Wisdom
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Model Behaviour (1)
Without doubt, we live in a brutal world. We’d like to believe, for ...
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
It’s easy these days to feel pressured – pressured by a lack of ...
Today
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Don’t Play Hide & Seek with God
Remember when you did something wrong as a child how you’d hide it ...
Yesterday
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Don’t Swallow the Jesus Cocktail
Down through the centuries – indeed, to this very day – ...
Day Before
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Overcoming Financial Stress (5)
One of the reasons that Jesus made such a splash back in His day is ...
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Overcoming Financial Stress (4)
Whether you’re rich, poor, or somewhere in between, there always ...
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Overcoming Financial Stress (3)
In the world of high finance, many use debt to make more money. ...
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Overcoming Financial Stress (2)
Headline after headline is telling us that financial pressures are ...
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Overcoming Financial Stress (1)
One of the biggest causes of stress in society today is personal ...
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Why Stay Foolish?
Empowerment is a word we all love. Hey, who doesn’t want to feel ...
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Being Your Authentic Self
The mantra of this age seems to be … be your authentic self! Do ...
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Self-Promotion in Disguise
Let’s face it, boasting is an ugly habit. It’s crass. It turns ...
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Think Beyond the Present
Isn’t it just the pits when apparently evil people succeed, and ...
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Don’t Become too Shiny
Success can be a fickle thing. Of course we all want to be successful ...
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Reexamine Your Spending Habits
Okay, time to get in your face today (you’re welcome!). How do you ...
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Come to the Ancient Well
There’s a tendency in the high-tech, fast-moving, AI-driven world ...
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Don’t be Invisible
So let me ask you … do you like standing out from the crowd, being ...
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Time Flies
Imagine that you’re given an hourglass where each grain of sand ...
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A Change of Pace
And now for a complete change of pace from what we’ve been chatting ...
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Pure and Simple
There are so many people in this day and age who want to get rid of ...
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What’s it Worth?
Question: How do you place a value on a human life? After all, right ...
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Don’t Weaponise Your Faith
If there is indeed a God in heaven, you’d want Him to be a God of ...
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Just Because You Can …
There seems to me to be two types of people in this world – those ...
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Hungry for More
When you stand back and think about it, the investment we make in ...
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Wipe Away the Tears
It’s a cruel fact of life that you can be slaving away doing your ...
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The Best Kind of Uncertainty
As we think about the future, you and I, we find ourselves in ...
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An Immutable Law of Life
Certain laws of the universe are immutable. No matter how hard you ...
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Don’t Fall for Cheap Grace
I hate it when someone tells me something that I don’t want to hear ...
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There’s Wisdom … and Then, There’s Wisdom
Have you ever looked at something that someone’s done and thought ...
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When Self-Help Fails You
Yesterday we saw that the global self-help industry is worth over $US ...
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Three Things to Look For
It’s ever so easy to become bedazzled by the success of others. ...
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Don’t Participate in the Lies
Without meaning to sound like a conspiracy theorist, because I’m ...
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There Are No Shortcuts
I don’t think there’s one of us who hasn’t wished that we could ...
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Time Marches On
The constant ticking of the clock (proverbial though that may be in ...
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The Ugliness of Self-Entitlement
I don’t know about you, but for me one of the ugliest of all human ...
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If Only I Had Listened
Looking back on your life, how many times have you been given good ...
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Stop and Be Still
Conflict is something that we’d all rather avoid. And yet sometimes ...
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Hold Your Tongue
Recent research has revealed that angry outbursts can do an enormous ...
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Faith is Not an Emotion
There are days when, for no apparent reason, you just wake up feeling ...
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Wanderer, Come Home
It’s not at all that uncommon to find yourself feeling somewhat ...
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Stumble But Don’t Fall
Anyone who’s ever set out to lose weight (I think that’s about ...
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How to Change the World
If you could change the world, what would you change? Personally, ...
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The Riddles of Life
Life can be something of a riddle, especially as you look ahead. What ...
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Discovering Potential
Responsibilities, pressures, demands, they all seem to crowd in on ...
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Trust in the Lord
Courage in the face of fear ain’t easy. In fact courage, basically, ...
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A Chosen People
Imagine you could turn the clock back and undo the many mistakes that ...
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Kindness and Love
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this too, but some people are ...
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Devotion and Kindness
Kindness is one of the most powerful change agents on earth. Even the ...
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Patience and Devotion to God
With just one life to live here on this earth, a life that seems to ...
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Self Control and Patience
You know what it’s like when your patience is running thin – ...
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Knowledge and Self-Control
We each have triggers that’ll set us off quicker than just about ...
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Goodness and Knowledge
Most of us just want to do good. We want to be decent and kind. We ...
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Peace … or Not
Here’s a brutal fact: the world is at war. Over recent years, ...
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Don’t Forget to Rest
Today is the second Sunday of the year. We tend not to think of ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Teamwork – people with different perspectives, skills sets and ...
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Be Filled with the Spirit
There are so many good things to enjoy in this life. And whilst most ...
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The Promise is True
The very idea of handing their lives over to God, of choosing to live ...
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Turn Then, and Live
Living a good life inevitably involves some tough choices. Healthy ...
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But Wait, There’s More
As I step into each new year, I often wonder what lies ahead: What ...
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Power from On High
They say that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ...
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On Solid Ground
As we step into this new year, it’s important, wouldn’t you ...
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Lift Your Gaze to the Heavens
Here we are … the first day of the new year and from me to you, may ...
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It’s Time to Turn the Page
We’re getting pretty darned close to closing out this year – ...
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Make Peace with the Past
Imagine for a moment that you’re a soldier heading into battle. ...
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Processing the Past
In just a few days’ time, we’re going to click over into a new ...
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The Power of God
Christmas Eve. It can be a confronting time if we’ll allow it to ...
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Whose Child Are You?
How you live, how you treat others, has a lot to say – in fact, it ...
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There is Superstition
So, here we are on Friday the 13th … a day considered in western ...
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Don’t Be Led Astray
Meeting new people, making friends, simply isn’t easy these days. ...
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A Child of God
As we mature, hopefully, we grow in wisdom. But as you do, becoming ...
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The Strength of Your Heart
A sure sign of maturity is when we trust less and less in ourselves. ...
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Ignorant, Brutish Behaviour
Have you ever pricked a balloon with a needle? One moment it’s this ...
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Teach Me Your Ways
Have you ever tried navigating your way around an unfamiliar place? ...
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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? ...