Holiness
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The True Test of Character
There are times in life when, as the expression goes, we feel the ...
Today
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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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In My Opinion
Each of us has opinions about … well, lots of things. About ...
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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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Expanding Your Horizons
When you make a blunder that really should have you bearing the ...
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Tight Fisted or Open Handed?
Most of us wouldn’t consider ourselves to be wealthy. Depending on ...
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Martha or Mary
I regularly have days that are so full, so busy in doing the things I ...
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Simple Really
Back in the days of old, God’s people sacrificed animals on altars. ...
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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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An Audience of One
It’s going on thirty years since my dear old dad passed out of this ...
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It’s Really Quite Simple
People can be difficult, have you noticed? I mean, really, really ...
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Loved Unfairly
Some people just take a dislike to us in a way that seems ever so ...
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When You Do Good
We live in a world today where the things that we’ve always known ...
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Suffering with Christ
Suffering unjustly is the pits, amen? When you suffer for doing ...
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When it is Good to Suffer
Suffering is a theme that I love to return to again and again, both ...
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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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Obeying the Law of Christ
Okay, let’s imagine that somewhere deep in your heart, you want to ...
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Don’t Brag About Tomorrow
So, can I ask you, what are your plans for tomorrow, the next day … ...
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Suspending Judgement
It’s really quite staggering, you know, how often we judge other ...
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Seeing Things Differently
It amazes me how two people can look at the same issue, the same ...
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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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The Time is Now
How often in our lives have you and I put off something that we know ...
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For Our Sake
There are times in our lives when we need to step up and do something ...
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At War Inside
Fights and arguments – who needs them? Who wants them? Conflict is ...
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Devilish “Wisdom”
Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) we have a hierarchy of sin, of ...
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From the Pit not the Pedestal
That feeling of complete inadequacy before God is one that many, many ...
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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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No, Wait – It’s Real
I believe with all my heart that today God means to set you free from ...
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Christian Hypocrisy
When was the last time that someone said something to you that ...
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Your Tongue and Your Heart
So, a question: how do you treat people … at work, your family at ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and ...
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Tenderness of Heart
Have you ever eaten a tough piece of meat? Meat’s allegedly good ...
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The Oil of the Spirit
Have you ever been sunburnt? I remember as a child, a few times being ...
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Back to the Good Times
When we’re struggling through difficult times, when we’re living ...
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Don’t Grow Stale
Every relationship in our lives at some point is at risk of growing ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (4)
Monogamy is one of Christianity’s greatest contributions to the ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (1)
Have you ever picked up an old book, read it, and thought to ...
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Teach Me
There are, it would seem, two types of people in this world; those ...
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Don’t Do It Angry
So let me ask you, what causes your anger to flare up from time to ...
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If Only…
Regret is an emotion that, obviously, we wish we’d never ...
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The Greatest Miracle
Imagine that you discover a precious, solid-gold cup in a rubbish ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that ...
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Who is Your Role Model?
I don’t think there’s any one of us who doesn’t want a better ...
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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 Second Temptation
Have you ever been tempted to put God to the test? You know, you’re ...
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Don’t Wilt on the Vine
It’s funny how sin – I know, it’s not a popular word these days ...
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A Job or an Adventure?
So what is it that you do day after day? Perhaps you have a job so ...
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Leave the Past Behind
New Year’s Eve – traditionally a night of great celebration as we ...
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God’s Radical Grace
Well, here we are at the beginning of that funny little week between ...
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Finding Grace
I don’t know how it is for you, but the grace of God completely ...
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The Greatest Deception
There’s nothing to take the edge off the Good News of Jesus like ...
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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob ...
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When Christ Calls
Have you ever had the sense that God’s calling you to do something ...
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What Comes Next
So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to ...
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O Death, Where is Your Victory
This world is full of aches and pains – in our relationships, in ...
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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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Inferiority Complex
I remember when I finally became a Christian at age thirty-six, after ...
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Your Danger Signal
Here’s a question for you today. Do you believe in “hell”? Do ...
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Throwing Stones, Washing Feet
Loving people who don’t love us in return … well, it’s not ...
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That’s Life
One of the greatest battlegrounds, if I can call it that, between ...
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The Folly of Stubbornness
When was the last time you ran into someone who stubbornly refused to ...
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A Beautiful Strategy, but…
Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British ...
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Your Job and Mine
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I look at all that’s going ...
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A Decaying Civilisation
Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ...
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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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Showing Mercy
There are some intensely uncomfortable things in the Bible… truly. ...
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What’s Right and True
It can be difficult these days to discern what really is “the ...
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Righteousness and Love
The process of maturing as an individual has a lot to do with ...
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The Dividends of Shunning Evil
There are two approaches to pretty much anything in life that’s ...
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Beyond Imagining
Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things ...
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Don’t Become This Guy!
There are times when we’re absolutely convinced that we’re right. ...
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Peace and Destruction
One of the great arguments against the existence of an all-powerful, ...
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Don’t Plan for Evil
Living in a country, as I do, where pretty much every native animal ...
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Don’t Rush into Evil
Sometimes we do stupid things on the spur of the moment. Everything ...
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Bad Thoughts Ruin Lives
There are times in our lives when dark thoughts invade our ...
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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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Meanwhile…
We know, you and I, with absolute certainty that one day our time on ...
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Praying Without Ceasing
So, the question for you today is … in your prayer time, whatever ...
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Blind Fool That I Am
None of us wants to admit to ourselves (let alone to the rest of the ...
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Sidestepping Your Mistakes
Accepting correction and instruction is something that, by and large, ...
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Leaving a Lasting Impression
I’ve been in the workforce for close on half a century – ...
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A Powerful Witness
When politicians are uncertain in which direction to jump on any ...
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Blind to the Truth
Have you ever wanted something to be true so badly that you’d do ...
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No More Profanity
How often have the words that passed over your lips, the things ...
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Actions are Driven by Beliefs
I don’t know about you, but I am a master of self-delusion. So many ...
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When You Just Want to Slap Someone
Other people can be so incredibly annoying, can’t they? You’re ...
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To Love Kindness
This week we’re unpacking what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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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 Attitude of GratitudeÂ
There’s one word that will completely, radically, change your life. ...
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The Thorny Weed of Wealth
The reinvention of Jesus – who He is and what He said – has been ...
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Things We Take for Granted
One of the things we take for granted is the notion that a human life ...
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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 ...