The Word of God
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The Big Picture
We fight so many battles in life. And when you’re in the midst of ...
Today
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True Christianity
Spending your life pleasing others, working your way into their ...
Yesterday
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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 ...
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Eyes to See
It’s really quite striking, when you stop and think about it, how ...
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Humbling Yourself
We’ve been chatting this week about achieving greatness – true ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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The Power of His Word
Evil is something that we see all around us, if only we’ll look. ...
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Be Amazed
I don’t know how many church services you’ve sat through in your ...
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Jesus Goes to Work
Setting out on a new venture is always dicey. You take that first ...
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A Time of Temptation
Whenever things press in on us – be they physical, emotional or ...
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Preparing the Way of the Lord
In my experience – perhaps in yours, too – God does some rather ...
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Have You Ever Wondered, Why …
Have you ever wondered why sometimes the joy you once had, the joy ...
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A Cleansing from Within
When you stop and think about it, we know instinctively that our ...
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Be Open to God
When we head down the wrong path, when we know that what we’ve done ...
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You Can Rely on God’s Integrity
What do you do when you find yourself in a tough spot feeling ...
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The Dividends of Discipline
I have yet to meet someone who enjoys being disciplined; who loves it ...
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The Recipe for Peace (5)
Peace is about more than dealing with the stuff that happens to you ...
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The Recipe for Peace (4)
Okay, so how do you actually experience the stillness, the calmness, ...
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The Recipe for Peace (3)
Day-to-day, let me ask you, what drives your thinking? What causes ...
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The Recipe for Peace (1)
So many things in life can rob you of your peace. But right up there ...
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How to Recognise a Lie
Deception is all around us these days. Whilst editors and journalists ...
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Unrealistic Expectations
So, what are you hoping for in your immediate future? Doubtless some ...
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Go Fast or Go Far
Teamwork is lauded everywhere you look – in successful companies, ...
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Why Bother with Holiness?
Being good, doing good, can be hard going. When everyone else is ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” ...
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Serve God with a Pure Heart
Have you ever had someone do something for you with a bad attitude? ...
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Your Strength Comes from God
There are times in life when no matter how hard we try, how much ...
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Don’t be Trapped
The thought of being trapped, in whatever form that may take, is a ...
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In Case There’s Any Doubt
I wonder if you’ll join me today for a stroll down memory lane – ...
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God is Faithful
Whilst the education system may have changed somewhat these days, the ...
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God Will Keep You Strong
Perseverance is a word that we don’t much like, you and I, because ...
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You’ve Been Given So Much
Some people absolutely love receiving gifts – they’re wired that ...
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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, good. ...
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Then Jesus Told Another Story
If you’re someone who’s struggling to make the spiritual ...
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God’s Kingdom is Like …
Here’s something that many struggle with: you want to have some ...
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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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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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The Most Radical Remedy
Long-standing, deep-seated hatred is as old as time itself. It began ...
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Your Glimpse Into Eternity
Do you ever wish that you could have a glimpse into eternity? What ...
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Courage Brings Peace
Do you know what I love about Jesus? Despite being the Son of God – ...
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How Important is Faith?
The real-life battles that we face in life require real-life faith. ...
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Your World Conquering Faith
Let me throw something at you to see what you think: Any Christian ...
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Where are Your Strongholds?
When you face obstacles on your road through life, what’s your ...
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Overcoming Obstacles
I’m pretty sure that we’re all across the theory that, handled ...
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Conquering Faith
Why does God allow us to go through pain and suffering? Why are you ...
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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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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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Examine God’s Word
Have you ever wondered why you’re struggling with the things ...