Intimacy with God
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Time Flies
Imagine that you’re given an hourglass where each grain of sand ...
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Let Gratitude Flood Your Heart
Things don’t need to be going all that badly in our lives for us ...
Yesterday
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A New Lease on Life
There are some people on planet Earth whom I’m certain that none ...
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A New Birth into a Living Hope
Have you ever found yourself in circumstances so desperate that you ...
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Pure and Simple
There are so many people in this day and age who want to get rid of ...
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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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In the Shelter of the Most High
Somehow, the world always seems to be teetering on the edge of ...
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Hungry for More
When you stand back and think about it, the investment we make in ...
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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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Living Your Best Life
Last year the global self-help industry – books, courses, coaching, ...
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Three Things to Look For
It’s ever so easy to become bedazzled by the success of others. ...
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Time Marches On
The constant ticking of the clock (proverbial though that may be in ...
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This is What We Pray (3)
Do you ever feel weak, run down, just … blah? And to make things ...
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This is What We Pray (2)
The difference between right and wrong, good and bad … it’s ...
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This is What We Pray (1)
It’s very rare indeed for anyone, irrespective of what they may or ...
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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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Praise the Lord!
Well, it’s Sunday, so what are your plans? Way back when, most ...
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Faithful Forever
I came across a ridiculous article in my news feed recently written ...
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Unfailing Joy
There invariably comes a time when we have to take a leap of faith. ...
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How to Change the World
If you could change the world, what would you change? Personally, ...
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God is In Your Midst
Right or wrong, people do bad things to us. Right or wrong, bad stuff ...
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A Chosen People
Imagine you could turn the clock back and undo the many mistakes that ...
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A Different Take on Passover
Down through the millennia, human history has taken many unexpected ...
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Kindness and Love
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this too, but some people are ...
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Devotion and Kindness
Kindness is one of the most powerful change agents on earth. Even the ...
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Patience and Devotion to God
With just one life to live here on this earth, a life that seems to ...
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Goodness and Knowledge
Most of us just want to do good. We want to be decent and kind. We ...
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Faith and Goodness
So let me ask you, how do you set about building a good life; one ...
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Self Assembly Not Required
These days when you buy a new piece of furniture, it typically comes ...
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A Bit of Good News
There’s precious little good news going rounds these days. A ...
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Don’t Forget to Rest
Today is the second Sunday of the year. We tend not to think of ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Teamwork – people with different perspectives, skills sets and ...
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A Good Treasure
Cardiovascular disease – essentially heart attacks and strokes – ...
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A New Focus
Well, here we are on day nine of the new year. Things are, no doubt, ...
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Absolutely Mind-Blowing
As we tread tentatively into this new year, we’re on a journey ...
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Turn Then, and Live
Living a good life inevitably involves some tough choices. Healthy ...
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But Wait, There’s More
As I step into each new year, I often wonder what lies ahead: What ...
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On Solid Ground
As we step into this new year, it’s important, wouldn’t you ...
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Lift Your Gaze to the Heavens
Here we are … the first day of the new year and from me to you, may ...
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God for All to See
For many, the whole notion of “God” can seem ephemeral. Perhaps ...
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The Power of God
Christmas Eve. It can be a confronting time if we’ll allow it to ...
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Your Friendship with God
Christmas, which is but days away, is a time for celebrating with ...
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Whose Child Are You?
How you live, how you treat others, has a lot to say – in fact, it ...
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Don’t Be Led Astray
Meeting new people, making friends, simply isn’t easy these days. ...
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Near and Far
Electric vehicles are becoming all the rage. Fine, but having ...
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Ignorant, Brutish Behaviour
Have you ever pricked a balloon with a needle? One moment it’s this ...
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Give Thanks to the Lord
To a great extent, how we experience life – what we get, what we ...
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Teach Me Your Ways
Have you ever tried navigating your way around an unfamiliar place? ...
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Be Holy
I marvel at the amazing things that elite athletes are able to ...
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Peace All Around
I wonder, what battles are you facing at the moment? A struggling ...
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The Promise of Peace
There are many things in this world that promise so much – career, ...
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Even More Grace
It seems these days that a wife leaving her husband for another or a ...
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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going ...
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Transformed by God’s Glory
I wonder, as you look back on your life, what are the things – the ...
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God’s Glory Come Nigh
There’s something about a sunny day that just lifts your spirits. ...
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Follow the Leading of the Holy Spirit
Allowing someone else to lead us, in this day and age, is for many an ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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What’s in a Name?
Do you, like me, sometimes struggle to remember a person’s name two ...
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You Can Still Win the Race
You and I will possibly never be the fastest, smartest, or most ...
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Will You Compromise?
Sometimes we’re faced with an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, you ...
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Where do You Stand?
Have you ever noticed how, when life’s toddling along well, you ...
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The Rulers Losing Their Power
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have ...
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I Love You Lord!
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. ...
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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases ...
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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something ...
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Is God Even Listening?
Have you been asked for advice and, as you were sharing your ...
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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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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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Holiness 101
Can I ask you today just to stop and think … what’s the highest ...
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Sanctification 101
Cleaning up your act, whatever act you’re needing to clean up in ...
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Have You Ever Wondered, Why …
Have you ever wondered why sometimes the joy you once had, the joy ...
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A Cleansing from Within
When you stop and think about it, we know instinctively that our ...
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Be Open to God
When we head down the wrong path, when we know that what we’ve done ...
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You Can Rely on God’s Integrity
What do you do when you find yourself in a tough spot feeling ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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The Recipe for Peace (5)
Peace is about more than dealing with the stuff that happens to you ...
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The Recipe for Peace (1)
So many things in life can rob you of your peace. But right up there ...
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In the Eye of the Storm
The stuff that life throws at us sometimes can be downright ...
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What God Won’t Bless
There are times when God feels a million miles away. And that’s ...
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Why Bother with Holiness?
Being good, doing good, can be hard going. When everyone else is ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” ...
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Your Strength Comes from God
There are times in life when no matter how hard we try, how much ...
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Don’t be Trapped
The thought of being trapped, in whatever form that may take, is a ...
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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the ...
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How to Recognise a Lie
When you think about it, our ability to recognise a particular path ...
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God is Near
It can be difficult to take God’s promises on face value – ...
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Travelling Into Fear
So, when fear strikes, how do you respond? On the one hand, the ...
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When You’re Shaking
Fear is far more common, far more widespread, far more prevalent that ...
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Waiting Differently
How much do you enjoy waiting for things to happen? Something good, ...
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Praise Him with Passion
Can I ask you, when was the last time you praised God? And when you ...
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Take Your Sabbath Rest
Welcome to Saturday, the day upon which God commanded His people to ...
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Keep Going
When we’re fed up, we want to give up. Our strength fails, our eyes ...
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Press Into God
Okay, so you’re out there slogging away, working your little heart ...
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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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Know the Unknowable
Do you ever look up at the vastness of the night sky and marvel at ...