Living in Victory
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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 ...
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An Unhealthy Detachment
At some point along the way, anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus ...
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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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Truth Without Grace
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been talking about truth – ...
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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say ...
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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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All is Well With My Soul (5)
Over these last couple of years, with a pandemic sweeping the globe, ...
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How to Live in Victory
Knowing that Jesus died and rose again to set us free from our sin ...
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Doom and Gloom Merchants
Over these past couple of years, there’s been a lot of doom and ...
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Monday Mornings
Many people struggle with “Mondayitis”. It’s this sense of ...
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Do It All for the Glory of God
So over the last couple of days we’ve been talking about the glory ...
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Laying Hold of God’s Glory
Glory is one of those words that, well, we intuitively know what it ...
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A Lifeline from God
Just imagine with me today, that there are people all around you, ...
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What Will You Do, To Win?
Can I ask you today, what sort of impact are you having in this ...
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How to Spend Your Salvation
Over these last few days, we’ve been talking about what it means to ...
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Raised from the Dead
How much, I wonder, do you think about heaven; about the eternity ...
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Your Reason to Stand Firm
Our enemy, the devil, seems to have found so many ways to attack our ...
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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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Swimming in the Sky
I’m sure that you can think back on some really scary things that ...
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Hang On For the Ride
Life sometimes seems a bit like a rollercoaster ride … up and down, ...
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Use it or Lose It
God is a God of love. There is absolutely no doubt about that – ...
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Seek Good, Find Favour
The last few days we’ve been poking around in God’s Word to ...
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The Getting of Courage
Courage is … well, the strangest thing. We admire it in others, we ...
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God as Your Guide
I don’t know how it goes for you, but what I find in life – yes, ...
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Your Qualifications
There are times when God calls us to do something that, quite ...
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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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It is Better to Trust in the Lord
We all have enemies. We wish we didn’t, but we do. There are people ...
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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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Forgetting What God Says
How often have you read something in God’s Word … say, in the ...
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Self-Delusion
So you go along to church, sing the songs, hear the sermons, enjoy ...
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It’s How You Wait that Matters
You can’t read the Bible for any length of time without coming to a ...
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The Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who ...
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Waiting to Die
What’s life all about? Is it just about getting up and doing the ...
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Don’t Give Up
Have you ever had that thing going on where you love God so much, ...
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Excellence Versus Perfectionism
Excellence is one thing, but perfectionism … that’s quite ...
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A Powerful Combination
As we saw yesterday, when you and I operate in a spirit of ...
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The Demons of Mediocrity
When we operate in a spirit of excellence, the shocking truth is that ...
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Excellence Stands Out from the Crowd
People who operate in a spirit of excellence are exceptionally rare ...
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings
None of us likes to face adversity. We just don’t. You don’t and ...
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Spoiling the Vineyard
At the end of the day, good, strong, enduring, loving, supportive ...
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Dream Big Dreams
How much do you dream about the future; what it might look like, what ...
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Three Blind Mice
Have you ever wondered to yourself, How come that person could see ...
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A Mighty Heart
I wonder … when I use words like, “poverty”, “hunger”, ...
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Give Me a Sign
It’s tempting sometimes to ask God to prove Himself, especially ...
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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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Real Life
So often, God’s blessing flows in the opposite direction to the ...
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You Are the Greatest
Have you ever felt like a misfit? Like you just don’t belong? I ...
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Sin is Never Small
Life is full of compromises. I guess that’s true, and yet there are ...
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Painting the Wall
They say that an overnight success takes, on average, around twenty ...
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Old Dog, New Tricks
When God does something new in your life how do you respond?
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I’m Not Sure
Yesterday we prayed a prayer giving our lives over to Jesus. But ...
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Struggling with God’s Promises
Sometimes God’s promises seem patently ridiculous. But then, God ...
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Win Some Lose Some
What are the little compromises in your life that are robbing you of ...
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The Joy of Overflowing
Be who God made you to be. Do what God made you to do.
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Significance or Success?
How does a young woman doing her makeup on YouTube get hundreds of ...
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Attitude
When we use our natural gifts to serve others … well, there’s ...
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Before Time Began
It’s time to ditch that nagging sense of inadequacy that all too ...
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What’s God Up To?
I don’t know if this happens to you too, but sometimes life seems ...
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Money Ain’t Everything
Money, wealth, riches … seductive, aren’t they? Secretly, we all ...
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More and More
It’s utterly astounding to me the seemingly endless variety of ...
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The Things We Take For Granted
Many people these days have an investment portfolio, saving for their ...
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The Present
Satisfaction and contentment – these are things that we all yearn ...
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His Best was yet to Come
Wilderness experiences in life come and go. That’s as it should be ...
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Lame Duck
Ahh, there are times in life when you’d rather give it all away, ...
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Delays, Delays, Delays
Can I ask you to think back to the last time your plans were delayed, ...
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A Walk on the Wild Side
People talk about daydreaming as though it’s a bad thing. But ...
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Everything or Nothing
Question: what are the things in your life that make you happy? The ...
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Splash of Colour
I’m old enough to remember black-and-white television. It’s what ...
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Ready to Die
I was having dinner recently with some old friends. They truly were ...
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A Tiny, Little Pebble
It’s funny isn’t it, how it’s invariably the little things that ...
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Wires and More Wires
Have you ever looked around at other people and thought to yourself, ...
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Hanging on for Dear Life
You don’t have to look very far to see how people’s own ...
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Worthless Religion
I always cringe when someone calls me a religious person because the ...
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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without ...
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It’s How You Wait that Matters
You can’t read the Bible for any length of time without coming to a ...
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Going with the Flow
So, what are the bits of your life that God wants to be involved in? ...
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Winning the Lottery
Priorities – they’re a funny thing. We know we should prioritise ...
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If We Had Just 60 Seconds
Heaven, hell, eternity … they all seem pretty irrelevant now. But ...
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School on Saturday
Part of growing up, I think, is owning our own mistakes. Now, when we ...
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Choking on Onion
Heaven and hell – oh, really Berni … are you on about that again? ...
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Check the Credit Card
Other than the basics – food, shelter, the bills you really have to ...
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Climbing Another Hill
There are times when we just feel exhausted. Just living life is hard ...
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Berni becomes Charlie
The notion that God can be intimately involved in our lives … well, ...
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The Chicken or the Egg?
The more you look at the universe, the more you realise that you ...
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Unwelcome Interruptions
No one likes having their plans disrupted. So how do you deal with ...
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I Love Gadgets
It’s easy to be dazzled by all the hi-tech in our lives, ...
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A Gifted Bundle of Atoms
One of the things I love to do is to hold up a mirror to people and ...
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Enjoy the Simple Things
It’s all too easy to imagine that all God’s interested in is the ...
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Light in the Dark
The idea that you can experience the love of a God whom you’ve ...
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All Roads Lead to Rome
If you were out there looking for something to believe in, something ...
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Power for the Powerless
For much of my life, I knew pretty much that I was never going to ...
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Renovator’s Delight
Have you ever wanted to wind the clock back to the good old days? ...
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The Supernatural
Do you believe in Jesus? Have you put your complete trust in Him, ...
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Boundless Riches
Have you ever found yourself praying for this or that thing that you ...