People & Relationships
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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 ...
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The Golden Rule of Communication
Yesterday we chatted about the absence of civility in public ...
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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob ...
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That’s Completely Outrageous!
Over the years, I’ve met many people who live in places where ...
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Spreading Your Investments
All the things in this world that we take for granted – whilst ...
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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? ...
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A Ministry of Encouragement
It’s funny how God (if we’ll let Him) can use even the most ...
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Bridging the Gap
One day … yep, one day God is going to do a powerful work through ...
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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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Kindness is a Sign of…
So much of what Jesus taught was deeply rooted in our ordinary, ...
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Throwing Stones, Washing Feet
Loving people who don’t love us in return … well, it’s not ...
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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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A Fickle Fanbase
Created as we are, as social creatures, we by and large love it when ...
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That Yearning
If you believe in Jesus, then you’ve no doubt found that your ...
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Your Risk-Reward Ratio
We each have a different risk-reward ratio at play in our lives. Some ...
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When It’s Difficult to Love
From time to time, we all come across people who rub us the wrong way ...
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Don’t Be So Shy
By and large, pride is far from a good thing. When we’re full of ...
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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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Don’t Become This Guy!
There are times when we’re absolutely convinced that we’re right. ...
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Receiving the Right Sort of Criticism
As we observed yesterday, there are two equal and opposite forms of ...
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The Wrong Sort of Criticism
There are two equal and opposite forms of criticism you’ll face in ...
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A Helping Hand
When you see someone heading in the wrong direction, about to make a ...
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Why You Can’t Change the Other Guy
One of the most frustrating things in relationships is that other ...
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Verify the Facts Before Throwing Stones
There’s a world of difference between fact and opinion. We know ...
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Don’t Plan for Evil
Living in a country, as I do, where pretty much every native animal ...
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Don’t Rush into Evil
Sometimes we do stupid things on the spur of the moment. Everything ...
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God Has a Job For You
One of the things that many people struggle with is a lack of purpose ...
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Bad Thoughts Ruin Lives
There are times in our lives when dark thoughts invade our ...
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Can You Be Over-Inclusive?
Diversity and inclusion are very highly valued commodities in this ...
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Giving Without Sparing
Have you ever asked yourself, “How much should I give”? Perhaps ...
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Speaking Without Accusing
Sometimes you’ll be having a conversation with someone, and what ...
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Listen Without Interrupting
Have you ever been with a group of people where one person clearly ...