Living in Victory
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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 ...
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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.