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Living Your Best Life
Last year the global self-help industry – books, courses, ...
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Realising Your Full Potential
I wonder… right in this moment, what do you perceive, what do you ...
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There Are Consequences
Most of us just want to be left alone to live our lives just the way ...
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The Life You Now Have
Life’s a precious thing. The value of a single human life is ...
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How Do You Respond?
So … how would you feel toward someone who made a sacrifice so ...
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Save Yourself
I’m a great fan of people (myself included) stepping up and taking ...
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God’s Kindness Towards You
Often – in fact, more often than we might expect – a simple act ...
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The Richness of Mercy
Mercy is something that, intuitively at least, we want to pull up ...
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The Doing is Done
Unforgiveness isn’t just something that you and I experience in our ...
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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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How to Treat People
Most of us, most days, interact with quite a few people – at work, ...
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Don’t Blame the System
We don’t think about it all too often, but the world – my world, ...
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Time Marches On
The constant ticking of the clock (proverbial though that may be in ...
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The Hostage Negotiation
The idea of being taken hostage is one of the scariest of all things ...
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God’s Modus Operandi (2)
Might I ask you, what’s your mission in life? What are you meant to ...
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God’s Modus Operandi (1)
There are two types of people in this world – those who talk about ...
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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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Faith is Not an Emotion
There are days when, for no apparent reason, you just wake up feeling ...
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Your Source of Strength
I heard an eminent psychologist talk recently about the power of food ...
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How to Change the World
If you could change the world, what would you change? Personally, ...
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Freedom Seldom Used
I’m sure you’ve noticed that as society becomes more polarised, ...
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The Book of Joy
Can I ask you to set aside for a moment, in all that you have going ...
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Freedom at Last
Freedom. Now there’s a word that we all love … yet it means ...
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Joyful Jesus (3)
The world makes for a fickle audience. Sometimes they’re cheering ...
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Joyful Jesus (2)
The world’s full of cheap imitations, knockoffs of expensive brands ...
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Joyful Jesus (1)
If I were to ask you, “Do you want to experience joy in your ...
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A Chosen People
Imagine you could turn the clock back and undo the many mistakes that ...
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Surviving the Passover
Today, for most of us, is just another day. But for others, it’s a ...
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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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A New Focus
Well, here we are on day nine of the new year. Things are, no doubt, ...
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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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The Past has Passed
Imagine that you have to carry everything you own around with you in ...
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It’s Time to Turn the Page
We’re getting pretty darned close to closing out this year – ...
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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’s Grace
Can I ask you … what exactly is grace? For some it’s a religious ...
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Boom!
Here we are. We’ve arrived. Boom. It’s Christmas Day. So let me ...
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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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The Rejected Creator
With Christmas almost upon us, the easiest thing to do with the whole ...
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Since Before Time Began
Well, Christmas is just around the corner. Are you excited? Hmm? ...
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Rejoice Right Now!
Well, in just a few days’ time it’ll be Christmas. My Christmas. ...
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Your Friendship with God
Christmas, which is but days away, is a time for celebrating with ...
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The Logic of Love
There’s something that has bothered me for many years. And ...
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Something to Think About
As we turn our thoughts toward Christmas there’s something that, ...
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Amidst All Our Troubles
So, if today you were to write down all the things in your life that ...
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What’s the Point?
Question: What was God thinking when He hatched this plan that these ...
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Christmas is Coming
Shocking though it is, we’re only ten days out from Christmas. Ten ...
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There is Superstition
So, here we are on Friday the 13th … a day considered in western ...
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Don’t Be Led Astray
Meeting new people, making friends, simply isn’t easy these days. ...
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Whoever Lives in Christ …
It can seem nigh on impossible sometimes to put an old head on young ...
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Pure Hope
“Purity” is a word that, by and large, we love. Pure gold, pure ...
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When Christ Comes Again
One of the truly frustrating things about life is that when you ...
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The Anchor of Hope
Hope, when you think about it, is rather an odd emotion, because ...
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Near and Far
Electric vehicles are becoming all the rage. Fine, but having ...
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Nevertheless … Love
Without doubt, someone’s love toward us is at its finest when we ...
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When Love Prevails
As movie themes go, love stories would have to be amongst the most ...
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There is None Like Him
So, how much do you think of your life as being the journey of a ...
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True Christianity
Spending your life pleasing others, working your way into their ...
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Pure Hope
So many people have such a bleak outlook on life. You may or may not ...
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Beyond Comprehension
How would you react if someone rich or powerful – royalty, a famous ...
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Follow Me
I don’t think I’d be alone in saying that there have been times ...
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A Floodtide of Blessing
Have you ever been so full of joy – the sort that remains with you, ...
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A Declaration of Peace
So many people, without even realising it, are expending so much ...
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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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The Gift that Keeps on Giving
I remember way back in my life that when those Christians started ...
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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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We All Have This Common Need
We all, from time to time, find ourselves in need of the good will of ...
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Changed by Grace
Every parent at some point is terrified that their child might end up ...
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Have You Been Cruising Through Life?
Cruising has become the vacation of choice for many. In fact, over 30 ...
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That Time is Coming
Imagine with me, if you will, a world without the sun and, of course ...
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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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How Can You Believe When …
Have you ever felt a disconnect between what you truly long for, how ...
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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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A Miraculous Metamorphosis
I’m pretty sure that you, like most of us, have things in your ...
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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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How to Travel Light
There’s a reason why successful athletes tend not to carry a lot of ...
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The Ultimate Goal of God’s Love
I’d like you, if you would, please, to picture the face of the most ...
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Forgiveness is a Lovely Idea, Until …
Can I be honest with you? I used to be … well, not a very nice ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone ...
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Where do You Stand?
Have you ever noticed how, when life’s toddling along well, you ...
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What the Lord Has Prepared for You
When you’re trying to live your life well … with goodness, with ...
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Wisdom that’s Hard to Accept
The world’s powerbrokers – national leaders, billionaires, ...
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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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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something ...
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Salt That Loses its Flavour
Salt is something that most of us use daily to add flavour to ...
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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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The Power of His Word
Evil is something that we see all around us, if only we’ll look. ...
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Be Amazed
I don’t know how many church services you’ve sat through in your ...
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Jesus Goes to Work
Setting out on a new venture is always dicey. You take that first ...
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A Time of Temptation
Whenever things press in on us – be they physical, emotional or ...
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Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Have you ever wondered what baptism is all about? It’s an odd ...