God’s Sovereignty
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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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Having a Curious Mind
Have you ever felt that you’re living life in a rut? You know what ...
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Shopping Cart Theory
I think most of us have many times had to decide – Will I return ...
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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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Protracted Singleness (1)
Whilst most people end up married, that’s not the case for ...
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God’s Grand Design
We tend to take our families for granted. Most of us grew up in a ...
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What Kingdom Really Means
Christians talk a lot about the “kingdom of God”; it rolls so ...
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Your Passion, Your Calling
I wonder if you’ve ever thought of yourself as being in the fruit ...
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Thank God!
Gratitude is an attitude that has a lot of positive benefits. In ...
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Completely Unshakeable
The brutal onslaught of this world against the faith of Christians ...
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Guilt and Anxiety
Guilt over the mistakes you’ve made in the past and anxiety over ...
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Promises Underwritten
So here’s a question for you: Can you trust the promises of God? I ...
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Pleasing God
The secret hope that each of us harbours is that if we follow Jesus, ...
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Removing Sin’s Stain
When you do something that you know is wrong, the reality of that sin ...
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Encourage Each Other
No doubt you’ve had the experience of feeling a bit down, and then ...
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Negative Self-Talk
We all do this thing called “self-talk”. We create a narrative of ...
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Your Superpower
I was blown away recently by something a man, Des Ong, said to me. He ...
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God’s Mercy
I am utterly convinced that we can never ever spend too much thinking ...
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Know Christ, Like Christ
As a father, there have been many times over the years when I’ve ...
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Your Destiny
So did you choose God, or did He choose you? Which came first, the ...
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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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God Shows His Love for Us
Here we are … It’s Good Friday. The worst and the best day on the ...
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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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Teach Me
There are, it would seem, two types of people in this world; those ...
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Good Luck or Karma?
My mother used to read the horoscope in the newspaper every morning. ...
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The Tip of the Iceberg
Success is a word that we all like to embrace. After all, who ...
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Enjoy without Complaining
You know how it is … out of all the important things in your life ...
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Lend Without a Return
In this day and age, the deal is that when you invest in something ...
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One Soul at a Time
If you’re someone who joins me daily in this Fresh devotional ...
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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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Nothing is Too Hard for Him
You and I need reminding on a regular basis of just how big and ...
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Are You Crazy Too?
Some people I know think that I’m crazy. Perhaps they’re right. ...
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Compassion and Understanding
Over the years, nationalism – which at its heart is really ...
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Don’t Delay, Because…
One day this whole darned shootin’ match is going to come to an ...
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The Third Temptation
What is it in this world that you yearn for? What pleasures, what ...
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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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How High? How Far?
Life has a habit of … I don’t know … chipping away at your ...
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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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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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More Grace Than We Can Ever Imagine
The more time you spend looking at and thinking about the grace of ...
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He Chose You for a Reason
Do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe that He died to pay the price ...
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Thank God for Grace
Yep, it’s Christmas Eve … time to get serious about wrapping our ...
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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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Just a Little Bit of Pride
Do you know that feeling of wanting people just to think a little bit ...
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The Most Important Thing
What is the gift of eternal life worth to you? Think about it. Just ...
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Make No Mistake
We’ve all been to funerals … the loss of a loved one, a friend, a ...
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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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There is But One Way
Why is society so down on Christianity these days? What is it that ...
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Facing Storms Alone
None of us likes it when those inevitable life storms come our way, ...
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Your Place of Safety
We chatted yesterday about suffering – the privilege of suffering ...
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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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Don’t Be So Shy
By and large, pride is far from a good thing. When we’re full of ...
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Keep Going
Sin is a fact of life. I know that’s not such a popular concept in ...
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Your Protector
Personal safety is one of our highest order needs. It follows on ...
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Wise Up!
One of the things that I find intensely annoying about my parents is ...
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The Deception of Certainty and Safety
In this day and age, “biblical truth” is very much out of vogue. ...
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Sustained by God
Scripture is often quoted out of context. One of the most common ...
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Don’t Panic
Every now and then, to use a sporting analogy, life throws you a ...
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God Has a Job For You
One of the things that many people struggle with is a lack of purpose ...
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Can You Be Over-Inclusive?
Diversity and inclusion are very highly valued commodities in this ...
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Dining with Sinners
Question: do you make it a deliberate policy to invite bad people ...
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Why Does God Delay?
Sometimes, adversity is an opportunity in disguise … no, let me be ...
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Praying Without Ceasing
So, the question for you today is … in your prayer time, whatever ...
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Christ in You
It’s all too easy to believe in Jesus on the one hand, and yet to ...
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Learning Respect
Yesterday, we read about having a teachable heart; about the ...
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God’s Handiwork
Both as a society, and as individuals, we have the most amazing ...
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The Outcome of Self-Worship
Yesterday we explored the not unreasonable assertion that ...
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To Do Justice
Yesterday we read about what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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What is Good?
The world these days seems intent on blurring the line between good ...
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An Offensive Saviour
None of us likes being offended. Sometimes we take offense, because ...
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In No One Else
Why is it, as time goes on, that Christianity … that Christians … ...
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Fact Checking
Fake news is not merely a political cliché. It’s a profound ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
Do you ever get the wobbles in your faith walk? Sure, you believe … ...
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God is in Control, But …
When we’re confronted with some daunting task, something that we ...
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Reading Your Own Death Warrant
We’ve been reading this week about dealing with the difficult ...
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Your Inner Core Strength
There are people in this world who will oppose you – some for the ...
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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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The Faithful Love of God
So, at what point did we come to the conclusion that it’s all up to ...
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Saving Sinners
Yesterday we read about loving your enemy – one of the many ...
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Count Your Blessings
There’s no doubt that together we’ve all been through some really ...
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Grace Without Truth
We’ve been chatting these past few days about the truth – God’s ...
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“Opinion” versus “Truth”
One of the things I’ve noticed – and perhaps you have too – is ...
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For Your Own Good
I look back on some of the times in my life, some of the things that ...
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The Key to Peace
We each yearn for peace – for our hearts to be at rest, for the ...
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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 Risks of Overthinking
With the glut of information (and indeed, misinformation) bombarding ...
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Red Wine
Good Friday – the day when we remember that on that Cross, Jesus ...
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Bitter Herbs
This whole notion of “sin” … well, it’s not particularly ...
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Roast Lamb
So here we are in Easter week casting our minds back to that Passover ...
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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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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by ...
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Release for the Captive
One of the things that Jesus promised would happen through Him was ...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Being Small
We’ve all felt small and insignificant from time to time – ...
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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? ...
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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 Day of the Lord is Coming
There’s a great business bestseller called “The Seven Habits of ...
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Creating Order from Chaos
The unpredictable things that often happen in life have a tendency to ...
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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 ...