The Holy Spirit
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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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True Freedom
Would you be free of the burden of sin? I think we’d all ...
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Out with the Old, In with the New
I’m pretty sure we’d all agree that laws are, by and large, ...
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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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Then Jesus Told Another Story
If you’re someone who’s struggling to make the spiritual ...
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How to Recognise a Lie
When you think about it, our ability to recognise a particular path ...
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God is Near
It can be difficult to take God’s promises on face value – ...
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An Extraordinary Destiny
Have you ever considered the possibility that through all your ...
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Travelling Into Fear
So, when fear strikes, how do you respond? On the one hand, the ...
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When You’re Shaking
Fear is far more common, far more widespread, far more prevalent that ...
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Waiting Differently
How much do you enjoy waiting for things to happen? Something good, ...
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Praise Him with Passion
Can I ask you, when was the last time you praised God? And when you ...
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Take Your Sabbath Rest
Welcome to Saturday, the day upon which God commanded His people to ...
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Keep Praying
Do you ever feel as though the answers you need just aren’t coming, ...
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Keep Going
When we’re fed up, we want to give up. Our strength fails, our eyes ...
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Press Into God
Okay, so you’re out there slogging away, working your little heart ...
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Do What You Can Do
When things aren’t going quite the way you’d planned, when ...
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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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Teach Me
One of the greatest signs of humility that any of us can ever have is ...
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How You Travel Through Life
How far do you travel each day? Perhaps you commute to and from work. ...
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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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Hypocrisy and Self-Delusion
Hypocrisy and self-delusion go hand in hand. To the rest of us, ...
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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 Most Radical Remedy
Long-standing, deep-seated hatred is as old as time itself. It began ...
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A Different Perspective
It’s becoming more and more difficult for anyone whose faith is in ...
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A New Way of Thinking
Might I ask you, what’s dominating your thoughts? What do you tend ...
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Controlling Thoughts
Fear isn’t an emotion that we enjoy. Not at all! In fact, if it ...
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When It’s Time to Act
When the going gets tough, emotions like fear and dismay have a nasty ...
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How to Overcome Dismay
When circumstances conspire against us to produce one of those ...
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More Than You Can Imagine
With all that’s going on in your heart and mind, with all that’s ...
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This One Thing for You
Yep, it’s the weekend – hooray! Hopefully the chance for a bit of ...
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If Only …
Each of us has to decide many times each day whether to do good ...
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Bow Down to the Lord
Every now and then, God chooses to speak to us through some ...
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Don’t Forget To …
Our own sense of wellbeing tends to go through stages. Sometimes with ...
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You Can Depend on Him
Emotions are a huge part of who we are, absolutely. But when they go ...
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Good Theology Ain’t Enough
Different people understand the Good News of Jesus in different ways. ...
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When Safety is Overrated
Aside from skydivers, mountain climbers and other assorted adrenalin ...
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Don’t be Offended
When others behave badly, it’s so easy for us to take offence. In ...
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The Very Definition of Hypocrisy
Let’s face it, loving other people can be hard. They don’t always ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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Something to Remember
It’s almost a given that when we’re facing adversity, fighting ...
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God Encourages Those Who are Troubled
The word ‘affliction’ isn’t a particularly nice one. It’s ...
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake ...
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Tread the Right Path
Life’s journey comes with many twists and turns and a good many ...
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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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The Evil that Lies Within
There’s so much evil in this world. Pride, selfishness, arrogance, ...
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The Power of Life
There’s absolutely no doubt that Jesus performed some amazing ...
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How Not to Fail
Have you ever stepped out to do something for God in faith, all brave ...
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The Dangers of Religion
It’s quite remarkable really, how easy it is to take God’s mercy ...
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Have You Unwrapped the Gift?
Imagine for a moment that on one of those really significant ...
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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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Remember the Promise
Back in the days of old, the only sort of boats that existed were ...
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When the Holy Spirit Leaves the Building
Question: what’s the difference between following the rules and ...
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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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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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The Lord Will Protect You
Back in the day, the idea of a king being first and foremost a ...
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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh ...
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Let Your Hope be in the Lord
When you hit rock bottom – something that I’m pretty sure happens ...
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Be Washed in the Spirit
It’s strange that whilst we wash our clothes as they become ...
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Cast Off Your Foolishness
None of us likes to think of ourselves as being foolish, and yet ...
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Wanting God That Much
There’s a yearning deep inside each one of us for meaning; it’s ...
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Faith Above Feelings
Whenever God calls us to do something for Him, there’s a part of us ...
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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 ...