Forgiveness
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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 ...
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When God Forgave You
You and I were saved by grace through Jesus. Why is it then that ...
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Forgiving is Accepting
How we treat the people with whom we disagree says a lot about the ...
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Forgive and Forget
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful forces for change that the ...
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Dealing with Disappointment
So when was the last time that you were disappointed by someone or ...
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The Lost Cat
Might I ask you today how close, how intimate, how real is your ...
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Forgiving on the Fly
The easiest thing in the world for you and me to do is to rationalise ...
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Bills, Bills, Bills
Many people know the theory that Jesus died for us on the Cross and ...
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Jesus Christ
Can I ask you today, what does “Jesus Christ” mean to you? Is He ...
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Life’s a Parade
The hardest thing in the world to do is to admit that we’re wrong. ...
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It is Time
Jesus … it’s a name that means many things to many people. But ...
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Being Told that You’re Wrong
Yesterday we read about God’s powerful advice for reducing conflict ...
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The Garbage Cans
It would be interesting to do a survey of people’s prayer lives – ...
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Pre-emptive Forgiveness
When someone does something to hurt you or annoy you, what’s your ...
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School on Saturday
Part of growing up, I think, is owning our own mistakes. Now, when we ...
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It’s the Simple Things
There’s not a lot of good news on the news these days, I’m sure ...
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The Garbage Principle
The notion that Jesus came to save me, to save you … truly, some ...
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No Illusion
So let me ask you; what’s this whole Jesus thing all about? Is it ...
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Cancer of the Soul
Ever wondered, “Why should I forgive that person?” Well, there is ...
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Executive Summary
Anybody who’s followed hard after Jesus for any length of time will ...
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Value
Irrespective of how much money we either have or don’t have, we can ...
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Lousy Service
People are getting scratchy, have you noticed? There seems to be an ...
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No Law
Sadly, many people today – most people today – will skate on ...
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Give Him Your Life
Okay, so we’re hurtling towards another Easter; a bit of a long ...
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Full-on Forgiveness
You’ve heard that saying no doubt: “Don’t get angry, get ...
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Full-on Repentance
If only … if only it were possible to have the best of both worlds. ...
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People Who Disappoint You
We’ve all been at the wrong end of some unreasonable expectations. ...
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The Most Difficult Person You’ll Ever Meet
Introducing you to the most difficult person in your life.
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Forgiveness – A Surprising Twist
How to avoid the one thing that can rob you of God’s forgiveness.
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A Fresh Start
What to do when just living life is getting you down.
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Drifting Apart
These days divorce is so common that it’s completely unremarkable. ...
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Forgive and Forget
They say that revenge is sweet; and perhaps in that moment when you ...
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Let’s Talk Power
There’s a reason that the self-help industry is globally worth ...
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You Look a Lot Like Jesus
Can I ask you, when God looks at you, what does He see? Does He see ...
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Yes, You Will Make Some Mistakes
That sense of guilt that we feel when we let God down is both a good ...
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Your Slate is Wiped Clean
The theory, the theology if you will, tells us that when you believe ...
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Forgive and Forget
I wonder, today, whether we might take a moment to prod around in ...
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Dying and Living
Looking back on Easter, what was it all about again? What did we just ...
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Healing Down Under
When you boil it all down, the reason that God sent us His Son, is to ...
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Counter-Intuitive Forgiveness
Not everything that God calls us to do, always makes sense at first. ...
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How to Forgive
Forgiving people who’ve hurt you, well that’s a great idea, in ...
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The Power to Forgive
The truth is, forgiving people who’ve hurt us isn’t always such ...
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Hard to Forgive
Forgiveness. It’s easy to say that we should forgive other people, ...
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Forgiving
Conflict happens doesn’t it? It’s unavoidable. In a marriage, ...
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Rules? Oh Please!
I think we’d all agree that there are more than enough rules for us ...