Peace & Assurance
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Live in the Light
I’ve always loved technology … each new thing seems to offer so ...
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Behold the Glory of the Lord
A pilot trying to land her plane in a terrible storm has a choice to ...
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The Wellspring of Life
Obedience is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, societies depend ...
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Kiss the Wave that Throws You
According to surveys, somewhere between half and three-quarters of ...
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Calm the Storm Before it Begins
As the storms of division rage ever more violently across society, do ...
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The Complete Opposite
These days, the whole self-discovery thing seems to have become all ...
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Even If …
In times of extreme adversity, we each have to decide: Will I keep ...
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Designed to Handle It
Doing what I do, I spend rather a lot of time flying in aeroplanes. ...
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You Are a Walking Miracle
I wonder whether we ever truly realise how many of the things we take ...
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Discovering the Truth
It’s amazing how powerful relationships can be in shaping who we ...
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When Empires Fall
It’s all too easy to become so immersed in our social and economic ...
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An Unexpected Discovery
Have you ever had that experience of discovering something amazing in ...
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Be Strong and Brave
Do you like change? No? Well, you’re not alone. The truth is, very ...
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When Your Foot is Slipping
The pressures we face in life often creep up on us gradually, ...
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Yes and Amen!
Life’s messy. You can’t argue with that. Show me a single family ...
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The Gateway to Joy
It’s easy to imagine that the joy, the fulfilment, the contentment ...
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You Are Loved at Your Worst
Englishman George Clark was a 19th-century career criminal who ran ...
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Make No Room for Lies
If there’s one thing that history’s demonstrated time and again, ...
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Bitter or Better
The bad things that come at us out of the blue often feel so ...
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Your Next Move Matters More
Guilt over past mistakes has a habit of clouding our judgment in ...
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The Worth of Your Soul
Have you ever felt worthless as you looked around at what all those ...
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God Has Your Back
The world appears to be sharply divided between authoritarian regimes ...
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When Heaven and Earth Pass Away
Some of the events this world is going through at the moment seem … ...
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Your Shield, Your Refuge
So, twenty years ago, would you have guessed where your life would be ...
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Prepared, Not Pampered
When all is said and done, what we hope for is to get through to the ...
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Not Wasted. Not Random. Not Alone.
Have you ever felt completely alone in this busy world? Perhaps you ...
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Gratitude Transforms the Moment
Without doubt, gratitude is one of the most transformative forces in ...
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Rough Seas Forge Resilient Faith
It’s stating the obvious to say that suffering is universally part ...
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The Hand that Holds You
There’s a question that rather a lot of people are asking: If God ...
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Kingdom Come, Chaos Done
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned in 1945 for criticising Joseph ...
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Surrounded by Evil, Secured by Grace
We live in a world that’s not only drifting further and further ...
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The Truth About You
Here’s a tragedy that I see playing itself out time and time again: ...
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Hope Hits Back
Life can be a grind. Whether it’s the repetition of putting one ...
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The Most Unjust Act in History
As each Easter week comes and goes year in, year out, it’s so easy ...
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You’re Worth Dying For
As we roll into yet another Easter week, I wonder, in your scheme of ...
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Robbed of Peace and Joy
The truth is that you can have it all, so to speak – everything ...
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We Live in Tumultuous Times
Man, there’s so much going on in the world today; wars and rumours ...
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God’s Perfect Love for Us
Have you ever felt unloved? Sometimes that feeling is born out of a ...
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Dealing with the Damaged
Despite the respectable facades that most people maintain for the ...
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Joy that Overwhelms
We each have two distinct parts to our lives: the things that ...
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Changed by God
If you were to look back on how (if at all) you’ve changed as a ...
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Jesus Versus Religion
Have you ever found yourself thinking, “Those people over there, ...
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Potatoes and Eggs
Adversity tends to elicit one of two very different responses: we ...
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Gazing Upon Beauty
Adversity, though a fact of life, is never a welcome visitor. I get ...
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The Light of Your Life
Light and darkness, when you think about it, completely dictate the ...
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Yet Another Week Begins
Whether you’re working flat out or retired, every Monday morning ...
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Even Greater Things
Can I ask you today to look back on your life thus far and, on a ...
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Failure Happens When You Stop
We don’t like talking about our failures. We’ve all failed at ...
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From Pit to Palace
Life is full of setbacks. Doubtless, you’ve had plenty too, right? ...
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Focus on the Future
It’s utterly tragic to see people who are brimming with potential ...
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The Coming Reunion
Reunions are so incredibly special: Family reunions. Class reunions. ...
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When Yesterday Calls, Don’t Answer
Sadly, many people unthinkingly acquiesce to the unhealed wounds of ...
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Unfollow the Noise
Sociopaths aside, I don’t think that there’s a one of us who ...
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Stop Comparing
Have you ever found yourself comparing your life’s journey to that ...
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When the Only Way Out, is Through
When adversity strikes, even when we find ourselves moderately ...
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Contentment Isn’t a Destination
Contentment is something that we all want, but all too often it ...
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What Were You Thinking?
I wonder, do you ever stand back to consider the things you’ve been ...
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Progress is Progress
If you’re one of those people who consistently plugs away at doing ...
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You Can’t Run on Empty
Truth: You can’t keep running on empty. Yet so many are trying to ...
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Persevere in Prayer
I think you’d agree that perseverance is a tremendous quality for ...
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Be Patient in Suffering
Have you noticed how slowly time seems to pass when you’re ...
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Joy Comes in the Morning
When you’re on the receiving end of someone’s anger, whether ...
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The Well Will Never Run Dry
Emotional and spiritual dryness afflicts us all from time to time. ...
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A Parched Dry Land (2)
These days, wealthy people pay a great deal to go on so-called ...
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A Parched Dry Land (1)
Have you ever felt dry inside? You know what I’m talking about, ...
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You Don’t Have to Go it Alone
I think that most of us want to do good in this world, don’t we? ...
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Live With Purpose and Perspective
It’s funny how caught up we become in the things of this world; the ...
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Trust God With Your Plans
Planning something new can be both exciting and daunting all at the ...
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Let Go of the Past
Well, here we are. A happy and blessed new year to you. But before we ...
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Reality Sets In
With Christmas done and dusted, the reality that another year has all ...
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Post-Christmas Markdowns
Whether a nation has a Judeo-Christian history or not, most ...
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Light Breaks Into Darkness
So, it’s Christmas Day. But rather than wishing you a Merry ...
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Shut Out, Not Shut Down
When circumstances turn against you, no matter how good or noble your ...
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The Long Hard Road
Okay, so we’re two days out from celebrating the birth of Jesus. ...
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Rejected by Your Own
Rejection, in and of itself, is bad enough. But when you’re ...
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A Stark Reminder
As life bubbles along and we focus on the things coming our way, the ...
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Are You All In?
When it comes to doing the things you have to do each day, your job ...
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This is My Beloved Son
You know how it goes. We know that life has its ups and downs, its ...
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Be Bold Before God
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between boldness and arrogance? ...
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Tested in Every Way
I, like you, have often thought to myself, “Shouldn’t it be ...
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It’s All Connected
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and thought, “Well, ...
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The Time Will Come
There are times when something truly important in our lives hangs in ...
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Way Too Busy
Have you noticed how busy people seem to be these days? Even just ...
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When Evil Assails You (3)
It seems that these days the louder people shout, the more others ...
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When Evil Assails You (2)
There are times when evil strikes at us from the outside, in … ...
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When Evil Assails You (1)
‘Evil’, I think you’d agree, is a strong word. So there are not ...
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The Good News
Can I ask you to cast your mind back over all the mistakes – big ...
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When All Hell Comes Against You
According to latest estimates, there are over 5 million podcasts and ...
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Truth to the Core
Some people have a real knack for cleverly summing up complex ...
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Know This!
It’s a fact of life that you can be absolutely certain of something ...
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On Level Ground
As you look around at the leaders in this world, bluster and bravado ...
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Live Your Life in True Confidence
I think we’re all looking for things that’ll make our lives ...
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A Confident Life in Uncertain Times
So, question … do you like uncertainty? Do you relish not knowing ...
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The Demise of Christianity
People have been talking about the demise of Christianity for ...
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Waiting Well (2)
So, if I might ask, what are you waiting for at the moment? It seems ...
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Waiting Well (1)
When you think about it, life involves a lot of waiting. Whether ...
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Renouncing Hustle Culture
I wonder if you’d agree with me that busyness is ruining many a ...
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When Contentment Seems Out of Reach
Before we kick things off today, let me ask you this: on a scale of 0 ...
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Coming Face to Face with God
So, it’s Sunday … is today the end of your week or the beginning ...
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Just You Wait!
It’s not at all unusual to go through patches where you find ...