Pain & Suffering
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When Brokenness becomes Blessing
Do you mind if I ask you today, have you ever felt broken? Have you ...
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God Will Keep You Strong
Perseverance is a word that we don’t much like, you and I, because ...
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How Important is Faith?
The real-life battles that we face in life require real-life faith. ...
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Your World Conquering Faith
Let me throw something at you to see what you think: Any Christian ...
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Where are Your Strongholds?
When you face obstacles on your road through life, what’s your ...
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Overcoming Obstacles
I’m pretty sure that we’re all across the theory that, handled ...
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake ...
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When You’re Guilty of Harm
In most countries, occupational health and safety (or OH&S, as ...
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The Death Knell of Division
There’s nothing quite so ugly as people in power playing power ...
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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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Throwing Stones
Hurling stones at Christians seems these days to be par for the ...
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Feeling Weary?
We all get to feeling weary at some point. It doesn’t matter ...
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Comfortable Christianity
Let me be bold today and say to you that there’s no such thing as ...
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My Debt He Paid
Interest rates go up and down on a regular basis. When they’re up, ...
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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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Back to Job
It’s easy to be hopeful about your future when the going’s good. ...
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A Cry for Help
One of the jobs of any parent is to protect their children. And as a ...
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Joy Amidst Trouble
Can I ask you, what is it that brings you joy in your life? At the ...
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Making Mistakes
It’s one of life’s great annoyances that when you set out to do ...
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Suffering with Christ
Suffering unjustly is the pits, amen? When you suffer for doing ...
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When it is Good to Suffer
Suffering is a theme that I love to return to again and again, both ...
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Suffering for Christ
In just a couple of days, on so-called “Good Friday”, we’ll be ...
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Learn to Let it Go
So … a question for you today. Given a choice, would you prefer to ...
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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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Just a Little Bit of Pride
Do you know that feeling of wanting people just to think a little bit ...
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Your Danger Signal
Here’s a question for you today. Do you believe in “hell”? Do ...
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Blessed to Suffer
When we go through times of suffering (as we all do), the last thing ...
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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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Bad Thoughts Ruin Lives
There are times in our lives when dark thoughts invade our ...
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Speaking Without Accusing
Sometimes you’ll be having a conversation with someone, and what ...
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The Negative Jesus
One of the biggest criticisms of Christians today is that they’re ...
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Putting Sorrow in Perspective
None of us want bad things to happen to us, and yet they do. None of ...
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Justice in God’s Time
It’s a strange old world we live in. On the one hand, you can have ...
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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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All is Well With My Soul (5)
Over these last couple of years, with a pandemic sweeping the globe, ...
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It is Well With My Soul (4)
All too often when disaster strikes, when we’re suffering as a ...
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It is Well With My Soul (3)
Have you ever had this terrible sense of foreboding that something ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
Everyone you know, no matter how much they love you, will at some ...
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That Emotional Fog
Have you ever had the situation where you’re driving on a road at ...
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Stop Blaming the Devil
Over the years, I’ve had a good many people tell me that they’re ...
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Treating Burnout
With all that’s been happening in the world over these last couple ...
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Relative Deprivation
When was the last time that you looked at what someone else had and ...
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That One Master Habit
It’s funny isn’t it, how easy it is to drift away from good ...
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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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I am the Resurrection and the Life
It’s relatively easy to believe in eternal life, when you’re ...
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Expect Criticism
I think one of the most difficult things to deal with is when you cop ...
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Keep Telling Your Story
The research tells us that a person is at least five times more ...
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It’s Easy to Make Excuses
There have been times in my life, and no doubt yours too, when ...
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A Cry for Help
There are times in our lives when we need God to step in to help. ...
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Don’t Get Too Attached to This Life
Life on this earth is far from perfect. We have great days and good ...
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Don’t Lose Sight of This Truth
I don’t know about you but a lack of faith, a lack of trust, in God ...
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If Wombs Had Windows
The Bible seems silent sometimes on important issues. One of those ...
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Why Betrayal Hurts So Much
When was the last time someone betrayed you? You trusted them, you ...
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Gentleness and Respect
We live in a time of great division, where the toxic cocktail of ...
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Are You Strapped In?
Like it or not, trouble will hit our lives from time to time. Just ...
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God’s Deep Secret for Your Heart
You know how it is. The daily grind grinds away at you – day after ...
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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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Responding to the Rise of Evil
Evil’s running rampant in the world. In one sense, that’s nothing ...
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God’s Comfort
Let me ask you something: What burdens are you carrying around on ...
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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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Do This for the Lord
If there’s one thing a pandemic will do in putting pressure on ...
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Persecution is Coming
Let’s be honest … in this day and age, the temptation to forsake ...
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Having an Impact
A man or a woman of true character is a man or a woman of real ...
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Increasing Measure
The strength of steel comes from the fact that it’s been forged in ...
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A Prayer Through Tears
When you’re completely at the end of your tether, where do you go? ...
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People Can Be So Horrible
There are some truly nasty people in this world; people who’ll take ...
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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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When God Withholds His Blessing
God is a God of blessing, amen? Absolutely. We can all chime in with ...
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Kingdom Success
“If only the whole world would revolve around me.” Isn’t that, ...
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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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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Do you know what I find really, really scary? It’s the people who ...
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The Age of Self
The behaviour of people these days seems to be getting worse and ...
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Standing Up for What’s Right
What a bloomin’ mess the world seems to be in right at the moment. ...
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God is Your Refuge
There are times in life when we need a refuge, a sanctuary, a safe ...
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No Pain No Gain
When you’re going tough times, it’s very easy to lose sight of ...
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Despite Everything
The thing that I’ve noticed down through the years is that when God ...
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A Call to Suffering
Do you know what most of us want? We want to be healthy, wealthy and ...
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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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God’s Business Card
One of the hardest things to do in life is to look at things from a ...
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The Mobile Phone
When something bad happens to us, when we’re hurting, our most ...
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Dealing with Menopause
Anyone who has ever been married knows that on their wedding day they ...
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Gross Injustice
They talk a lot, these Christians, about the Good News of Jesus ...
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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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The Vanquished Become the Victors
Don’t let the losses of the past define you. Don’t let them shape ...
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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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At the Airport
In your heart of hearts have you truly come to grips with the truth ...
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Mob Mentality
Okay … so perhaps it feels like a bit of a strange time of year to ...
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Strongholds
It’s funny how many blind spots each of us actually has in our ...
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Taking It Easy
Anybody who’s set their heart on living a life of faith, on ...
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Standing Up for What’s Right
What a bloomin’ mess the world seems to be in right at the moment. ...
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God is Your Refuge
There are times in life when we need a refuge, a sanctuary, a safe ...
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The Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who ...
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Dead Mouse
When someone treats you badly, a really common reaction is to want to ...
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Mother Nature’s Way
Pain is a fact of life … it just is. That’s not up for debate. ...
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When Things Don’t Make Sense
Most times, suffering just doesn’t make sense. We struggle against ...
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The Wasp’s Nest
When a storm blows in on your life, as it’s prone to do from time ...
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The Nail
Why? Why did God allow Jesus to be nailed to that Cross? Wasn’t ...