Wisdom
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Sharpen Your Knife
We tend to think of sharp knives as being dangerous – and they are. ...
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Will We Never Learn?
I never cease to be amazed by my own propensity to be spiritually ...
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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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The Demons of Mediocrity
When we operate in a spirit of excellence, the shocking truth is that ...
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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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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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Don’t Brag
There’s no doubt that we’d all like to be liked. There’s no ...
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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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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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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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Biting Your Lip
When someone does or says something that annoys you, how do you ...
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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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At Some Point …
When I turned 50, I decided that if I didn’t do something about my ...
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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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That One Thing
I wonder whether sometimes you find yourself suffering from ...
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Yellow Sticky Note
How can we, you and I, live lives that actually matter – that ...
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Poor Me
The more affluent we become, the more difficult it gets to separate ...
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Loving People
Have you ever prayed, “Lord, show me someone whom I can help”? ...
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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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Motherhood
Most of us take our mothers for granted. They’ve always been in our ...
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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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Jairus and The Woman
Let me ask you … what are you worth to God? In your mind, how much ...
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Crash Bang
Life can take a sharp 180 degree turn in an instant. All the things ...
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Easter in a Nutshell
So another Easter is just around the corner, and whilst we take these ...
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A Good Story
You and I, we love a good story, particularly when it reaches into ...
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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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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 ...
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What is it with Rules?
Christians talk a lot about the grace of God – the unmerited favour ...
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The Heavens Were Torn Apart
When the going gets tough, when we’re in a place we’d rather not ...
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A Letter from Alligator Creek
Every now and then I feel the need to get right in your face, and ...
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Taking His Time
When things aren’t going to our plan, could it be that God has a ...
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A Carpenter Called Adam
How much do you spend comparing yourself to others? How helpful is ...
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Old Dog, New Tricks
When God does something new in your life how do you respond?
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Is Anybody Out There?
When the pain is so bad that nothing makes a difference, God can and ...
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Win Some Lose Some
What are the little compromises in your life that are robbing you of ...
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I Just Blew It
Nothing speaks more powerfully of who Jesus is, than when we show His ...
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Here Comes da Judge
When we stop judging others, it brings a whole new peace into our ...
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The Vanquished Become the Victors
Don’t let the losses of the past define you. Don’t let them shape ...
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Forgiveness is Healing
The hurts of the past will never stop hurting until we forgive those ...
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Forgiving is Accepting
How we treat the people with whom we disagree says a lot about the ...
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Forgive and Forget
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful forces for change that the ...
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Your Thoughts Shape Your Life
Your thoughts – what you spend your time thinking about – says ...
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Significance or Success?
How does a young woman doing her makeup on YouTube get hundreds of ...
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How to Be Like Jesus
In a world of vast suffering and misery, it turns out that you can ...
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Another Year’s Gone
So as you look ahead to the new year, what sort of a year do you ...
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A Gift for the Poor
There’s a tradition that goes back centuries that God wants you to ...
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Flying Under the Radar
It’s okay not to be noticed, to fly under the radar. It’s okay ...
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Dealing with Disappointment
So when was the last time that you were disappointed by someone or ...
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The Dark Threads
Why do bad things happen to good people? God, what are you doing?
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The Communication Gap
Okay, on a scale of 0 to 10, how close do you feel to God right in ...
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Washing Judas’ Feet
In the depth of your heart, in the core of your very being, do you ...
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From Riches to Rags
If someone offered you an unlimited supply of money, how much would ...
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Don’t Be Afraid
So often God’s wisdom – what He tells us to do, how He calls us ...
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Money Ain’t Everything
Money, wealth, riches … seductive, aren’t they? Secretly, we all ...
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Smoking Kills
I never cease to marvel at our capacity for self-delusion. We know ...
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More and More
It’s utterly astounding to me the seemingly endless variety of ...
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After the Fire There Was …
A friend of mine was telling me the other day that he was rummaging ...
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Hard Work
I want to share something with you today that has frustrated the ...
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Forgiving on the Fly
The easiest thing in the world for you and me to do is to rationalise ...
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The Things We Take For Granted
Many people these days have an investment portfolio, saving for their ...
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The Present
Satisfaction and contentment – these are things that we all yearn ...
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Where Are The Crowds Now?
Have you ever read something in the Bible and thought to yourself, ...
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The Power of Words
So many people in this world are so tired, so stressed out. Life is ...
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Strongholds
It’s funny how many blind spots each of us actually has in our ...
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Being Human
So where did you get the wisdom that you have today? Where did it ...
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The Bible
We’ve all heard of those word association tests. You say black, I ...
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A Different Perspective
I have absolutely no idea where you’re at when it comes to faith in ...
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A Tiny, Little Pebble
It’s funny isn’t it, how it’s invariably the little things that ...
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Wires and More Wires
Have you ever looked around at other people and thought to yourself, ...
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A Loud Horn
For most of us … well, we consider that humility is a good thing, ...
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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without ...
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Standing Up for What’s Right
What a bloomin’ mess the world seems to be in right at the moment. ...
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It’s How You Wait that Matters
You can’t read the Bible for any length of time without coming to a ...
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Money Ain’t Everything
“If only I had just a little bit more. Not a whole lot, just ten ...
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Equipped for the Job
We hate to admit it, but sometimes, our circumstances get the better ...
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The Dry Sponge
As someone who believes in Jesus, there’s nothing worse than when ...
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Hanging Around
I wonder … how do you choose your friends? Most of us befriend ...
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Avoiding
I don’t think there’s a single person on planet Earth who, right ...
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Pre-emptive Forgiveness
When someone does something to hurt you or annoy you, what’s your ...
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The Unthinkable
They say that you should never say never; it’s this idea that the ...
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Mother Nature’s Way
Pain is a fact of life … it just is. That’s not up for debate. ...
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Guarding the Watch
Abject poverty is so widespread in this world today, that all too ...
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Winning the Lottery
Priorities – they’re a funny thing. We know we should prioritise ...
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When Things Don’t Make Sense
Most times, suffering just doesn’t make sense. We struggle against ...
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Making Sense of It
One of the biggest criticisms of Christianity is that it’s just a ...