Missional Living
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Pure Hope
So many people have such a bleak outlook on life. You may or may not ...
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Follow Me
I don’t think I’d be alone in saying that there have been times ...
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The Fear of Disapproval
Swimming against the tide, adopting a stance, say, that your friends, ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something ...
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Salt That Loses its Flavour
Salt is something that most of us use daily to add flavour to ...
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Jesus Goes to Work
Setting out on a new venture is always dicey. You take that first ...
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Eternity 101
So what keeps you going through the incessant daily grind of life; ...
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Sacrifice 101
There’s a tectonic shift going on in people’s mindsets – one ...
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Empowerment 101
Many a time we know all too well that we’re falling short – that ...
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When the Time Comes
We all have hopes and dreams. One day this … one day that … And ...
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You’ve Been Chosen
I wonder what it must be like for a sports man or woman to be chosen ...
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Becoming a Willing Servant
Perhaps you’ve heard of enzymes, but do you recall what they do? ...
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When All is Lost
Life, it seems to me, is a tug-of-war between good and evil; between ...
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Do What You Can Do
When things aren’t going quite the way you’d planned, when ...
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Teach Me
One of the greatest signs of humility that any of us can ever have is ...
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How You Travel Through Life
How far do you travel each day? Perhaps you commute to and from work. ...
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When Safety is Overrated
Aside from skydivers, mountain climbers and other assorted adrenalin ...
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Be Careful How You Live
We all have but one life to live on this earth, and time’s slipping ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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Even When You Grow Old …
One of the great tragedies playing itself out as a global pandemic ...
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Run the Race
There are times in each of our lives when we feel like tossing in the ...
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Are You Still Trying to Impress?
No matter how humble we think we might have become, there’s always ...
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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when ...
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The Very Definition of Failure
Have you ever worked hard, sacrificed much to achieve something, only ...
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Things Jesus Never Said
The meta-narrative, the overarching story that the world today wants ...
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A Reflection of Your Faith
Our faith, yours and mine, doesn’t exist in isolation from our ...
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Your Letter of Recommendation
Quick question: how wealthy are you? Because if you have the basic ...
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Don’t Hide the Cross
The reason I do what I do, the thing that gets me out of bed every ...
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An Instrument of the Lord
The rescuing hand of God is a constant theme throughout the Old ...
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The Great Works of God
Have you ever yearned to achieve something “great” for God? Have ...
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Let There be Light
Sometimes life feels like a bit of a riddle: All that stuff going on ...
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Get Rid of Your Evil
It seems that the only way to stay completely away from the evil that ...
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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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Don’t Please Yourself
In this age of entitlement you see so many people insisting on their ...
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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh ...
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Live Out Your Faith
Here’s an awkward question: If you’re someone who believes in ...
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The Price of Your Fresh Start
Whenever we stop to reflect on the sacrifices that others have made ...
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Live a Full Life
There’s a world of difference between a full life and an empty ...
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Living Faith
Elite athletes are amazing. Whether they play a team sport or compete ...
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On That Day …
Most of us consider accountability to be a good thing. We should all ...
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The True Test of Character
There are times in life when, as the expression goes, we feel the ...
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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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All for Jesus
No matter who you are, where you live. or what your circumstances may ...
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In Christ Alone
As social creatures, you and I need to develop both our independence ...
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Shout it From the Mountaintop
I try to imagine sometimes, what it must have been like for people ...
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When You Do Good
We live in a world today where the things that we’ve always known ...
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Suffering with Christ
Suffering unjustly is the pits, amen? When you suffer for doing ...
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Share It!
It seems to be so difficult these days to speak with others of ...
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Obeying the Law of Christ
Okay, let’s imagine that somewhere deep in your heart, you want to ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how ...
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Bending the Gospel
There’s a lot of pressure on any Christ-follower these days to bend ...
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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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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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Be Prepared to Zip Your Lip
Family gatherings like Christmas can be a great blessing. Catching up ...
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A Sense of Urgency
Our days on this earth – yours and mine – are numbered. We have a ...
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Spreading Your Investments
All the things in this world that we take for granted – whilst ...
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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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Inferiority Complex
I remember when I finally became a Christian at age thirty-six, after ...
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That’s Life
One of the greatest battlegrounds, if I can call it that, between ...
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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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Beyond Imagining
Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things ...
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Busy Bee
I used to think that the aim of life was finding happiness – until ...
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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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Meanwhile…
We know, you and I, with absolute certainty that one day our time on ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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A New Way of Living
Yesterday we chatted about self-interest – because all too often ...
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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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Satan in the End Times
Each and every day, as I read the news, as I see how people behave ...
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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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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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Old Keys Don’t Unlock New Doors
We all have difficult relationships, don’t we? Some seem to fester ...
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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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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...
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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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Doom and Gloom Merchants
Over these past couple of years, there’s been a lot of doom and ...
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How to be Holy
Obedience. Now there’s a double-edged sword if ever there was one. ...
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Every Sinner Has a Future
It was October 15, 1995, that I walked through the doors of a church ...
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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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The Fruit of Your Salvation
Faith in Jesus, salvation in Christ, is not a one-time tick in the ...
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Raised from the Dead
How much, I wonder, do you think about heaven; about the eternity ...
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How Focussed Are You?
A question for you today: why, for what purpose, has God left you on ...
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Expand Your Heart
Over the last few days, we’ve been chatting about the willingness ...
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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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Don’t Believe in Vain
I strongly suspect that there’s a point in every person’s faith ...
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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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A License to do Good
Jesus promised us that if He sets us free, then we will be, in His ...
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If You Could See My Suitcase
I don’t think that there’s a single one of us who doesn’t have ...
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Use it or Lose It
God is a God of love. There is absolutely no doubt about that – ...