The Holy Spirit
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Barking Dogs
The message that Jesus died on a cross so that the sins of the world ...
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A Double Helping
I wonder if you, like me, have ever found yourself labouring away, ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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Hold Fast to Your Confession
In my book, there is no better job than being the bearer of good ...
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Yearning to be Transformed
Pretty much everyone wants a better life – whatever that happens to ...
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Guilt and Anxiety
Guilt over the mistakes you’ve made in the past and anxiety over ...
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It’s Really Quite Simple
People can be difficult, have you noticed? I mean, really, really ...
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Open My Eyes
Throughout life, we tend to search for wonderful things; good things ...
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At War Inside
Fights and arguments – who needs them? Who wants them? Conflict is ...
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Devilish “Wisdom”
Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) we have a hierarchy of sin, of ...
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The Highest Privilege
Having done the whole “kids” thing in my younger years, I ...
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The Oil of the Spirit
Have you ever been sunburnt? I remember as a child, a few times being ...
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Don’t Grow Stale
Every relationship in our lives at some point is at risk of growing ...
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If Only…
Regret is an emotion that, obviously, we wish we’d never ...
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The Greatest Miracle
Imagine that you discover a precious, solid-gold cup in a rubbish ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is ...
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Nothing is Too Hard for Him
You and I need reminding on a regular basis of just how big and ...
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Transformative Power
Have you ever felt inadequate to be a follower of Jesus Christ’s? ...
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What Comes Next
So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to ...
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The Folly of Stubbornness
When was the last time you ran into someone who stubbornly refused to ...
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A Beautiful Strategy, but…
Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British ...
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Out to Lunch
In this tech-driven age in which we live, our senses are constantly ...
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Beyond Imagining
Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things ...
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Blind Fool That I Am
None of us wants to admit to ourselves (let alone to the rest of the ...
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Actions are Driven by Beliefs
I don’t know about you, but I am a master of self-delusion. So many ...
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To Walk Humbly With Your God
If there’s one human attribute that seems to be missing from the ...
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What is Good?
The world these days seems intent on blurring the line between good ...
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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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Beware False Teachers
Whenever we believe something passionately, as I certainly do when it ...
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Speak Up!
In any society, any community, there are winners and there are ...
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A Living Hope
Today is Sunday, our day of rest – a day for some good news, very ...
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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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Enjoying the Rules
From the youngest age, each one of us has been subject to rules. Our ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...
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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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Resurrection Power
We’ve been reading over the last few days about overcoming sin – ...
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The Power to Be Holy
Victory over sin –especially that one sin that keeps on coming back ...
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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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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by ...
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Making Wise Choices
Have you ever felt pressured to give? You know, when people knock on ...
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I am the Bread of Life
Being hungry is not a lot of fun. Have you ever sat in a meeting you ...
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Breaking Free
Yesterday we talked about leaving our sin behind. About ...
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Stop Making This About You
Some years ago I had a neighbour who drove me absolutely mad. He ...
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More Power Than You’ll Ever Need
Confronted as we are on a daily basis, by the evil that seems to be ...
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More and More Hope
These times in which we live are turbulent times – on a global ...
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God Won’t Let You Drift Away
Yesterday we chatted about the reality that sometimes, we can wander ...
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The Power to Save Your Soul
To be sure, some of the things that God has to say are at the very ...
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Listen
If only, in those difficult moments – in those moments where we ...
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God’s Deep Secret for Your Heart
You know how it is. The daily grind grinds away at you – day after ...
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Be Modest
If there’s one thing that the whole COVID-19 thing has taught us, ...
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The Blessing of Obedience
As any parent will tell you, obedience has its rewards. A rebellious ...
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Your Character Matters to God
As much as we don’t like to admit it, God develops our character ...
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Adrenaline Filled Moments
There are many things that happen in our lives that we find ...
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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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I Ache for You
How can a dead Jesus, in a dark tomb two thousand something years ...
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The Motivations of the Heart
Life just seems to bubble along, have you noticed? I have stuff that ...
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The Blah, Blah, Blah, Treatment
Preaching … sermons … can that really still be a thing in the ...
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Baptise You with the Holy Spirit
Christianity isn’t a religion – it’s not a set of rules to ...
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Lost for Words
If you’ve ever been at a complete loss as to what to say to God, ...
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The One Thing
What’s the one thing that you’d really like to have right in this ...
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Being Human
So where did you get the wisdom that you have today? Where did it ...
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It is Time
Jesus … it’s a name that means many things to many people. But ...
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Time Flies
I was sitting with some friends over dinner recently, and we were ...
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The Dry Sponge
As someone who believes in Jesus, there’s nothing worse than when ...
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Flowering Plants
Why is it that some people seem to power on and grow and flourish so ...
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The Good Oil
I don’t know whether you’ve ever thought of this, but God is in ...
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Talk, Talk, Talk
The easiest thing in the world is to disagree with God, or at least ...
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Mashed Potatoes, Jesus, Olive Oil
Sunday’s coming … another trip to church, same people, same songs ...
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I Love Gadgets
It’s easy to be dazzled by all the hi-tech in our lives, ...
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No Illusion
So let me ask you; what’s this whole Jesus thing all about? Is it ...
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Give Him Your Life
Okay, so we’re hurtling towards another Easter; a bit of a long ...
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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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Power for the Powerless
For much of my life, I knew pretty much that I was never going to ...
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Low Self-Esteem
I spent much of my life worrying about what other people thought of ...
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The Empty Cup
Mention the Holy Spirit, and you get all sorts of funny reactions. ...
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A Cry for Help
Life is great. Life is fantastic. Until it’s not. Until things take ...
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A Tale Two Puppies
How to move out of the darkness into the light.
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Filled with the Holy Spirit
“Be filled with the Spirit” is a command not an optional extra.
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The Spirit Poured Out
God yearns to pour His Spirit out on you.
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Power From On High
God wants to give you power from on high.
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God’s Incinerator
When letting go of the bad stuff isn’t all that easy.
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Dear God
Are you sick of making the same old mistakes again and again?
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A New Start
Have you ever had the feeling that something’s not quite right?
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Before Christmas
When we think about Christmas, probably the last thing we associate ...
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Crushed in Spirit
The word “crushed” is an evocative word. We’ve all seen things ...
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Pre-emptive Prayer
Prayer is one of those things that makes people feel guilty. We know ...
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You Need More than Aspirin
Treating symptoms and treating diseases, well … that’s not always ...
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My Children, My Family
Okay, so when you hear that word “church” what images, what ...
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A Life-Changing Experience
I don’t know how it is for you, but for me, and perhaps I’m a bit ...
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God’s Spirit is in You
When you hear these two words – Holy Spirit – what’s the first ...
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Keep Your Ears Open
So, how much of your prayer life is talking at God and how much of it ...
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All the Power You’ll Ever Need
Here’s something that I know is bothering many a person who ...
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You Are My Child
One of the most common things that happen when we’re going through ...
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Come, Discover My Mercy
Mercy is a word that we Christians bandy around rather too loosely, I ...
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Living with Jetlag
Do you know what I think? I think that we Christians all too often ...
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The Power of Your Life
One of the desires that we all have in our hearts is to make a ...