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Memorial Day
No matter what country you happen to live in, there are men and women ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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Saving Sinners
Yesterday we read about loving your enemy – one of the many ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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Both Grace and Truth
I grieve over political tribalism amongst God’s people. Not because ...
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Standing Up For Your Rights
I was taken recently … no, “taken” is entirely the wrong word! ...
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It is Well With My Soul (6)
There’s something about the hymns of old that reaches deep into our ...
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It is Well With My Soul (4)
All too often when disaster strikes, when we’re suffering as a ...
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It is Well With My Soul (3)
Have you ever had this terrible sense of foreboding that something ...
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The Risks of Overthinking
With the glut of information (and indeed, misinformation) bombarding ...
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You Can’t Be Serious
Despite all that Jesus had told His disciples about His coming ...
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All Gone Quiet
On this day every year, I close my eyes and put myself inside the ...
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Red Wine
Good Friday – the day when we remember that on that Cross, Jesus ...
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Unleavened Bread
Sometimes when communion is passed around at church – a small cup ...
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Bitter Herbs
This whole notion of “sin” … well, it’s not particularly ...
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Roast Lamb
So here we are in Easter week casting our minds back to that Passover ...
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Resurrection Power
We’ve been reading over the last few days about overcoming sin – ...
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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by ...
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Closer Than You Think
Yesterday we read about how small, how inadequate, how empty we feel ...
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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? ...
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Treating Burnout
With all that’s been happening in the world over these last couple ...
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The Day of the Lord is Coming
There’s a great business bestseller called “The Seven Habits of ...
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Asking the Wrong Question
Too many so-called Christians are asking the wrong question. Instead ...
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Let’s Go Fishing
So you believe in Jesus. Great, but what are you doing with that? ...
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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the ...
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The Power You Need
Whenever I’ve set about trying to fix something in my life that’s ...
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The Great Sovereign Remedy
Lust is a word that we don’t use all that often in modern-day ...
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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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I am the Vine
It always amazes me how much you pay for a bunch of flowers. Sure ...
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I am the Way, the Truth and the Life
One of Jesus’ disciples, poor old “Doubting Thomas” as he’s ...
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I am the Resurrection and the Life
It’s relatively easy to believe in eternal life, when you’re ...
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I am the Good Shepherd
I gave my life to Jesus as a teenager, but once I’d finished ...
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I am the Gate to Salvation
You may have heard these words before: we all like sheep have gone ...
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I am the Light of the World
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been chatting a bit about the ...
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I am the Bread of Life
Being hungry is not a lot of fun. Have you ever sat in a meeting you ...
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Even More Glory
The glory of God is something that fills the heavens. Look around – ...
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Speaking up for What’s Right
Like it or not, but when you and I take on the label of Christianity, ...
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Raised from the Dead
How much, I wonder, do you think about heaven; about the eternity ...
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How Focussed Are You?
A question for you today: why, for what purpose, has God left you on ...
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Let the Light Shine
Well, a merry Christmas to you. Wherever you are, however, you’re ...
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A Cheap Imitation of Christmas
Today, right around the world, children will be leaving a glass of ...
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The Humble King
Whilst ‘freedom’ is not a word that we generally associate with ...
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Let’s Make it Real
Christmas is just around the corner and it’s a great celebration. ...
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It’s Your Choice
Christmas is just around the corner and over this past week or so ...
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How is This Possible?
The question that always rattled around in my mind in the early days ...
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The Greatest Miracle of All
Some would have us believe that following Jesus means wall to wall ...
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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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The Unbreakable Partnership of Faith
The idea of taking a step of faith, well, that seems like a good ...
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The Deepest Recesses of Your Soul
When things go wrong in our lives, I mean badly wrong, one of our ...
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You Have an Unfair Advantage
You may have noticed that this week, we’ve had a bit of a focus on ...
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Free from the Power of Darkness
As darkness creeps across the globe, as this shroud of abject evil ...
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The Times When Darkness Rules
There’s simply no doubt that we live in a world of creeping ...
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God Won’t Let You Drift Away
Yesterday we chatted about the reality that sometimes, we can wander ...
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Which Jesus Are You Following?
Back when Jesus was walking the dusty roads of Israel, there were ...
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Don’t Forget Who You Are
I don’t know about you, but one of the things that I’ve noticed ...
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Your Power to Change the World
To some degree, we all harbour a secret desire to impact this world; ...
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Listen
If only, in those difficult moments – in those moments where we ...
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Who Has God’s Blessing?
Ahh … the blessing of God. Yep, something we all want – and ...
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The Getting of Peace
So if, as we saw yesterday, peace isn’t something that we can ...
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The Peace of Christ
These last few days we’ve been chatting about peace, because peace ...
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Growing Strong
Over and over again in the Bible, we’re told to “be strong”. ...
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The Blessing of Obedience
As any parent will tell you, obedience has its rewards. A rebellious ...
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A New Day from Heaven
With all the ups and downs we’ve been through over these past ...
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Kingdom Success
“If only the whole world would revolve around me.” Isn’t that, ...
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How Great is the Father’s Love
In my neck of the woods, today is Father’s Day. If that’s not the ...
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God is Still at Work
Whenever you set off on a journey – you know, one of those good ...
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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Worthless Religion
I always cringe when someone calls me a religious person because the ...
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The Law of Liberty
Freedom means being able to do whatever you want, whenever you want, ...
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God is Your Refuge
There are times in life when we need a refuge, a sanctuary, a safe ...
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Under God
Some people are rather good at quoting half-truths; “Resist the ...
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Bitter or Better?
Sometimes what this world throws at us can hurt us like a deep wound. ...
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Not in Your Own Strength, But …
I’ve heard people say that God never asks you to do something that ...
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Am I a Christian?
Faith is an interesting notion. We’re told that we gain a ...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...
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Worth Dying For
So what is it that makes you and me different – of more intrinsic ...
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Despite Everything
The thing that I’ve noticed down through the years is that when God ...
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Why Does God Hide?
Let me ask you something. If you were God, would you kind of hide ...
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Glory, Glory, Glory
Do you ever get this feeling that … well, there must be something ...
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A Call to Suffering
Do you know what most of us want? We want to be healthy, wealthy and ...
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The Suffering God
When you and I find ourselves in a time of suffering – especially ...
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So Who Is He?
It seems that there are so many options these days when it comes to ...
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Don’t Just Sit There
I don’t know if you’ve ever been so hungry that you’re ...
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Yellow Sticky Note
How can we, you and I, live lives that actually matter – that ...
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A Piece of Driftwood
There comes a time in every person’s life when they feel all washed ...
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God’s Business Card
One of the hardest things to do in life is to look at things from a ...
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Give Me a Sign
It’s tempting sometimes to ask God to prove Himself, especially ...
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Jesus Does Things Differently
Let’s face it, we like people to be conventional, predictable. None ...
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Dreams and Schemes
We each have different priorities in life. You do. I do. And if God ...
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What’s God Like?
Fundamental to having a rich, satisfying relationship with someone is ...
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Real Life
So often, God’s blessing flows in the opposite direction to the ...
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The Good Shepherd
Question: did Jesus come to this earth for you? Or do you perhaps ...
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The Mobile Phone
When something bad happens to us, when we’re hurting, our most ...
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The Healing Business
If someone you loved was sick – I mean really sick – would you ...
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A Stroll on the Lake
Whether we like it or not, storms blow in our lives – sometimes ...
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The God of Rest
For those who lead a hectic life, the temptation is to start thinking ...
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The Most Important Lesson
I’ve heard people say that “God never asks you to do something ...
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Voice in the Wilderness
There was a time in my life when the idea of believing in Jesus was ...
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The Common Cold
I never cease to be amazed how readily we are able to rationalise ...
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Too Clever By Half
We all know well that famous syndrome of judging a book by its cover. ...