Holiness
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Help Others
I wonder, as you look back on your life, who it is that stands out ...
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Mind Your Tongue
I don’t think there’s one of us who hasn’t said things that we ...
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Fact Checking
Fake news is not merely a political cliché. It’s a profound ...
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False Prophets, False Gods
In our desire to be successful (something that’s been drummed into ...
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Own Up to Your Christianity
It’s becoming more and more difficult, not just to be a Christian, ...
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Old Keys Don’t Unlock New Doors
We all have difficult relationships, don’t we? Some seem to fester ...
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Don’t Lose the Plot
Truth, as things turn out, is a difficult thing to hold on to in ...
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How to Get Noticed
The more social media’s taken hold of our world, the easier it’s ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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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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Enjoying the Rules
From the youngest age, each one of us has been subject to rules. Our ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...
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What Suzy Says of Sally
We read earlier this week about judgementalism, and I just want to ...
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Truth Without Grace
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been talking about truth – ...
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The Church to Look Out For
I don’t know where you’re at in terms of your relationship with ...
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“Opinion” versus “Truth”
One of the things I’ve noticed – and perhaps you have too – is ...
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A Mother’s Teaching
The things that our parents taught us tend to remain with us for the ...
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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 Importance of Discernment
The one thing we’re not short of in this day and age is ...
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Keep Your Emotions in Check
We’ve been reading the last couple of days about our emotions ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
There seem to be two types of people walking planet Earth today – ...
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How to Repent
So, these last few days we’ve been reading about the vitally ...
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The Power to Be Holy
Victory over sin –especially that one sin that keeps on coming back ...
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How to Live in Victory
Knowing that Jesus died and rose again to set us free from our sin ...
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Stop Blaming the Devil
Over the years, I’ve had a good many people tell me that they’re ...
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Doom and Gloom Merchants
Over these past couple of years, there’s been a lot of doom and ...
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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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Relative Deprivation
When was the last time that you looked at what someone else had and ...
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How to be Holy
Obedience. Now there’s a double-edged sword if ever there was one. ...
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Asking the Wrong Question
Too many so-called Christians are asking the wrong question. Instead ...
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The Trap of “Group-Think”
One way to maintain harmony, is to tell people what we think they ...
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When Feelings Aren’t Enough
One of the most powerful truths of the Bible is that “love” ...
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A Change of Appetite
Believe it or not, your body has a finely tuned appestat – that ...
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Self-Improvement Wednesday
The notion that you and I can turn our own lives around, that we can ...
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Putting Sin to Death
Sadly, way too many of those who call themselves by Christ’s name ...
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From Runt to Ruler
Sometimes, it’s the seemingly most benign, most innocuous passages ...
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I am the Bread of Life
Being hungry is not a lot of fun. Have you ever sat in a meeting you ...
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Do It All for the Glory of God
So over the last couple of days we’ve been talking about the glory ...
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Don’t Tell Secrets
Have you ever noticed how tabloids love leading with headlines that ...
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Gossip Spreads Strife
One of the great conflicts I think that any Christian suffers from is ...
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Speaking up for What’s Right
Like it or not, but when you and I take on the label of Christianity, ...
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Straightening Out a Twisted Mind
Have you ever made a serious blunder along the way and afterwards, ...
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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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Seeing Things as They Really Are
These days, there are so many things that can and will chip away at ...
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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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Raised from the Dead
How much, I wonder, do you think about heaven; about the eternity ...
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Culture Wars
The thing I find most frightening about 21st Century Christianity, is ...
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Your Reason to Stand Firm
Our enemy, the devil, seems to have found so many ways to attack our ...
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Uncommon Wisdom
Can I ask you, when was the last time that you were involved with a ...
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Take a Stand
Rebelling against God quite often doesn’t start with some big ...
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The Deepest Recesses of Your Soul
When things go wrong in our lives, I mean badly wrong, one of our ...
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Are You Feeling Ignored?
Most of us – and I know this is going to sound judgemental, which ...
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Listen
If only, in those difficult moments – in those moments where we ...
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A License to do Good
Jesus promised us that if He sets us free, then we will be, in His ...
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Speaking Truth, Plain and Simple
Saying things the way they are these days is becoming increasingly ...
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Praying for a Time of Testing
None of us ever wants to call bad times down on our heads, do we? ...
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Nothing More, Nothing Less
We all know people who are full of themselves, who think they’re ...
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Before It’s Too Late…
I’m sure that you can look back on your life and see times of ...
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You Can’t Live on Fast Food
There’s no doubt that all the junk food we’re eating today is ...
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It’s Really Not that Complicated
These days, the line between right and wrong seems to be becoming ...
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Seek Good, Find Favour
The last few days we’ve been poking around in God’s Word to ...
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Responding to the Rise of Evil
Evil’s running rampant in the world. In one sense, that’s nothing ...
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Be Modest
If there’s one thing that the whole COVID-19 thing has taught us, ...
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The Blessing of Obedience
As any parent will tell you, obedience has its rewards. A rebellious ...
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True Peace
Peace is something that we all want in our lives: A life free from ...
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Do This for the Lord
If there’s one thing a pandemic will do in putting pressure on ...
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Your Character Matters to God
As much as we don’t like to admit it, God develops our character ...
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Your Qualifications
There are times when God calls us to do something that, quite ...
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Building Your Forever Home
People these days talk about their “forever home”. Young couples ...
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Sharpen Your Knife
We tend to think of sharp knives as being dangerous – and they are. ...
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The Angry Boss
It’s easy to get the impression that the Bible – the thing that ...
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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Worthless Religion
I always cringe when someone calls me a religious person because the ...
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Forgetting What God Says
How often have you read something in God’s Word … say, in the ...
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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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The Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who ...
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Whom Are You Serving, Really?
When things aren’t going all that well, when we’re facing ...
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Obey Your Masters
One of the most frustrating and even hurtful situations that we can ...
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Don’t Give Up
Have you ever had that thing going on where you love God so much, ...
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So, Heaven or Hell?
I asked for a show of hands at church the other day. Who believes ...
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Making the Connection
Often we wonder why this or that in our life isn’t working out all ...
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The Halo Effect
Holiness is a concept that, at different times in our lives, elicits ...
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Self-Delusion
So you go along to church, sing the songs, hear the sermons, enjoy ...
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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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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without ...
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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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It’s How You Wait that Matters
You can’t read the Bible for any length of time without coming to a ...
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The Halo Effect
It’s funny how often God speaks to us through simple ordinary ...
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Clean Hands and a Pure Heart
We have a system, most of us – a system that says that the little ...
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The Empty Cup
Mention the Holy Spirit, and you get all sorts of funny reactions. ...
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That Sinking Feeling
One of the biggest mistake that we can ever make in following Jesus, ...
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Say What You Mean and Mean What you Say
I can’t tell you, over the years, how many times, in business ...
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God’s Incinerator
When letting go of the bad stuff isn’t all that easy.
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Desiring God’s Ways
Discover one of the most powerful prayers that you can ever pray.
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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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Power from on High
The Holy Spirit is God. We talk about God the Father and God the Son, ...
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The Healing Power of God
On those dark days in life, those days when you’re struggling even ...
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It’s the Little Things
Can I ask you bluntly, up front today, are you right now, being ...
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Guys and Girls
These days loose living, hopping into bed with anyone you please, ...