Hope
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The Freedom Paradox
Freedom is something that we all yearn for. Freedom from rules, from ...
Yesterday
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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 ...
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Avoid This Trap
There have no doubt been times in your life when you’ve been ...
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Real Hope
Power and suffering are not two words that we use all that often in ...
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When the Time is Right
Have you ever felt locked in your circumstances? It feels like a ...
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Suffering for Christ
In just a couple of days, on so-called “Good Friday”, we’ll be ...
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Access Into Grace
When was the last time you truly blew it – you fell so hard that ...
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Justified by Faith
When you’ve done the wrong thing, have you ever tried to justify ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and ...
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Back to the Good Times
When we’re struggling through difficult times, when we’re living ...
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God’s Kindness and Mercy
Life has a funny habit of taking a sharp turn from good times into ...
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Answer Without Arguing
Making fun of our political leaders has become something of a ...
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Who Will Sit on the Throne?
Eternity seems like such a long way away, doesn’t it? Why is that? ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is ...
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Run Hard
Anyone who’s ever decided to follow Jesus will know that some days ...
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In Whom or What Do You Trust?
One of the things that frankly makes me wince every time I come ...
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Compassion and Understanding
Over the years, nationalism – which at its heart is really ...
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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building ...
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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 Solid Foundation
If you’re anything like me, by now you have a bit of a plan for ...
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Embrace Your New Life Today
If you were able to join me yesterday, you’ll recall that I ...
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A Sense of Urgency
Our days on this earth – yours and mine – are numbered. We have a ...
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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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Some Things You Can Be Sure of, But…
One of the most difficult things for us to do is to step out in faith ...
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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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Your Resurrection Body (2)
I think we’re all agreed that as well as our physical bodies of ...
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Your Final Destination
There are so many cares and concerns, stresses and strains, that we ...
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An Eager Anticipation
The things going on in your life and mine today, here and now, are ...
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A Worthless Kind of Faith
Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real ...
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Time is Slipping Away
How much time do you have left to love the people around you? When ...
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The Unfulfilled Promises of God
Let me be honest. I have this secret desire for God to bless me. ...
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A Devil of a Decision
When we succumb to temptation, it’s not a nice feeling. If only we ...
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A Decaying Civilisation
Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ...
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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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Beyond Imagining
Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things ...
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Busy Bee
I used to think that the aim of life was finding happiness – until ...
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Peace and Destruction
One of the great arguments against the existence of an all-powerful, ...
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The Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, ...
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God Has a Job For You
One of the things that many people struggle with is a lack of purpose ...
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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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Looking Forward to “That Day”
Can I ask you … are you looking forward to the end of your time on ...
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Why Does God Delay?
Sometimes, adversity is an opportunity in disguise … no, let me be ...
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Praying Without Ceasing
So, the question for you today is … in your prayer time, whatever ...
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Overcoming the Wicked
There’s no shortage of wicked people in this world – none ...
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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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False Prophets, False Gods
In our desire to be successful (something that’s been drummed into ...
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A Living Hope
Today is Sunday, our day of rest – a day for some good news, very ...
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Justice in God’s Time
It’s a strange old world we live in. On the one hand, you can have ...
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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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The Tender Love of God
It’s a rough and tumble world that we live in. Criticism can be ...
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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say ...
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All is Well With My Soul (5)
Over these last couple of years, with a pandemic sweeping the globe, ...
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It is Well With My Soul (4)
All too often when disaster strikes, when we’re suffering as a ...
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It is Well With My Soul (3)
Have you ever had this terrible sense of foreboding that something ...
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It is Well With My Soul (1)
The world, life … call it what you will … has an uncanny way of ...
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It’s Time to Choose
A person without a sense of purpose in life – something at the core ...
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Creating Order from Chaos
The unpredictable things that often happen in life have a tendency to ...
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Monday Mornings
Many people struggle with “Mondayitis”. It’s this sense of ...
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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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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the ...
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A Lifeline from God
Just imagine with me today, that there are people all around you, ...
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A Place to Call Home
Do you believe in Jesus? Have you put all your eggs in one basket by ...
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A Home Forever
Safety and security are basic human needs. We crave for them, but all ...
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Culture Wars
The thing I find most frightening about 21st Century Christianity, is ...
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It’s Time to Have a Plan
Well, here we are! A happy new year to you. Of course, to a great ...
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Don’t Get Too Attached to This Life
Life on this earth is far from perfect. We have great days and good ...
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The Doubting Dutchman
Doubt is something that strikes each one of us from time to time. ...
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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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Saved from a Useless Life
One of the things that we all crave is a sense of purpose. A sense ...
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Free from the Power of Darkness
As darkness creeps across the globe, as this shroud of abject evil ...
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More and More Hope
These times in which we live are turbulent times – on a global ...
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Remember the Good Times
In the darker, more difficult patches we seem to travel through in ...
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The Lord Will Be Your Confidence
With pretty much anything in life, there are different levels of ...
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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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The Getting of Courage
Courage is … well, the strangest thing. We admire it in others, we ...