Judgement
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Eyes to See
It’s really quite striking, when you stop and think about it, how ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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When Will Evil End?
With all that’s going on around the world, many of us are asking ...
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The Punishment You Dish Out
How do you respond to people who do the wrong thing? How do you deal ...
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Does God Still Punish Us?
So let me ask you, does God still punish His children? When you do ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact ...
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The Best Revenge of All
When someone wrongs you or someone you care about, and your anger ...
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Let’s Try That One More Time
The nature of God, His very essence, who He truly is, can easily be ...
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On That Day …
Most of us consider accountability to be a good thing. We should all ...
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The End of the World
One day, all the things that we hold dear in this world – our ...
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Obeying the Law of Christ
Okay, let’s imagine that somewhere deep in your heart, you want to ...
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A Place of Grace
Do you remember when you were a teenager, how difficult those years ...
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Payback Time
Have you ever felt that God is against you, that He’s not on your ...
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Your Danger Signal
Here’s a question for you today. Do you believe in “hell”? Do ...
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Tolerance
If only everyone on this planet would think the way we do. If only ...
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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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Dining with Sinners
Question: do you make it a deliberate policy to invite bad people ...
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To Do Justice
Yesterday we read about what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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What is Good?
The world these days seems intent on blurring the line between good ...
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An Offensive Saviour
None of us likes being offended. Sometimes we take offense, because ...
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The Negative Jesus
One of the biggest criticisms of Christians today is that they’re ...
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The Modern Jesus
We’ve been thinking this week about why the basic tenets and ...
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Justice in God’s Time
It’s a strange old world we live in. On the one hand, you can have ...
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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many ...
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What Suzy Says of Sally
We read earlier this week about judgementalism, and I just want to ...
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Stop Blaming the Devil
Over the years, I’ve had a good many people tell me that they’re ...
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The Fruit of Your Salvation
Faith in Jesus, salvation in Christ, is not a one-time tick in the ...
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The Death Equation
Death is an absolute certainty in this world. I know that’s a ...
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Persecution is Coming
Let’s be honest … in this day and age, the temptation to forsake ...
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Free, Full, Final, Forever, Forgiveness
No doubt you, like me, hate it when you stuff up; when you fail God, ...
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Are You Treating People Fairly?
When it comes to this idea of justice, all too often we’re tempted ...
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Dealing with Envy
Let me be perfectly honest with you. I can be spiritually quite thick ...
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Painting the Wall
They say that an overnight success takes, on average, around twenty ...
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A Carpenter Called Adam
How much do you spend comparing yourself to others? How helpful is ...
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Here Comes da Judge
When we stop judging others, it brings a whole new peace into our ...
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Forgiving on the Fly
The easiest thing in the world for you and me to do is to rationalise ...
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One Day
Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try, go the lyrics of ...
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Pre-emptive Forgiveness
When someone does something to hurt you or annoy you, what’s your ...
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Wearing Multifocals
It’s wonderful being on the receiving end of mercy, but showing ...
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No Law
Sadly, many people today – most people today – will skate on ...
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The Fear of the Lord
When you hear someone talking about the fear of the Lord, what ...
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A Tale Two Puppies
How to move out of the darkness into the light.
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It’s Not an Easy Road
Family is something we just take for granted. Most of us grew up in a ...
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Don’t Kid Yourself
So right now, today, how’s your relationship with Jesus? Is it ...
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Turn Your Life Around
Here’s an uncomfortable truth. No matter who you are or what you ...
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Meet the Geek
Have you noticed these days how many great things there are on offer ...
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The Dark Cloud
I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to be martyred for ...
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Your Enemies Will Not Prosper
Enemies. Life would be so much easier without them. And yet, with ...
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When Discretion is the Better Part of Valour
Difficult people are everywhere. A day doesn’t seem to go by ...
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Body Beautiful
Can I ask you today, how do you feel about the way you look? What’s ...
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The Dangers of Insecurity
How do you cope with criticism? I mean, when someone comes up to you ...
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Forgive and Forget
I wonder, today, whether we might take a moment to prod around in ...
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Trusting God in Suffering
Suffering at the hands of injustice is pretty much as bad as it gets. ...
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Silencing the Ignorant Fools
Every now and then, you run into a Scripture verse that packs a real ...
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When You’re Falsely Accused
When was the last time that you were accused of something that you ...
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How to Grieve the Holy Spirit
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh, that’s just a small sin. ...
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Don’t be Fooled
Christianity has a funny way of getting up people’s noses, in the ...
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The Only Thing that Really Matters
Heaven, hell, eternity … all that stuff … is so other-worldly ...
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Healing Down Under
When you boil it all down, the reason that God sent us His Son, is to ...
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The Power to God
Don’t you wish you were able to deal with the sin in your life, ...
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The Hot Set of Wheels
The more money we have, the more we’re prone to spend. And at some ...
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I’m in Serious Trouble
None of us likes to feel judged. You don’t, I don’t. Judgement ...
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Snakes and Vipers
Jesus isn’t always the Saviour we expect Him to be. In fact, He ...
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Unto Us a Child is Born
The coming of Jesus into this world, wasn’t some last minute rush ...
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The Book and its Cover
Have you ever taken a look at someone you’ve just met, and decided ...
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In the Hands of an Angry God
I’m afraid. I’m afraid that so many people don’t know the God ...
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It’s the Little Things
Can I ask you bluntly, up front today, are you right now, being ...
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The Temptation to Cheat
Of all the temptations that the devil dangles under our noses, the ...
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The Wisdom that Works
At some point we all exhibit that rather ugly quality of ...
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The Root of All Evil
Here’s an awkward question. If Jesus came along and asked you to ...
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False Gods
The world is full of imposters. And it doesn’t matter how much you ...
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When Less is More
Theft is a strong word and none of us likes to think of ourselves as ...
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Wakey, Wakey
Question: When do you expect Jesus to return? When do you expect your ...
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Are You Kidding You?
Can I ask you, what bad behaviour, what bad habit of yours, is eating ...
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A Tragic Email
When a new person wanders into your church on a Sunday morning, how ...
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Calling a Spade a Spade
Conflict is something that most of us would prefer to avoid. Sure, ...
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Who Pays the Bill?
On that day when you stand before God, to give an account of your ...
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Judging a Book By its Cover
At my church we often have homeless people attend our service. Now ...
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Where Will You Spend Eternity?
When you stand before the throne of judgement on that day that will ...
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Evil: Just Refuse Delivery
Sometimes, we get to imagining that evil is inevitable. That when ...
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Learning to Say NO!
Have you ever regretted saying “yes” to someone? They asked you ...
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The Healing Charlatans
Have you ever seen those so-called “tele-evangelists” who ...
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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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Can I Trust You?
Can I ask you a question? Are you trustworthy? In other words, are ...
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Fair Weather Friends
They say that money talks. Sure it does! Wealthy people never seem to ...
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Let’s Just Blame God
Have you ever blamed God for something? You know, things are going ...
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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 #1: The Devil Doesn’t Exist
Here’s a statistic that’s going to blow you away. The respected ...
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Wicked People
To be perfectly frank, I’m pretty much at the point of giving up ...
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Leave Wickedness Behind
Wickedness is rather a strong word. I don’t think that any of us ...
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Involve God in Your Decisions
Like it or not, we have to live with the consequences of the choices ...
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Discerning Real Wisdom
Most of my life, I’ve believed that wisdom comes with age. And to ...
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Your Freedom is Not an Excuse for Sin
Whenever you hear some guy like me talking about the freedom that you ...
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Political Correctness
We think of Peter as one of the New Testament’s A-List. Yet, he ...