Holiness
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Be Careful What You Tolerate
Finger pointing, judgementalism, is endemic in society today. And, ...
Yesterday
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I Rejoice in This
There’s something quite amazing, intoxicating even, in setting out ...
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Your Body is a Temple
Today … we’re going to chat about … well, a touchy subject. ...
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In My Opinion …
Everyone seems to have an opinion about everything these days. Whilst ...
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Model Behaviour (3)
Suffering is a nasty thing, a terrible thing, a thing that we don’t ...
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Model Behaviour (2)
Do you know what I hate? I hate it when I’m made to suffer when ...
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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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Being Your Authentic Self
The mantra of this age seems to be … be your authentic self! Do ...
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Don’t Head Back to Prison
I’m fairly certain that just a single night locked up in prison ...
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Pure and Simple
There are so many people in this day and age who want to get rid 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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Three Things to Look For
It’s ever so easy to become bedazzled by the success of others. ...
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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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Patience and Devotion to God
With just one life to live here on this earth, a life that seems to ...
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A Good Treasure
Cardiovascular disease – essentially heart attacks and strokes – ...
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God for All to See
For many, the whole notion of “God” can seem ephemeral. Perhaps ...
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Whose Child Are You?
How you live, how you treat others, has a lot to say – in fact, it ...
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Don’t Be Led Astray
Meeting new people, making friends, simply isn’t easy these days. ...
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Pure Hope
“Purity” is a word that, by and large, we love. Pure gold, pure ...
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A Salutary Reminder
Good and evil – we all know the difference … or do we? It’s ...
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Be Holy
I marvel at the amazing things that elite athletes are able to ...
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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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Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Most of us want a changed life. Why? Well, none of us is perfect. We ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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Where do You Stand?
Have you ever noticed how, when life’s toddling along well, you ...
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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases ...
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Be Amazed
I don’t know how many church services you’ve sat through in your ...
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Holiness 101
Can I ask you today just to stop and think … what’s the highest ...
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Sanctification 101
Cleaning up your act, whatever act you’re needing to clean up in ...
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A Cleansing from Within
When you stop and think about it, we know instinctively that our ...
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When Will Evil End?
With all that’s going on around the world, many of us are asking ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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What God Won’t Bless
There are times when God feels a million miles away. And that’s ...
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Why Bother with Holiness?
Being good, doing good, can be hard going. When everyone else is ...
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Serve God with a Pure Heart
Have you ever had someone do something for you with a bad attitude? ...
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How to Recognise a Lie
When you think about it, our ability to recognise a particular path ...
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Bring Your Deeds Into the Light
If I were able to interview you on a radio program and ask you to ...
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Hypocrisy and Self-Delusion
Hypocrisy and self-delusion go hand in hand. To the rest of us, ...
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If Only …
Each of us has to decide many times each day whether to do good ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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Along the Path of Goodness
Time and again, studies have found that companies that experience ...
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Does God Still Punish Us?
So let me ask you, does God still punish His children? When you do ...
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Get Rid of Your Evil
It seems that the only way to stay completely away from the evil that ...
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The Lord Will Protect You
Back in the day, the idea of a king being first and foremost a ...
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Rejoice and Weep
Here’s a frightening piece of research. On average, we’ll spend ...
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Where to Find Rest
When I mention the word “rest”, what image springs to mind? ...
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Replace Trepidation with Anticipation
Allow me today to run a word by you: trepidation. Straight away, it ...
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There’s a Race to Run
So as you get ready to step into the new year, might I ask you, ...
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Not by Merit, But by Mercy
Very soon we’ll be celebrating Christmas: remembering how God ...
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Faith Above Feelings
Whenever God calls us to do something for Him, there’s a part of us ...
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Changing Values
Anyone who believes in Jesus in this day and age is under enormous ...
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I Wish …
So when was the last time that you felt, shall we say, “ethically ...
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Seeking You Out
Like it or not, we all secretly keep a ledger in our heads. And each ...
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Being Right and Being Kind
I’m sure you know how frustrating it can be when you know that you ...
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Is Your Faith Growing?
So, how do you know whether or not your faith in God is growing? Is ...
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The True Test of Character
There are times in life when, as the expression goes, we feel the ...
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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 ...