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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, what thoughts have I had, what words have I spoken, what things have I done that I know absolutely are wrong? ...
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Tight Fisted or Open Handed?
Most of us wouldn’t consider ourselves to be wealthy. Depending on your circumstances, you might think of yourself as somewhere between “middle class” and … not so well ...
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Protracted Singleness (2)
Today I’d like to share a profound word about those who remain single. Now perhaps you’re not, but doubtless you know someone who is. If so, perhaps you can share today’s ...
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Protracted Singleness (1)
Whilst most people end up married, that’s not the case for everyone. Protracted singleness is far more common than we might imagine. Sadly though, people look at the singlies ...
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Family: When Things Don’t Turn Out The Way You’d Hoped (2)
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 ...
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The Mistakes Women Make (2)
The nagging wife is something of an unpleasant and unwelcome stereotype that many women rail against. And fair enough too. But then again, some women do nag their husbands to the ...
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The Mistakes Women Make (1)
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 ...
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The Mistakes Men Make (2)
Too many men have become emotionally distant from their families, both as husbands and fathers. And that, right there, is one of the biggest mistakes we men can ever make because ...
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The Mistakes Men Make (1)
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 ...
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Family: When Things Don’t Turn Out The Way You’d Hoped (1)
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 ...
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Family – When Things Don’t Turn Out the Way You’d Hoped
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 ...
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Don’t Abandon Your Confidence
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 ...
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Just Then
Anyone who’s married will be able to tell you that every now and then, their wife or their husband does something completely unexpected. You thought you knew them, but boom! And ...
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The Gospel Cannot be Silenced
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 ...
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Disappointment & Discouragement
I don’t know about you, but I get up out of bed each day hoping and believing for the best. A new day, new opportunities … but some days, things simply don’t work out that ...
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From a Tent to a City
One of the biggest mistakes that you and I can make is to imagine that God’s plans revolve around us, around our comfort and convenience – because His plans are so much bigger ...
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Promises Underwritten
So here’s a question for you: Can you trust the promises of God? I mean, really. Given all the things life throws at you, do the promises of God stand true, or are they ...
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An Audience of One
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 ...
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Is it Making a Difference?
As Jesus walked the dusty roads of 1st century Israel, He did and said some powerful things. Countless lives were touched and transformed. And that’s the point. When eventually ...
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The End of the World
One day, all the things that we hold dear in this world – our relationships, our possessions, our reputations even – will pass away. Every high priority in your life and in ...
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When You Do Good
We live in a world today where the things that we’ve always known to be wrong – greed, lust, immorality and the like – are now not only being called right, but applauded. ...
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When it is Good to Suffer
Suffering is a theme that I love to return to again and again, both in my learning and development and in yours. Because it’s in that place of suffering that we have the ...
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Open My Eyes
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 ...
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Encourage Each Other
No doubt you’ve had the experience of feeling a bit down, and then someone’s come along with a simple word of encouragement, and in an instant lifted you up, changed your day ...
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Suspending Judgement
It’s really quite staggering, you know, how often we judge other people – how they look, their facial expressions, their body language, what they say, what they do. In fact, ...
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Seeing Things Differently
It amazes me how two people can look at the same issue, the same thing – the same object, even – and yet see two entirely different things. Why does that happen? How does that ...
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When the Time is Right
Have you ever felt locked in your circumstances? It feels like a straitjacket, right? If feels as though nothing’s ever going to change; as though you are going to be stuck in ...
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God Enjoys You
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “What brings God joy?” I mean, we’re made in His image and we experience joy in our lives. So it stands to reason that He does too. What ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and overconfidence? But here’s a question: can you ever have too much confidence in God? Is it possible to be ...
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When People Plot Against Us
Every now and then, we find ourselves in a position where people are plotting against us. Murmuring. Whispering. It hurts a lot. We feel isolated and it can be ...
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Tenderness of Heart
Have you ever eaten a tough piece of meat? Meat’s allegedly good for you, and you can even pay a bit extra for a superior cut, but if it comes up tough after you’ve cooked it ...
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The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength (2)
The big mistake we make in this life is that we think that happiness and joy are the same thing. They simply aren’t. Happiness relies on our circumstances, and they can change, ...
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Enjoy without Complaining
You know how it is … out of all the important things in your life – your relationships, health, finances – nine out of ten of them are bubbling along just fine, but ...
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Lend Without a Return
In this day and age, the deal is that when you invest in something you expect a return. After all, that’s what, by and large, makes the world economy go round. I lend you some ...
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The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength (1)
The big mistake we make in this life is that we think that happiness and joy are the same thing. They simply aren’t. Happiness relies on our circumstances, and they can change, ...
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The Joy of the Lord is My Strength
The big mistake we make in this life is that we think that happiness and joy are the same thing. They simply aren’t. Happiness relies on our circumstances, and they can change, ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how you’re living your life? How often do you reflect on how you respond to different situations, different stimuli, ...
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Bending the Gospel
There’s a lot of pressure on any Christ-follower these days to bend their belief, their understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, away from that old-fashioned interpretation ...
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Close Encounters
It’s always interesting to tap into the experiences of other people, particularly when those experiences are close encounters with God. And that’s exactly what this ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that we can stand on with shouts of praise and hallelujah is that if they persecuted Him (which they did) they’re ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is repenting; turning away from what we know is wrong – which is why a lot of people hold out on Jesus. The thing ...
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Enemies of the Cross
One of the things that parents fears most is that their child would be led astray by hanging out with the wrong crowd; by allowing the wrong people to become their role models. ...
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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building (for many it is)? Is it the traditional service that you attend on a Sunday? Is it an institution, a family, or ...
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The Lord Gives Us Confidence
It’s an odd feeling, you know, sitting on this side of the Fresh devotional each day; my side – the side of praying, preparing, writing, recording, shooting a short message ...
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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 you go to work. Or you’re a homemaker. Or retired. What is it that’s going to take up a good chunk of your ...
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Confident Grace
Well, a blessed and a merry Christmas to you on this Christmas day, that one day in the year when we stop to remember the entry of God’s grace into this world through that Child ...
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Comprehending Grace
It’s one thing to have a spectacular “come to Jesus” moment. And if that happened to you, as it did to me many years ago … fantastic. But it’s another thing entirely to ...
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The Golden Rule of Communication
Yesterday we chatted about the absence of civility in public discourse and the powerful role that you and I can play in bringing that back through gracious understanding and ...
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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob Beasley, a dear friend of mine in Canada. He made the point that civil dialogue amongst people of opposing views is ...
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A Sense of Urgency
Our days on this earth – yours and mine – are numbered. We have a finite time left to have a positive, lasting impact on the lives of those around us, those who matter most. ...
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Spreading Your Investments
All the things in this world that we take for granted – whilst they’re here today – could very well be gone tomorrow. In fact, one day no matter how permanent the things of ...
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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? Doing bad is so easy. It just seems to come naturally to us. Doing good on the other hand … well, that can ...
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A Ministry of Encouragement
It’s funny how God (if we’ll let Him) can use even the most mundane of situations to teach us a powerful lesson, even when we’re feeling decidedly unspiritual. That’s ...
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To Whom Does God Listen?
There was a time in Israel’s history when they’d turned their backs on God yet again. And they were suffering the consequences of their rebellion against Him … yet again. ...
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When God Goes Missing
We all have days when God appears to go missing from our lives. In theory you may well believe that He never leaves you or forsakes you. But in practice … well, where is He? Why ...
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When Christ Calls
Have you ever had the sense that God’s calling you to do something for Him? You know … that little voice, that nudge in your spirit. It can be a tad disconcerting because ...
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When It’s Difficult to Love
From time to time, we all come across people who rub us the wrong way – perhaps even people who offend us, belittle us, seek to harm us. We wish we didn’t, but we do. So what ...
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The Dividends of Shunning Evil
There are two approaches to pretty much anything in life that’s worth doing. The first, the one most people take most of the time, is the half-hearted approach. The second, the ...
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The Gardener’s Job
When you’re out doing good things for God, using your gifts and abilities, your time and resources to share the love of Christ with those around you, there’s a temptation, to ...
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I’m Entitled #Not
It’s easy these days with the “I’m entitled” mentality that pervades our culture to read the Bible through that very same “I’m entitled” lens, to perceive the things ...
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Why Are We So Disobedient?
Have you ever wondered why it is that we can be so disobedient, so rebellious, not just toward the authorities set over us on this earth, but towards God Himself? Where does it ...
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Why Christ Offends
One of the key strategies of those who oppose Christianity is to “jam” us whenever we speak up about the things of God, to shut us down by creating an environment of deep ...
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Reaching Your Full Potential
Sometimes it’s hard to come to grips with the fact that we have some real untapped potential. The sad thing is when people live their whole lives without realising that ...
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Listen Without Interrupting
Have you ever been with a group of people where one person clearly stands out as the smartest one in the room? So you have to ask yourself, how did they become the smartest person ...
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Mentoring the Young Ones
Mentorship is something of a lost art in this day and age. The idea of the older, wiser men and women helping to shape and mould the younger ones seems to have been lost amidst ...
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Shaken But Not Stirred
“The fear of God” is perhaps the strangest notion you’ll ever find in the Bible. Seriously. But God is love; He sent His Son, Jesus, to die for us so that we could be ...
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The Art of Listening
One of the worst things we can ever do is to talk over the top of people, or even just hold our tongue – not with the aim of taking in what’s being said, but just so that we ...
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Actions are Driven by Beliefs
I don’t know about you, but I am a master of self-delusion. So many times in my life I’ve believed something to be true, but then lived my life in completely the opposite way ...
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Satan in the End Times
Each and every day, as I read the news, as I see how people behave towards one another, the abject evil of so many people in this world just slaps me in the face like a cold fish. ...
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When You Just Want to Slap Someone
Other people can be so incredibly annoying, can’t they? You’re planning on having a day of peace and joy, of honouring God, and then … boom. Some idiot comes along to ruin ...
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When the Lion Roars (2)
We live in a world where so many terrible things are taking place. Wars, atrocities, exploitation, starvation not to mention the political and ideological difference tearing ...
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An Offensive Saviour
None of us likes being offended. Sometimes we take offense, because the person dishing it out is just being obnoxious. Other times though, it’s because they’re telling us a ...
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When the Lion Roars
We live in a world where so many terrible things are taking place. Wars, atrocities, exploitation, starvation not to mention the political and ideological difference tearing ...
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When the Lion Roars (1)
We live in a world where so many terrible things are taking place. Wars, atrocities, exploitation, starvation not to mention the political and ideological difference tearing ...
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A Different Mindset
I don’t know about you, but I have this objective to become a better person as time goes on – little by little, day by day – to deal with my foibles and failures, so that ...
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Highly Entitled Individuals
We live, more and more, in the age of entitlement. I deserve better than this. I’m entitled to say and do what I want. How dare they tell me what to do? And yet to live in ...
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Hatred is Verboten
When I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to use the word “hate”. I certainly was never allowed to hate someone. That was strictly verboten. Even saying that I hated this or ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
Do you ever get the wobbles in your faith walk? Sure, you believe … but just in that moment, perhaps right here in this moment, it’s difficult to discern any rhyme or reason ...
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Too Much Pretending
There is so much pretending that goes on in the world today in people’s lives, perhaps even in our lives. In public, we say nice things about others, but in private we curse ...
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The Deafening Sound of Humility
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 ...
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Your Inner Core Strength
There are people in this world who will oppose you – some for the right reasons, some for the wrong reasons. How you respond to them has a lot to do with your inner, core ...
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Enjoying the Rules
From the youngest age, each one of us has been subject to rules. Our parents told us what we could and couldn’t do. And if you’re anything like me, as a child and as a ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins through His sacrifice on the Cross: and a new life from now to eternity. In other words, pardon from the past, ...
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An Unhealthy Detachment
At some point along the way, anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus has a choice to make. Will they actually do what He tells them to do, or will they just carry on with business ...
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The Tender Love of God
It’s a rough and tumble world that we live in. Criticism can be hurled your way without notice. Those feelings of inadequacy rise up and before you know it, the lie that God ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution than ever before. For some, that still means being shot or beheaded. For others, it’s governments limiting ...
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The Importance of Discernment
The one thing we’re not short of in this day and age is information. And as we’re being bombarded left, right and centre, the big decision for each of us now is, whom or what ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
Everyone you know, no matter how much they love you, will at some stage disappoint you. And that emotion of disappointment can end up ruining not just your day, but if you allow ...
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Unleavened Bread
Sometimes when communion is passed around at church – a small cup of grape juice, and a nice, fluffy little cube of white bread – let me be honest here … I want to scream. ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
There seem to be two types of people walking planet Earth today – those with a strong sense of purpose, and those without one. There doesn’t seem to be much in between. So ...
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How to Repent
So, these last few days we’ve been reading about the vitally important subject of breaking free from the power of sin in our lives so that we can be all that God made us to be. ...
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The Burden of Wealth
This world in which we live, you and I, operates on the unwritten and yet inviolable law that wealth is good and poverty is bad – which means that pretty much everybody is ...
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When Feelings Aren’t Enough
One of the most powerful truths of the Bible is that “love” isn’t just a noun, it’s also a verb. It’s not just something that you have or don’t have, it’s also ...
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Self-Improvement Wednesday
The notion that you and I can turn our own lives around, that we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and become a better person, is an attractive one. The problem is, it ...
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Know the Difference
Not everybody you meet is actually who they appear to be. Sadly, some people promise a lot, but right in that moment when you need them, they fail you and sometimes, even turn on ...
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Even More Glory
The glory of God is something that fills the heavens. Look around – look up at the stars, look at the amazing world that God has created. There’s glory all around … and God ...
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Defending Your Rights
If the rhetoric of Christians in the social media feeds that I monitor is any indication, then we, the church, have drifted a long, long … long way from biblical Christianity. ...
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Straightening Out a Twisted Mind
Have you ever made a serious blunder along the way and afterwards, when your emotions had settled down, in the cold, hard light of day, you thought to yourself: Why on earth did I ...
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A Sense of Time
Have you noticed how sometimes, time seems just to fly by, and other times it drags on interminably? How is it that time, which should be an absolute constant, seems to be able to ...
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Repent Therefore!
People are sometimes confused about how you end up in the Kingdom of God. On the one hand, we’re told that our salvation is a free gift, not by works but by faith. On the other ...