The Holy Spirit
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The Blessing of Obedience
As any parent will tell you, obedience has its rewards. A rebellious ...
Today
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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 ...
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The Mighty Word of God
As we become more technically savvy and sophisticated, it can be ...
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Holy Spirit Power
None of us like to admit that we’re powerless. But in some ...
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How to Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
Hope is one of the most precious things that you and I can ever have. ...
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Being Humbled
Humility is a great attribute to have, but learning humility, being ...
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The Promise of Life
When things go from bad to worse in your life, on a scale of zero to ...
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The Gift of Courage
In those times when fear strikes your heart – and no, it’s not ...
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Forgive and Forget
I wonder, today, whether we might take a moment to prod around in ...
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A Call to Suffering
No one likes to suffer. You don’t, I don’t, and yet, God has a ...
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Completely Alone
Have you ever felt completely alone? You know, when you’re hurting, ...
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Dirty Jokes
Sometimes, being a disciple of Jesus Christ, means standing apart ...
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God’s Posture
Have you ever wondered whether God is bothered by how little time ...
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How to Quench the Holy Spirit
Every morning when we get up out of bed, the biggest determinant of ...
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How to Grieve the Holy Spirit
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh, that’s just a small sin. ...
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Children of God
How secure are you in your relationship with God? What do you believe ...
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The Flesh and the Spirit
It’s easy to feel guilty about the struggle we each have in dealing ...
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The Spirit Poured Out
The work of God the Holy Spirit is sometimes surprising, sometimes ...
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Practical Guidance from Above
It’s scary when you see some Christians going all super-spiritual, ...
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Power from on High
The Holy Spirit is God. We talk about God the Father and God the Son, ...
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The Healing Power of God
On those dark days in life, those days when you’re struggling even ...
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The Spirit of the Living God
If you had to explain to someone else what the Holy Spirit is like, ...
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The Time is Coming
What are you hoping for, right now in your life? What drought do you ...
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Going Through the Motions
At some point, when you’ve been living your life for Christ, when ...
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It Happened Again
You mention that old line, “You should read your Bible more ...
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A Nudge from the Spirit
Have you ever felt that little nudge in your spirit, as though ...
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Do Not Quench the Spirit
A lot of people aren’t all that comfortable with the Holy Spirit. ...
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Knowing Jesus
It’s a strange idea, a strange concept, to imagine that you can ...
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The X-Ray
It’s easy to over spiritualise this whole Christianity thing. Look, ...
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Nothing Left to Chance
Those unpredictable things that happen in life, those unexpected ...
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Performance or Power?
Did you know that there are over twenty thousand Christian ...
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The Devil: He’ll Be Back
So, let me ask you, is the devil real, or not? Do you believe in the ...
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A Pig in Mud
When you feel as though no one appreciates you or understands you, ...
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Don’t Give Up
Things can be going along just fine, but then all of a sudden, the ...
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A Devil of a Time
Hypothetically speaking, if I were to tell you that I believed in the ...
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The Breath of God
Hope is one of the most important things that we need in life. ...
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My Soul Thirsts for You
Can I ask you today, in your heart of hearts, do you long for God? Or ...
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Family Tip Number 1
Sadly, there’s no manual for being a perfect husband or wife, or ...
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Godly Self-Confidence
So many people’s lives are being plundered, ruined, because they ...
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Cleanse the Temple
Can I ask you a question today? Who is Jesus to you? If you had to ...
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A Different Way
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over ...
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The Flight
To tell you the truth, I’ve had a tough few weeks. Lots of travel, ...
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Sight for the Blind
I visited a man a little while back, who is blind and ninety-two ...
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Closer Still
I was chatting with a friend, Tony, recently. We were talking about ...
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Once Upon a Time
The other morning, I received an email with a cartoon that really ...
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Banishing Misery
Let me ask you, have you ever sought after God with all your heart? ...
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What’s Gone Wrong?
In this world that’s moving ever faster, becoming ever more ...
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One Cheering Gleam
Let me be blunt. Large swathes of the church are just going through ...
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Praying and Preaching
Do you know what’s fascinating? Jesus had His disciples with Him ...
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Hope Against Hope
Without hope, life just isn’t worth living. So many people, even ...
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When God Speaks to You
Every now and then God speaks to us in ways that we don’t expect. ...
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A Down Payment from God
Have you ever been jolted with the shocking thought that God may not ...
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There’s No Need to Shout
The other night, I was speaking at a business event, and afterwards a ...
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It’s Not the Bad Preaching
I know people who rock up to church on a Sunday morning and they sing ...
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An Unexpected Sort of Freedom
Some people think that becoming a Christian means losing your ...
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Where the Supernatural Meets the Natural
Life is so … mundane sometimes, so routine, so normal, that it’s ...