Peace & Assurance
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Comfortable Christianity
Let me be bold today and say to you that there’s no such thing as ...
Yesterday
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Completely Unshakeable
The brutal onslaught of this world against the faith of Christians ...
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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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It’s Under Control
When our emotions are running riot – anger, fear, a sense of ...
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My Prayer for You
Today I want to share with you something that I’m incredibly ...
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The Peace of God
Since the beginning of time, anxiety has been a chronic disease ...
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Bringing Comfort
Sometimes you can find yourself in a deep, dark hole. It’s just the ...
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Negative Self-Talk
We all do this thing called “self-talk”. We create a narrative of ...
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Avoid This Trap
There have no doubt been times in your life when you’ve been ...
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When the Time is Right
Have you ever felt locked in your circumstances? It feels like a ...
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Working for Peace
The main reason that we find ourselves in conflict situations is that ...
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False Teaching
Here’s a crazy statistic: there are over twenty thousand Christian ...
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Alive to Christ
So do you mind if I ask you, is the life you’re leading a life ...
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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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God’s Kindness and Mercy
Life has a funny habit of taking a sharp turn from good times into ...
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I Messed Up – Now What?
When was the last time that you felt ashamed of what you’d done? ...
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Good Luck or Karma?
My mother used to read the horoscope in the newspaper every morning. ...
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Answer Without Arguing
Making fun of our political leaders has become something of a ...
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The Greatest Miracle
Imagine that you discover a precious, solid-gold cup in a rubbish ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that ...
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Run Hard
Anyone who’s ever decided to follow Jesus will know that some days ...
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In Whom or What Do You Trust?
One of the things that frankly makes me wince every time I come ...
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Nothing is Too Hard for Him
You and I need reminding on a regular basis of just how big and ...
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Are You Crazy Too?
Some people I know think that I’m crazy. Perhaps they’re right. ...
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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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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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Armistice Day
We’ve been focussing these last few days on the resurrection of ...
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That’s Life
One of the greatest battlegrounds, if I can call it that, between ...
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A Decaying Civilisation
Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ...
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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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Peace and Destruction
One of the great arguments against the existence of an all-powerful, ...
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The Deception of Certainty and Safety
In this day and age, “biblical truth” is very much out of vogue. ...
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Bad Thoughts Ruin Lives
There are times in our lives when dark thoughts invade our ...
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Meanwhile…
We know, you and I, with absolute certainty that one day our time on ...
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Why Does God Delay?
Sometimes, adversity is an opportunity in disguise … no, let me be ...
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Listen Without Interrupting
Have you ever been with a group of people where one person clearly ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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Sidestepping Your Mistakes
Accepting correction and instruction is something that, by and large, ...
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God’s Handiwork
Both as a society, and as individuals, we have the most amazing ...
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Black is Still Black
As we look back on the events of history, we tend to judge the things ...
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Good Criticism, Bad Praise
None of us likes being criticised. In fact, we much prefer to be ...
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Highly Entitled Individuals
We live, more and more, in the age of entitlement. I deserve better ...
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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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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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Leaning on God
As we’re growing from childhood through those awkward teenage years ...
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The Tender Love of God
It’s a rough and tumble world that we live in. Criticism can be ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution ...
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The Key to Peace
We each yearn for peace – for our hearts to be at rest, for the ...
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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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Treating Burnout
With all that’s been happening in the world over these last couple ...
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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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A Place to Call Home
Do you believe in Jesus? Have you put all your eggs in one basket by ...
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A New Beginning
As we begin to turn our minds towards Christmas, perhaps it’d be ...
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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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Working for Peace
Yesterday we chatted about the uncommon wisdom that we need in order ...
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Saved from a Useless Life
One of the things that we all crave is a sense of purpose. A sense ...
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More and More Hope
These times in which we live are turbulent times – on a global ...
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Your Power to Change the World
To some degree, we all harbour a secret desire to impact this world; ...
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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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A License to do Good
Jesus promised us that if He sets us free, then we will be, in His ...
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The Getting of Peace
So if, as we saw yesterday, peace isn’t something that we can ...
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The Peace of Christ
These last few days we’ve been chatting about peace, because peace ...
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Peace of Mind
Peace is a subject that I love to circle back to again and again ...
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God’s Comfort
Let me ask you something: What burdens are you carrying around on ...
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True Peace
Peace is something that we all want in our lives: A life free from ...
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A New Day from Heaven
With all the ups and downs we’ve been through over these past ...
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The Peace of God
When you’re carrying a heavy burden, the best thing you can ...
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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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Sharpen Your Knife
We tend to think of sharp knives as being dangerous – and they are. ...
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The Angry Boss
It’s easy to get the impression that the Bible – the thing that ...
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Things Money Can’t Buy
It’s so easy, isn’t it – whether you’re rich or poor – to ...
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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Are You Wilting?
It’s a sad thing to see a beautiful pot plant wilting, drooping, ...
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It’s How You Wait that Matters
You can’t read the Bible for any length of time without coming to a ...
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Don’t Give Up
Have you ever had that thing going on where you love God so much, ...
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Taking Risks
One of the incredibly inconvenient things about God is that His ways ...
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Under God
Some people are rather good at quoting half-truths; “Resist the ...
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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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A Victim Mentality Will Destroy You
Identity politics is something that seems to be taking the world by ...
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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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A Tough Choice
The place where our faith is truly tested is when we’re on the ...
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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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Independence Day
Okay, so it’s the 4th of July. No matter where you live, you’d ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
I’m sure there have been people in your life over the years who ...
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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 Seasons of Life
Whether we like it or not, whether we would have planned it this way ...
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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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God Where are You?
Possibly the worst thing – no, not possibly, actually – the worst ...
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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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That One Thing
I wonder whether sometimes you find yourself suffering from ...
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A Piece of Driftwood
There comes a time in every person’s life when they feel all washed ...
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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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Real Life
So often, God’s blessing flows in the opposite direction to the ...
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Mission Impossible
Sometimes it can feel as though all this spiritual stuff, God stuff, ...
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The Good Shepherd
Question: did Jesus come to this earth for you? Or do you perhaps ...