Forgiveness
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Even More Grace
It seems these days that a wife leaving her husband for another or a ...
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving
I remember way back in my life that when those Christians started ...
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We All Have This Common Need
We all, from time to time, find ourselves in need of the good will of ...
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A Miraculous Metamorphosis
I’m pretty sure that you, like most of us, have things in your ...
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Your Change of Heart
Have you ever tried to kick a bad habit? It’s not easy. Whether ...
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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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Taking Advice from a Prisoner
If someone wrote you a letter from prison with some advice for how ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone ...
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Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Have you ever wondered what baptism is all about? It’s an odd ...
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Preparing the Way of the Lord
In my experience – perhaps in yours, too – God does some rather ...
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Repentance 101
Question: If God forgives us our sin through Jesus’ sacrifice on ...
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Salvation 101
Every now and then, it pays to go back to basics – both to ensure ...
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The Sacrifice Acceptable to God
When you see a man walking down the street with a bunch of flowers, ...
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Radical Surgery is Required
Most of us have a pretty good sense of the difference between right ...
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The Recipe for Peace (2)
Here’s a blunt, inconvenient truth: your attitude towards the ...
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The Recipe for Peace (1)
So many things in life can rob you of your peace. But right up there ...
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What God Won’t Bless
There are times when God feels a million miles away. And that’s ...
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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 is Faithful
Whilst the education system may have changed somewhat these days, the ...
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Bring Your Deeds Into the Light
If I were able to interview you on a radio program and ask you to ...
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So Much Misery
Do you know what strikes me about this present age in which we live? ...
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Good News, Bad News
Well, today there’s good news and there’s bad news. Let’s start ...
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Cancel Culture
The very best sort of humour, in my book, is the sort that both makes ...
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The Most Radical Remedy
Long-standing, deep-seated hatred is as old as time itself. It began ...
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The Ultimate Price
The central message of Christianity – the ‘Good News’ as it’s ...
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Steady as She Goes
Every now and then things happen – both good things and bad, things ...
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Good Theology Ain’t Enough
Different people understand the Good News of Jesus in different ways. ...
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Incredibly Good News
How good are you at obeying the rules? If you’re licensed to drive, ...
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The Very Definition of Hypocrisy
Let’s face it, loving other people can be hard. They don’t always ...
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Whose Fault Is It?
I’ve done some foolish things throughout my life. You too, right? ...
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake ...
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By the Grace of God
So many things in this life seem to demand so much hard work. Good ...
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Don’t Throw Stones
When we see someone else doing the wrong thing, all too often we feel ...
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The Punishment You Dish Out
How do you respond to people who do the wrong thing? How do you deal ...
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The Kindest Person in the Room
Different people are smart in different ways. You may be highly ...
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Your Premeditated Pass to Sin
Each one of us has that one weakness, that one chink in our armour, ...
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Have You Unwrapped the Gift?
Imagine for a moment that on one of those really significant ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down ...
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Completely Defeated, And Yet …
Easter Saturday … what do we do with that? It’s kind of a nothing ...
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He Did it For You
Well, here we are … that day we call “Good Friday”, remembering ...
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A Big Promise
Jesus did and said things that were so, “out there”, so ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, ...
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Despite Your Best Intentions
It’s one thing to have good intentions; it’s another thing ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact ...
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Totally Amazing Grace
Grace is a rare commodity these days. The world’s system expects ...
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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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Not by Merit, But by Mercy
Very soon we’ll be celebrating Christmas: remembering how God ...
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The Death Knell of Division
There’s nothing quite so ugly as people in power playing power ...
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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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My Debt He Paid
Interest rates go up and down on a regular basis. When they’re up, ...
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Forgive Each Other
Anger is an emotion that flares up in our hearts from time to time ...
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Simple Really
Back in the days of old, God’s people sacrificed animals on altars. ...
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It’s Really Quite Simple
People can be difficult, have you noticed? I mean, really, really ...
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Loved Unfairly
Some people just take a dislike to us in a way that seems ever so ...
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The Time is Now
How often in our lives have you and I put off something that we know ...
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Payback Time
Have you ever felt that God is against you, that He’s not on your ...
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Back to the Good Times
When we’re struggling through difficult times, when we’re living ...
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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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Forgive Without Punishing
There are so many different ways of loving the people around us. 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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How High? How Far?
Life has a habit of … I don’t know … chipping away at your ...
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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob ...
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Armistice Day
We’ve been focussing these last few days on the resurrection of ...
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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 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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Your Place of Safety
We chatted yesterday about suffering – the privilege of suffering ...
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Stockholm Syndrome
It’s amazing how, after a while, we can become accustomed to ...
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The Ugliness of Self-Righteousness
Judgementalism is a cancer in society today. You only have to spend ...
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Showing Mercy
There are some intensely uncomfortable things in the Bible… truly. ...
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Righteousness and Love
The process of maturing as an individual has a lot to do with ...
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Why Are We So Disobedient?
Have you ever wondered why it is that we can be so disobedient, so ...
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Dining with Sinners
Question: do you make it a deliberate policy to invite bad people ...
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Reading Your Own Death Warrant
We’ve been reading this week about dealing with the difficult ...
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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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A Time to Remember
Easter week comes around so quickly. And we seem to pass through it ...
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Creating Order from Chaos
The unpredictable things that often happen in life have a tendency to ...
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The Command to Forgive
Jesus died on that cross so that you and I could be forgiven. He rose ...
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You Have an Unfair Advantage
You may have noticed that this week, we’ve had a bit of a focus on ...
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Hell is Still Hot
‘Hell’ is not a popular concept these days. Fair enough. The ...
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Seek Good and Not Evil
In a world shrouded in evil – and make no mistake, that’s ...
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Free, Full, Final, Forever, Forgiveness
No doubt you, like me, hate it when you stuff up; when you fail God, ...
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God is Still at Work
Whenever you set off on a journey – you know, one of those good ...
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Blessed Assurance
There have been many times in my walk with Jesus when I’ve become ...
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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without ...
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Humility: The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Yesterday, we explored the difference between perfectionism and ...
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Bitter or Better?
Sometimes what this world throws at us can hurt us like a deep wound. ...
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Onwards and Upward
When we make a mistake (and seriously, who doesn’t?!) we have two ...
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The Power of the Past
For many people, the past holds such an incredible power over them ...
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God’s Best
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We all realise it’s a good idea, but ...
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To Forgive
Of all the people on this planet, who is the one person who has hurt ...
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Looking After Number One
“Yeah, sure, I believe in Jesus,” we think to ourselves as we ...
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Close Encounters
Do you yearn for a deep, intimate relationship with God? Has that ...
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On Whose Terms?
The desire to reshape God into an image that’s much easier for us ...
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Sin is Never Small
Life is full of compromises. I guess that’s true, and yet there are ...
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Discover God
The idea that God can forgive us, I think, is an idea that most of us ...
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Here Comes da Judge
When we stop judging others, it brings a whole new peace into our ...
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The Thing To Do in Gethsemane
Jesus is calling you today, inviting you to draw closer to Him, to ...
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Forgiving the Unforgivable
When your son is hit by a drunk driver and left to die on the ...
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Forgiveness is Healing
The hurts of the past will never stop hurting until we forgive those ...