Transformation
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The Power of Life
There’s absolutely no doubt that Jesus performed some amazing ...
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The Light that Shines in Your Heart
You know when something’s been baffling you for ages, something’s ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down ...
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He Did it For You
Well, here we are … that day we call “Good Friday”, remembering ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, ...
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Despite Your Best Intentions
It’s one thing to have good intentions; it’s another thing ...
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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there ...
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When the Holy Spirit Leaves the Building
Question: what’s the difference between following the rules and ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact ...
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Hate Your Sin
It’s amazing how often we cast a judgemental eye over the bad ...
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Wise Up Early
Do you remember being young and stupid? I certainly do; the things I ...
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Don’t Worry
At this very moment, all that’s happened up to this point in your ...
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Don’t Bow Down to Evil
The world, more and more it seems these days, is requiring us, ...
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Waiting for a Breakthrough
Waiting on God for a breakthrough, in whatever area of your life in ...
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Grown-Up Thinking
The longer you exert yourself to do anything worthwhile in life, the ...
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Do I Really Need Saving?
In just a few days’ time we’ll be celebrating Christmas – the ...
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His Redemptive Intent
When we’re travelling through difficult times, we start asking … ...
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The Freedom Paradox
Freedom is something that we all yearn for. Freedom from rules, from ...
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Refusing to be Ordinary
It’s a big step – a huge one, in fact – to believe in Jesus. To ...
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Live a Full Life
There’s a world of difference between a full life and an empty ...
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Changing Values
Anyone who believes in Jesus in this day and age is under enormous ...
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Whom Will God Make Strong?
One of the things I absolutely love about God is His desire to help ...
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The Person God Wants You to Be
Life throws a lot of stuff at you, right? Constantly, day after day ...
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You Won’t Be Lost
One of the worst things that can ever happen to small children is to ...
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Exalted in Humility
It’s nice, isn’t it, when other people value you – who you are, ...
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A Helping Hand
Have you ever seen someone in desperate need and thought to yourself ...
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Use Your Head
One of the great tensions of following God’s call on our lives is ...
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Bring Your Habits Before the Lord
Here’s a powerful truth that should never escape us. God wants to ...
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Yearning to be Transformed
Pretty much everyone wants a better life – whatever that happens to ...
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Martha or Mary
I regularly have days that are so full, so busy in doing the things I ...
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Have a Drink
Have you ever woken up one day and found your faith in Christ to be ...
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The Great Turnaround
There are times when all we see ahead is adversity. But it’s in ...
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Something Interesting
When Jesus speaks, you and I can afford to hang on to every word ...
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The End of the World
One day, all the things that we hold dear in this world – our ...
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Wanting the World
Duplicity is one of the most dangerous things that we can allow to ...
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The Peace of God
Since the beginning of time, anxiety has been a chronic disease ...
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Removing Sin’s Stain
When you do something that you know is wrong, the reality of that sin ...
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Seeing Things Differently
It amazes me how two people can look at the same issue, the same ...
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Out in the Light
Invariably, whenever we have something to hide, it involves sin. Not ...
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The Worst of Motives
Sometimes, to get what you want in this world, you just have to go ...
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Jealousy and Selfishness
Jealousy and selfishness are two of the most basic of all human ...
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The Simple Blessings of God
Despite all the incredible advances in science down through the ...
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The Highest Privilege
Having done the whole “kids” thing in my younger years, I ...
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From the Pit not the Pedestal
That feeling of complete inadequacy before God is one that many, many ...
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Alive to Christ
So do you mind if I ask you, is the life you’re leading a life ...
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A Slave No More
The thing that I love most about God is the depth of the passion in ...
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No, Wait – It’s Real
I believe with all my heart that today God means to set you free from ...
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The Reality of Your New Life
Today we’re going to dive into one of my favourite passages in the ...
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A Tiny Spark
As body parts go, your tongue isn’t particularly large – not like ...
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Your Tongue and Your Heart
So, a question: how do you treat people … at work, your family at ...
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But I’m a Good Person
When I first became a Christian, I used to wonder why Jesus had to ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and ...
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Tenderness of Heart
Have you ever eaten a tough piece of meat? Meat’s allegedly good ...
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God’s Kindness and Mercy
Life has a funny habit of taking a sharp turn from good times into ...
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Trust Without Wavering
Have you ever had someone in your life – perhaps a member of your ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how ...
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One Soul at a Time
If you’re someone who joins me daily in this Fresh devotional ...
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The Greatest Miracle
Imagine that you discover a precious, solid-gold cup in a rubbish ...
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Bending the Gospel
There’s a lot of pressure on any Christ-follower these days to bend ...
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The Insurmountable Opportunity
Christians say some stupid things sometimes; seriously … like, ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is ...
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Your Future Awaits
Can I be brutally honest with you today? I don’t think that those ...
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He’s Still Looking for Disciples
What sort of a year are you looking forward to? Is it going to be the ...
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A Job or an Adventure?
So what is it that you do day after day? Perhaps you have a job so ...
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Leave the Past Behind
New Year’s Eve – traditionally a night of great celebration as we ...
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More Grace Than We Can Ever Imagine
The more time you spend looking at and thinking about the grace of ...
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Comprehending Grace
It’s one thing to have a spectacular “come to Jesus” moment. ...
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Transformative Power
Have you ever felt inadequate to be a follower of Jesus Christ’s? ...
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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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Bridging the Gap
One day … yep, one day God is going to do a powerful work through ...
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Don’t Ignore the Facts
During Jesus’ trial, Pontius Pilot asked the question “What is ...
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Throwing Stones, Washing Feet
Loving people who don’t love us in return … well, it’s not ...
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Have a Plan
Trust in God. We all know that we should. If you’ve ever opened a ...
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The Folly of Stubbornness
When was the last time you ran into someone who stubbornly refused to ...
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A Beautiful Strategy, but…
Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British ...
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Out to Lunch
In this tech-driven age in which we live, our senses are constantly ...
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The Gardener’s Job
When you’re out doing good things for God, using your gifts and ...
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Don’t Become This Guy!
There are times when we’re absolutely convinced that we’re right. ...
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The Deception of Certainty and Safety
In this day and age, “biblical truth” is very much out of vogue. ...
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The Throbbing Heart of Religion
“Religion” is a word that, frankly, I recoil from – because to ...
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Don’t Plan for Evil
Living in a country, as I do, where pretty much every native animal ...
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Don’t Rush into Evil
Sometimes we do stupid things on the spur of the moment. Everything ...
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God’s Handiwork
Both as a society, and as individuals, we have the most amazing ...
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No More Profanity
How often have the words that passed over your lips, the things ...
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A Godly Metamorphosis
The image that the world has of a loving God (if He were to exist at ...
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The Art of Listening
One of the worst things we can ever do is to talk over the top of ...
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Where is Your Harvest?
Deciding where to plant your seed and what sort of seed to plant, I ...
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To Walk Humbly With Your God
If there’s one human attribute that seems to be missing from the ...
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Black is Still Black
As we look back on the events of history, we tend to judge the things ...
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A Different Mindset
I don’t know about you, but I have this objective to become a ...
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A Dangerous Proposition
Freedom is one of those things that we all cherish, even if sometimes ...
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Old Keys Don’t Unlock New Doors
We all have difficult relationships, don’t we? Some seem to fester ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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Don’t Get Carried Away
It’s easy to come to the conclusion that being a Christian, ...
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An Unhealthy Detachment
At some point along the way, anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus ...
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What Suzy Says of Sally
We read earlier this week about judgementalism, and I just want to ...
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Don’t Expect Them to Applaud
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the moment we set out to live a ...
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You Can’t Be Serious
Despite all that Jesus had told His disciples about His coming ...
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Unleavened Bread
Sometimes when communion is passed around at church – a small cup ...
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Bitter Herbs
This whole notion of “sin” … well, it’s not particularly ...