Grace
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Model Behaviour (1)
Without doubt, we live in a brutal world. We’d like to believe, for ...
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God’s Compassion for You
When it sees someone suffering, a soft heart, a tender heart, will ...
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Don’t be Invisible
So let me ask you … do you like standing out from the crowd, being ...
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God’s Guarantee
Most products these days come with some sort of guarantee … and yet ...
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The Faintest Hint of Dawn
There are two types of people in this world – larks and owls; those ...
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Saturday Guard Duty
For most of us, Saturday is a day of rest, or at the very least, a ...
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The Final Judgement
Here we are once more on this terrible day called “Good Friday.” ...
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The Plot Thickens
Assassinations … well, they’re as old as time. T’was jealousy ...
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A Personal Attack
A classic tactic when you want to undermine someone whom you ...
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What Do You Expect?
Well, as we roll into Easter week, what are you expecting, what are ...
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Don’t Weaponise Your Faith
If there is indeed a God in heaven, you’d want Him to be a God of ...
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Just Because You Can …
There seems to me to be two types of people in this world – those ...
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Don’t Fall for Cheap Grace
I hate it when someone tells me something that I don’t want to hear ...
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Undeserved, Unreserved
There are two sorts of forgiveness in this world; the sort that you ...
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A New Way of Living
These days, the idea of not hurting people’s feelings can be ...
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There Are Consequences
Most of us just want to be left alone to live our lives just the way ...
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Let the Love Flow
So much of the vitriol that swills around the arena of public debate ...
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Save Yourself
I’m a great fan of people (myself included) stepping up and taking ...
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How to Treat People
Most of us, most days, interact with quite a few people – at work, ...
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Have You Lost Your Mind?
It’s never a nice feeling being the odd one out; the one who ...
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The Hostage Negotiation
The idea of being taken hostage is one of the scariest of all things ...
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Protection and Kindness
Most men love to bless their families; their wife, their children and ...
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So Amazing
Isn’t it just the most amazing thing when someone shows you some ...
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If Only They Behaved
I tell you, there are people out there who behave so badly, without ...
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God Only Knows
Have you ever had someone tell you about things in so much detail, ...
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The Easy Way or the Hard Way
It seems to me that in dealing with the people in our lives, ...
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God is In Your Midst
Right or wrong, people do bad things to us. Right or wrong, bad stuff ...
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Your Reward for Doing Right
Doing what we know to be right sounds easy enough. But if we’re ...
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A Chosen People
Imagine you could turn the clock back and undo the many mistakes that ...
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Surviving the Passover
Today, for most of us, is just another day. But for others, it’s a ...
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A Different Take on Passover
Down through the millennia, human history has taken many unexpected ...
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The Trouble of My People
Sometimes as you look around, the world can be a very bleak place. ...
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The Alternative
Today I’d like to share a sobering message with you. It may not be ...
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A Bit of Good News
There’s precious little good news going rounds these days. A ...
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Absolutely Mind-Blowing
As we tread tentatively into this new year, we’re on a journey ...
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Power from On High
They say that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ...
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The Past has Passed
Imagine that you have to carry everything you own around with you in ...
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Make Peace with the Past
Imagine for a moment that you’re a soldier heading into battle. ...
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God for All to See
For many, the whole notion of “God” can seem ephemeral. Perhaps ...
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The Power of God’s Grace
Can I ask you … what exactly is grace? For some it’s a religious ...
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Boom!
Here we are. We’ve arrived. Boom. It’s Christmas Day. So let me ...
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Since Before Time Began
Well, Christmas is just around the corner. Are you excited? Hmm? ...
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Your Friendship with God
Christmas, which is but days away, is a time for celebrating with ...
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Amidst All Our Troubles
So, if today you were to write down all the things in your life that ...
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The Strength of Your Heart
A sure sign of maturity is when we trust less and less in ourselves. ...
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Nevertheless … Love
Without doubt, someone’s love toward us is at its finest when we ...
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The Pencil Case
We all have certain things we own, that are special, that we ...
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God’s Intent
The ability to discern someone’s intentions is incredibly ...
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There is None Like Him
So, how much do you think of your life as being the journey of a ...
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God, Are You Listening?
In a world that seems to be a cacophony of competing voices, ...
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True Christianity
Spending your life pleasing others, working your way into their ...
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The Impact of Grace
When someone shows you some sort of kindness, even just the smallest ...
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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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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going ...
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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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Changed by Grace
Every parent at some point is terrified that their child might end up ...
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Transformed by God’s Glory
I wonder, as you look back on your life, what are the things – the ...
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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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Simply Being There
Anyone who’s ever brought up children knows how important it is to ...
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Is God Even Listening?
Have you been asked for advice and, as you were sharing your ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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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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You Were Created For Victory
The idea of living a victorious life is a seductive one, but also one ...
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The Essence of Empathy
Empathy is one of the most poignant and powerful expressions of love ...
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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 Foolishness of the Cross
Can I ask you today, how smart are you? As you look back on your ...
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God is Faithful
Whilst the education system may have changed somewhat these days, the ...
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You’ve Been Given So Much
Some people absolutely love receiving gifts – they’re wired that ...
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You Have Been Blessed
Let’s be honest. There are days when things just don’t seem to be ...
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Grace and Peace to You
When you run into someone whom you haven’t seen in a while, how do ...
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Out with the Old, In with the New
I’m pretty sure we’d all agree that laws are, by and large, good. ...
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Keep Going
When we’re fed up, we want to give up. Our strength fails, our eyes ...
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Press Into God
Okay, so you’re out there slogging away, working your little heart ...
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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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The Ultimate Price
The central message of Christianity – the ‘Good News’ as it’s ...
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Know the Unknowable
Do you ever look up at the vastness of the night sky and marvel at ...
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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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Love is Never Wasted
Have you ever done someone a good turn and then been miffed when they ...
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Don’t be Offended
When others behave badly, it’s so easy for us to take offence. In ...
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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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Your Premeditated Pass to Sin
Each one of us has that one weakness, that one chink in our armour, ...
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Remember Your Reward
Impressing others can, without doubt, bring short term rewards. ...
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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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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there ...
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Love Never Fails
We have an amazing capacity, you and I, to focus on things that in ...
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Totally Amazing Grace
Grace is a rare commodity these days. The world’s system expects ...