Love
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Hatred is Verboten
When I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to use the word ...
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Rub Together Until You Fit
Divorce is a subject that I come back to from time to time because ...
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Old Keys Don’t Unlock New Doors
We all have difficult relationships, don’t we? Some seem to fester ...
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God In Your Old Age
One of the things that I find so intriguing is how God can take ...
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The Hatred of Sin
When it comes to … you know, those sinners out there … perhaps ...
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Walking Brave
Thank God that we’re not all preachers. Can you just imagine? ...
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How to Get Noticed
The more social media’s taken hold of our world, the easier it’s ...
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Don’t Get Carried Away
It’s easy to come to the conclusion that being a Christian, ...
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The Faithful Love of God
So, at what point did we come to the conclusion that it’s all up to ...
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The Happy Warrior
So, another question for you today. When you speak up in defence of ...
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Count Your Blessings
There’s no doubt that together we’ve all been through some really ...
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Truth Without Grace
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been talking about truth – ...
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A Mother’s Teaching
The things that our parents taught us tend to remain with us for the ...
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The Tender Love of God
It’s a rough and tumble world that we live in. Criticism can be ...
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For Your Own Good
I look back on some of the times in my life, some of the things that ...
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Keep Your Emotions in Check
We’ve been reading the last couple of days about our emotions ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
Everyone you know, no matter how much they love you, will at some ...
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Treating Burnout
With all that’s been happening in the world over these last couple ...
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Asking the Wrong Question
Too many so-called Christians are asking the wrong question. Instead ...
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When Feelings Aren’t Enough
One of the most powerful truths of the Bible is that “love” ...
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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the ...
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Powerful Kindness
There are few things in this world that are at the same time simpler, ...
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Remember This
When was the last time you gave something out of love, yet it made ...
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Even More Glory
The glory of God is something that fills the heavens. Look around – ...
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Loving Difficult People
We all need to be loved. You do, I do, the people around us do and ...
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A Marriage is What You Make It
Couples seem to be divorcing these days at an ever-increasing rate. ...
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Lord Fill Us With Your Love
Life has its ups and downs, its twists and turns. Some people set out ...
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The Kindness of God
Why? Why did God choose you? How come He opened His heart to you, to ...
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Expand Your Heart
Over the last few days, we’ve been chatting about the willingness ...
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Do You Have Your Presents Ready to Go?
When you think about it, the tradition of putting presents under the ...
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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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God Loves a Sinful World
Why did Jesus come to this earth? Why is it that in a week or so ...
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Don’t Be Surprised
The Holy Spirit is given to those who believe in Jesus to give us the ...
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The Steadfast Love of the Lord
There is a pandemic unfolding amongst God’s people, well, not just ...
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Your Love Must be Real
When you think about it, there’s a lot of shallow love going round ...
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The Heavens Shall Declare
One of the great tragedies playing itself out here in the 21st ...
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How to be Faithful to God
So, what’s your favourite trinket or bauble that the world dangles ...
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Up Close and Personal
Today … something different. I’d like to get up close and ...
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It’s Really Not that Complicated
These days, the line between right and wrong seems to be becoming ...
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Seek Good and Not Evil
In a world shrouded in evil – and make no mistake, that’s ...
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God’s Comfort
Let me ask you something: What burdens are you carrying around on ...
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The Desires of Your Heart
Right now, right in this moment, perhaps you’re going through some ...
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Just Being There is What Counts
When someone else is hurting, a natural tendency (especially, let me ...
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When Someone Else is Suffering
How do you respond when someone else is suffering? It’s not easy, ...
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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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Free, Full, Final, Forever, Forgiveness
No doubt you, like me, hate it when you stuff up; when you fail God, ...
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The Age of Self
The behaviour of people these days seems to be getting worse and ...
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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Filling an Empty Life
The sense of emptiness that we sometimes feel – that sense that ...
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Impacted by Negativity
The negativity of other people has a habit of dragging us down with ...
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Claustrophobia
Have you ever felt locked into a situation or a set of circumstances ...
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Leaning Into Adversity
There are times in life when people, circumstances, storms and even ...
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Humility: The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Yesterday, we explored the difference between perfectionism and ...
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Excellence Versus Perfectionism
Excellence is one thing, but perfectionism … that’s quite ...
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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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The Spring that Never Runs Dry
How often have you been in a situation and prayed, “Lord, get me ...
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Waiting Patiently
I have to be honest with you … waiting isn’t one of my strong ...
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God’s Encouragement
None of us likes it when the going gets tough … we just don’t. ...
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Onwards and Upward
When we make a mistake (and seriously, who doesn’t?!) we have two ...
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The Power of the Past
For many people, the past holds such an incredible power over them ...
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Making Excuses for Mediocrity
When you encounter a bad person in your life … come on, that ...
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God’s Best
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We all realise it’s a good idea, but ...
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A Helping Hand
It’s funny how we have a habit of treading the same path day after ...
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Biting Your Lip
When someone does or says something that annoys you, how do you ...
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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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The Power to Change
I think that sometimes when it comes to our expectations of what ...
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The Suffering God
When you and I find ourselves in a time of suffering – especially ...
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The Sin of Sodom
Most of us last night slept in a soft, warm bed with a roof over our ...
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A Memorial Before God
It’s sad that nations have to raise up and maintain military forces ...
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A Mighty Heart
I wonder … when I use words like, “poverty”, “hunger”, ...
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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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Milk and Honey
There are so many good things – great things – out there for you ...
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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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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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Loving People
Have you ever prayed, “Lord, show me someone whom I can help”? ...
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Investing in People
I want you to think of the one person on planet Earth that frustrates ...
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The Good Shepherd
Question: did Jesus come to this earth for you? Or do you perhaps ...
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Motherhood
Most of us take our mothers for granted. They’ve always been in our ...
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To Forgive
Of all the people on this planet, who is the one person who has hurt ...
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Looking After Number One
“Yeah, sure, I believe in Jesus,” we think to ourselves as we ...
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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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More than Enough
Have you ever felt as though enough is never enough? What if I told ...
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Kingdom Currency
It turns out that the things that we tend to value most, and the ...
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My Redeemer Lives
When it feels as though everything around you is collapsing, when ...
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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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On Whose Terms?
The desire to reshape God into an image that’s much easier for us ...
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Jairus and The Woman
Let me ask you … what are you worth to God? In your mind, how much ...
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Religion and Jesus
Have you ever felt in your faith-walk – whatever that looks like ...
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Promises, Promises
One of the biggest things that stops us from powering on with Jesus, ...
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Walking Round the Track
I’ll be honest with you. For the first thirty-six years of my life, ...
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Dealing with Menopause
Anyone who has ever been married knows that on their wedding day they ...
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He Never, Ever Gives Up
Life doesn’t always go the way we’d planned. If only that ...
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The Empty Tomb (Easter Sunday)
Question: Did Jesus actually rise again from the dead, or is that ...
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I Ache for You
How can a dead Jesus, in a dark tomb two thousand something years ...
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Easter Cocktail
There are some pretty bizarre celebrations out there in society. We ...
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What an Odd Family
The idea of family is an interesting one. You hear Christians say ...
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Greener Pastures
We often think of marriage as an institution and yet when you get ...