Humility
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A Race to the Bottom
The basic paradigm of success these days seems to be that you climb ...
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In My Opinion …
Everyone seems to have an opinion about everything these days. Whilst ...
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Come to Jesus
If ever there was a time in human history when ordinary folk like you ...
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The Pain of Correction
So, a couple of questions for you today: How much do you like being ...
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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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Don’t Play Hide & Seek with God
Remember when you did something wrong as a child how you’d hide it ...
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Why Stay Foolish?
Empowerment is a word we all love. Hey, who doesn’t want to feel ...
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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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Self-Promotion in Disguise
Let’s face it, boasting is an ugly habit. It’s crass. It turns ...
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Don’t Become too Shiny
Success can be a fickle thing. Of course we all want to be successful ...
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Don’t Expect Instant Feedback
You can ask any AI tool a question and in mere seconds it’ll ...
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Reexamine Your Spending Habits
Okay, time to get in your face today (you’re welcome!). How do you ...
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Don’t be Invisible
So let me ask you … do you like standing out from the crowd, being ...
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What’s it Worth?
Question: How do you place a value on a human life? After all, right ...
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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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On the Shoulders of Giants
The older I get – and I’m not that old, really – the more I’m ...
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There’s Wisdom … and Then, There’s Wisdom
Have you ever looked at something that someone’s done and thought ...
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The Ugliness of Self-Entitlement
I don’t know about you, but for me one of the ugliest of all human ...
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If Only I Had Listened
Looking back on your life, how many times have you been given good ...
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If Only They Behaved
I tell you, there are people out there who behave so badly, without ...
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A Chosen People
Imagine you could turn the clock back and undo the many mistakes that ...
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The Promise is True
The very idea of handing their lives over to God, of choosing to live ...
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A Child of God
As we mature, hopefully, we grow in wisdom. But as you do, becoming ...
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Be Holy
I marvel at the amazing things that elite athletes are able to ...
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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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Take Stock of Your Motives
So, the last time you said or did something that on reflection just ...
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Be Careful!
Self-promotion is an ugly thing. People saying or doing things ...
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Taking Advice from a Prisoner
If someone wrote you a letter from prison with some advice for 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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When a Billionaire Dies
The world seems, by and large, to be fixated on wealth, wouldn’t ...
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Eyes to See
It’s really quite striking, when you stop and think about it, how ...
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Humbling Yourself
We’ve been chatting this week about achieving greatness – true ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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Shifting Our Priorities
Serving others is something that, on the one hand, we know we need to ...
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A Radical Rethink
A lot of the bickering that goes on in this world is about who’s ...
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Shameful Behaviour
The desire to be thought well of is a secret that many harbour in ...
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In High Demand
It’s all too easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we’re ...
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Sacrifice 101
There’s a tectonic shift going on in people’s mindsets – one ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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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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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the ...
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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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Teach Me
One of the greatest signs of humility that any of us can ever have is ...
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How You Travel Through Life
How far do you travel each day? Perhaps you commute to and from work. ...
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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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Bow Down to the Lord
Every now and then, God chooses to speak to us through some ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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Whose Fault Is It?
I’ve done some foolish things throughout my life. You too, right? ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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Are You Still Trying to Impress?
No matter how humble we think we might have become, there’s always ...
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Pride is Destructive
So, how much do you enjoy living or working with a prideful person or ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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Stop the Brinkmanship
As children, we all played a game of brinkmanship with our parents; ...
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Hate Your Sin
It’s amazing how often we cast a judgemental eye over the bad ...
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Love Is …
I’ve never been a great fan of this crazy idea of … well, “Why ...
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Don’t Please Yourself
In this age of entitlement you see so many people insisting on their ...
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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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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the ...
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What Are You Expecting?
Would you mind if I asked bluntly today … what’s going on in your ...
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The Person God Wants You to Be
Life throws a lot of stuff at you, right? Constantly, day after day ...
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Throwing Stones
Hurling stones at Christians seems these days to be par for the ...
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Exalted in Humility
It’s nice, isn’t it, when other people value you – who you are, ...
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A Helping Hand
Have you ever seen someone in desperate need and thought to yourself ...
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Be Merciful
Don’t know about you, but I believe in Jesus. So on that day of ...
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Avoid This Bad Habit
When you and I place our confidence in ourselves, in our own ...
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Weak, Stumbling, Humble Faith
A dear friend of mine, Lowell Wertz, is a 40 plus year missionary to ...
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The Worst of Motives
Sometimes, to get what you want in this world, you just have to go ...
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Working for Peace
The main reason that we find ourselves in conflict situations is that ...
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Wisdom from Above
Most of us, in an honest moment, would admit that we’re not as wise ...
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False Teaching
Here’s a crazy statistic: there are over twenty thousand Christian ...
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A Tiny Spark
As body parts go, your tongue isn’t particularly large – not like ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (5)
The Christian view of the respective roles of men and women these ...
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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 (3)
Okay, today … today we’re going for a super dose of the ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (2)
Any psychologist will tell you that, despite the whole ...
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Answer Without Arguing
Making fun of our political leaders has become something of a ...
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The Insurmountable Opportunity
Christians say some stupid things sometimes; seriously … like, ...
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More and More Like Jesus
So how do you turn a truth – even a biblical truth – into a lie? ...
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Don’t Kid Yourself
There’s a risk (rather a large one actually) that the more we grow ...
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Know Your Worth
Have you ever felt like trash; as though the world’s chewed you up, ...
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Your Future Awaits
Can I be brutally honest with you today? I don’t think that those ...
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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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Absolutely Worthless
A great part of what it means to grow up, to mature over the years, ...
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He’s Still Looking for Disciples
What sort of a year are you looking forward to? Is it going to be the ...
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A Worthless Kind of Faith
Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real ...
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Inferiority Complex
I remember when I finally became a Christian at age thirty-six, after ...
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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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Your Risk-Reward Ratio
We each have a different risk-reward ratio at play in our lives. Some ...
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The Ugliness of Self-Righteousness
Judgementalism is a cancer in society today. You only have to spend ...
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Don’t Be So Shy
By and large, pride is far from a good thing. When we’re full of ...
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Seeing Clearly
Insults are a fact of life. And when we’re the one on the receiving ...
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The Gardener’s Job
When you’re out doing good things for God, using your gifts and ...
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Leaving a Lasting Impression
I’ve been in the workforce for close on half a century – ...
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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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The World’s Fastest Growing Religion
It’s been said that the world’s fastest growing religion is … ...
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To Walk Humbly With Your God
If there’s one human attribute that seems to be missing from the ...
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Things We Take for Granted
One of the things we take for granted is the notion that a human life ...