Humility
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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 ...
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The Deafening Sound of Humility
Most days, I make sure that I read the news – local, national and ...
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Oh Please!
You see some amazing things on social media … I mean, mind blowing ...
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Your Inner Core Strength
There are people in this world who will oppose you – some for the ...
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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many ...
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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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It’s Time to Choose
A person without a sense of purpose in life – something at the core ...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Being Small
We’ve all felt small and insignificant from time to time – ...
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The Burden of Wealth
This world in which we live, you and I, operates on the unwritten and ...
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Self-Improvement Wednesday
The notion that you and I can turn our own lives around, that we can ...
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From Runt to Ruler
Sometimes, it’s the seemingly most benign, most innocuous passages ...
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Do It All for the Glory of God
So over the last couple of days we’ve been talking about the glory ...
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Stop Making This About You
Some years ago I had a neighbour who drove me absolutely mad. He ...
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Where do Arguments Come From?
So, everything’s going along just fine in your world and in your ...
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The Power to Save Your Soul
To be sure, some of the things that God has to say are at the very ...
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Swimming in the Sky
I’m sure that you can think back on some really scary things that ...
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Are You Feeling Ignored?
Most of us – and I know this is going to sound judgemental, which ...
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A License to do Good
Jesus promised us that if He sets us free, then we will be, in His ...
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Praying for a Time of Testing
None of us ever wants to call bad times down on our heads, do we? ...
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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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Be Modest
If there’s one thing that the whole COVID-19 thing has taught us, ...
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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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Your Character Matters to God
As much as we don’t like to admit it, God develops our character ...
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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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Obey Your Masters
One of the most frustrating and even hurtful situations that we can ...
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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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Under God
Some people are rather good at quoting half-truths; “Resist the ...
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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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The Bitter Taste of Success
In your quiet moments when you imagine your future – as we all do ...
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He Came from Nazareth
From time to time, it’s easy to start imagining that we’re not ...
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A Loud Horn
For most of us … well, we consider that humility is a good thing, ...
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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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Being Told that You’re Wrong
Yesterday we read about God’s powerful advice for reducing conflict ...
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Your Measure of Success
That sense of self-importance that some people have is so… well… ...
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Keeping Up Appearances
Can I ask you how much of your time and energy you spend in keeping ...
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Full-on Surrender
We all want people to think well of us. We just do. But there’s a ...
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Full-on Repentance
If only … if only it were possible to have the best of both worlds. ...
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The Face of Confidence
We live in a world that values success and, up to a point, there’s ...
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The Folly of Greed
Just in my lifetime, the options we have available to us of good ...
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What Does Victory Actually Look Like?
When we’re suffering, when it just seems to go on and on and on and ...
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It’s My Way or the Highway!
Okay, so when was the last time someone criticised you. It hurts, ...
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It’s My Toy!
Looking after ourselves, taking care of our own needs, would have to ...
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Don’t Put Your Best Foot Forward
Success is one of those things that many in this day and age aspire ...
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Pride and Prejudice
We all have a sense of entitlement about certain things in our lives. ...
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Treading on Toes
More and more as you look around in society, people are becoming less ...
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A Radical Turnaround
So when you compare your needs and wants with the needs and wants of ...
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The Fourth of July
Each country around the world has its special days that it sets apart ...
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Being Humbled
Humility is a great attribute to have, but learning humility, being ...
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Bragging and Boasting
In a world where everybody seems to be trying to impress everybody ...
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Power from on High
The Holy Spirit is God. We talk about God the Father and God the Son, ...
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Bosses Be Warned
Leadership in the workplace is a great privilege and even a greater ...