Humility
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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 ...
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Humility
We live in a world where we’re encouraged to do our best. From a ...
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Learning to be Last
Conflict is, I guess, a fact of life. Some of it’s unavoidable, but ...
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Being an Agent for Peace
It doesn’t matter which country you visit, there’s conflict. ...
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The Power of Humility
Pride and humility, are complete opposites. And in a world where ...
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The Know-it-all
Why is it that some people become wise, and others, frankly, just ...
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No Room for God
Pride alienates us from people and from God. But we can’t live this ...
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The Silent Killer
Pride is the antithesis of love. It’s the complete opposite of ...
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Thinking About Divorce?
Marriages seem to be falling apart at an ever-increasing rate of ...
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Eagles and Turkey
It’s easy sometimes to imagine that we’re not good enough or ...
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A Smart Move
All too often, success and pride are two sides of the one coin. In ...
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The Smartest Person I Know
Why is it that some people are really smart and others aren’t? ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
One of the hardest lessons that any of us ever has to learn is ...
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
No doubt you’ve heard that Proverb: “pride comes before the ...
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Glad Submission
My dictionary tells me that the definition of the word ...
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The Marque of Maturity
Submitting to authority is only really ever a problem, when you ...
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Respect. Simple Respect
None of us likes to be treated like a doormat. None of us likes to be ...
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The Funniest Thing
I was in India recently. Now, if you’ve ever been there and mixed ...
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The Economics of Enough
I have a good friend who’s pretty well known around the world for ...
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Blessings in Humility and Meekness
There are many qualities that people aspire to in life. If I asked ...
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
If you were to be stranded on a desert island and you had a choice to ...
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Behind the Back
There’s nothing worse than someone who’s all smiles when ...
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Are You an Asset or a Liability?
A great quote came through on Twitter the other day from a Dr Tayo ...
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The Berlin Wall
The 9th of November 1989 – twenty-eight years ago today – is a ...
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I’m Annoyed
So, you’re walking through a busy shopping centre, and some young ...
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Fair Weather Friends
They say that money talks. Sure it does! Wealthy people never seem to ...
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I’m Entitled
Have you ever been wronged by someone and wanted revenge and ...
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Who Appointed You Judge?
Here in the 21st century, the church has a serious brand perception ...
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Lie #7: It’s All About You
Selfishness is a big thing these days. I mean it’s always been a ...
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Blessed are the Meek
Meekness and humility aren’t qualities you hear much about these ...
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Get Comfortable with Your Own Skin
So here’s the question. How comfortable are you in your own skin? ...
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Walk Humbly with God
I was at a function recently and I ran into a retired businessman, a ...
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Right Ambition
Jim Collins, is a man who, with a research team that he established, ...
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Wrong Ambition
So let me ask you, is it right to be ambitious? My dictionary tells ...