Fresh Start
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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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Salvation 101
Every now and then, it pays to go back to basics – both to ensure ...
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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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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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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there ...
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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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The Promise of Christmas
The coming of Jesus into this world wasn’t anything like the ...
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The Freedom Paradox
Freedom is something that we all yearn for. Freedom from rules, from ...
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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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Bring Your Habits Before the Lord
Here’s a powerful truth that should never escape us. God wants to ...
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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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Suffering with Christ
Suffering unjustly is the pits, amen? When you suffer for doing ...
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Shady Deals
We’ve all done things we’re not proud of. I have, you have. The ...
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A Slave No More
The thing that I love most about God is the depth of the passion in ...
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He Lies in Your Grave
I don’t know if you’ve ever thought all that much about the day ...
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Back to the Good Times
When we’re struggling through difficult times, when we’re living ...
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Dr Livingstone I Presume
When something’s truly important it’s worth saying twice, would ...
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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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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob ...
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Your Final Destination
There are so many cares and concerns, stresses and strains, that we ...
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A Blunt Message
I have to tell you that the Apostle Paul is my kind of guy. He’s ...
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Armistice Day
We’ve been focussing these last few days on the resurrection of ...
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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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Don’t Squander Your Freedom
Freedom is one of those concepts with a lot of “cerebral curb ...
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A Dangerous Proposition
Freedom is one of those things that we all cherish, even if sometimes ...
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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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It’s Time to Choose
A person without a sense of purpose in life – something at the core ...
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Times of Refreshing
When we’re being tempted, the devil dangles something seductive, ...
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Release for the Captive
One of the things that Jesus promised would happen through Him was ...
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Creating Order from Chaos
The unpredictable things that often happen in life have a tendency to ...
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Monday Mornings
Many people struggle with “Mondayitis”. It’s this sense of ...
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Set Apart for a Higher Purpose
A single spark can set off a fire that will burn a whole forest. And ...
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The Fruit of Your Salvation
Faith in Jesus, salvation in Christ, is not a one-time tick in the ...
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Your Slate is Wiped Clean
Well, here we are it’s just after Christmas, again! A time of rest ...
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Born Again
So we’re chatting this week about why Jesus came to this earth, why ...
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A New Beginning
As we begin to turn our minds towards Christmas, perhaps it’d be ...
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A New Day from Heaven
With all the ups and downs we’ve been through over these past ...
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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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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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A Call to Suffering
Do you know what most of us want? We want to be healthy, wealthy and ...
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The Multitudes
There’s a reason that religious rules feel empty and hollow and ...
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Jesus, the Leper and Me
Sin is a word most people don’t like to use these days. But I will ...
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I’m Not Sure
Yesterday we prayed a prayer giving our lives over to Jesus. But ...
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It’s Time … I Think
Question: are you saved or not? When you stand before God one day, ...
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Spiritual Blockage
Working harder at being a better person isn’t the answer – ...
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So Much Dirt
It’s amazing what happens when we let Jesus loose in our soul. The ...
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Turning Japanese
So what does it mean to be a ‘born again’ Christian? How do you ...
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Renewed in His Love
For some people, God is merely a concept … and a distant, ...
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Will Heaven Happen?
The troubles of this world have a funny way of eating away at our ...
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A New Creation
The older we get, the more it can feel as though the baggage of the ...
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Strongholds
It’s funny how many blind spots each of us actually has in our ...
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Born Again
If you call yourself a Christian, might I ask you … are you truly a ...
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Not Good Enough?
There’s a thing that happens when we put our trust in this Jesus ...
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Colour Your Life
The sad face is that, for many people, life just seems flat, grey, ...
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A Tiny, Little Pebble
It’s funny isn’t it, how it’s invariably the little things that ...
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God is a God of New Beginnings
Sometimes it seems as though nothing is ever going to change. Nothing ...
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Hanging on for Dear Life
You don’t have to look very far to see how people’s own ...
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Worthless Religion
I always cringe when someone calls me a religious person because the ...
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The Law of Liberty
Freedom means being able to do whatever you want, whenever you want, ...
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That Something
Many people have a nagging sense that something in this life is ...
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Life Renovation
God is in the business of transforming your life … from old to new. ...
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Just One More
One of the things I’ve realised the more my hair’s greyed as the ...
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The Garbage Principle
The notion that Jesus came to save me, to save you … truly, some ...
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I Love Gadgets
It’s easy to be dazzled by all the hi-tech in our lives, ...
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A Strange Thing to Do
In a world dominated by winning, the idea that loss can be a good ...
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Walking in Newness of Life
So, did Jesus really rise from the dead, or was it all a plot, a scam ...
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Unless the Seed Falls
When I mention the word “sacrifice” – not someone else doing ...
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Low Self-Esteem
I spent much of my life worrying about what other people thought of ...
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Time to Come Out of Your Shell
When you search for God, you will find Him.
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A Fresh Start
What to do when just living life is getting you down.
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A New Start
Have you ever had the feeling that something’s not quite right?
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Be that New Person
What would you change in your life right now if you could?
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If I Could Turn Back Time
How to let go of the past so you can lay hold of the new year.
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Upside Down and Inside Out
As you and I cast our gaze forward to the year we’re about to step ...
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It’s My Way or the Highway!
Okay, so when was the last time someone criticised you. It hurts, ...
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It’s My Toy!
Looking after ourselves, taking care of our own needs, would have to ...
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Pavlov’s Dogs
Now, I’m not a betting man, but if I were, I would bet that there ...
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The Power to Change
If I were to ask you, what’s the one thing that you can do, that ...
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Resurrection Power
Many’s the time that I’ve felt powerless … powerless to do all ...
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The End of the Line
It is a staggering and frightening statistic that in just about every ...
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Separation and Divorce
Marriage isn’t always a bed of roses. We wish it was, but it’s ...
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The Change You’re Looking For
One of my favourite local cafes is actually part of a luxury car show ...
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Let’s Talk Power
There’s a reason that the self-help industry is globally worth ...
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Open Heart Surgery
Can I ask you today, when you need help with a problem, perhaps even ...
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Your New Life Awaits
Have you noticed how easy it is to just get into a routine in life, ...
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Your Own Personal Rehab Plan
You know what bugs me sometimes? It bugs me that God doesn’t deal ...
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Turn Your Life Around
Here’s an uncomfortable truth. No matter who you are or what you ...
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Your Sin is Killing You
If I were a betting man, and I’m not, but if I were, I would bet a ...
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Your Past is Irrelevant
If I told you today, that God wants to do a powerful miracle in your ...
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The Little Narcissist Within
Have you noticed how divided our society is becoming? Just in these ...
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The Serenity Prayer (2)
Sometimes in life we feel like we’re the victim. And of course, ...
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The Serenity Prayer (1)
In this disposable world in which we live, I mean think of the stuff ...
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A Radical Turnaround
So when you compare your needs and wants with the needs and wants of ...
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It’s Time to Get Off the Merry-Go-Round
Freedom, for many, is an all too illusive concept. We know we should ...