Sharing your Faith
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Afraid No More
Boldness and bravado often mask deep insecurities and fears. I can ...
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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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Speak Up!
In any society, any community, there are winners and there are ...
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Don’t Lose the Plot
Truth, as things turn out, is a difficult thing to hold on to in ...
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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of ...
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Make a Joyful Noise
Do you know what I’ve noticed? It’s much easier to make a joyful ...
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The Happy Warrior
So, another question for you today. When you speak up in defence of ...
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Truth Without Grace
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been talking about truth – ...
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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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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say ...
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Don’t Sound the Retreat Just Yet
There’s a trend these days amongst some of God’s people to see ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution ...
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Standing Up For Your Rights
I was taken recently … no, “taken” is entirely the wrong word! ...
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Let’s Go Fishing
So you believe in Jesus. Great, but what are you doing with that? ...
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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the ...
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Persecution Rising
There’s no doubt that the persecution of Christians is on the rise. ...
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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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Take a Stand
Rebelling against God quite often doesn’t start with some big ...
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Swimming in the Sky
I’m sure that you can think back on some really scary things that ...
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Are You Feeling Ignored?
Most of us – and I know this is going to sound judgemental, which ...
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Gentleness and Respect
We live in a time of great division, where the toxic cocktail of ...
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Speaking Truth, Plain and Simple
Saying things the way they are these days is becoming increasingly ...
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Your Qualifications
There are times when God calls us to do something that, quite ...
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The Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who ...
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Who Are You Going to Tell?
When Jesus does mighty, powerful things in our lives, our first ...
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A Good Story
You and I, we love a good story, particularly when it reaches into ...
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The Blah, Blah, Blah, Treatment
Preaching … sermons … can that really still be a thing in the ...
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The Milky Way
Are you a man or a woman of God’s Word? Have you let its power ...
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Dead Faith
Many a marriage relationship becomes stale – not because either ...
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Hanging Around
I wonder … how do you choose your friends? Most of us befriend ...
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The Bus Driver
The more technologically sophisticated we become, the more distant ...
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A Gifted Bundle of Atoms
One of the things I love to do is to hold up a mirror to people and ...
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That Smelly Guy
Some things in life are pretty cut and dried. There’s right over ...
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Light in the Dark
The idea that you can experience the love of a God whom you’ve ...
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Love Hopes …
Love is the single, most powerful force in the universe. There’s no ...
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Love Rejoices in …
As much as you and I like being part of the crowd, like being ...
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What’s in a Face?
Whether we realise it or not, deception is a tool of trade that we ...
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God’s Family
Let’s be honest. Church can be a pain in the neck sometimes. ...
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Yes, You Have a Part to Play
Church – well, now … that’s something that we should leave to ...
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Politically Correct
When was the last time that you shared the good news of Jesus with ...
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The Power of Your Sacrifice
None of us likes to suffer. That’s completely natural. But given ...
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The Power of the Truth
Back when I was a lad, if you said that you were a Christian, if you ...
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The Power of Your Witness
A lot of people who call themselves Christians are shy about telling ...
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When Discretion is the Better Part of Valour
Difficult people are everywhere. A day doesn’t seem to go by ...
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Dirty Jokes
Sometimes, being a disciple of Jesus Christ, means standing apart ...
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Faith in Action
Jesus had some incredibly unsettling things to say about what sort of ...
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How to Forgive
Forgiving people who’ve hurt you, well that’s a great idea, in ...
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Pressure’s Rising
People seem so touchy these days. It seems that the smallest thing ...
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The Well Dries Up
If only God would behave in a way that makes sense. If only God ...
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Sitting Through Sermons
Have you ever found yourself sitting through a sermon in church, mind ...
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Your Tent Making Ministry
Some people look at the job they’re called to, and think to ...
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The Word of God
If I asked you to pick 7 adjectives to describe God, what would they ...
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Charity Begins at Home
It is so easy for us to say one thing and do the other. Listen ...
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Fellowship
Making time for other people is becoming more and more difficult. ...
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Staying on Course
One of the most difficult things to do in this digital, ...
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Taking It Easy
Let me ask you, if Jesus came back, say, tomorrow afternoon and took ...
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One Day
You know that old saying, don’t you? Never do today that which you ...
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Finding the Words
Evangelism is a word that makes many a Christian cringe. And in a ...
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Sex, Politics and Religion
Might I ask you again today, if you believe in Jesus, if you believe ...
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Telling God’s Story, God’s Way
Let’s imagine that you feel led to share your faith in Jesus, with ...
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Do What Dad’s Doing
On a scale of zero to ten, how comfortable are you, in sharing your ...
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Looking Like Jesus
Brand Jesus, by and large, has a pretty good reputation out there in ...
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The Guilty Evangelist
Question: when was the last time that you shared your faith in Jesus, ...
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That Crazy Dutchman
Whether you realise it or not, God has a call for your life. It’s a ...
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Happy, Sad
It’s easy to imagine that if you honour God, if you set out with ...
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Family Tip Number 4
Bringing up children is one of the toughest challenges in life. And ...
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Just Say the Word
God does some crazy things sometimes. At least that’s how it seems ...
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When I First Become a Christian
I remember the day I gave my life to Jesus. It was around 11:30 am ...
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Praying for Presidents & Prime Ministers
Wherever you live, politics can drive you crazy. We’re pretty good ...
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Enemies in Dark Places
Every now and then, you run into such fierce opposition, such an ...
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Daring to Believe
When you listen to God’s promises, sometimes they sound completely ...
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Be the Hands and Feet of Jesus
The thing about the unconditional love of God is that it’s ...
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Freedom in God
It pains me to tell you that for the first thirty-six years of my ...
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The ANZAC Bridge
ANZAC day. Such a sobering commemoration. Those young boys from New ...
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The Heavenly Prize
When we think about the future, mostly we just think about our future ...
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It’s No Longer I Who Live
A Scripture that’s really familiar to many people is this one, ...