The Word of God
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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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Fact Checking
Fake news is not merely a political cliché. It’s a profound ...
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Speak Up!
In any society, any community, there are winners and there are ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
Do you ever get the wobbles in your faith walk? Sure, you believe … ...
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False Prophets, False Gods
In our desire to be successful (something that’s been drummed into ...
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Too Much Pretending
There is so much pretending that goes on in the world today in ...
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The Deafening Sound of Humility
Most days, I make sure that I read the news – local, national and ...
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God In Your Old Age
One of the things that I find so intriguing is how God can take ...
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The Hatred of Sin
When it comes to … you know, those sinners out there … perhaps ...
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Walking Brave
Thank God that we’re not all preachers. Can you just imagine? ...
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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of ...
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Make a Joyful Noise
Do you know what I’ve noticed? It’s much easier to make a joyful ...
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The Faithful Love of God
So, at what point did we come to the conclusion that it’s all up to ...
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The Happy Warrior
So, another question for you today. When you speak up in defence of ...
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Saving Sinners
Yesterday we read about loving your enemy – one of the many ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...
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An Unhealthy Detachment
At some point along the way, anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus ...
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Grace Without Truth
We’ve been chatting these past few days about the truth – God’s ...
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The Church to Look Out For
I don’t know where you’re at in terms of your relationship with ...
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“Opinion” versus “Truth”
One of the things I’ve noticed – and perhaps you have too – is ...
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The Tender Love of God
It’s a rough and tumble world that we live in. Criticism can be ...
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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say ...
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The Risks of Overthinking
With the glut of information (and indeed, misinformation) bombarding ...
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That Emotional Fog
Have you ever had the situation where you’re driving on a road at ...
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Bitter Herbs
This whole notion of “sin” … well, it’s not particularly ...
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Roast Lamb
So here we are in Easter week casting our minds back to that Passover ...
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A Time to Remember
Easter week comes around so quickly. And we seem to pass through it ...
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Closer Than You Think
Yesterday we read about how small, how inadequate, how empty we feel ...
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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? ...
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That One Master Habit
It’s funny isn’t it, how easy it is to drift away from good ...
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Way, Way Too Small
The more I read Scripture, the more I listen to God speak, the more I ...
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Defending Your Rights
If the rhetoric of Christians in the social media feeds that I ...
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The Great Temptation
The great temptation these days is to edit the Bible, delete this ...
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Everything You Have
Can I ask you something today? When it comes to supporting God’s ...
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A Cheap Imitation of Christmas
Today, right around the world, children will be leaving a glass of ...
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Born Again
So we’re chatting this week about why Jesus came to this earth, why ...
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Stop Making This About You
Some years ago I had a neighbour who drove me absolutely mad. He ...
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The Unbreakable Partnership of Faith
The idea of taking a step of faith, well, that seems like a good ...
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
We know that we should have faith in Jesus. We know that we’re ...
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God Won’t Let You Drift Away
Yesterday we chatted about the reality that sometimes, we can wander ...
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Don’t Believe in Vain
I strongly suspect that there’s a point in every person’s faith ...
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The Power to Save Your Soul
To be sure, some of the things that God has to say are at the very ...
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Beautiful People
Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. True. Our notion of ...
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Which Jesus Are You Following?
Back when Jesus was walking the dusty roads of Israel, there were ...
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Up Close and Personal
Today … something different. I’d like to get up close and ...
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If Wombs Had Windows
The Bible seems silent sometimes on important issues. One of those ...
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A License to do Good
Jesus promised us that if He sets us free, then we will be, in His ...
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Are You Strapped In?
Like it or not, trouble will hit our lives from time to time. Just ...
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Slipping on the Banana Peel
Sin. The same one seems to trip us up over and over again. It’s ...
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The Getting of Peace
So if, as we saw yesterday, peace isn’t something that we can ...
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Peace of Mind
Peace is a subject that I love to circle back to again and again ...
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God as Your Guide
I don’t know how it goes for you, but what I find in life – yes, ...
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True Peace
Peace is something that we all want in our lives: A life free from ...
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How Great is the Father’s Love
In my neck of the woods, today is Father’s Day. If that’s not the ...
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The Law of Liberty
Freedom means being able to do whatever you want, whenever you want, ...
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Forgetting What God Says
How often have you read something in God’s Word … say, in the ...
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Impacted by Negativity
The negativity of other people has a habit of dragging us down with ...
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Excellence Versus Perfectionism
Excellence is one thing, but perfectionism … that’s quite ...
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A Powerful Combination
As we saw yesterday, when you and I operate in a spirit of ...
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The Demons of Mediocrity
When we operate in a spirit of excellence, the shocking truth is that ...
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Excellence Stands Out from the Crowd
People who operate in a spirit of excellence are exceptionally rare ...
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Son, There Are No Shortcuts
Excellence: The more commoditised the world becomes, the more choices ...
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Taking Risks
One of the incredibly inconvenient things about God is that His ways ...
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Learning to Fail Forward
I don’t think any of us wake up in the morning and set out to get ...
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Permission to Fail
Failure is a fact of life. We all fail at things on a regular basis ...
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Are You Treating People Fairly?
When it comes to this idea of justice, all too often we’re tempted ...
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The Things Money Can’t Buy
There are so many fun, amazing things for us to spend our money on ...
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Selfie-Culture
If you’d used this ubiquitous term “the selfie” back when I was ...
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The Spring that Never Runs Dry
How often have you been in a situation and prayed, “Lord, get me ...
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Waiting Patiently
I have to be honest with you … waiting isn’t one of my strong ...
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings
None of us likes to face adversity. We just don’t. You don’t and ...
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Don’t Brag
There’s no doubt that we’d all like to be liked. There’s no ...
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
One of the things that disturbs me greatly amongst God’s people is ...
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A Tough Choice
The place where our faith is truly tested is when we’re on the ...
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God’s Encouragement
None of us likes it when the going gets tough … we just don’t. ...
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger
The idea that the Bible is a stuffy old religious book that belongs ...
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Independence Day
Okay, so it’s the 4th of July. No matter where you live, you’d ...
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Dealing with Envy
Let me be perfectly honest with you. I can be spiritually quite thick ...
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Great Expectations
Do you know what I hate? Do you know what I really hate? It’s when ...
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Onwards and Upward
When we make a mistake (and seriously, who doesn’t?!) we have two ...
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The Power of the Past
For many people, the past holds such an incredible power over them ...
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The Seasons of Life
Whether we like it or not, whether we would have planned it this way ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
Different people can look at the same thing and see it completely ...
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A Fast Mind
I think we Christians can sometimes over-spiritualise things. We’re ...
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To Fast or Not to Fast
For many people, their weight is a touchy subject. If you’re one of ...
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Making Excuses for Mediocrity
When you encounter a bad person in your life … come on, that ...
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Am I a Christian?
Faith is an interesting notion. We’re told that we gain a ...
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Biting Your Lip
When someone does or says something that annoys you, how do you ...
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Spoiling the Vineyard
At the end of the day, good, strong, enduring, loving, supportive ...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...
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God Where are You?
Possibly the worst thing – no, not possibly, actually – the worst ...
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The Bitter Taste of Success
In your quiet moments when you imagine your future – as we all do ...
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Sweet Poison
These days there’s a health debate raging about sugar. Now, whilst ...
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This is Your Gamechanger
Metabolic syndrome, which is the collective term for obesity, high ...
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Why Does God Hide?
Let me ask you something. If you were God, would you kind of hide ...
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Glory, Glory, Glory
Do you ever get this feeling that … well, there must be something ...
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So Who Is He?
It seems that there are so many options these days when it comes to ...
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What Was He Thinking?
Have you ever found yourself praying for a breakthrough, praying for ...
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The Sin of Sodom
Most of us last night slept in a soft, warm bed with a roof over our ...