The Word of God
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Your Source of Strength
I heard an eminent psychologist talk recently about the power of ...
Day Before
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Stumble But Don’t Fall
Anyone who’s ever set out to lose weight (I think that’s about ...
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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 ...
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The Riddles of Life
Life can be something of a riddle, especially as you look ahead. What ...
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Discovering Potential
Responsibilities, pressures, demands, they all seem to crowd in on ...
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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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The Trouble of My People
Sometimes as you look around, the world can be a very bleak place. ...
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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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Christmas is Coming
Shocking though it is, we’re only ten days out from Christmas. Ten ...
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Whose Child Are You?
How you live, how you treat others, has a lot to say – in fact, it ...
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There is Superstition
So, here we are on Friday the 13th … a day considered in western ...
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Don’t Be Led Astray
Meeting new people, making friends, simply isn’t easy these days. ...
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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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Fear and Peace and Comfort
We live in tumultuous times. You pick up a newspaper and people in ...
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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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Teach Me Your Ways
Have you ever tried navigating your way around an unfamiliar place? ...
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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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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 ...
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Be Holy
I marvel at the amazing things that elite athletes are able to ...
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Peace All Around
I wonder, what battles are you facing at the moment? A struggling ...
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The Promise of Peace
There are many things in this world that promise so much – career, ...
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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going ...
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Changed by Grace
Every parent at some point is terrified that their child might end up ...
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Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Most of us want a changed life. Why? Well, none of us is perfect. We ...
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Have You Been Cruising Through Life?
Cruising has become the vacation of choice for many. In fact, over 30 ...
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That Time is Coming
Imagine with me, if you will, a world without the sun and, of course ...
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God’s Glory Come Nigh
There’s something about a sunny day that just lifts your spirits. ...
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Follow the Leading of the Holy Spirit
Allowing someone else to lead us, in this day and age, is for many an ...
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Build Yourself Up
As any athlete will tell you, if you want to grow stronger you have ...
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A Miraculous Metamorphosis
I’m pretty sure that you, like most of us, have things in your ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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How to Travel Light
There’s a reason why successful athletes tend not to carry a lot of ...
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The Message from the Beginning
Love is such a simple word. And when you think about being loved – ...
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The Ultimate Goal of God’s Love
I’d like you, if you would, please, to picture the face of the most ...
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You Can Still Win the Race
You and I will possibly never be the fastest, smartest, or most ...
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Open to Learn
So you’re cooking this great meal, but then you discover that ...
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Taking Advice from a Prisoner
If someone wrote you a letter from prison with some advice for how ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone ...
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Will You Compromise?
Sometimes we’re faced with an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, you ...
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What the Lord Has Prepared for You
When you’re trying to live your life well … with goodness, with ...
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Wisdom that’s Hard to Accept
The world’s powerbrokers – national leaders, billionaires, ...
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Wisdom Before the World Began
The self-help sections of newspapers, or newsfeeds if you’ve gone ...
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The Rulers Losing Their Power
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have ...
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I Love You Lord!
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. ...
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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases ...
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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something ...
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Is God Even Listening?
Have you been asked for advice and, as you were sharing your ...