The Holy Spirit
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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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Pure and Simple
There are so many people in this day and age who want to get rid of ...
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Do Not Fear or be Dismayed
Courage can be a confusing concept. It’s certainly an attribute ...
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In the Shelter of the Most High
Somehow, the world always seems to be teetering on the edge of ...
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Don’t Weaponise Your Faith
If there is indeed a God in heaven, you’d want Him to be a God of ...
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The Lord is Faithful
It’s easy to take things for granted. Take for instance your five ...
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Just Because You Can …
There seems to me to be two types of people in this world – those ...
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Hungry for More
When you stand back and think about it, the investment we make in ...
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Wipe Away the Tears
It’s a cruel fact of life that you can be slaving away doing your ...
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The Best Kind of Uncertainty
As we think about the future, you and I, we find ourselves in ...
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An Immutable Law of Life
Certain laws of the universe are immutable. No matter how hard you ...
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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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A New Way of Living
These days, the idea of not hurting people’s feelings can be ...
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There’s Wisdom … and Then, There’s Wisdom
Have you ever looked at something that someone’s done and thought ...
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When Self-Help Fails You
Yesterday we saw that the global self-help industry is worth over $US ...
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Living Your Best Life
Last year the global self-help industry – books, courses, coaching, ...
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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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Save Yourself
I’m a great fan of people (myself included) stepping up and taking ...
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Three Things to Look For
It’s ever so easy to become bedazzled by the success of others. ...
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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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Don’t Participate in the Lies
Without meaning to sound like a conspiracy theorist, because I’m ...
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Have You Lost Your Mind?
It’s never a nice feeling being the odd one out; the one who ...
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The Prosecution and the Defence
I sometimes try to imagine what it must be like to be charged with a ...
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There Are No Shortcuts
I don’t think there’s one of us who hasn’t wished that we could ...
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Time Marches On
The constant ticking of the clock (proverbial though that may be in ...
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This is What We Pray (3)
Do you ever feel weak, run down, just … blah? And to make things ...
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This is What We Pray (2)
The difference between right and wrong, good and bad … it’s ...
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This is What We Pray (1)
It’s very rare indeed for anyone, irrespective of what they may or ...
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The Ugliness of Self-Entitlement
I don’t know about you, but for me one of the ugliest of all human ...
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If Only I Had Listened
Looking back on your life, how many times have you been given good ...
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Stop and Be Still
Conflict is something that we’d all rather avoid. And yet sometimes ...
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Hold Your Tongue
Recent research has revealed that angry outbursts can do an enormous ...
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Defeating Giants
Success is a fickle thing. You can look like a stunning success to ...
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Faith is Not an Emotion
There are days when, for no apparent reason, you just wake up feeling ...
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Wanderer, Come Home
It’s not at all that uncommon to find yourself feeling somewhat ...
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Unfailing Joy
There invariably comes a time when we have to take a leap of faith. ...
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How to Change the World
If you could change the world, what would you change? Personally, ...
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Freedom Seldom Used
I’m sure you’ve noticed that as society becomes more polarised, ...
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Getting Unstuck
There comes a time for all of us when we feel as though we’re stuck ...
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Discovering Potential
Responsibilities, pressures, demands, they all seem to crowd in on ...
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The Book of Joy
Can I ask you to set aside for a moment, in all that you have going ...
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Trust in the Lord
Courage in the face of fear ain’t easy. In fact courage, basically, ...
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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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Freedom at Last
Freedom. Now there’s a word that we all love … yet it means ...
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Joyful Jesus (3)
The world makes for a fickle audience. Sometimes they’re cheering ...
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Joyful Jesus (2)
The world’s full of cheap imitations, knockoffs of expensive brands ...
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Joyful Jesus (1)
If I were to ask you, “Do you want to experience joy in your ...
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A Chosen People
Imagine you could turn the clock back and undo the many mistakes that ...
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Surviving the Passover
Today, for most of us, is just another day. But for others, it’s a ...
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A Different Take on Passover
Down through the millennia, human history has taken many unexpected ...
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Kindness and Love
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this too, but some people are ...
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Devotion and Kindness
Kindness is one of the most powerful change agents on earth. Even the ...
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Patience and Devotion to God
With just one life to live here on this earth, a life that seems to ...
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Self Control and Patience
You know what it’s like when your patience is running thin – ...
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Knowledge and Self-Control
We each have triggers that’ll set us off quicker than just about ...
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Goodness and Knowledge
Most of us just want to do good. We want to be decent and kind. We ...
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Faith and Goodness
So let me ask you, how do you set about building a good life; one ...
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Self Assembly Not Required
These days when you buy a new piece of furniture, it typically comes ...
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A Bit of Good News
There’s precious little good news going rounds these days. A ...
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This is How Change Happens
As world events unfold around us – everything from wars to ...
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Out of the Ashes
The aloe vera plant is said to have a good many restorative powers. ...
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Peace … or Not
Here’s a brutal fact: the world is at war. Over recent years, ...
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Don’t Forget to Rest
Today is the second Sunday of the year. We tend not to think of ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Teamwork – people with different perspectives, skills sets and ...
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A Good Treasure
Cardiovascular disease – essentially heart attacks and strokes – ...
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A New Focus
Well, here we are on day nine of the new year. Things are, no doubt, ...
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Be Filled with the Spirit
There are so many good things to enjoy in this life. And whilst most ...
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Absolutely Mind-Blowing
As we tread tentatively into this new year, we’re on a journey ...
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The Promise is True
The very idea of handing their lives over to God, of choosing to live ...
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Turn Then, and Live
Living a good life inevitably involves some tough choices. Healthy ...
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But Wait, There’s More
As I step into each new year, I often wonder what lies ahead: What ...
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Power from On High
They say that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ...
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On Solid Ground
As we step into this new year, it’s important, wouldn’t you ...
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Lift Your Gaze to the Heavens
Here we are … the first day of the new year and from me to you, may ...
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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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Make Peace with the Past
Imagine for a moment that you’re a soldier heading into battle. ...
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Processing the Past
In just a few days’ time, we’re going to click over into a new ...
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God for All to See
For many, the whole notion of “God” can seem ephemeral. Perhaps ...
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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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Since Before Time Began
Well, Christmas is just around the corner. Are you excited? Hmm? ...
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There is Superstition
So, here we are on Friday the 13th … a day considered in western ...
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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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When Christ Comes Again
One of the truly frustrating things about life is that when you ...
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The Anchor of Hope
Hope, when you think about it, is rather an odd emotion, because ...
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God Doesn’t Lie
There’s one thing in this world that we can absolutely count on. No ...
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The God of All Hope
Have you ever wondered who exactly people meet when they meet you? ...
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A Salutary Reminder
Good and evil – we all know the difference … or do we? It’s ...
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Near and Far
Electric vehicles are becoming all the rage. Fine, but having ...
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The Strength of Your Heart
A sure sign of maturity is when we trust less and less in ourselves. ...
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Nevertheless … Love
Without doubt, someone’s love toward us is at its finest when we ...
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Ignorant, Brutish Behaviour
Have you ever pricked a balloon with a needle? One moment it’s this ...
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The Multiplication Factor
According to the press, the church is dying. That has many a vested ...
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Give Thanks to the Lord
To a great extent, how we experience life – what we get, what we ...
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There is None Like Him
So, how much do you think of your life as being the journey of a ...
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God, Are You Listening?
In a world that seems to be a cacophony of competing voices, ...
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God is Good
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to lose sight of the truly ...
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The Big Picture
We fight so many battles in life. And when you’re in the midst of ...
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True Christianity
Spending your life pleasing others, working your way into their ...