God’s Sovereignty
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God as Your Guide
I don’t know how it goes for you, but what I find in life – yes, ...
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Having an Impact
A man or a woman of true character is a man or a woman of real ...
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The Desires of Your Heart
Right now, right in this moment, perhaps you’re going through some ...
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Conquering Fear
The most difficult time, I think, to cope with fear is when the thing ...
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Adrenaline Filled Moments
There are many things that happen in our lives that we find ...
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Blessed Assurance
There have been many times in my walk with Jesus when I’ve become ...
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Standing Up for What’s Right
What a bloomin’ mess the world seems to be in right at the moment. ...
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Are You Wilting?
It’s a sad thing to see a beautiful pot plant wilting, drooping, ...
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Waiting to Die
What’s life all about? Is it just about getting up and doing the ...
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Claustrophobia
Have you ever felt locked into a situation or a set of circumstances ...
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Where is Your Reward?
Without a doubt, it’s nice to receive a pat on the back for a job ...
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Humility: The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Yesterday, we explored the difference between perfectionism and ...
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A Powerful Combination
As we saw yesterday, when you and I operate in a spirit of ...
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The Demons of Mediocrity
When we operate in a spirit of excellence, the shocking truth is that ...
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Excellence Stands Out from the Crowd
People who operate in a spirit of excellence are exceptionally rare ...
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Son, There Are No Shortcuts
Excellence: The more commoditised the world becomes, the more choices ...
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Taking Risks
One of the incredibly inconvenient things about God is that His ways ...
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Under God
Some people are rather good at quoting half-truths; “Resist the ...
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Permission to Fail
Failure is a fact of life. We all fail at things on a regular basis ...
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Are You Treating People Fairly?
When it comes to this idea of justice, all too often we’re tempted ...
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The Things Money Can’t Buy
There are so many fun, amazing things for us to spend our money on ...
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Selfie-Culture
If you’d used this ubiquitous term “the selfie” back when I was ...
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A Victim Mentality Will Destroy You
Identity politics is something that seems to be taking the world by ...
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The Spring that Never Runs Dry
How often have you been in a situation and prayed, “Lord, get me ...
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Waiting Patiently
I have to be honest with you … waiting isn’t one of my strong ...
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings
None of us likes to face adversity. We just don’t. You don’t and ...
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Don’t Stop Dreaming
It’s a cruel fact of life that the burdens and responsibilities ...
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
One of the things that disturbs me greatly amongst God’s people is ...
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A Tough Choice
The place where our faith is truly tested is when we’re on the ...
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No Pain No Gain
When you’re going tough times, it’s very easy to lose sight of ...
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger
The idea that the Bible is a stuffy old religious book that belongs ...
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Independence Day
Okay, so it’s the 4th of July. No matter where you live, you’d ...
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Dealing with Envy
Let me be perfectly honest with you. I can be spiritually quite thick ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
I’m sure there have been people in your life over the years who ...
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Great Expectations
Do you know what I hate? Do you know what I really hate? It’s when ...
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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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The Seasons of Life
Whether we like it or not, whether we would have planned it this way ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
Different people can look at the same thing and see it completely ...
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Am I a Christian?
Faith is an interesting notion. We’re told that we gain a ...
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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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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...
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Worth Dying For
So what is it that makes you and me different – of more intrinsic ...
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God Where are You?
Possibly the worst thing – no, not possibly, actually – the worst ...
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The Power to Change
I think that sometimes when it comes to our expectations of what ...
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Why Does God Hide?
Let me ask you something. If you were God, would you kind of hide ...
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Glory, Glory, Glory
Do you ever get this feeling that … well, there must be something ...
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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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So Who Is He?
It seems that there are so many options these days when it comes to ...
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What Was He Thinking?
Have you ever found yourself praying for a breakthrough, praying for ...
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A Memorial Before God
It’s sad that nations have to raise up and maintain military forces ...
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Something’s Not Right
Complacency, surely, isn’t such a bad thing, really. But what if ...
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Milk and Honey
There are so many good things – great things – out there for you ...
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Give Me a Sign
It’s tempting sometimes to ask God to prove Himself, especially ...
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Jesus Does Things Differently
Let’s face it, we like people to be conventional, predictable. None ...
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Dreams and Schemes
We each have different priorities in life. You do. I do. And if God ...
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What’s God Like?
Fundamental to having a rich, satisfying relationship with someone is ...
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Poor Me
The more affluent we become, the more difficult it gets to separate ...
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Ever Been in a Church Where …
Church services, when you stand back from them, are kind of a strange ...
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Mission Impossible
Sometimes it can feel as though all this spiritual stuff, God stuff, ...
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Looking After Number One
“Yeah, sure, I believe in Jesus,” we think to ourselves as we ...
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The Mobile Phone
When something bad happens to us, when we’re hurting, our most ...
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Tradition, Tradition, Tradition
Have you ever thought about the things that you do to try to please ...
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The Healing Business
If someone you loved was sick – I mean really sick – would you ...
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More than Enough
Have you ever felt as though enough is never enough? What if I told ...
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Never Enough
Of all the things that you spend your hard-earned cash on, how many ...
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I Lost the Phone
Okay, we’ve all heard that sermon “You should read your Bible.” ...
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Kingdom Currency
It turns out that the things that we tend to value most, and the ...
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You Are the Greatest
Have you ever felt like a misfit? Like you just don’t belong? I ...
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No Atheists in Foxholes
When the battles of life threaten to overwhelm you, what do you do? ...
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Power Walking with Jesus
It’s an uneasy feeling indeed when Jesus calls us to do something ...
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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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The Most Important Lesson
I’ve heard people say that “God never asks you to do something ...
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Even the Smallest Thing
There’s nothing more annoying than when you have a really good plan ...
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The Final Coat
It’s one thing to say, “I believe in God, I believe in Jesus,” ...
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Voice in the Wilderness
There was a time in my life when the idea of believing in Jesus was ...
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Not Enough Power
You know how it is – you’re confronted with a problem, an ...
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Jairus and The Woman
Let me ask you … what are you worth to God? In your mind, how much ...
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Promises, Promises
One of the biggest things that stops us from powering on with Jesus, ...
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Walking Round the Track
I’ll be honest with you. For the first thirty-six years of my life, ...
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Jesus in a Box
Honestly, I think most of us would be much more comfortable with ...
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His Steadfast Love
Love is a word that we all love to use. It’s a word that we think ...
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A Light and a Lamp
When the going gets tough, often the last thing we feel like doing is ...
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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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Who Comes First?
We kid ourselves sometimes that we can have it all – that we can ...
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The Motivations of the Heart
Life just seems to bubble along, have you noticed? I have stuff that ...
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A Burning Question
Anybody who prays will know that, rightly or wrongly, we tend to ...
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Jesus Appoints the Twelve
I don’t think that any of us ever imagine that God could make a ...
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Not All Rules are Good Rules
For some reason we’ve had this idea dropped on our heads that all ...
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The Blah, Blah, Blah, Treatment
Preaching … sermons … can that really still be a thing in the ...
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The Heavens Were Torn Apart
When the going gets tough, when we’re in a place we’d rather not ...
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He Came from Nazareth
From time to time, it’s easy to start imagining that we’re not ...
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Baptise You with the Holy Spirit
Christianity isn’t a religion – it’s not a set of rules to ...
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God Does Some Odd Things
If God called you to do something that surprised you, that felt like ...
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Painting the Wall
They say that an overnight success takes, on average, around twenty ...
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A Letter from Alligator Creek
Every now and then I feel the need to get right in your face, and ...
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Taking His Time
When things aren’t going to our plan, could it be that God has a ...
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Old Dog, New Tricks
When God does something new in your life how do you respond?
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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, ...