FRESH Archive
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The Blessing of Obedience
As any parent will tell you, obedience has its rewards. A rebellious ...
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God as Your Guide
I don’t know how it goes for you, but what I find in life – yes, ...
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True Peace
Peace is something that we all want in our lives: A life free from ...
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What’s Your Retirement Plan?
So, just quietly … let me ask you, what do you have planned for the ...
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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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Persecution is Coming
Let’s be honest … in this day and age, the temptation to forsake ...
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Having an Impact
A man or a woman of true character is a man or a woman of real ...
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Increasing Measure
The strength of steel comes from the fact that it’s been forged in ...
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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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A New Day from Heaven
With all the ups and downs we’ve been through over these past ...
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Your Qualifications
There are times when God calls us to do something that, quite ...
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The Desires of Your Heart
Right now, right in this moment, perhaps you’re going through some ...
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Help!
For each one of us there are times in life – situations, ...
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The Peace of God
When you’re carrying a heavy burden, the best thing you can ...
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A Prayer Through Tears
When you’re completely at the end of your tether, where do you go? ...
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Just Being There is What Counts
When someone else is hurting, a natural tendency (especially, let me ...
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People Can Be So Horrible
There are some truly nasty people in this world; people who’ll take ...
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When Someone Else is Suffering
How do you respond when someone else is suffering? It’s not easy, ...
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When God Withholds His Blessing
God is a God of blessing, amen? Absolutely. We can all chime in with ...
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Kingdom Success
“If only the whole world would revolve around me.” Isn’t that, ...
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How Great is the Father’s Love
In my neck of the woods, today is Father’s Day. If that’s not the ...
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Free, Full, Final, Forever, Forgiveness
No doubt you, like me, hate it when you stuff up; when you fail God, ...
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It is Better to Trust in the Lord
We all have enemies. We wish we didn’t, but we do. There are people ...
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God is Still at Work
Whenever you set off on a journey – you know, one of those good ...
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Conquering Fear
The most difficult time, I think, to cope with fear is when the thing ...
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Adrenaline Filled Moments
There are many things that happen in our lives that we find ...
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Blessed Assurance
There have been many times in my walk with Jesus when I’ve become ...
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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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Things Money Can’t Buy
It’s so easy, isn’t it – whether you’re rich or poor – to ...
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Will We Never Learn?
I never cease to be amazed by my own propensity to be spiritually ...
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Do you know what I find really, really scary? It’s the people who ...
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The Age of Self
The behaviour of people these days seems to be getting worse and ...
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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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The Law of Liberty
Freedom means being able to do whatever you want, whenever you want, ...
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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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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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God is Your Refuge
There are times in life when we need a refuge, a sanctuary, a safe ...
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Are You Wilting?
It’s a sad thing to see a beautiful pot plant wilting, drooping, ...
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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 Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who ...
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Waiting to Die
What’s life all about? Is it just about getting up and doing the ...
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Your Measure of Success
That sense of self-importance that some people have is so… well… ...
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Filling an Empty Life
The sense of emptiness that we sometimes feel – that sense that ...
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Impacted by Negativity
The negativity of other people has a habit of dragging us down with ...
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Claustrophobia
Have you ever felt locked into a situation or a set of circumstances ...
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Where is Your Reward?
Without a doubt, it’s nice to receive a pat on the back for a job ...
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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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Leaning Into Adversity
There are times in life when people, circumstances, storms and even ...
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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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Humility: The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Yesterday, we explored the difference between perfectionism and ...
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Excellence Versus Perfectionism
Excellence is one thing, but perfectionism … that’s quite ...
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A Powerful Combination
As we saw yesterday, when you and I operate in a spirit of ...
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The Demons of Mediocrity
When we operate in a spirit of excellence, the shocking truth is that ...
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Excellence Stands Out from the Crowd
People who operate in a spirit of excellence are exceptionally rare ...
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Son, There Are No Shortcuts
Excellence: The more commoditised the world becomes, the more choices ...
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Taking Risks
One of the incredibly inconvenient things about God is that His ways ...
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Under God
Some people are rather good at quoting half-truths; “Resist the ...
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Bitter or Better?
Sometimes what this world throws at us can hurt us like a deep wound. ...
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Learning to Fail Forward
I don’t think any of us wake up in the morning and set out to get ...
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Permission to Fail
Failure is a fact of life. We all fail at things on a regular basis ...
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Not in Your Own Strength, But …
I’ve heard people say that God never asks you to do something that ...
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Are You Treating People Fairly?
When it comes to this idea of justice, all too often we’re tempted ...
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The Things Money Can’t Buy
There are so many fun, amazing things for us to spend our money on ...
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Selfie-Culture
If you’d used this ubiquitous term “the selfie” back when I was ...
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A Victim Mentality Will Destroy You
Identity politics is something that seems to be taking the world by ...
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The Spring that Never Runs Dry
How often have you been in a situation and prayed, “Lord, get me ...
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Waiting Patiently
I have to be honest with you … waiting isn’t one of my strong ...
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Stepping into the Unknown
When we’re faced with adversity, we often don’t feel all that ...
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings
None of us likes to face adversity. We just don’t. You don’t and ...
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Don’t Stop Dreaming
It’s a cruel fact of life that the burdens and responsibilities ...
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Don’t Brag
There’s no doubt that we’d all like to be liked. There’s no ...
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
One of the things that disturbs me greatly amongst God’s people is ...
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A Tough Choice
The place where our faith is truly tested is when we’re on the ...
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God’s Encouragement
None of us likes it when the going gets tough … we just don’t. ...
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No Pain No Gain
When you’re going tough times, it’s very easy to lose sight of ...
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger
The idea that the Bible is a stuffy old religious book that belongs ...
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Independence Day
Okay, so it’s the 4th of July. No matter where you live, you’d ...
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Dealing with Envy
Let me be perfectly honest with you. I can be spiritually quite thick ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
I’m sure there have been people in your life over the years who ...
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Great Expectations
Do you know what I hate? Do you know what I really hate? It’s when ...
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Onwards and Upward
When we make a mistake (and seriously, who doesn’t?!) we have two ...
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The Power of the Past
For many people, the past holds such an incredible power over them ...
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The Seasons of Life
Whether we like it or not, whether we would have planned it this way ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
Different people can look at the same thing and see it completely ...
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A Fast Mind
I think we Christians can sometimes over-spiritualise things. We’re ...
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To Fast or Not to Fast
For many people, their weight is a touchy subject. If you’re one of ...
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Making Excuses for Mediocrity
When you encounter a bad person in your life … come on, that ...
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Am I a Christian?
Faith is an interesting notion. We’re told that we gain a ...
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God’s Best
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We all realise it’s a good idea, but ...
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A Helping Hand
It’s funny how we have a habit of treading the same path day after ...
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Biting Your Lip
When someone does or says something that annoys you, how do you ...
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Spoiling the Vineyard
At the end of the day, good, strong, enduring, loving, supportive ...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...