Power
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The Multiplication Factor
According to the press, the church is dying. That has many a vested ...
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A Floodtide of Blessing
Have you ever been so full of joy – the sort that remains with you, ...
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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going ...
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The Rulers Losing Their Power
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ...
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In High Demand
It’s all too easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we’re ...
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The Power of His Word
Evil is something that we see all around us, if only we’ll look. ...
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Empowerment 101
Many a time we know all too well that we’re falling short – that ...
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When Problems Become Miracles
Life is mostly just about doing the same things day after day. As a ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” ...
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When Brokenness becomes Blessing
Do you mind if I ask you today, have you ever felt broken? Have you ...
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Your Strength Comes from God
There are times in life when no matter how hard we try, how much ...
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The Foolishness of the Cross
Can I ask you today, how smart are you? As you look back on your ...
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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the ...
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How You Travel Through Life
How far do you travel each day? Perhaps you commute to and from work. ...
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A New Way of Thinking
Might I ask you, what’s dominating your thoughts? What do you tend ...
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Controlling Thoughts
Fear isn’t an emotion that we enjoy. Not at all! In fact, if it ...
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When It’s Time to Act
When the going gets tough, emotions like fear and dismay have a nasty ...
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How to Overcome Dismay
When circumstances conspire against us to produce one of those ...
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More Than You Can Imagine
With all that’s going on in your heart and mind, with all that’s ...
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Something to Remember
It’s almost a given that when we’re facing adversity, fighting ...
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The Perfect Landing
I wonder, when you pray – and the research tells us that most ...
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The Wealth Snare
Is it reasonable or unreasonable for a professing Christian to save ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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A Gospel of Contradictions?
There are times, to be honest, when this good news of Jesus doesn’t ...
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The Power of Life
There’s absolutely no doubt that Jesus performed some amazing ...
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How Not to Fail
Have you ever stepped out to do something for God in faith, all brave ...
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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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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when ...
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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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The Great Works of God
Have you ever yearned to achieve something “great” for God? Have ...
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The Lord Gives You Power
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have a spiritual ...
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Your Power to Overcome Fear
Faith, true faith, in Jesus is a good thing – a very good thing. ...
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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the ...
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Double Edged Sword
It’s one of those strange paradoxes of life, almost to the point of ...
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Easily Deceived
Let me throw something at you and see what you think: Any Christian ...
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God Will Stop at Nothing
Have you ever found yourself wallowing in the consequences of your ...
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When You Have Nothing to Give
Have you ever felt even just a bit embarrassed at how little you have ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Who doesn’t want a more fulfilling life – one that’s free of ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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The Power of Good Habits
One most powerful forces in our lives – a force either for good or ...
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Weak, Stumbling, Humble Faith
A dear friend of mine, Lowell Wertz, is a 40 plus year missionary to ...
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Your Superpower
I was blown away recently by something a man, Des Ong, said to me. He ...
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Blocking Satan
Satan has a burning desire to play merry hell with your heart and ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how ...
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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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Transformative Power
Have you ever felt inadequate to be a follower of Jesus Christ’s? ...
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Your Danger Signal
Here’s a question for you today. Do you believe in “hell”? Do ...
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There is But One Way
Why is society so down on Christianity these days? What is it that ...
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I Have Only You
So let me ask you today, what’s at the top of your prayer list? ...
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Facing Storms Alone
None of us likes it when those inevitable life storms come our way, ...
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Keep Going
Sin is a fact of life. I know that’s not such a popular concept in ...
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Your Protector
Personal safety is one of our highest order needs. It follows on ...
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Wise Up!
One of the things that I find intensely annoying about my parents is ...
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Don’t Panic
Every now and then, to use a sporting analogy, life throws you a ...
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Praying Without Ceasing
So, the question for you today is … in your prayer time, whatever ...
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Whom Does Jesus Serve?
If only God would do what we want Him to do. If only Jesus would just ...
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God is in Control, But …
When we’re confronted with some daunting task, something that we ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution ...
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It is Well With My Soul (6)
There’s something about the hymns of old that reaches deep into our ...
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Resurrection Power
We’ve been reading over the last few days about overcoming sin – ...
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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by ...
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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? ...
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How to be Holy
Obedience. Now there’s a double-edged sword if ever there was one. ...
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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the ...
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The Power You Need
Whenever I’ve set about trying to fix something in my life that’s ...
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The Multiplier Effect
One of the big mistakes that you and I are prone to making, is ...
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Way, Way Too Small
The more I read Scripture, the more I listen to God speak, the more I ...
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The Heavens Shall Declare
One of the great tragedies playing itself out here in the 21st ...
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More Power Than You’ll Ever Need
Confronted as we are on a daily basis, by the evil that seems to be ...
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The Power to Save Your Soul
To be sure, some of the things that God has to say are at the very ...
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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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Slipping on the Banana Peel
Sin. The same one seems to trip us up over and over again. It’s ...
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The Desires of Your Heart
Right now, right in this moment, perhaps you’re going through some ...
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Help!
For each one of us there are times in life – situations, ...
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Standing Up for What’s Right
What a bloomin’ mess the world seems to be in right at the moment. ...
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God is Your Refuge
There are times in life when we need a refuge, a sanctuary, a safe ...
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Are You Wilting?
It’s a sad thing to see a beautiful pot plant wilting, drooping, ...
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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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Taking Risks
One of the incredibly inconvenient things about God is that His ways ...
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Not in Your Own Strength, But …
I’ve heard people say that God never asks you to do something that ...
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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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Stepping into the Unknown
When we’re faced with adversity, we often don’t feel all that ...
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings
None of us likes to face adversity. We just don’t. You don’t and ...
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Don’t Stop Dreaming
It’s a cruel fact of life that the burdens and responsibilities ...
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
One of the things that disturbs me greatly amongst God’s people is ...
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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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No Pain No Gain
When you’re going tough times, it’s very easy to lose sight of ...
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The Power of the Past
For many people, the past holds such an incredible power over them ...
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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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Dream Big Dreams
How much do you dream about the future; what it might look like, what ...
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Three Blind Mice
Have you ever wondered to yourself, How come that person could see ...
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The Power to Change
I think that sometimes when it comes to our expectations of what ...
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What Was He Thinking?
Have you ever found yourself praying for a breakthrough, praying for ...
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Give Me a Sign
It’s tempting sometimes to ask God to prove Himself, especially ...
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Jesus Does Things Differently
Let’s face it, we like people to be conventional, predictable. None ...
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Investing in People
I want you to think of the one person on planet Earth that frustrates ...