Wisdom
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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 ...
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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 ...