Wisdom
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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 ...
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A Healthy Dissatisfaction
None of us is perfect. I’m not and neither are you. Which presents ...
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Feeling Weary?
We all get to feeling weary at some point. It doesn’t matter ...
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God’s Foolishness and Weakness
Personally, it’d suit me just fine if God would fit more with my ...
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Confusing Wisdom
Most of us would like to think that we have a pretty decent head on ...
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Cling to the Cross
I don’t know if you’ve ever been belittled, rejected, even ...
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Something Interesting
When Jesus speaks, you and I can afford to hang on to every word ...
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Open My Eyes
Throughout life, we tend to search for wonderful things; good things ...
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Emotional Clarity
One of the things that most of us aren’t all that good at is ...
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Wisdom from Above
Most of us, in an honest moment, would admit that we’re not as wise ...
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Devilish “Wisdom”
Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) we have a hierarchy of sin, of ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
By and large, we associate growing older with growing wiser. I mean, ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (6)
There are times in our lives when our circumstances are far from ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (5)
The Christian view of the respective roles of men and women these ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (4)
Monogamy is one of Christianity’s greatest contributions to the ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (3)
Okay, today … today we’re going for a super dose of the ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (2)
Any psychologist will tell you that, despite the whole ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (1)
Have you ever picked up an old book, read it, and thought to ...
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Teach Me
There are, it would seem, two types of people in this world; those ...
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I Messed Up – Now What?
When was the last time that you felt ashamed of what you’d done? ...
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The Tip of the Iceberg
Success is a word that we all like to embrace. After all, who ...
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Think Twice
It’s funny how the human psyche works. Sometimes the obvious can be ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how ...
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Absolutely Worthless
A great part of what it means to grow up, to mature over the years, ...
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Don’t Ignore the Facts
During Jesus’ trial, Pontius Pilot asked the question “What is ...
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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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Out to Lunch
In this tech-driven age in which we live, our senses are constantly ...
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Wise Up!
One of the things that I find intensely annoying about my parents is ...
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The Art of Believing
We all, to some extent, wear tinted glasses. In other words, we see ...
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The Throbbing Heart of Religion
“Religion” is a word that, frankly, I recoil from – because to ...
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The Price of Peace
Most of us consider wealth to be a good thing. Who doesn’t want to ...
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Listen Without Interrupting
Have you ever been with a group of people where one person clearly ...
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Mentoring the Young Ones
Mentorship is something of a lost art in this day and age. The idea ...
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Learning Respect
Yesterday, we read about having a teachable heart; about the ...
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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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O God, You Are My God
Over the last few days, we’ve been discovering that Jesus is not ...
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The Power of Monogamy
In many parts of the world, marriage is becoming less and less ...
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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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Use Your Head
Propaganda has been a thing since time immemorial. It’s just that ...
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Afraid No More
Boldness and bravado often mask deep insecurities and fears. I can ...
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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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A Mother’s Teaching
The things that our parents taught us tend to remain with us for the ...
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Don’t Sound the Retreat Just Yet
There’s a trend these days amongst some of God’s people to see ...
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For Your Own Good
I look back on some of the times in my life, some of the things that ...
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The Rules Don’t Apply
Have you ever come to the conclusion that because God loves you so ...
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The Risks of Overthinking
With the glut of information (and indeed, misinformation) bombarding ...
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The Importance of Discernment
The one thing we’re not short of in this day and age is ...
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How to be Holy
Obedience. Now there’s a double-edged sword if ever there was one. ...
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Making Wise Choices
Have you ever felt pressured to give? You know, when people knock on ...
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In One Ear, Out the Other
Do you remember when you were a teenager? Your parents told you ...
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Don’t Tell Secrets
Have you ever noticed how tabloids love leading with headlines that ...
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What Will You Do, To Win?
Can I ask you today, what sort of impact are you having in this ...
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Learning the Lessons of the Past
One of the things that truly drives me crazy is that the things my ...
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Working for Peace
Yesterday we chatted about the uncommon wisdom that we need in order ...
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Uncommon Wisdom
Can I ask you, when was the last time that you were involved with a ...
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Don’t Be Fooled by Half Truths
One of the consequences of the rising tide of evil in this world is ...
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Beautiful People
Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. True. Our notion of ...
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Who Has God’s Blessing?
Ahh … the blessing of God. Yep, something we all want – and ...
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The Lord Will Be Your Confidence
With pretty much anything in life, there are different levels of ...
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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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God’s Deep Secret for Your Heart
You know how it is. The daily grind grinds away at you – day after ...
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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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Individualism vs Collectivism
Seeing the faces of both young and old buried en masse in their ...
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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 ...