Sin & Repentance
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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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Highly Entitled Individuals
We live, more and more, in the age of entitlement. I deserve better ...
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Hatred is Verboten
When I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to use the word ...
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False Prophets, False Gods
In our desire to be successful (something that’s been drummed into ...
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Reading Your Own Death Warrant
We’ve been reading this week about dealing with the difficult ...
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The Hatred of Sin
When it comes to … you know, those sinners out there … perhaps ...
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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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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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Saving Sinners
Yesterday we read about loving your enemy – one of the many ...
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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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It is Well With My Soul (4)
All too often when disaster strikes, when we’re suffering as a ...
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It is Well With My Soul (3)
Have you ever had this terrible sense of foreboding that something ...
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It is Well With My Soul (2)
“Sin” is the central dilemma of humanity. No, it’s not a ...
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The Rules Don’t Apply
Have you ever come to the conclusion that because God loves you so ...
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The Risks of Overthinking
With the glut of information (and indeed, misinformation) bombarding ...
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Keep Your Emotions in Check
We’ve been reading the last couple of days about our emotions ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
Everyone you know, no matter how much they love you, will at some ...
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That Emotional Fog
Have you ever had the situation where you’re driving on a road at ...
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Unleavened Bread
Sometimes when communion is passed around at church – a small cup ...
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Bitter Herbs
This whole notion of “sin” … well, it’s not particularly ...
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How to Repent
So, these last few days we’ve been reading about the vitally ...
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How to Live in Victory
Knowing that Jesus died and rose again to set us free from our sin ...
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Stop Blaming the Devil
Over the years, I’ve had a good many people tell me that they’re ...
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Relative Deprivation
When was the last time that you looked at what someone else had and ...
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That One Master Habit
It’s funny isn’t it, how easy it is to drift away from good ...
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The Great Sovereign Remedy
Lust is a word that we don’t use all that often in modern-day ...
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Sin Kills
Death is something that you think more and more about, the older you ...
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Putting Sin to Death
Sadly, way too many of those who call themselves by Christ’s name ...
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Know the Difference
Not everybody you meet is actually who they appear to be. Sadly, some ...
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Every Sinner Has a Future
It was October 15, 1995, that I walked through the doors of a church ...
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I am the Resurrection and the Life
It’s relatively easy to believe in eternal life, when you’re ...
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Expect Criticism
I think one of the most difficult things to deal with is when you cop ...
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Loving Difficult People
We all need to be loved. You do, I do, the people around us do and ...
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Don’t Tell Secrets
Have you ever noticed how tabloids love leading with headlines that ...
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Gossip Spreads Strife
One of the great conflicts I think that any Christian suffers from is ...
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Defending Your Rights
If the rhetoric of Christians in the social media feeds that I ...
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Straightening Out a Twisted Mind
Have you ever made a serious blunder along the way and afterwards, ...
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A Sense of Time
Have you noticed how sometimes, time seems just to fly by, and other ...
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Repent Therefore!
People are sometimes confused about how you end up in the Kingdom of ...
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The Fruit of Your Salvation
Faith in Jesus, salvation in Christ, is not a one-time tick in the ...
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How to Spend Your Salvation
Over these last few days, we’ve been talking about what it means to ...
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Saved by Grace
I wonder if right now you can picture the face of the single most ...
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The Death Equation
Death is an absolute certainty in this world. I know that’s a ...
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The Path Away from Pride
Pride isn’t just ugly – that’s something we see every time we ...
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When We Step Out
The new year is a stunning opportunity to turn away from that one ...
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Breaking Free
Yesterday we talked about leaving our sin behind. About ...
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The Very Definition of Insanity
You know what they say: the definition of insanity is doing the same ...
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Your Slate is Wiped Clean
Well, here we are it’s just after Christmas, again! A time of rest ...
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It’s Your Choice
Christmas is just around the corner and over this past week or so ...
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God Loves a Sinful World
Why did Jesus come to this earth? Why is it that in a week or so ...
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Don’t Be Surprised
The Holy Spirit is given to those who believe in Jesus to give us the ...
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Born Again
So we’re chatting this week about why Jesus came to this earth, why ...
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A New Beginning
As we begin to turn our minds towards Christmas, perhaps it’d be ...
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God Hates Pride
Evil comes at us in many different forms in this world. But somehow, ...
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Your Love Must be Real
When you think about it, there’s a lot of shallow love going round ...
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
We know that we should have faith in Jesus. We know that we’re ...
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Confess Your Doubt
Jesus places rather a high premium on faith – or more specifically, ...
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Where do Arguments Come From?
So, everything’s going along just fine in your world and in your ...
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Uncommon Wisdom
Can I ask you, when was the last time that you were involved with a ...
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Who Exactly are the Children of God?
So, I’m sitting in a Bible study the other day with a bunch of ...
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The Deepest Recesses of Your Soul
When things go wrong in our lives, I mean badly wrong, one of our ...
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Don’t Be Fooled by Half Truths
One of the consequences of the rising tide of evil in this world is ...
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The Times When Darkness Rules
There’s simply no doubt that we live in a world of creeping ...
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Which Jesus Are You Following?
Back when Jesus was walking the dusty roads of Israel, there were ...
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Listen
If only, in those difficult moments – in those moments where we ...
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If Wombs Had Windows
The Bible seems silent sometimes on important issues. One of those ...
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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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The Church and Adolf Hitler
Have you ever wondered how the church in Germany could have stood ...
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Hell is Still Hot
‘Hell’ is not a popular concept these days. Fair enough. The ...
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Praying for a Time of Testing
None of us ever wants to call bad times down on our heads, do we? ...
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The Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
Have you ever heard of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone? It’s a ...
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If You Could See My Suitcase
I don’t think that there’s a single one of us who doesn’t have ...
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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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It’s Really Not that Complicated
These days, the line between right and wrong seems to be becoming ...
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Seek Good, Find Favour
The last few days we’ve been poking around in God’s Word to ...
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Seek Good and Not Evil
In a world shrouded in evil – and make no mistake, that’s ...
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Responding to the Rise of Evil
Evil’s running rampant in the world. In one sense, that’s nothing ...
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God as Your Guide
I don’t know how it goes for you, but what I find in life – yes, ...
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Persecution is Coming
Let’s be honest … in this day and age, the temptation to forsake ...
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People Can Be So Horrible
There are some truly nasty people in this world; people who’ll take ...
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Free, Full, Final, Forever, Forgiveness
No doubt you, like me, hate it when you stuff up; when you fail God, ...
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The Angry Boss
It’s easy to get the impression that the Bible – the thing that ...
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Will We Never Learn?
I never cease to be amazed by my own propensity to be spiritually ...
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Do you know what I find really, really scary? It’s the people who ...
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The Age of Self
The behaviour of people these days seems to be getting worse and ...
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Undefiled Religion
Yesterday we looked at the complete and utter worthlessness of ...
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Forgetting What God Says
How often have you read something in God’s Word … say, in the ...
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Self-Delusion
So you go along to church, sing the songs, hear the sermons, enjoy ...
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Being Told that You’re Wrong
Yesterday we read about God’s powerful advice for reducing conflict ...
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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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Are You Wilting?
It’s a sad thing to see a beautiful pot plant wilting, drooping, ...
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Waiting to Die
What’s life all about? Is it just about getting up and doing the ...
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Your Measure of Success
That sense of self-importance that some people have is so… well… ...
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God’s Best
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We all realise it’s a good idea, but ...
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The Good Shepherd
Question: did Jesus come to this earth for you? Or do you perhaps ...
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The Common Cold
I never cease to be amazed how readily we are able to rationalise ...
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Easter in a Nutshell
So another Easter is just around the corner, and whilst we take these ...
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Sin is Never Small
Life is full of compromises. I guess that’s true, and yet there are ...