Hope
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Pure Hope
So many people have such a bleak outlook on life. You may or may not ...
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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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That Time is Coming
Imagine with me, if you will, a world without the sun and, of course ...
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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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What the Lord Has Prepared for You
When you’re trying to live your life well … with goodness, with ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have ...
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The Power of His Word
Evil is something that we see all around us, if only we’ll look. ...
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Eternity 101
So what keeps you going through the incessant daily grind of life; ...
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Salvation 101
Every now and then, it pays to go back to basics – both to ensure ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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How Much do You Complain?
There’s nothing worse than a whinger, is there? Someone who’s ...
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Unrealistic Expectations
So, what are you hoping for in your immediate future? Doubtless some ...
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When Brokenness becomes Blessing
Do you mind if I ask you today, have you ever felt broken? Have you ...
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Don’t be Trapped
The thought of being trapped, in whatever form that may take, is a ...
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In Case There’s Any Doubt
I wonder if you’ll join me today for a stroll down memory lane – ...
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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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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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God’s Kingdom is Like …
Here’s something that many struggle with: you want to have some ...
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Your Hope of Glory
In a world where truth, more and more, is becoming a nefarious ...
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God is Near
It can be difficult to take God’s promises on face value – ...
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An Extraordinary Destiny
Have you ever considered the possibility that through all your ...
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When All is Lost
Life, it seems to me, is a tug-of-war between good and evil; between ...
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When You’re Shaking
Fear is far more common, far more widespread, far more prevalent that ...
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Waiting Differently
How much do you enjoy waiting for things to happen? Something good, ...
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Keep Praying
Do you ever feel as though the answers you need just aren’t coming, ...
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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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Good News, Bad News
Well, today there’s good news and there’s bad news. Let’s start ...
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Your Glimpse Into Eternity
Do you ever wish that you could have a glimpse into eternity? What ...
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Your World Conquering Faith
Let me throw something at you to see what you think: Any Christian ...
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Where are Your Strongholds?
When you face obstacles on your road through life, what’s your ...
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Overcoming Obstacles
I’m pretty sure that we’re all across the theory that, handled ...
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Conquering Faith
Why does God allow us to go through pain and suffering? Why are you ...
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Saving Faith
Faith is an awesome thing to have, especially when our faith is in ...
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When It’s Time to Act
When the going gets tough, emotions like fear and dismay have a nasty ...
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How to Overcome Dismay
When circumstances conspire against us to produce one of those ...
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More Than You Can Imagine
With all that’s going on in your heart and mind, with all that’s ...
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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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The World Has Enough Critics
Criticism and conflict seem to be de rigueur these days in the public ...
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Sorrow That Leads to Change
Sorrow isn’t something that we’d ever wish upon ourselves. Why ...
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God Encourages Those Who are Troubled
The word ‘affliction’ isn’t a particularly nice one. It’s ...
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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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Run the Race
There are times in each of our lives when we feel like tossing in the ...
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The Certainty of Salvation
A good many people have the key criterion – the only criterion – ...
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God’s Timing is Perfect
I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t always been that enamoured by ...
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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on ...
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Remember the Promise
Back in the days of old, the only sort of boats that existed were ...
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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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A Plan for Tomorrow
It’s funny, isn’t it, that although we know that one day we’ll ...
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Satisfaction for Your Soul
Contentment. Satisfaction. Fulfillment. Those three words speak of ...
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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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Confidence and Assurance
Don’t you just love meeting people with an air of quiet confidence, ...
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Wait for It
We used to have a saying back in my army days. “Hurry up and ...
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On to Greater Things
When troubles come your way, do you ever wonder what part God played ...
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Give the Lord a Chance
Imagine that you’re digging for diamonds. Month after month of ...
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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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Your Pain Will Turn to Joy
God has this knack of taking our greatest disasters and turning them ...
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His Promises are True
Question: can God be trusted? After all, He makes rather a lot of ...
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Don’t Worry
At this very moment, all that’s happened up to this point in your ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it ...
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Don’t Bow Down to Evil
The world, more and more it seems these days, is requiring us, ...
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Rejoice and Weep
Here’s a frightening piece of research. On average, we’ll spend ...
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The Lord is Eternal
You and I, we live most of our lives dealing with the day-to-day ...
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Let Your Hope be in the Lord
When you hit rock bottom – something that I’m pretty sure happens ...
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Where to Find Rest
When I mention the word “rest”, what image springs to mind? ...
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Will You Decide to Rest?
It’s a real paradox, a conundrum, that even if you’re managing to ...
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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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Let God Establish Your Plans
We all have hopes, dreams, plans that we tend to dust off and reflect ...
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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the ...
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The Promise of Christmas
The coming of Jesus into this world wasn’t anything like the ...
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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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The Freedom Paradox
Freedom is something that we all yearn for. Freedom from rules, from ...
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On the Other Side
Have you ever been just a bit more than moderately concerned as to ...
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I Wish …
So when was the last time that you felt, shall we say, “ethically ...
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Take the Pressure Down
Have you ever wondered why there’s so much trouble in this world? ...
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The Promise of God’s Rest
Tiredness is one of the greatest pandemics sweeping the globe. Sure, ...
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What God Has Prepared
It’s funny how in life an accumulation of the little things – the ...
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The Art of Doing Nothing
On a scale of one to ten, let me ask you, how busy is your life? Are ...
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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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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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How Hopeful Are You?
Can I just ask you to pause for a moment and take stock of how ...
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Separation and Divorce (1)
Marital infidelity and divorce, these days, seem to be considered ...
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Bring Your Habits Before the Lord
Here’s a powerful truth that should never escape us. God wants to ...
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Hold Fast to Your Confession
In my book, there is no better job than being the bearer of good ...
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Your Passion, Your Calling
I wonder if you’ve ever thought of yourself as being in the fruit ...
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Disappointment & Discouragement
I don’t know about you, but I get up out of bed each day hoping and ...
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From a Tent to a City
One of the biggest mistakes that you and I can make is to imagine ...
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The Ragged Edge of Faith
It strikes me that religion, or religiosity if I can call it that, is ...
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It’s Under Control
When our emotions are running riot – anger, fear, a sense of ...
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Your New Life Should Be …
When things aren’t ticking along quite as you’d planned, when ...
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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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Have a Drink
Have you ever woken up one day and found your faith in Christ to be ...
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Negative Self-Talk
We all do this thing called “self-talk”. We create a narrative of ...
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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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God’s Mercy
I am utterly convinced that we can never ever spend too much thinking ...