The Holy Spirit
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Bad Religion
“Religion” is a word with which I have a rather uneasy ...
Today
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Holy Spirit Power
So many things promise so much. You can’t spend even five minutes ...
Day Before
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The Breath of Life
Sometimes – often-times, in fact – the simplest things in life ...
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Take a Deep Breath
There’s so much in life that we take for granted, not the least of ...
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Good Common Sense
It’s pretty amazing how easily our emotions can override good ...
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God’s Love Fills the Earth
Have you ever felt completely unloved … I mean, as though ...
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Don’t Overestimate Your Problems
When you’re faced with a problem, it’s really easy to ...
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Power from Above
It absolutely flicks my switch when the unlikeliest person does ...
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Stop! Trying to be a Better Person
Over the years, it’s frustrated the living daylights out of me ...
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Holy Spirit Power
As you and I simply get on with life, it’s kind of easy to drift ...
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The Authentic Christian Life
Authenticity and integrity are attributes we tend to value highly. ...
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With Radiant Face
Some people seem to be more resilient than others. Okay, your ...
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A Life Worth Living
I never actually set out to offend people … honestly, I don’t! ...
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The Rollercoaster Ride
During those tough times in life, we invariably find ourselves on an ...
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He Heard My Cry
Early the other morning, while it was still pitch black outside, I ...
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Upside Down, Inside Out
We each have to make sacrifices along the way. But have you ever ...
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Your Hidden Potential
Do you know what’s really tragic? When someone’s hidden potential ...
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In Those Hidden Moments
We all face temptations in life. Sure, people draw the line between ...
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Beware of Fake Friends
Did you know that you can now buy an AI friend? Yep! An artificial ...
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Every Time You Remember, Forgive Again
A question for you today … well a couple actually. Who are the one ...
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Be Careful What You Tolerate
Finger pointing, judgementalism, is endemic in society today. And, ...
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I Rejoice in This
There’s something quite amazing, intoxicating even, in setting out ...
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Great is His Faithfulness
Sometimes life dumps us in places where we feel powerless, completely ...
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Your Body is a Temple
Today … we’re going to chat about … well, a touchy subject. ...
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Some Churches Aren’t All That Friendly
We people are funny creatures – quite tribalistic when it comes ...
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In My Opinion …
Everyone seems to have an opinion about everything these days. Whilst ...
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Trust in the Lord
Stress, or the need to alleviate it, is the number one felt need in ...
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Tolerance versus Endorsement
If there were just one word to sum up the dominant moral ethos of ...
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Trust in the Lord
Picture this – you’re in a small boat on a calm sea when suddenly ...
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No Excuses
We can get grumpy for all sorts of reasons – a lack of sleep, low ...
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
It’s easy these days to feel pressured – pressured by a lack of ...
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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 ...
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Don’t Swallow the Jesus Cocktail
Down through the centuries – indeed, to this very day – ...
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Why Stay Foolish?
Empowerment is a word we all love. Hey, who doesn’t want to feel ...
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Being Your Authentic Self
The mantra of this age seems to be … be your authentic self! Do ...
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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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Self-Promotion in Disguise
Let’s face it, boasting is an ugly habit. It’s crass. It turns ...
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Stand Firm
It feels like the hot days are getting hotter and the cold days are ...
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Think Beyond the Present
Isn’t it just the pits when apparently evil people succeed, and ...
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Don’t Become too Shiny
Success can be a fickle thing. Of course we all want to be successful ...
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Don’t Expect Instant Feedback
You can ask any AI tool a question and in mere seconds it’ll ...
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When Prayer Doesn’t Come Easy
Surveys tell us that at least a billion people across the globe have ...
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Come to the Ancient Well
There’s a tendency in the high-tech, fast-moving, AI-driven world ...
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Don’t be Invisible
So let me ask you … do you like standing out from the crowd, being ...
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Time Flies
Imagine that you’re given an hourglass where each grain of sand ...
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Let Gratitude Flood Your Heart
Things don’t need to be going all that badly in our lives for us to ...
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God’s Guarantee
Most products these days come with some sort of guarantee … and yet ...
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A New Lease on Life
There are some people on planet Earth whom I’m certain that none of ...
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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 ...