Wisdom
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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 ...
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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 ...