
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Let There be Light
Sometimes life feels like a bit of a riddle: All that stuff going on ...
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What is Good?
We live in a world of sharp contrasts. Black and white. Tall and ...
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When You Just Know
Have you ever wondered why God, in His wisdom, chooses to say the ...
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Do I Really Need Saving?
In just a few days’ time we’ll be celebrating Christmas – the ...
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Cherry Picking Scripture
I saw a coffee mug advertised online recently with the following ...
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What Kingdom Really Means
Christians talk a lot about the “kingdom of God”; it rolls so ...
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All for Jesus
No matter who you are, where you live. or what your circumstances may ...
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Have a Drink
Have you ever woken up one day and found your faith in Christ to be ...
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Negative Self-Talk
We all do this thing called “self-talk”. We create a narrative of ...
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False Teaching
Here’s a crazy statistic: there are over twenty thousand Christian ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (6)
There are times in our lives when our circumstances are far from ...
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Teach Me
There are, it would seem, two types of people in this world; those ...
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Think Twice
It’s funny how the human psyche works. Sometimes the obvious can be ...
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Dr Livingstone I Presume
When something’s truly important it’s worth saying twice, would ...
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Never Go it Alone
Few people realise the very significant burden that leaders carry. ...
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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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Announcing Grace
When someone does something for you that you don’t deserve – I ...
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Some Things You Can Be Sure of, But…
One of the most difficult things for us to do is to step out in faith ...
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That Yearning
If you believe in Jesus, then you’ve no doubt found that your ...
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Showing Mercy
There are some intensely uncomfortable things in the Bible… truly. ...
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I’m Entitled #Not
It’s easy these days with the “I’m entitled” mentality that ...
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Looking Forward to “That Day”
Can I ask you … are you looking forward to the end of your time on ...
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The Time is Coming
As much as we sometimes wish that a difficult patch that we’re ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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The Outcome of Self-Worship
Yesterday we explored the not unreasonable assertion that ...
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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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A Dangerous Proposition
Freedom is one of those things that we all cherish, even if sometimes ...
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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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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of ...
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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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An Unhealthy Detachment
At some point along the way, anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus ...
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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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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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The Rules Don’t Apply
Have you ever come to the conclusion that because God loves you so ...
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The Importance of Discernment
The one thing we’re not short of in this day and age is ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
There seem to be two types of people walking planet Earth today – ...
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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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Doom and Gloom Merchants
Over these past couple of years, there’s been a lot of doom and ...
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The Burden of Wealth
This world in which we live, you and I, operates on the unwritten and ...
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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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Make Your Life Count
Life is short. When we’re young, we know pretty much, that life on ...
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Repent Therefore!
People are sometimes confused about how you end up in the Kingdom of ...
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Keep Telling Your Story
The research tells us that a person is at least five times more ...
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Tired and Thirsty
So you’re on a journey. You’re thirsty, you’re tired and all ...
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But What Sort of Plan?
It’s one thing for us to have a plan for our lives, that’s a good ...
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It’s Time to Have a Plan
Well, here we are! A happy new year to you. Of course, to a great ...
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A Cheap Imitation of Christmas
Today, right around the world, children will be leaving a glass of ...
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The Heavens Shall Declare
One of the great tragedies playing itself out here in the 21st ...
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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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Are You Feeling Ignored?
Most of us – and I know this is going to sound judgemental, which ...
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Who Has God’s Blessing?
Ahh … the blessing of God. Yep, something we all want – and ...
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Before It’s Too Late…
I’m sure that you can look back on your life and see times of ...
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Growing Strong
Over and over again in the Bible, we’re told to “be strong”. ...
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What’s Your Retirement Plan?
So, just quietly … let me ask you, what do you have planned for the ...
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Blessed Assurance
There have been many times in my walk with Jesus when I’ve become ...
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Building Your Forever Home
People these days talk about their “forever home”. Young couples ...
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Worthless Religion
I always cringe when someone calls me a religious person because the ...
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Son, There Are No Shortcuts
Excellence: The more commoditised the world becomes, the more choices ...
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Taking Risks
One of the incredibly inconvenient things about God is that His ways ...
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Permission to Fail
Failure is a fact of life. We all fail at things on a regular basis ...
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Not in Your Own Strength, But …
I’ve heard people say that God never asks you to do something that ...
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Are You Treating People Fairly?
When it comes to this idea of justice, all too often we’re tempted ...
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The Things Money Can’t Buy
There are so many fun, amazing things for us to spend our money on ...
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Waiting Patiently
I have to be honest with you … waiting isn’t one of my strong ...
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No Pain No Gain
When you’re going tough times, it’s very easy to lose sight of ...
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger
The idea that the Bible is a stuffy old religious book that belongs ...
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Dealing with Envy
Let me be perfectly honest with you. I can be spiritually quite thick ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
I’m sure there have been people in your life over the years who ...
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Great Expectations
Do you know what I hate? Do you know what I really hate? It’s when ...
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The Seasons of Life
Whether we like it or not, whether we would have planned it this way ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
Different people can look at the same thing and see it completely ...
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A Fast Mind
I think we Christians can sometimes over-spiritualise things. We’re ...
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To Fast or Not to Fast
For many people, their weight is a touchy subject. If you’re one of ...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...
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Worth Dying For
So what is it that makes you and me different – of more intrinsic ...
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Dream Big Dreams
How much do you dream about the future; what it might look like, what ...
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The Bitter Taste of Success
In your quiet moments when you imagine your future – as we all do ...
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Sweet Poison
These days there’s a health debate raging about sugar. Now, whilst ...
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This is Your Gamechanger
Metabolic syndrome, which is the collective term for obesity, high ...
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Despite Everything
The thing that I’ve noticed down through the years is that when God ...
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Why Does God Hide?
Let me ask you something. If you were God, would you kind of hide ...
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Glory, Glory, Glory
Do you ever get this feeling that … well, there must be something ...
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A Call to Suffering
Do you know what most of us want? We want to be healthy, wealthy and ...
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What Was He Thinking?
Have you ever found yourself praying for a breakthrough, praying for ...
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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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That One Thing
I wonder whether sometimes you find yourself suffering from ...
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Give Me a Sign
It’s tempting sometimes to ask God to prove Himself, especially ...
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Jesus Does Things Differently
Let’s face it, we like people to be conventional, predictable. None ...
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Dreams and Schemes
We each have different priorities in life. You do. I do. And if God ...