Faith
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The Truth Revealed
Truth is very much a contested space in this post-Christian age in ...
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Live a Full Life
There’s a world of difference between a full life and an empty ...
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Whom Will God Make Strong?
One of the things I absolutely love about God is His desire to help ...
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On the Other Side
Have you ever been just a bit more than moderately concerned as to ...
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The Person God Wants You to Be
Life throws a lot of stuff at you, right? Constantly, day after day ...
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You Won’t Be Lost
One of the worst things that can ever happen to small children is to ...
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Resting in Peace
When some dies, people say things like “She’s gone to a better ...
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Finding Rest
You don’t often hear people in my position talk about the fact that ...
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A Double Helping
I wonder if you, like me, have ever found yourself labouring away, ...
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A Healthy Dissatisfaction
None of us is perfect. I’m not and neither are you. Which presents ...
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Living Faith
Elite athletes are amazing. Whether they play a team sport or compete ...
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Use Your Head
One of the great tensions of following God’s call on our lives is ...
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Being Right and Being Kind
I’m sure you know how frustrating it can be when you know that you ...
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Is Your Faith Growing?
So, how do you know whether or not your faith in God is growing? Is ...
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True Maturity
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when other people ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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Back to Job
It’s easy to be hopeful about your future when the going’s good. ...
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Expanding Your Horizons
When you make a blunder that really should have you bearing the ...
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Aboard the Titanic
No doubt you know the story of the Titanic. When she launched on ...
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Your First Port of Call
Imagine for a moment that you’re out in a small boat and a storm ...
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No Leap in the Dark
From the outside looking in, it can appear as though believing in ...
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Christmas in July
Depending on where you live, what I’m about to ask you may sound ...
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Let’s Circle Back
When you’re travelling down a rocky road, when life is more down ...
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The Pitfalls of Tradition
Traditions have their upside and their downside. On the one hand, ...
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But I Don’t Understand …
Any parent knows the frustration of telling their children to do ...
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A Matter of the Heart
You’ve perhaps heard it said that without faith it is impossible to ...
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The Deep Mystery of Faith
Apparently, so the scientific theory goes, the universe was created ...
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Weak, Stumbling, Humble Faith
A dear friend of mine, Lowell Wertz, is a 40 plus year missionary to ...
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The Ragged Edge of Faith
It strikes me that religion, or religiosity if I can call it that, is ...
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The Great Turnaround
There are times when all we see ahead is adversity. But it’s in ...
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Walk a Mile
Doubtless, you’ve heard that saying that to understand someone, you ...
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Life Reconciled
This is the day we’ve been waiting for… the day that so shocked ...
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Justified by Faith
When you’ve done the wrong thing, have you ever tried to justify ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and ...
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The Jealousy of God
Might I ask you today, what’s the one thing in your life that ...
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Don’t Grow Stale
Every relationship in our lives at some point is at risk of growing ...
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Know the Truth, But…
The truth, as things turn out, can be a dangerous thing when used in ...
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All the Faith You Have
Have you ever had that sense that “I simply don’t have enough ...
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Trust Without Wavering
Have you ever had someone in your life – perhaps a member of your ...
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If Only…
Regret is an emotion that, obviously, we wish we’d never ...
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Take a Stand
So, might I ask you today, what is it that’s chipping away at your ...
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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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Absolutely Worthless
A great part of what it means to grow up, to mature over the years, ...
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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building ...
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Getting Your Life Back on Track
So, at what point does God lose patience with you? At what point does ...
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The First Temptation
Your enemy, the devil, has a number of very nasty habits. Up there at ...
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The Lord is Faithful
Yesterday I shared a bit of what’s involved in producing this daily ...
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A Solid Foundation
If you’re anything like me, by now you have a bit of a plan for ...
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He’s Still Looking for Disciples
What sort of a year are you looking forward to? Is it going to be the ...
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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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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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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? ...
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What Comes Next
So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to ...
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Your Final Destination
There are so many cares and concerns, stresses and strains, that we ...
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An Eager Anticipation
The things going on in your life and mine today, here and now, are ...
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Armistice Day
We’ve been focussing these last few days on the resurrection of ...
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A Worthless Kind of Faith
Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real ...
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Don’t Ignore the Facts
During Jesus’ trial, Pontius Pilot asked the question “What is ...
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Time is Slipping Away
How much time do you have left to love the people around you? When ...
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The Unfulfilled Promises of God
Let me be honest. I have this secret desire for God to bless me. ...
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Facing Storms Alone
None of us likes it when those inevitable life storms come our way, ...
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A Decaying Civilisation
Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ...
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A Fickle Fanbase
Created as we are, as social creatures, we by and large love it when ...
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That Yearning
If you believe in Jesus, then you’ve no doubt found that your ...
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Stockholm Syndrome
It’s amazing how, after a while, we can become accustomed to ...
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Showing Mercy
There are some intensely uncomfortable things in the Bible… truly. ...
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Seeing Clearly
Insults are a fact of life. And when we’re the one on the receiving ...
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What’s Right and True
It can be difficult these days to discern what really is “the ...
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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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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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Yearn for God
There’s a scary thing happening amongst God’s people today. It ...
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The Throbbing Heart of Religion
“Religion” is a word that, frankly, I recoil from – because to ...
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The Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, ...
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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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Why Does God Delay?
Sometimes, adversity is an opportunity in disguise … no, let me be ...
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Leaving a Lasting Impression
I’ve been in the workforce for close on half a century – ...
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Blind to the Truth
Have you ever wanted something to be true so badly that you’d do ...
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A Godly Metamorphosis
The image that the world has of a loving God (if He were to exist at ...
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Actions are Driven by Beliefs
I don’t know about you, but I am a master of self-delusion. So many ...
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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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False Prophets, False Gods
In our desire to be successful (something that’s been drummed into ...
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Criticising Leaders
The more individualistic we become in our outlook on life, the more ...
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Own Up to Your Christianity
It’s becoming more and more difficult, not just to be a Christian, ...
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God is in Control, But …
When we’re confronted with some daunting task, something that we ...
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Leaning on God
As we’re growing from childhood through those awkward teenage years ...
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Oh Please!
You see some amazing things on social media … I mean, mind blowing ...
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God In Your Old Age
One of the things that I find so intriguing is how God can take ...
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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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How to Get Noticed
The more social media’s taken hold of our world, the easier it’s ...
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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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Make a Joyful Noise
Do you know what I’ve noticed? It’s much easier to make a joyful ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...
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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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“Opinion” versus “Truth”
One of the things I’ve noticed – and perhaps you have too – is ...
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Don’t Expect Them to Applaud
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the moment we set out to live a ...