Sin & Repentance
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Don’t Play Hide & Seek with God
Remember when you did something wrong as a child how you’d hide it ...
Yesterday
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Don’t Head Back to Prison
I’m fairly certain that just a single night locked up in prison ...
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The Faintest Hint of Dawn
There are two types of people in this world – larks and owls; those ...
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What’s it Worth?
Question: How do you place a value on a human life? After all, right ...
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Don’t Fall for Cheap Grace
I hate it when someone tells me something that I don’t want to hear ...
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Undeserved, Unreserved
There are two sorts of forgiveness in this world; the sort that you ...
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There Are Consequences
Most of us just want to be left alone to live our lives just the way ...
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Wanderer, Come Home
It’s not at all that uncommon to find yourself feeling somewhat ...
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God is In Your Midst
Right or wrong, people do bad things to us. Right or wrong, bad stuff ...
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A Different Take on Passover
Down through the millennia, human history has taken many unexpected ...
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A Bit of Good News
There’s precious little good news going rounds these days. A ...
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Peace … or Not
Here’s a brutal fact: the world is at war. Over recent years, ...
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A Good Treasure
Cardiovascular disease – essentially heart attacks and strokes – ...
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Absolutely Mind-Blowing
As we tread tentatively into this new year, we’re on a journey ...
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Turn Then, and Live
Living a good life inevitably involves some tough choices. Healthy ...
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The Past has Passed
Imagine that you have to carry everything you own around with you in ...
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It’s Time to Turn the Page
We’re getting pretty darned close to closing out this year – ...
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Boom!
Here we are. We’ve arrived. Boom. It’s Christmas Day. So let me ...
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The Power of God
Christmas Eve. It can be a confronting time if we’ll allow it to ...
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The Rejected Creator
With Christmas almost upon us, the easiest thing to do with the whole ...
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Your Friendship with God
Christmas, which is but days away, is a time for celebrating with ...
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The Logic of Love
There’s something that has bothered me for many years. And ...
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Something to Think About
As we turn our thoughts toward Christmas there’s something that, ...
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Christmas is Coming
Shocking though it is, we’re only ten days out from Christmas. Ten ...
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Whoever Lives in Christ …
It can seem nigh on impossible sometimes to put an old head on young ...
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Pure Hope
“Purity” is a word that, by and large, we love. Pure gold, pure ...
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Pure Hope
So many people have such a bleak outlook on life. You may or may not ...
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving
I remember way back in my life that when those Christians started ...
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Changed by Grace
Every parent at some point is terrified that their child might end up ...
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Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Most of us want a changed life. Why? Well, none of us is perfect. We ...
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A Miraculous Metamorphosis
I’m pretty sure that you, like most of us, have things in your ...
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How to Travel Light
There’s a reason why successful athletes tend not to carry a lot of ...
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Your Change of Heart
Have you ever tried to kick a bad habit? It’s not easy. Whether ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone ...
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Shameful Behaviour
The desire to be thought well of is a secret that many harbour in ...
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A Time of Temptation
Whenever things press in on us – be they physical, emotional or ...
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Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Have you ever wondered what baptism is all about? It’s an odd ...
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Preparing the Way of the Lord
In my experience – perhaps in yours, too – God does some rather ...
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Repentance 101
Question: If God forgives us our sin through Jesus’ sacrifice on ...
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Salvation 101
Every now and then, it pays to go back to basics – both to ensure ...
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The Sacrifice Acceptable to God
When you see a man walking down the street with a bunch of flowers, ...
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Have You Ever Wondered, Why …
Have you ever wondered why sometimes the joy you once had, the joy ...
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A Cleansing from Within
When you stop and think about it, we know instinctively that our ...
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Be Open to God
When we head down the wrong path, when we know that what we’ve done ...
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The Dividends of Discipline
I have yet to meet someone who enjoys being disciplined; who loves it ...
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Dying To Christ Daily
If we’re going to be completely honest with ourselves, a good many ...
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Radical Surgery is Required
Most of us have a pretty good sense of the difference between right ...
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What God Won’t Bless
There are times when God feels a million miles away. And that’s ...
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Why Bother with Holiness?
Being good, doing good, can be hard going. When everyone else is ...
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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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Bring Your Deeds Into the Light
If I were able to interview you on a radio program and ask you to ...
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So Much Misery
Do you know what strikes me about this present age in which we live? ...
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Good News, Bad News
Well, today there’s good news and there’s bad news. Let’s start ...
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Cancel Culture
The very best sort of humour, in my book, is the sort that both makes ...
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The Ultimate Price
The central message of Christianity – the ‘Good News’ as it’s ...
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Incredibly Good News
How good are you at obeying the rules? If you’re licensed to drive, ...
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust ...
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Whose Fault Is It?
I’ve done some foolish things throughout my life. You too, right? ...
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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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By the Grace of God
So many things in this life seem to demand so much hard work. Good ...
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The Evil that Lies Within
There’s so much evil in this world. Pride, selfishness, arrogance, ...
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Your Premeditated Pass to Sin
Each one of us has that one weakness, that one chink in our armour, ...
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The World’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme
A man by the name of Bernie Madoff, a former Chairman of the Nasdaq ...
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Does God Still Punish Us?
So let me ask you, does God still punish His children? When you do ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down ...
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He Did it For You
Well, here we are … that day we call “Good Friday”, remembering ...
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A Big Promise
Jesus did and said things that were so, “out there”, so ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, ...
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Despite Your Best Intentions
It’s one thing to have good intentions; it’s another thing ...
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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact ...
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Hate Your Sin
It’s amazing how often we cast a judgemental eye over the bad ...
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Love Is …
I’ve never been a great fan of this crazy idea of … well, “Why ...
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Get Rid of Your Evil
It seems that the only way to stay completely away from the evil that ...
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How Will You Know?
You always need to be wary of those who claim to have some special ...
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Choose Your Friends Carefully
So who are your closest advisors? If you’re married, hopefully your ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it ...
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Don’t Bow Down to Evil
The world, more and more it seems these days, is requiring us, ...
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Ditch Your Secret Sins
Over the years you and I have seen a good many high-profile Christian ...
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Live Out a Defiant Faith
If only life were all sweetness and light. If only things would just ...
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The Promise of Christmas
The coming of Jesus into this world wasn’t anything like 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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I Wish …
So when was the last time that you felt, shall we say, “ethically ...
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Resting in Peace
When some dies, people say things like “She’s gone to a better ...
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Seeking You Out
Like it or not, we all secretly keep a ledger in our heads. And each ...
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Lifting the Load
We all carry burdens around in our lives. For some they’re heavy ...
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Feelings, Desires, Emotions
The opinions of other people – especially when they’re ...
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Rescued from the Hand of the Wicked
Don’t you hate it when evil people get the better of you? It rocks ...
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How to be God’s Enemy
So, humour me for a moment – whatever you happen to believe about ...
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An Awesome Responsibility
It seems to be one of those fundamental laws of the universe that ...
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But Do You Really Know?
When you’ve made a blunder – I mean, a really bad one – it’s ...
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Bring Your Habits Before the Lord
Here’s a powerful truth that should never escape us. God wants to ...
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The Great Turnaround
There are times when all we see ahead is adversity. But it’s in ...
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Loved Unfairly
Some people just take a dislike to us in a way that seems ever so ...
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When it is Good to Suffer
Suffering is a theme that I love to return to again and again, both ...
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Removing Sin’s Stain
When you do something that you know is wrong, the reality of that sin ...
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Obeying the Law of Christ
Okay, let’s imagine that somewhere deep in your heart, you want to ...
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Pleasing God
Perhaps you’re someone who wants to please God, but (and I’m sure ...
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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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Shady Deals
We’ve all done things we’re not proud of. I have, you have. The ...