Living in Victory
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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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Transformed by God’s Glory
I wonder, as you look back on your life, what are the things – the ...
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The Fear of Disapproval
Swimming against the tide, adopting a stance, say, that your friends, ...
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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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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases ...
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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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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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You Were Created For Victory
The idea of living a victorious life is a seductive one, but also one ...
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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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When Will Evil End?
With all that’s going on around the world, many of us are asking ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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Dying To Christ Daily
If we’re going to be completely honest with ourselves, a good many ...
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Unrealistic Expectations
So, what are you hoping for in your immediate future? Doubtless some ...
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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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Examine God’s Word
Have you ever wondered why you’re struggling with the things ...
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Be Careful How You Live
We all have but one life to live on this earth, and time’s slipping ...
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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Run the Race
There are times in each of our lives when we feel like tossing in the ...
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The World’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme
A man by the name of Bernie Madoff, a former Chairman of the Nasdaq ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down ...
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Completely Defeated, And Yet …
Easter Saturday … what do we do with that? It’s kind of a nothing ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact ...
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The Riches of His Glory
In a world that’s becoming increasingly affluent, it’s getting ...
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Satisfaction for Your Soul
Contentment. Satisfaction. Fulfillment. Those three words speak of ...
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Expect Great Things
I wonder whether when we pray, we don’t sometimes go to God with ...
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Imagine a World Without Love
Imagine with me if you can, a world without love. Terrible isn’t ...
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Underwrite Your Success
Today we’re going to chat about success: Your success in the ...
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Don’t Please Yourself
In this age of entitlement you see so many people insisting on their ...
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Which Tribe do You Belong To?
Since time immemorial, humanity has divided itself into tribes – ...
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The Three Stages of Life
The irony of possessions is that they can very easily end up ...
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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh ...
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Waiting for a Breakthrough
Waiting on God for a breakthrough, in whatever area of your life in ...
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Cast Off Your Foolishness
None of us likes to think of ourselves as being foolish, and yet ...
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Live Out Your Faith
Here’s an awkward question: If you’re someone who believes in ...
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Grown-Up Thinking
The longer you exert yourself to do anything worthwhile in life, the ...
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The Price of Your Fresh Start
Whenever we stop to reflect on the sacrifices that others have made ...
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Refusing to be Ordinary
It’s a big step – a huge one, in fact – to believe in Jesus. To ...
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Live a Full Life
There’s a world of difference between a full life and an empty ...
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Changing Values
Anyone who believes in Jesus in this day and age is under enormous ...
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Living Faith
Elite athletes are amazing. Whether they play a team sport or compete ...
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The Fear of Death
Most of us have rather an uncomfortable relationship with the idea of ...
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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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Yearning to be Transformed
Pretty much everyone wants a better life – whatever that happens to ...
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All for Jesus
No matter who you are, where you live. or what your circumstances may ...
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Shout it From the Mountaintop
I try to imagine sometimes, what it must have been like for people ...
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Living in Victory
In an era when social, political and religious opinions are becoming ...
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Suffering with Christ
Suffering unjustly is the pits, amen? When you suffer for doing ...
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Share It!
It seems to be so difficult these days to speak with others of ...
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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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Wisdom from Above
Most of us, in an honest moment, would admit that we’re not as wise ...
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Take a Stand
As we saw earlier this week, Jesus said that out of the overflow of ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (6)
There are times in our lives when our circumstances are far from ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how ...
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More and More Like Jesus
So how do you turn a truth – even a biblical truth – into a lie? ...
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Don’t Kid Yourself
There’s a risk (rather a large one actually) that the more we grow ...
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Take a Stand
So, might I ask you today, what is it that’s chipping away at your ...
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Who Will Sit on the Throne?
Eternity seems like such a long way away, doesn’t it? Why is that? ...
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Run Hard
Anyone who’s ever decided to follow Jesus will know that some days ...
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Getting Your Life Back on Track
So, at what point does God lose patience with you? At what point does ...
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God Will Never Leave You Short
One of the things that we all should be thinking about at this time ...
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He’s Still Looking for Disciples
What sort of a year are you looking forward to? Is it going to be the ...
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Leave the Past Behind
New Year’s Eve – traditionally a night of great celebration as we ...
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Announcing Grace
When someone does something for you that you don’t deserve – I ...
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Be Prepared to Zip Your Lip
Family gatherings like Christmas can be a great blessing. Catching up ...
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Spreading Your Investments
All the things in this world that we take for granted – whilst ...
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O Death, Where is Your Victory
This world is full of aches and pains – in our relationships, in ...
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Your Resurrection Body (2)
I think we’re all agreed that as well as our physical bodies of ...
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Inferiority Complex
I remember when I finally became a Christian at age thirty-six, after ...
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The Whole Point of Victory
We all love that word “victory”. It’s about winning – ...
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That’s Life
One of the greatest battlegrounds, if I can call it that, between ...
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A Beautiful Strategy, but…
Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British ...
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Your Job and Mine
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I look at all that’s going ...
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Tolerance
If only everyone on this planet would think the way we do. If only ...
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Keep Going
Sin is a fact of life. I know that’s not such a popular concept in ...
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Seeing Clearly
Insults are a fact of life. And when we’re the one on the receiving ...
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The Big Squeeze
Just at the moment, many of those who believe in Jesus are feeling ...
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Busy Bee
I used to think that the aim of life was finding happiness – until ...
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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
I’ve never been a particularly gifted sportsman, but I do enjoy ...
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The Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, ...
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God Has a Job For You
One of the things that many people struggle with is a lack of purpose ...
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Dining with Sinners
Question: do you make it a deliberate policy to invite bad people ...
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Meanwhile…
We know, you and I, with absolute certainty that one day our time on ...
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Why Does God Delay?
Sometimes, adversity is an opportunity in disguise … no, let me be ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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Leaving a Lasting Impression
I’ve been in the workforce for close on half a century – ...
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A New Way of Living
Yesterday we chatted about self-interest – because all too often ...
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A Powerful Witness
When politicians are uncertain in which direction to jump on any ...
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Actions are Driven by Beliefs
I don’t know about you, but I am a master of self-delusion. So many ...
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The Outcome of Self-Worship
Yesterday we explored the not unreasonable assertion that ...
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To Do Justice
Yesterday we read about what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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An Attitude of Gratitude
There’s one word that will completely, radically, change your life. ...
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A Living Hope
Today is Sunday, our day of rest – a day for some good news, very ...
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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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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of ...
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The Happy Warrior
So, another question for you today. When you speak up in defence of ...
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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many ...