People & Relationships
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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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Rub Together Until You Fit
Divorce is a subject that I come back to from time to time because ...
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The Deafening Sound of Humility
Most days, I make sure that I read the news – local, national and ...
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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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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of ...
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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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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many ...
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What Suzy Says of Sally
We read earlier this week about judgementalism, and I just want to ...
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The Church to Look Out For
I don’t know where you’re at in terms of your relationship with ...
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“Opinion” versus “Truth”
One of the things I’ve noticed – and perhaps you have too – is ...
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A Mother’s Teaching
The things that our parents taught us tend to remain with us for the ...
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Don’t Expect Them to Applaud
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the moment we set out to live a ...
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Standing Up For Your Rights
I was taken recently … no, “taken” is entirely the wrong word! ...
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The Importance of Discernment
The one thing we’re not short of in this day and age is ...
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The Trap of “Group-Think”
One way to maintain harmony, is to tell people what we think they ...
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Sin Kills
Death is something that you think more and more about, the older you ...
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Powerful Kindness
There are few things in this world that are at the same time simpler, ...
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Know the Difference
Not everybody you meet is actually who they appear to be. Sadly, some ...
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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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Loving Difficult People
We all need to be loved. You do, I do, the people around us do and ...
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A Marriage is What You Make It
Couples seem to be divorcing these days at an ever-increasing rate. ...
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Expand Your Heart
Over the last few days, we’ve been chatting about the willingness ...
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Culture Wars
The thing I find most frightening about 21st Century Christianity, is ...
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God Hates Pride
Evil comes at us in many different forms in this world. But somehow, ...
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Your Love Must be Real
When you think about it, there’s a lot of shallow love going round ...
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Stop Making This About You
Some years ago I had a neighbour who drove me absolutely mad. He ...
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Where do Arguments Come From?
So, everything’s going along just fine in your world and in your ...
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Take a Stand
Rebelling against God quite often doesn’t start with some big ...
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Beautiful People
Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. True. Our notion of ...
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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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The Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
Have you ever heard of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone? It’s a ...
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It’s Really Not that Complicated
These days, the line between right and wrong seems to be becoming ...
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Seek Good, Find Favour
The last few days we’ve been poking around in God’s Word to ...
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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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Individualism vs Collectivism
Seeing the faces of both young and old buried en masse in their ...
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Just Being There is What Counts
When someone else is hurting, a natural tendency (especially, let me ...
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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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Adrenaline Filled Moments
There are many things that happen in our lives that we find ...
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The Angry Boss
It’s easy to get the impression that the Bible – the thing that ...
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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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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Self-Delusion
So you go along to church, sing the songs, hear the sermons, enjoy ...
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Being Told that You’re Wrong
Yesterday we read about God’s powerful advice for reducing conflict ...
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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without ...
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Your Measure of Success
That sense of self-importance that some people have is so… well… ...
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Filling an Empty Life
The sense of emptiness that we sometimes feel – that sense that ...
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Impacted by Negativity
The negativity of other people has a habit of dragging us down with ...
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Where is Your Reward?
Without a doubt, it’s nice to receive a pat on the back for a job ...
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Whom Are You Serving, Really?
When things aren’t going all that well, when we’re facing ...
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Obey Your Masters
One of the most frustrating and even hurtful situations that we can ...
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Excellence Versus Perfectionism
Excellence is one thing, but perfectionism … that’s quite ...
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A Powerful Combination
As we saw yesterday, when you and I operate in a spirit of ...
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Learning to Fail Forward
I don’t think any of us wake up in the morning and set out to get ...
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Permission to Fail
Failure is a fact of life. We all fail at things on a regular basis ...
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Are You Treating People Fairly?
When it comes to this idea of justice, all too often we’re tempted ...
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Selfie-Culture
If you’d used this ubiquitous term “the selfie” back when I was ...
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Don’t Brag
There’s no doubt that we’d all like to be liked. There’s no ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
Different people can look at the same thing and see it completely ...
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Making Excuses for Mediocrity
When you encounter a bad person in your life … come on, that ...
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God’s Best
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We all realise it’s a good idea, but ...
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Biting Your Lip
When someone does or says something that annoys you, how do you ...
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Spoiling the Vineyard
At the end of the day, good, strong, enduring, loving, supportive ...
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Three Blind Mice
Have you ever wondered to yourself, How come that person could see ...
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Don’t Just Sit There
I don’t know if you’ve ever been so hungry that you’re ...
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Yellow Sticky Note
How can we, you and I, live lives that actually matter – that ...
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Poor Me
The more affluent we become, the more difficult it gets to separate ...
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Loving People
Have you ever prayed, “Lord, show me someone whom I can help”? ...
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Investing in People
I want you to think of the one person on planet Earth that frustrates ...
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To Forgive
Of all the people on this planet, who is the one person who has hurt ...
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Dealing with Menopause
Anyone who has ever been married knows that on their wedding day they ...
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Greener Pastures
We often think of marriage as an institution and yet when you get ...
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The Cart Before the Horse
In all honesty, we would like Jesus to be a nice, comfortable, ...
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A Carpenter Called Adam
How much do you spend comparing yourself to others? How helpful is ...
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The Cost of Love
Loving others can be a tough gig. Truly. But God is right here to ...
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I Just Blew It
Nothing speaks more powerfully of who Jesus is, than when we show His ...
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Poor Li’l Old Me
Just when we’re thinking, “Poor li’l old me” … there’s ...
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We Are Now One People
The way we treat those with whom we disagree shows how well we’ve ...
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Here Comes da Judge
When we stop judging others, it brings a whole new peace into our ...
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Feeding the Poor
In the next two and a half minutes, around 45 children will die of ...
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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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Forgiveness is Healing
The hurts of the past will never stop hurting until we forgive those ...
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Forgiving is Accepting
How we treat the people with whom we disagree says a lot about the ...
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Forgive and Forget
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful forces for change that the ...
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Your Words Have Power
The words we speak can either build people up, or tear them down. So, ...
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Another Year Begins
It doesn’t matter what plans you have for the future. It’s how ...
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A Gift for the Poor
There’s a tradition that goes back centuries that God wants you to ...
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A Lonely Affair
How will you spend today? Surrounded by people, or completely alone?
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Dealing with Disappointment
So when was the last time that you were disappointed by someone or ...
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The Communication Gap
Okay, on a scale of 0 to 10, how close do you feel to God right in ...
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Forgiving on the Fly
The easiest thing in the world for you and me to do is to rationalise ...
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The Power of Words
So many people in this world are so tired, so stressed out. Life is ...
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Husbands and Wives
Why is it that so many marriages either end in divorce or linger on ...
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God’s Fingerprints
Have you ever thought to yourself, as the busyness of all that your ...
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Being Told that You’re Wrong
Yesterday we read about God’s powerful advice for reducing conflict ...
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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without ...
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Your Measure of Success
That sense of self-importance that some people have is so… well… ...