People & Relationships
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One Size Does Not Fit All
I think we’ve all had the exceedingly frustrating experience of ...
Today
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The Message from the Beginning
Love is such a simple word. And when you think about being loved – ...
Yesterday
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The Ultimate Goal of God’s Love
I’d like you, if you would, please, to picture the face of the ...
Day Before
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Forgiveness is a Lovely Idea, Until …
Can I be honest with you? I used to be … well, not a very nice ...
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Simply Being There
Anyone who’s ever brought up children knows how important it is to ...
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Eyes to See
It’s really quite striking, when you stop and think about it, how ...
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Humbling Yourself
We’ve been chatting this week about achieving greatness – true ...
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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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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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The Essence of Empathy
Empathy is one of the most poignant and powerful expressions of love ...
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The Power of Words
If only we realised the power of our words. I heard someone say once ...
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The Recipe for Peace (4)
Okay, so how do you actually experience the stillness, the calmness, ...
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The Recipe for Peace (3)
Day-to-day, let me ask you, what drives your thinking? What causes ...
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The Recipe for Peace (2)
Here’s a blunt, inconvenient truth: your attitude towards the ...
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The Recipe for Peace (1)
So many things in life can rob you of your peace. But right up there ...
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Go Fast or Go Far
Teamwork is lauded everywhere you look – in successful companies, ...
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Stop Arguing
It doesn’t seem to matter all that much what group of people 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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Grace and Peace to You
When you run into someone whom you haven’t seen in a while, how do ...
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The Most Radical Remedy
Long-standing, deep-seated hatred is as old as time itself. It began ...
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Good Theology Ain’t Enough
Different people understand the Good News of Jesus in different ways. ...
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Love is Never Wasted
Have you ever done someone a good turn and then been miffed when they ...
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Don’t be Offended
When others behave badly, it’s so easy for us to take offence. In ...
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The Very Definition of Hypocrisy
Let’s face it, loving other people can be hard. They don’t always ...
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The World Has Enough Critics
Criticism and conflict seem to be de rigueur these days in the public ...
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Often Overlooked
The more I see of people’s lives the more I’m impacted by the ...
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When Friends Flee
There’s nothing more unsettling, unnerving, disappointing, ...
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Don’t Ignore the Red Flags
I think we’d agree that looking for the good in others, seeing ...
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The Death of Gossip
Gossip has the power to ruin reputations. A rumour here, a whisper ...
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The Blind Leading the Blind
The clear and present danger for anyone who puts their trust into ...
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The Generosity You Dish Out
Do you mind if I ask you what may be a somewhat confronting question? ...
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The Punishment You Dish Out
How do you respond to people who do the wrong thing? How do you deal ...
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The Kindest Person in the Room
Different people are smart in different ways. You may be highly ...
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Be Kind, Generous and Fair
You know what I think? I think that it’s all too easy to ...
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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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What Sort of Neighbour are You?
Neighbours have a funny way of getting on one another’s nerves. Be ...
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The Simple Power of Love
With so much bad stuff going on around us you have to ask yourself, ...
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How You Treat Your Staff
Anyone who’s ever been in a leadership role will know that it ...
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Remember Your Reward
Impressing others can, without doubt, bring short term rewards. ...
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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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Those Who’ve Gone Before
In this fast paced, technology-driven world where you can order up ...
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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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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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Imagine a World Without Love
Imagine with me if you can, a world without love. Terrible isn’t ...
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Choose Your Friends Carefully
So who are your closest advisors? If you’re married, hopefully your ...
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Have Compassion
The world in which we live is highly competitive: people clamouring ...
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Which Tribe do You Belong To?
Since time immemorial, humanity has divided itself into tribes – ...
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Raising Resilient Children
The old biblical adage that those who spare the rod spoil the child ...
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Friends Like These
A question for you today: What sort of friends have you surrounded ...
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Revenge or Restoration?
So when was the last time that you felt insulted, miffed, hard done ...
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Tackling Criticism
Resilience is something that we need to instil in our children as ...
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Whom Will God Make Strong?
One of the things I absolutely love about God is His desire to help ...
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Those Who Mistreat You
It seems to me that pretty much every da there’s someone out there ...
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Throwing Stones
Hurling stones at Christians seems these days to be par for the ...
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Finding Rest
You don’t often hear people in my position talk about the fact that ...
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Be Merciful
Don’t know about you, but I believe in Jesus. So on that day of ...
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Be Loving
So, how often do you judge a book by its cover? Without being too ...
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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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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 (2)
Too many men have become emotionally distant from their families, ...
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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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Just Then
Anyone who’s married will be able to tell you that every now and ...
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It’s Under Control
When our emotions are running riot – anger, fear, a sense of ...
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What’s Most Important
Setting priorities can be difficult when you have a lot on your ...
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Forgive Each Other
Anger is an emotion that flares up in our hearts from time to time ...
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From Father to Son
One of the more special relationships we can have in this life is as ...
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The End of the World
One day, all the things that we hold dear in this world – our ...
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Suspending Judgement
It’s really quite staggering, you know, how often we judge other ...
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Seeing Things Differently
It amazes me how two people can look at the same issue, the same ...
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Avoid This Trap
There have no doubt been times in your life when you’ve been ...
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Christian Hypocrisy
When was the last time that someone said something to you that ...
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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 (4)
Monogamy is one of Christianity’s greatest contributions to the ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (3)
Okay, today … today we’re going for a super dose of the ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (2)
Any psychologist will tell you that, despite the whole ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (1)
Have you ever picked up an old book, read it, and thought to ...
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Don’t Do It Angry
So let me ask you, what causes your anger to flare up from time to ...
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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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Keep Your Promises
For most of us, our default position in life is that we really, ...
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Enjoy without Complaining
You know how it is … out of all the important things in your life ...
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Forgive Without Punishing
There are so many different ways of loving the people around us. And ...
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Dr Livingstone I Presume
When something’s truly important it’s worth saying twice, would ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that ...
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Who is Your Role Model?
I don’t think there’s any one of us who doesn’t want a better ...
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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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Insisting on Your Rights
In your life here and now, with all that you have going on, what are ...
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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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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building ...
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The Greatest Deception
There’s nothing to take the edge off the Good News of Jesus like ...