The Word of God
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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 ...
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The God of More Than Enough
Do you know what I’ve noticed? In my country at least, over the ...
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Something’s Not Right
Complacency, surely, isn’t such a bad thing, really. But what if ...
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A Mighty Heart
I wonder … when I use words like, “poverty”, “hunger”, ...
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Don’t Just Sit There
I don’t know if you’ve ever been so hungry that you’re ...
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Milk and Honey
There are so many good things – great things – out there for you ...
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A Piece of Driftwood
There comes a time in every person’s life when they feel all washed ...
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Give Me a Sign
It’s tempting sometimes to ask God to prove Himself, especially ...
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Jesus Does Things Differently
Let’s face it, we like people to be conventional, predictable. None ...
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A Test of Faith
If only God would make things easier than He does in our lives. If ...
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Dreams and Schemes
We each have different priorities in life. You do. I do. And if God ...
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What’s God Like?
Fundamental to having a rich, satisfying relationship with someone is ...
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Poor Me
The more affluent we become, the more difficult it gets to separate ...
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Ever Been in a Church Where …
Church services, when you stand back from them, are kind of a strange ...
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Investing in People
I want you to think of the one person on planet Earth that frustrates ...
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Mission Impossible
Sometimes it can feel as though all this spiritual stuff, God stuff, ...
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Motherhood
Most of us take our mothers for granted. They’ve always been in our ...
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To Forgive
Of all the people on this planet, who is the one person who has hurt ...
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Looking After Number One
“Yeah, sure, I believe in Jesus,” we think to ourselves as we ...
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Tradition, Tradition, Tradition
Have you ever thought about the things that you do to try to please ...
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Close Encounters
Do you yearn for a deep, intimate relationship with God? Has that ...
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I Lost the Phone
Okay, we’ve all heard that sermon “You should read your Bible.” ...
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Kingdom Currency
It turns out that the things that we tend to value most, and the ...
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You Are the Greatest
Have you ever felt like a misfit? Like you just don’t belong? I ...
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No Atheists in Foxholes
When the battles of life threaten to overwhelm you, what do you do? ...
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The God of Rest
For those who lead a hectic life, the temptation is to start thinking ...
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Power Walking with Jesus
It’s an uneasy feeling indeed when Jesus calls us to do something ...
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On Whose Terms?
The desire to reshape God into an image that’s much easier for us ...
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The Most Important Lesson
I’ve heard people say that “God never asks you to do something ...
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Even the Smallest Thing
There’s nothing more annoying than when you have a really good plan ...
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The Final Coat
It’s one thing to say, “I believe in God, I believe in Jesus,” ...
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Voice in the Wilderness
There was a time in my life when the idea of believing in Jesus was ...
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The Common Cold
I never cease to be amazed how readily we are able to rationalise ...
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Not Enough Power
You know how it is – you’re confronted with a problem, an ...
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The Power of Faith
When you live in a world that values appearance, status and success, ...
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Jairus and The Woman
Let me ask you … what are you worth to God? In your mind, how much ...
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Promises, Promises
One of the biggest things that stops us from powering on with Jesus, ...
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Eileen
When we compare ourselves with other people, we often find ourselves ...
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Walking Round the Track
I’ll be honest with you. For the first thirty-six years of my life, ...
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Crash Bang
Life can take a sharp 180 degree turn in an instant. All the things ...
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Dealing with Menopause
Anyone who has ever been married knows that on their wedding day they ...
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Who Are You Going to Tell?
When Jesus does mighty, powerful things in our lives, our first ...
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Believing Close Up
One of the things that I find incredibly scary is just how many ...
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A Good Story
You and I, we love a good story, particularly when it reaches into ...
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What an Odd Family
The idea of family is an interesting one. You hear Christians say ...
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Jesus in a Box
Honestly, I think most of us would be much more comfortable with ...
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Greener Pastures
We often think of marriage as an institution and yet when you get ...
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His Steadfast Love
Love is a word that we all love to use. It’s a word that we think ...
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A Light and a Lamp
When the going gets tough, often the last thing we feel like doing is ...
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Every Part of Life
Ask anyone “So, how are things going?” and the answer, more ...
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The Price to Pay
The longer we hang on to our sin, the worse things get. You can’t ...
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The Multitudes
There’s a reason that religious rules feel empty and hollow and ...
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Not All Rules are Good Rules
For some reason we’ve had this idea dropped on our heads that all ...