Worship
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Give Thanks to the Lord
To a great extent, how we experience life – what we get, what we ...
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Beyond Comprehension
How would you react if someone rich or powerful – royalty, a famous ...
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That Time is Coming
Imagine with me, if you will, a world without the sun and, of course ...
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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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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have ...
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I Love You Lord!
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. ...
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You Can Rely on God’s Integrity
What do you do when you find yourself in a tough spot feeling ...
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In the Eye of the Storm
The stuff that life throws at us sometimes can be downright ...
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God is Near
It can be difficult to take God’s promises on face value – ...
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Praise Him with Passion
Can I ask you, when was the last time you praised God? And when you ...
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Your Glimpse Into Eternity
Do you ever wish that you could have a glimpse into eternity? What ...
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Know the Unknowable
Do you ever look up at the vastness of the night sky and marvel at ...
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Bow Down to the Lord
Every now and then, God chooses to speak to us through some ...
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Don’t Forget To …
Our own sense of wellbeing tends to go through stages. Sometimes with ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down ...
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Expect Great Things
I wonder whether when we pray, we don’t sometimes go to God with ...
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His Redemptive Intent
When we’re travelling through difficult times, we start asking … ...
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In My Opinion
Each of us has opinions about … well, lots of things. About ...
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Prophecy – True or False?
There seem to be a lot of people on my social media feeds these days ...
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Encourage Each Other
No doubt you’ve had the experience of feeling a bit down, and then ...
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The Getting of Wisdom
By and large, we associate growing older with growing wiser. I mean, ...
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False Teaching
Here’s a crazy statistic: there are over twenty thousand Christian ...
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Christian Hypocrisy
When was the last time that someone said something to you that ...
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A Tiny Spark
As body parts go, your tongue isn’t particularly large – not like ...
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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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A Job or an Adventure?
So what is it that you do day after day? Perhaps you have a job so ...
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Thank God for Grace
Yep, it’s Christmas Eve … time to get serious about wrapping our ...
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Announcing Grace
When someone does something for you that you don’t deserve – I ...
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Out to Lunch
In this tech-driven age in which we live, our senses are constantly ...
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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 Price of Peace
Most of us consider wealth to be a good thing. Who doesn’t want to ...
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Shaken But Not Stirred
“The fear of God” is perhaps the strangest notion you’ll ever ...
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Pleasing God
Life seems to be a pretty constant tussle between pleasing ourselves ...
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God’s Handiwork
Both as a society, and as individuals, we have the most amazing ...
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A Powerful Witness
When politicians are uncertain in which direction to jump on any ...
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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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Where is Your Harvest?
Deciding where to plant your seed and what sort of seed to plant, I ...
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The Outcome of Self-Worship
Yesterday we explored the not unreasonable assertion that ...
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The World’s Fastest Growing Religion
It’s been said that the world’s fastest growing religion is … ...
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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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An Attitude of Gratitude
There’s one word that will completely, radically, change your life. ...
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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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Whom Does Jesus Serve?
If only God would do what we want Him to do. If only Jesus would just ...
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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 Living Hope
Today is Sunday, our day of rest – a day for some good news, very ...
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Reading Your Own Death Warrant
We’ve been reading this week about dealing with the difficult ...
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The Hatred of Sin
When it comes to … you know, those sinners out there … perhaps ...
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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of ...
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Make a Joyful Noise
Do you know what I’ve noticed? It’s much easier to make a joyful ...
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Don’t Expect Them to Applaud
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the moment we set out to live a ...
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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution ...
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Standing Up For Your Rights
I was taken recently … no, “taken” is entirely the wrong word! ...
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It is Well With My Soul (6)
There’s something about the hymns of old that reaches deep into our ...
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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? ...
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Defending Your Rights
If the rhetoric of Christians in the social media feeds that I ...
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It’s Easy to Make Excuses
There have been times in my life, and no doubt yours too, when ...
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The Path Away from Pride
Pride isn’t just ugly – that’s something we see every time we ...
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A Cheap Imitation of Christmas
Today, right around the world, children will be leaving a glass of ...
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It’s Your Choice
Christmas is just around the corner and over this past week or so ...
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The Steadfast Love of the Lord
There is a pandemic unfolding amongst God’s people, well, not just ...
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The Heavens Shall Declare
One of the great tragedies playing itself out here in the 21st ...
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Before It’s Too Late…
I’m sure that you can look back on your life and see times of ...
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If You Could See My Suitcase
I don’t think that there’s a single one of us who doesn’t have ...
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Slipping on the Banana Peel
Sin. The same one seems to trip us up over and over again. It’s ...
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How Great is the Father’s Love
In my neck of the woods, today is Father’s Day. If that’s not the ...
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Excellence Stands Out from the Crowd
People who operate in a spirit of excellence are exceptionally rare ...
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Am I a Christian?
Faith is an interesting notion. We’re told that we gain a ...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...
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Ever Been in a Church Where …
Church services, when you stand back from them, are kind of a strange ...
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Close Encounters
Do you yearn for a deep, intimate relationship with God? Has that ...
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My Redeemer Lives
When it feels as though everything around you is collapsing, when ...
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Who Comes First?
We kid ourselves sometimes that we can have it all – that we can ...
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Jesus Prayed
The most common reason that people give for praying way less than ...
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A Lukewarm Life
There’s one thing for certain: a lukewarm sort of faith is not what ...
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Turning Japanese
So what does it mean to be a ‘born again’ Christian? How do you ...
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Before Time Began
It’s time to ditch that nagging sense of inadequacy that all too ...
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Distractions
I hope you don’t mind but I’m about to ask you a question that ...
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The Goodness of God
When something bad happens to us, it can have us wondering, “Why ...
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The Halo Effect
Holiness is a concept that, at different times in our lives, elicits ...
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God is a God of New Beginnings
Sometimes it seems as though nothing is ever going to change. Nothing ...
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Worthless Religion
I always cringe when someone calls me a religious person because the ...
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Going with the Flow
So, what are the bits of your life that God wants to be involved in? ...
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Time with God
God is always ready to help us in times of trouble. Do you have time ...
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Full-on Worship
If you’re going to succeed at anything in life, doesn’t matter ...
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Full-on Sacrifice
Most of us would like to live a comfortable life. I mean, why not? ...
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The Baby Shower
Now in the whole Christmas story, the real misfits, the odd-men-out ...
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Starry, Starry Night
When all is said and done, Christmas is all about Jesus. That may not ...
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Abide in Me
Call me crazy, but it seems like an incredible anomaly for someone on ...
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Hiding in a Cave
When things in your life have been at their worst, when you’ve been ...
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Are Things Getting You Down?
Here’s one of the great paradoxes of life. The more affluent we ...
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Staying on Course
One of the most difficult things to do in this digital, ...
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I Love You
It’s easy, amidst the busyness of life, for us to let our ...
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The Flight
To tell you the truth, I’ve had a tough few weeks. Lots of travel, ...