Love
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Your Letter of Recommendation
Quick question: how wealthy are you? Because if you have the basic ...
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Love Never Fails
We have an amazing capacity, you and I, to focus on things that in ...
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Totally Amazing Grace
Grace is a rare commodity these days. The world’s system expects ...
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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, ...
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Stand Out from the Crowd
Sad to say that as I examine my own heart, I realise time and again ...
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Love Is …
I’ve never been a great fan of this crazy idea of … well, “Why ...
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The Great Works of God
Have you ever yearned to achieve something “great” for God? Have ...
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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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How Will You Know?
You always need to be wary of those who claim to have some special ...
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When You Just Know
Have you ever wondered why God, in His wisdom, chooses to say the ...
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Have Compassion
The world in which we live is highly competitive: people clamouring ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it ...
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Which Tribe do You Belong To?
Since time immemorial, humanity has divided itself into tribes – ...
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Let Your Hope be in the Lord
When you hit rock bottom – something that I’m pretty sure happens ...
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The Lord Gives You Understanding
A friend in need is a friend indeed. There’s nothing like having ...
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
Have you noticed how as you hit the odd pothole, the sharp twist, the ...
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The Riches of God
There’s something that happens to you when the glory of God fills ...
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Not by Merit, But by Mercy
Very soon we’ll be celebrating Christmas: remembering how God ...
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Long Days, Short Years
Whilst the average lifespan of the average person is on the increase ...
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Ambassadorial Wisdom
There has always been (and I suspect there will always be) a ...
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Things That Break Your Heart
Suffering is one of those conundrums in life that can easily destroy ...
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Take the Pressure Down
Have you ever wondered why there’s so much trouble in this world? ...
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Be Loving
So, how often do you judge a book by its cover? Without being too ...
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Feelings, Desires, Emotions
The opinions of other people – especially when they’re ...
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True Maturity
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when other people ...
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Protracted Singleness (2)
Today I’d like to share a profound word about those who remain ...
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Protracted Singleness (1)
Whilst most people end up married, that’s not the case for ...
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De Facto Relationships
The world being what it is, with devices which only a few years ago ...
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Separation and Divorce (3)
So, question … does God permit divorce? Touchy subject. Many ...
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Separation and Divorce (2)
As someone who has been through the pain and the tragedy of divorce, ...
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Separation and Divorce (1)
Marital infidelity and divorce, these days, seem to be considered ...
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Drifting Apart
Our families are so incredibly important in our lives. And yet so ...
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The Mistakes Women Make (2)
The nagging wife is something of an unpleasant and unwelcome ...
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The Mistakes Women Make (1)
The biggest mistake I see women making in their marriages is, once ...
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The Mistakes Men Make (1)
Honestly … a man, when it comes to his family, can be such an oaf. ...
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Imperfect People
So here’s an uncomfortable question. Who, in your family, annoys ...
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Avoid This Bad Habit
When you and I place our confidence in ourselves, in our own ...
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Hold Fast to Your Confession
In my book, there is no better job than being the bearer of good ...
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Just Then
Anyone who’s married will be able to tell you that every now and ...
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No Ministry Too Small
One of the things I like to be with you is real; open, transparent ...
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Simply Showing Up
I think I can say with a hundred percent degree of certainty that you ...
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The Gospel Cannot be Silenced
There are forces at play in this world that seek to shut down the ...
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Let’s Circle Back
When you’re travelling down a rocky road, when life is more down ...
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Thank God!
Gratitude is an attitude that has a lot of positive benefits. In ...
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A Matter of the Heart
You’ve perhaps heard it said that without faith it is impossible to ...
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What’s Most Important
Setting priorities can be difficult when you have a lot on your ...
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The Great Turnaround
There are times when all we see ahead is adversity. But it’s in ...
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It’s Really Quite Simple
People can be difficult, have you noticed? I mean, really, really ...
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Loved Unfairly
Some people just take a dislike to us in a way that seems ever so ...
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Bringing Comfort
Sometimes you can find yourself in a deep, dark hole. It’s just the ...
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Out in the Light
Invariably, whenever we have something to hide, it involves sin. Not ...
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The Reality of Your New Life
Today we’re going to dive into one of my favourite passages in the ...
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God Shows His Love for Us
Here we are … It’s Good Friday. The worst and the best day on the ...
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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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Your Tongue and Your Heart
So, a question: how do you treat people … at work, your family at ...
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But I’m a Good Person
When I first became a Christian, I used to wonder why Jesus had to ...
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Tenderness of Heart
Have you ever eaten a tough piece of meat? Meat’s allegedly good ...
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God’s Kindness and Mercy
Life has a funny habit of taking a sharp turn from good times into ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (2)
Any psychologist will tell you that, despite the whole ...
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Know the Truth, But…
The truth, as things turn out, can be a dangerous thing when used in ...
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Good Luck or Karma?
My mother used to read the horoscope in the newspaper every morning. ...
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Know Your Worth
Have you ever felt like trash; as though the world’s chewed you up, ...
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Insisting on Your Rights
In your life here and now, with all that you have going on, what are ...
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Compassion and Understanding
Over the years, nationalism – which at its heart is really ...
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How to Be a Bad Example
The thing that I’d most hate to be seen as is a hypocrite – not ...
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Love One Another
Loving people you like, that’s pretty easy – even if there are a ...
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The Compassion of a Father
So, the other night we had a good friend over for dinner. His son and ...
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How High? How Far?
Life has a habit of … I don’t know … chipping away at your ...
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Stepping Out on Solid Ground
Because we’re all human, our hearts are regularly torn between ...
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The Golden Rule of Communication
Yesterday we chatted about the absence of civility in public ...
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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob ...
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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? ...
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A Ministry of Encouragement
It’s funny how God (if we’ll let Him) can use even the most ...
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A Worthless Kind of Faith
Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real ...
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Kindness is a Sign of…
So much of what Jesus taught was deeply rooted in our ordinary, ...
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Time is Slipping Away
How much time do you have left to love the people around you? When ...
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Have a Plan
Trust in God. We all know that we should. If you’ve ever opened a ...
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That Yearning
If you believe in Jesus, then you’ve no doubt found that your ...
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When It’s Difficult to Love
From time to time, we all come across people who rub us the wrong way ...
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Righteousness and Love
The process of maturing as an individual has a lot to do with ...
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Sustained by God
Scripture is often quoted out of context. One of the most common ...
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Yearn for God
There’s a scary thing happening amongst God’s people today. It ...
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Why Are We So Disobedient?
Have you ever wondered why it is that we can be so disobedient, so ...
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Dining with Sinners
Question: do you make it a deliberate policy to invite bad people ...
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Why Christ Offends
One of the key strategies of those who oppose Christianity is to ...
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Mentoring the Young Ones
Mentorship is something of a lost art in this day and age. The idea ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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Valuing the Efforts of Others
Have you ever been trying your hardest, and yet people don’t seem ...
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A New Way of Living
Yesterday we chatted about self-interest – because all too often ...
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To Love Kindness
This week we’re unpacking what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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To Do Justice
Yesterday we read about what it means to “do good” in God’s ...
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The Modern Jesus
We’ve been thinking this week about why the basic tenets and ...
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The Power of Monogamy
In many parts of the world, marriage is becoming less and less ...
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Hatred is Verboten
When I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to use the word “hate”. ...
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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? ...