Love
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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 ...
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His Steadfast Love
Love is a word that we all love to use. It’s a word that we think ...
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Every Part of Life
Ask anyone “So, how are things going?” and the answer, more ...
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Discover God
The idea that God can forgive us, I think, is an idea that most of us ...
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Enjoying God
I grew up in an environment of rule-based religion. To me, it felt ...
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Dinner with Jesus
The idea that I wasn’t good enough for God is what kept me from ...
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Just One More
The idea of actually having a personal one-on-one relationship with ...
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The Cart Before the Horse
In all honesty, we would like Jesus to be a nice, comfortable, ...
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Jesus, the Leper and Me
Sin is a word most people don’t like to use these days. But I will ...
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He Came from Nazareth
From time to time, it’s easy to start imagining that we’re not ...
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Baptise You with the Holy Spirit
Christianity isn’t a religion – it’s not a set of rules to ...
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The Cost of Love
Loving others can be a tough gig. Truly. But God is right here to ...
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I’m Not Sure
Yesterday we prayed a prayer giving our lives over to Jesus. But ...
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It’s Time … I Think
Question: are you saved or not? When you stand before God one day, ...
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Looking Back
If God seems to have gone missing on you, then this … this is for ...
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Is Anybody Out There?
When the pain is so bad that nothing makes a difference, God can and ...
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Long and Winding Road
When the pressure’s on, the hardest thing of all is to wait ...
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Battle After Battle
God promises us a lot – but all too often it feels like the reality ...
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Split Second Decision
If you’d been God, how would you have chosen to save you, from ...
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I Just Blew It
Nothing speaks more powerfully of who Jesus is, than when we show His ...
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Deep Foundations
A strong life requires strong foundations … nothing else will give ...
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Poor Li’l Old Me
Just when we’re thinking, “Poor li’l old me” … there’s ...
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Oh My God
Just because everybody’s doing something, doesn’t make it right.
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We Are Now One People
The way we treat those with whom we disagree shows how well we’ve ...
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The Thing To Do in Gethsemane
Jesus is calling you today, inviting you to draw closer to Him, to ...
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On That Hill
God didn’t just preach at us from heaven. He came to this earth to ...
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Why Bethlehem?
The God of infinite glory and power is also the God of infinite ...
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Thirsty Thirsty Always Thirsty
When all your rivers have run dry, when you thirst beyond words, ...
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Spiritual Blockage
Working harder at being a better person isn’t the answer – ...
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River Run Dry
When you’re putting on a brave face yet dying inside, God is right ...
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Rock Solid Love
When all else fails, the love of God for you, stands forever. ...
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Feeding the Poor
In the next two and a half minutes, around 45 children will die of ...
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The Mental Munchies
Not everything that you watch on TV or stream on your smartphone is ...
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So Much Dirt
It’s amazing what happens when we let Jesus loose in our soul. The ...
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Forgiving the Unforgivable
When your son is hit by a drunk driver and left to die on the ...
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Forgiveness is Healing
The hurts of the past will never stop hurting until we forgive those ...
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When God Forgave You
You and I were saved by grace through Jesus. Why is it then that ...
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Forgiving is Accepting
How we treat the people with whom we disagree says a lot about the ...
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Forgive and Forget
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful forces for change that the ...
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You are the Light of the World
It’s funny how even the smallest act of kindness can have an impact ...
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Your Words Have Power
The words we speak can either build people up, or tear them down. So, ...
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A Father’s Love
Given all you’ve been through in your life, how do you lay hold of ...