Wisdom
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Be Holy
I marvel at the amazing things that elite athletes are able to ...
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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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God’s Glory Come Nigh
There’s something about a sunny day that just lifts your spirits. ...
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Take Stock of Your Motives
So, the last time you said or did something that on reflection just ...
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Be Careful!
Self-promotion is an ugly thing. People saying or doing things ...
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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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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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Will You Compromise?
Sometimes we’re faced with an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, you ...
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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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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases ...
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When a Billionaire Dies
The world seems, by and large, to be fixated on wealth, wouldn’t ...
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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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A Radical Rethink
A lot of the bickering that goes on in this world is about who’s ...
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In High Demand
It’s all too easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we’re ...
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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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The Power of Words
If only we realised the power of our words. I heard someone say once ...
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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 Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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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 (2)
Here’s a blunt, inconvenient truth: your attitude towards the ...
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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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How Much do You Complain?
There’s nothing worse than a whinger, is there? Someone who’s ...
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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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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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Stop Arguing
It doesn’t seem to matter all that much what group of people you ...
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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the ...
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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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When You’re Shaking
Fear is far more common, far more widespread, far more prevalent that ...
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Bring Your Deeds Into the Light
If I were able to interview you on a radio program and ask you to ...
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Waiting Differently
How much do you enjoy waiting for things to happen? Something good, ...
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Take Your Sabbath Rest
Welcome to Saturday, the day upon which God commanded His people to ...
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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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Hypocrisy and Self-Delusion
Hypocrisy and self-delusion go hand in hand. To the rest of us, ...
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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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If Only …
Each of us has to decide many times each day whether to do good ...
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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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Steady as She Goes
Every now and then things happen – both good things and bad, things ...
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Examine God’s Word
Have you ever wondered why you’re struggling with the things ...
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Good Theology Ain’t Enough
Different people understand the Good News of Jesus in different ways. ...
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When Safety is Overrated
Aside from skydivers, mountain climbers and other assorted adrenalin ...
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Don’t be Offended
When others behave badly, it’s so easy for us to take offence. In ...
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Be Careful How You Live
We all have but one life to live on this earth, and time’s slipping ...
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The World Has Enough Critics
Criticism and conflict seem to be de rigueur these days in the public ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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Even When You Grow Old …
One of the great tragedies playing itself out as a global pandemic ...
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Sorrow That Leads to Change
Sorrow isn’t something that we’d ever wish upon ourselves. Why ...
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When Friends Flee
There’s nothing more unsettling, unnerving, disappointing, ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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The Wealth Snare
Is it reasonable or unreasonable for a professing Christian to save ...
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Tread the Right Path
Life’s journey comes with many twists and turns and a good many ...
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Don’t Ignore the Red Flags
I think we’d agree that looking for the good in others, seeing ...
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The Death of Gossip
Gossip has the power to ruin reputations. A rumour here, a whisper ...
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Don’t Throw Stones
When we see someone else doing the wrong thing, all too often we feel ...
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The Blind Leading the Blind
The clear and present danger for anyone who puts their trust into ...
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Along the Path of Goodness
Time and again, studies have found that companies that experience ...
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Don’t be Lazy
When does the need for rest become our excuse for laziness? We all ...
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God’s Timing is Perfect
I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t always been that enamoured by ...
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How You Treat Your Staff
Anyone who’s ever been in a leadership role will know that it ...
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Are You Still Trying to Impress?
No matter how humble we think we might have become, there’s always ...
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Pride is Destructive
So, how much do you enjoy living or working with a prideful person or ...
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The Power of a Question
If only life were simple … but it simply isn’t. It’s messy, ...
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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on ...
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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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The Very Definition of Failure
Have you ever worked hard, sacrificed much to achieve something, only ...
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Completely Worthless
The allure of all the stuff that money can buy seems to be growing by ...
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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, ...
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Wait for It
We used to have a saying back in my army days. “Hurry up and ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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Stop the Brinkmanship
As children, we all played a game of brinkmanship with our parents; ...
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Don’t Give the Devil an Opening
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s more than enough out ...
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Wise Up Early
Do you remember being young and stupid? I certainly do; the things I ...
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Underwrite Your Success
Today we’re going to chat about success: Your success in the ...
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What is Good?
We live in a world of sharp contrasts. Black and white. Tall and ...
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When You Just Know
Have you ever wondered why God, in His wisdom, chooses to say the ...
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Choose Your Friends Carefully
So who are your closest advisors? If you’re married, hopefully your ...
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The Lord Gives You Understanding
A friend in need is a friend indeed. There’s nothing like having ...
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Cast Off Your Foolishness
None of us likes to think of ourselves as being foolish, and yet ...
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His Redemptive Intent
When we’re travelling through difficult times, we start asking … ...
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The Intentional Disciple
The word “equality” is highly misunderstood these days. Many are ...
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Barking Dogs
The message that Jesus died on a cross so that the sins of the world ...
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Ambassadorial Wisdom
There has always been (and I suspect there will always be) a ...
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Those Who Mistreat You
It seems to me that pretty much every da there’s someone out there ...