Sharing your Faith
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Stand Firm
It feels like the hot days are getting hotter and the cold days are ...
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Whatever, Whenever, Wherever
It’s all too easy to grow weary of doing the right thing. Swimming ...
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Time Flies
Imagine that you’re given an hourglass where each grain of sand ...
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Realising Your Full Potential
I wonder… right in this moment, what do you perceive, what do you ...
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A Completely Different Perspective
Unless you happen to be exceptionally talented, wealthy and ...
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Don’t Blame the System
We don’t think about it all too often, but the world – my world, ...
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Freedom Seldom Used
I’m sure you’ve noticed that as society becomes more polarised, ...
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Shine the Light
So far as I can tell, there are two types of people in this world – ...
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The Fear of Disapproval
Swimming against the tide, adopting a stance, say, that your friends, ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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What the Lord Has Prepared for You
When you’re trying to live your life well … with goodness, with ...
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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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Empowerment 101
Many a time we know all too well that we’re falling short – that ...
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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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When the Time Comes
We all have hopes and dreams. One day this … one day that … And ...
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You’ve Been Chosen
I wonder what it must be like for a sports man or woman to be chosen ...
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Becoming a Willing Servant
Perhaps you’ve heard of enzymes, but do you recall what they do? ...
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When All is Lost
Life, it seems to me, is a tug-of-war between good and evil; between ...
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When Safety is Overrated
Aside from skydivers, mountain climbers and other assorted adrenalin ...
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Even When You Grow Old …
One of the great tragedies playing itself out as a global pandemic ...
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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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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when ...
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Things Jesus Never Said
The meta-narrative, the overarching story that the world today wants ...
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A Reflection of Your Faith
Our faith, yours and mine, doesn’t exist in isolation from our ...
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Don’t Hide the Cross
The reason I do what I do, the thing that gets me out of bed every ...
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An Instrument of the Lord
The rescuing hand of God is a constant theme throughout the Old ...
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Let There be Light
Sometimes life feels like a bit of a riddle: All that stuff going on ...
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Have Compassion
The world in which we live is highly competitive: people clamouring ...
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Don’t be Ashamed of Failure
Failure is something that we don’t like to talk about because as ...
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Live Out Your Faith
Here’s an awkward question: If you’re someone who believes in ...
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Let Your Faith be True
Believing in something outside ourselves seems to be a natural part ...
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Expanding Your Horizons
When you make a blunder that really should have you bearing the ...
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The Gospel Cannot be Silenced
There are forces at play in this world that seek to shut down the ...
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A Matter of the Heart
You’ve perhaps heard it said that without faith it is impossible to ...
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The Deep Mystery of Faith
Apparently, so the scientific theory goes, the universe was created ...
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Shout it From the Mountaintop
I try to imagine sometimes, what it must have been like for people ...
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Wanting the World
Duplicity is one of the most dangerous things that we can allow to ...
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Share It!
It seems to be so difficult these days to speak with others of ...
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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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From the Pit not the Pedestal
That feeling of complete inadequacy before God is one that many, many ...
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Suffering for Christ
In just a couple of days, on so-called “Good Friday”, we’ll be ...
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Justified by Faith
When you’ve done the wrong thing, have you ever tried to justify ...
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All the Faith You Have
Have you ever had that sense that “I simply don’t have enough ...
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Bending the Gospel
There’s a lot of pressure on any Christ-follower these days to bend ...
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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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He’s Still Looking for Disciples
What sort of a year are you looking forward to? Is it going to be the ...
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Satan’s Greatest Success
Might I ask you … this Christmas, are you going to tell anyone ...
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The Whole Job
With Christmas fast heading our way, many of us will be planning how ...
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Spreading Your Investments
All the things in this world that we take for granted – whilst ...
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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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When Christ Calls
Have you ever had the sense that God’s calling you to do something ...
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What Comes Next
So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to ...
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A Worthless Kind of Faith
Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real ...
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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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Don’t Be So Shy
By and large, pride is far from a good thing. When we’re full of ...
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The Gardener’s Job
When you’re out doing good things for God, using your gifts and ...
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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 Squander Your Freedom
Freedom is one of those concepts with a lot of “cerebral curb ...
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The Throbbing Heart of Religion
“Religion” is a word that, frankly, I recoil from – because to ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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A Powerful Witness
When politicians are uncertain in which direction to jump on any ...
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Satan in the End Times
Each and every day, as I read the news, as I see how people behave ...
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Where is Your Harvest?
Deciding where to plant your seed and what sort of seed to plant, I ...
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The Not So Popular Jesus
These days, people who have a positive impact on this world tend to ...
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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 ...