So much of what happens in our lives – is dictated by what’s going on in our hearts. And so many people want to be close to God – yet they pay no attention to what’s going ...

We chatted yesterday about suffering – the privilege of suffering for Christ as His blessings flow out through us into the lives of those around us. And it is a privilege. But ...

In this day and age, “biblical truth” is very much out of vogue. The stuff some Christians believe is so out of step with our modern reality that the easiest thing in the ...

Boldness and bravado often mask deep insecurities and fears. I can tell you that unequivocally because that’s how I used to live my life; brutal toward people on the outside, ...

Most days, I make sure that I read the news – local, national and international. I also make sure that I read God’s Word, the Bible. And I tell you, the gap between those two ...

We’ve all felt small and insignificant from time to time – perhaps that’s how you feel now. Small … insignificant. And somehow, in this success-driven world in which we ...

“Yeah, sure, I believe in Jesus,” we think to ourselves as we toddle along merrily through life developing a finely honed sense of self, a sense of entitlement, a sense of ...

God promises us a lot – but all too often it feels like the reality falls short of the promise.

How will you spend today? Surrounded by people, or completely alone?

So often God’s wisdom – what He tells us to do, how He calls us to handle certain situations – is completely counter-intuitive. And when it comes to dealing with fear, His ...

A friend of mine was telling me the other day that he was rummaging through some old boxes and he found a book that he’d completely forgotten that he had. It was called “How ...

Fear is a natural, human emotion. In fact, fear can be a healthy thing. It stops us from doing things that could harm us. But sometimes, circumstances overwhelm us – a bit like ...

Fear is a subject that we don’t much like to talk about and yet, it’s important because fear is something that we all travel through. And it turns out that the way we handle ...

You know what they say: life wasn’t meant to be easy. Yeah, right, but deep down, we still have this sneaking suspicion that that’s for everyone else. Me? Well I love Jesus. ...

Fear isn’t a pleasant thing. When was the last time you were afraid? Think about it. How did you react? How might you have reacted differently looking back on it? Okay so when ...

When you feel under attack, and we all do at some point, when people and your circumstances conspire to form that perfect storm – where do turn to? Where do you run for safety? ...

Most of us are pretty good at rationalising our own immaturity and bad behaviour. But God’s heart is for us to think like adults, not like children. I hopped on the bus the ...

Have you ever felt as though God simply isn’t listening to you? That, no matter how much you pray and how much you believe, He’s just somehow gone deaf on you? When you’re ...

You know the biggest problem most people have with finding a church to belong to? Finding one that really meets their needs. I really enjoy going out for a good coffee. There are ...

It’s a good thing, to be surrounded by men and women of great faith. But have you ever noticed, how you end up comparing your faith with theirs, and then you come to the ...

I met with a man the other day who was going through a real struggle with fear – he had some bad stuff happening in his life. We all know what that’s like. This impending ...

Let’s imagine that God loves you every bit as much as He tells you. After all, the evidence for that is pretty strong: John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his ...

I have some good news for you today. You need never, ever, ever be afraid of the devil. To be sure, there is a battle going on in the spiritual realm for your soul. Jesus came to ...

Most of us consider accountability to be a good thing. We should all take responsibility for our actions. There should be a reward for goodness and a punishment for evil … ...

The fiery judgement of God isn’t something that people want to believe in. It’s incongruous to think of a loving God in that way – not to mention the fact that no one wants ...

Do you believe in signs, wonders and miracles for today? The supernatural power of God disrupting the natural order of things by breaking into your, natural, mundane little old ...

I think most of us have many times had to decide – Will I return the shopping cart to the place marked out for that purpose in the carpark or will I just leave it, like so many ...

Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside time to worship God and for some much-needed rest. And this Sunday, I just feel to share a powerful word of ...

Jesus said that You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Problem is, most of us don’t know a lot of the truth and the devil has an absolute field day in our ...

No doubt you know the story of the Titanic. When she launched on April 10th 1912, she was deemed unsinkable; by far the largest ship afloat at the time. But just five days into ...

Jesus said that You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Problem is, most of us don’t know a lot of the truth and the devil has an absolute field day in our ...

Jesus said that You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Problem is, most of us don’t know a lot of the truth and the devil has an absolute field day in our ...

At what point did we decide that our feelings, our emotions, the world’s decaying morality all mixed into one should be the final arbiter of the truthfulness, or otherwise, of ...

From the outside looking in, it can appear as though believing in this Jesus, who claims to be the Son of God, is a risky business. For many, the whole idea of faith is that ...

Being married ain’t easy some days. There are so many things that conspire to tear a marriage apart – from the lie that divorce is a valid lifestyle choice, to sickness, ...

Whatever state they’re in – we’re all part of a family.  And, truth be known – our family really matters to us.  There’s something special about family.  ...

Each one of us, individually, at some point has to choose – either to believe in Jesus and serve Him as Lord, or to reject Him and go our own way. There’s no middle ground. ...

Whatever state they’re in – we’re all part of a family.  And, truth be known – our family really matters to us.  There’s something special about family.  ...

The world being what it is, with devices which only a few years ago would have been considered to be supercomputers now in the palm of our hands, marital infidelity has never been ...

Families are something we tend to take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family for better or for worse and many of us have started our own families. And yet as much as this ...

The biggest mistake I see women making in their marriages is, once the children come along, relegating their husbands to third, fourth or fifth place in the family hierarchy. Big ...

Honestly … a man, when it comes to his family, can be such an oaf. Seriously! We somehow never stop to think what our families truly need from us, so we keep repeating the same ...

So here’s an uncomfortable question. Who, in your family, annoys you the most? Told you! Come on! Is it your husband or wife, one of the kids, a parent, an in-law? Which one ...

Families are something we tend to take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family for better or for worse and many of us have started our own families. And yet as much as this ...

Families are something we tend to take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family for better or for worse and many of us have started our own families. And yet as much as this ...

The temptation to do the wrong thing is something that comes our way pretty much every day. And we can either succumb to it (which many do) or we can persevere and resist it. ...

Confidence can be a powerful force in our lives, provided that we place our confidence in the right things. With all that life’s throwing at you right now, let me ask you, how ...

Do you believe in Jesus? If so, then your faith in Him is meant to give you victory: victory over your sin and victory over your circumstances, because often the combination of ...

Pain is a fact of life.  We don’t want to think about it.  We all hope to avoid it.  But I’ve never met anybody, who hasn’t experienced pain – physical, ...

Christians talk a lot about the “kingdom of God”; it rolls so easily off the tongue. But hang on a minute. Do we really know what it means? Are we prepared to accept what it ...

With all that’s been going on in the world, not to mention the normal day-to-day stuff that life dishes up, many are only just getting by, struggling to cope. But what if life ...

I wonder if you’ve ever thought of yourself as being in the fruit business as someone whose job it is to bear, produce and distribute good fruit – because if you’re a ...

There are forces at play in this world that seek to shut down the Gospel; to silence the Good News of Jesus; to deprive God’s people of the opportunity – so speak out the love ...

Pain is a fact of life.  We don’t want to think about it.  We all hope to avoid it.  But I’ve never met anybody, who hasn’t experienced pain – physical, ...

Pain is a fact of life.  We don’t want to think about it.  We all hope to avoid it.  Nevertheless is definitely a fact of life!  And like every other part of ...

Pain is a fact of life.  We don’t want to think about it.  We all hope to avoid it.  But I’ve never met anybody, who hasn’t experienced pain – physical, ...

One of the jobs of any parent is to protect their children. And as a husband, father and now grandfather, that’s a job that I take very seriously indeed. So why would we imagine ...

Just living out each day honouring God, following Jesus wherever He leads, standing apart from the evil that the world peddles as being the norm in the “enlightened era” in ...

Many people are just living life … just eking out an existence.  Only just getting by.  And many of those people are the very same people who believe in Jesus, this ...

Sometimes just living out your life can feel like you’ve been through into a washing machine and then a tumble drier – round and round and round until all the life’s drained ...

It’s a sad thing when we compare ourselves with others and in our own estimation end up coming up short. I’m not as clever, as fast, as good looking, as successful as the next ...

Yep, it’s the fourth of July. No matter where on this planet you live, you’d have to be hiding under a rock not to realise that for the USA, the wealthiest country in the ...

Many people are just living life … just eking out an existence.  Only just getting by.  And many of those people are the very same people who believe in Jesus, this ...

You’ve perhaps heard it said that without faith it is impossible to please God. True. It comes straight out of His Word, the Bible – Hebrews chapter 11, verse 6. But what does ...

Apparently, so the scientific theory goes, the universe was created billions of years ago as a result of “the big bang”. But who put it there in the first place, and what made ...

A dear friend of mine, Lowell Wertz, is a 40 plus year missionary to Africa. Yesterday I shared the first of two challenges where God required great faith from him. Today, I’d ...

It strikes me that religion, or religiosity if I can call it that, is a fake. You go through all the motions, but in the end it doesn’t yield anything real. Have you been there ...

One of the things that we do all too often when things aren’t going according to plan, when we have some aches and pains in our lives, is that we set about treating the ...

Anger is an emotion that flares up in our hearts from time to time when we feel wronged, when someone else is being an idiot, when … well, for any number of reasons. It’s ...

When things aren’t ticking along quite as you’d planned, when others aren’t playing the game your way, it’s easy to blame them or your circumstances; even, to blame God. ...

Guilt over the mistakes you’ve made in the past and anxiety over what the future holds are two sides of the one coin. And for many, those two enemies rage war deep in their ...

One of the things that we do all too often when things aren’t going according to plan, when we have some aches and pains in our lives, is that we set about treating the ...

I try to imagine sometimes, what it must have been like for people when peace broke out after WWI and WWII. It would’ve been absolutely unbelievable. And who hasn’t seen the ...

One of the things that we do all too often when things aren’t going according to plan, when we have some aches and pains in our lives, is that we set about treating the ...

There are times when all we see ahead is adversity. But it’s in those very times that, from the vantagepoint of heaven’s balcony, God sees opportunity; more opportunity than ...

One of the more special relationships we can have in this life is as a parent – not everyone of course, but most. And even if you’re not a parent, it’s not difficult to ...

When Jesus speaks, you and I can afford to hang on to every word because they’re packed with meaning and with power. And the very few words of His that I’d like to share with ...

In an era when social, political and religious opinions are becoming ever more polarised, when the rhetoric is becoming ever more heated, when the chasms in society are growing ...

As we grow up, we’re supposed to learn life skills.  But how well we learn them, how effective we become as people – depends on who we had teaching us.  Sometimes, ...

It’s going on thirty years since my dear old dad passed out of this world. I still think of him. I still wish he was here to chat to. After all, he was my dad. But I wonder how ...

The secret hope that each of us harbours is that if we follow Jesus, if we obey Him, then He’ll bless us in the way that we want to be blessed. Healthy, wealthy and wise. At ...

Some people just take a dislike to us in a way that seems ever so unreasonable, ever so unfair. Of course, try as you may, you can’t please everyone. But still … it smarts. ...

As we grow up, we’re supposed to learn life skills.  But how well we learn them, how effective we become as people – depends on who we had teaching us.  Sometimes, ...

Duplicity is one of the most dangerous things that we can allow to creep into our lives – especially when the person we’re deceiving is ourselves. We say we believe in Jesus, ...

Throughout life, we tend to search for wonderful things; good things that’ll bless us, good things that’ll enrich our lives and the lives of those we love. But those wonderful ...

Setting boundaries in our lives is incredibly important. Most arguments, most wars begin because someone’s stepped over someone else’s boundary. But not all boundaries are ...

Setting boundaries in our lives is incredibly important. Most arguments, most wars begin because someone’s stepped over someone else’s boundary. But not all boundaries are ...

Setting boundaries in our lives is incredibly important. Most arguments, most wars begin because someone’s stepped over someone else’s boundary. But not all boundaries are ...

I was blown away recently by something a man, Des Ong, said to me. He said, “I’m sick of people calling ‘emotional intelligence’ a soft skill. No! Emotional intelligence ...

Just about everybody I talk to is able to point to something in their lives that’s just not working.  A Relationship.  Just how they feel about themselves.  ...

I am utterly convinced that we can never ever spend too much thinking about and talking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, because the fact that Jesus rose from death changes ...

There have no doubt been times in your life when you’ve been afraid. Me too! And sure, it’s a natural, built-in response to keep us safe. But if we live in that state for too ...

Any husband and wife will tell you that arguments are one thing, but letting that discord fester – you know … that silent treatment that can last for days – is a disaster. ...

Just about everybody I talk to is able to point to something in their lives that’s just not working.  A Relationship.  Just how they feel about themselves.  ...

We love getting good news, no matter what’s going on in our lives. But the best time to get good news is when things aren’t going all that well; when we’re down in a valley ...

One of the things that the Bible promises us over and over again, is spiritual victory. We aren’t just conquerors God tells us, but more than conquerors. Spiritual victory is ...

Most of us, in an honest moment, would admit that we’re not as wise as we’d like to be; that we have more to learn to become the sort of person that intuitively we know God ...

Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) we have a hierarchy of sin, of bad behaviour, in our heads. Murder, theft, adultery – they’re really bad. Selfishness, jealousy, boasting ...

By and large, we associate growing older with growing wiser. I mean, that’s what’s meant to happen. But actually, a direct correlation between age and wisdom isn’t a given. ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to become an overnight success.  I think that’s pretty much everyone’s secret dream. Success without the hard work, by next Thursday. Just perfect! ...