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How You Treat Your Staff
Anyone who’s ever been in a leadership role will know that it ain’t easy. People sometimes fall short of your expectations. And without doubt, you’ll come in for your share ...
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Your Place of Safety
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 ...
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The Deception of Certainty and Safety
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 ...
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Afraid No More
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, ...
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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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Don’t Be Afraid of Being Small
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 ...
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Looking After Number One
“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 ...
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Battle After Battle
God promises us a lot – but all too often it feels like the reality falls short of the promise.
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A Lonely Affair
How will you spend today? Surrounded by people, or completely alone?
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Don’t Be Afraid
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 ...
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After the Fire There Was …
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 ...
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The Afflictions of the Righteous
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. ...
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Do Not Be Afraid, Ever
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 ...
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Finding Your Safe Retreat
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? ...
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Bus Graffiti
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 ...
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Is God Deaf?
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 ...
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The Perfect Cafe
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 ...
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Safe to Try at Home
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 ...
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I’m Afraid
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 ...
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Your Salvation is Safe and Secure
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 ...
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Devil
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 ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They pierce them in some very odd places, tattoo them, adorn them, flaunt them and yes, abandon them to immorality. So ...
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake the feeling that you’re not good enough. We’re meant to be capable and self-reliant, right? We’re meant ...
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A Gospel of Contradictions?
There are times, to be honest, when this good news of Jesus doesn’t feel like good news at all. After all, He Himself promised that becoming His disciple would be hard work. How ...
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By the Grace of God
So many things in this life seem to demand so much hard work. Good marriages don’t just happen – they require effort. Bringing up children requires a lot of effort. Career ...
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Your Premeditated Pass to Sin
Each one of us has that one weakness, that one chink in our armour, that one … sin that keeps coming back to haunt us; to derail our faith journey. You probably already know ...
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When You’re Guilty of Harm
In most countries, occupational health and safety (or OH&S, as it’s called) is a big deal. And rightly so, because in places where it isn’t, some terrible things end up ...
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God’s Timing is Perfect
I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t always been that enamoured by God’s timing. There’ve been too many times when suffering’s gone on for too long. And frankly, ...
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The Power of a Question
If only life were simple … but it simply isn’t. It’s messy, it’s complex. People’s emotions, ours included, are fickle. We’re often faced with tricky situations. Yep, ...
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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on the promises of God is truly important. I mean, it’s always important but never more so than in times of ...
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The Light that Shines in Your Heart
You know when something’s been baffling you for ages, something’s not quite right but you just haven’t been able to figure it out and then all of a sudden it comes ...
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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when you breathe your last breath? Why has He still left you here, rather than taken you home to Himself in glory? ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down through the ages. A shout of joy. But does it still mean anything over two thousand years after the event? What, ...
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He Did it For You
Well, here we are … that day we call “Good Friday”, remembering the terrible, the unthinkable, that took place so that for you and me the equally wondrous and unthinkable ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, “Good Friday”, when Jesus was nailed to that Cross for all to see. How could that possibly have been ...
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When the Holy Spirit Leaves the Building
Question: what’s the difference between following the rules and following Jesus? Why is it that we can’t even seem to obey the road rules and yet following Jesus changes ...
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The Riches of His Glory
In a world that’s becoming increasingly affluent, it’s getting harder and harder for us to draw a line between our wants and our needs. All too often, especially when we’re ...
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Expect Great Things
I wonder whether when we pray, we don’t sometimes go to God with exceedingly low expectations. Does He even hear me? Does He even care? Is He even there? Low expectations ...
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Don’t Hide the Cross
The reason I do what I do, the thing that gets me out of bed every morning, is an unquenchable desire to tell as many people about Jesus as possible. Sadly though, many – most ...
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An Instrument of the Lord
The rescuing hand of God is a constant theme throughout the Old Testament and New. And that’s good news – sensational news in fact, that when we’re in trouble God is right ...
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Stand Out from the Crowd
Sad to say that as I examine my own heart, I realise time and again how strong a sense of entitlement has been bred into me simply by being immersed in the culture in which I ...
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Love Is …
I’ve never been a great fan of this crazy idea of … well, “Why say something in six words, when you can say it in sixty?” Flowery language might impress some, but let’s ...
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The Best Revenge of All
When someone wrongs you or someone you care about, and your anger rises up in you until it’s white hot, what’s the one thing that you want more than anything else? Revenge. ...
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Underwrite Your Success
Today we’re going to chat about success: Your success in the kingdom of God. And if you’re a tad sceptical, then good … because whenever someone mixes God’s Word with ...
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Give the Lord a Chance
Imagine that you’re digging for diamonds. Month after month of backbreaking, soul-destroying work for no result. Zip. Nada. So, one day you decide to give up and walk away. But ...
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Your Pain Will Turn to Joy
God has this knack of taking our greatest disasters and turning them into His greatest victories. And there’s no greater disaster in all of history than the lifeless body of ...
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Choose Your Friends Carefully
So who are your closest advisors? If you’re married, hopefully your spouse is number one on that list. But what about the rest of your inner circle? Who are they, and should ...
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His Promises are True
Question: can God be trusted? After all, He makes rather a lot of promises in His Word. Some of those, frankly, seem outrageous amidst the hurly-burly of life. Can they, can He, ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it that’s eating away at you, draining you of your zest for life? And how well, pray tell, are you handling it? Some ...
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Which Tribe do You Belong To?
Since time immemorial, humanity has divided itself into tribes – by geography, culture, skin colour, politics, even the sporting team we support. Whatever the criterion, we ...
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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh them in your head and your heart to help you decide what’s most important? What should I be doing, today, ...
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The Lord is Eternal
You and I, we live most of our lives dealing with the day-to-day minutia. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, that’s just how life is. But here’s the risk: that we end up ...
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The Lord Gives You Strength
When things turn against us, when strife, confusion and pain come at us from all directions, what we need is the strength, the speed, the agility to make it through. That’s what ...
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Your Power to Overcome Fear
Faith, true faith, in Jesus is a good thing – a very good thing. And so, in faith you step out to use the gifts and abilities that God’s given you with all the best intentions ...
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You Will be Tempted
Temptation isn’t a subject we like to talk about because secretly, we’re afraid that it’s just us. Why am I having these bad thoughts? Why do these desires keep coming at ...
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Let God Establish Your Plans
We all have hopes, dreams, plans that we tend to dust off and reflect upon at this time of year. Maybe this year things’ll be different; maybe things’ll get better; maybe the ...
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Be Confident in Uncertain Times
Whatever situation you and I find ourselves in at the moment, whatever circumstances confront us – good or bad – those externals will without doubt impact how we feel about ...
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No Room for the Saviour
So here we are yet again – another Christmas Day in a long string of Christmas Days. So, what do you make of this day? What are you going to do with it? The story of Christmas ...
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Once Upon a Time …
Once upon a time, Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem and little baby Jesus was born in a manger. It almost reads like a fairy tale. You know what I think? I think that’s exactly ...
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This Crazy Plan
As crazy confusing plans go, this thing we call “Christmas” is right up there. We celebrate it with trees, tinsel and turkeys which in itself is pretty weird. But perhaps we ...
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Do I Really Need Saving?
In just a few days’ time we’ll be celebrating Christmas – the coming of our Saviour into this world. But that begs the question – a question that many ask themselves, Do I ...
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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the events we’ll be celebrating in a few days in this thing called “Christmas”, have to do with our lives here ...
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The Promise of Christmas
The coming of Jesus into this world wasn’t anything like the Christmas that we’ll be celebrating next week. It was shrouded in mystery and intrigue. God had been telling His ...
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The Hungry Hordes
So you’re getting ready to celebrate Christmas. Of course, there are two reasons to celebrate: the Santa, reindeer, baubles, tinsel and turkey reason, or the original and the ...
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A Bountiful Eye
Sometimes when I’m being spiritually rather thick, I’ll have to hear things two or three times to get them through my dense skull; to allow them to stir me into action. How ...
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The Price of Your Fresh Start
Whenever we stop to reflect on the sacrifices that others have made for us to get us to where we are, it rocks you to the core, doesn’t it? That’s because gratitude is an ...
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Long Days, Short Years
Whilst the average lifespan of the average person is on the increase in almost every nation around the world, you simply can’t rely on the average to estimate how long you have ...
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Revenge or Restoration?
So when was the last time that you felt insulted, miffed, hard done by? It happens for all sorts of different reasons. Sometimes we’re just in a bad mood and the smallest thing ...
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Tackling Criticism
Resilience is something that we need to instil in our children as they’re growing up because life can be tough down the track. But how resilient are we? How well, for instance, ...
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Things That Break Your Heart
Suffering is one of those conundrums in life that can easily destroy your faith. How could a loving God possibly allow me to go through this? THIS?!! I wonder if I could ask you ...
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On the Other Side
Have you ever been just a bit more than moderately concerned as to what lies on the other side of this life … when you’ve breathed your last? You wouldn’t be alone. Allow me ...
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The Person God Wants You to Be
Life throws a lot of stuff at you, right? Constantly, day after day … challenges, conflict, uncertainty … you get the drift – so let me ask you, how well equipped are you to ...
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I Wish …
So when was the last time that you felt, shall we say, “ethically challenged”? On the one hand, you knew the right thing to do. On the other, with a just quick sleight of hand ...
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Finding Rest
You don’t often hear people in my position talk about the fact that we get tired. After all, I’m the preacher. I’m supposed to have all the answers. Yeah, right! But we do ...
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Exalted in Humility
It’s nice, isn’t it, when other people value you – who you are, what you’ve done, perhaps even the potential they see in you. That’s nice. But we live in a world where ...
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A Double Helping
I wonder if you, like me, have ever found yourself labouring away, trying your darndest to do good things for God … but it feels, well, so hard. It’s as though God’s not in ...
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The Art of Doing Nothing
On a scale of one to ten, let me ask you, how busy is your life? Are you one of these people who, when asked how things are going, answers “Oh, you know, busy, busy, busy”? Of ...
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Feelings, Desires, Emotions
The opinions of other people – especially when they’re strongly expressed (which they so often are these days) – appear to shout down the truth of God’s ...
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The Fear of Death
Most of us have rather an uncomfortable relationship with the idea of death. On the one hand we know with absolute certainty that one day we’re going to die. On the other, we ...
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Confusing Wisdom
Most of us would like to think that we have a pretty decent head on our shoulders; that we’re able to reason through things; that we’re able to examine the facts and draw the ...
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Being Beethoven
All too often, the gifts and abilities that God’s woven into our very being go unappreciated by the rest of the world. Worse still – and you’ve probably experienced this too ...
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On That Day …
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 … ...
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The Day is Coming
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 ...
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Shopping Cart Theory
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 ...
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Brighter Days
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 ...
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Aboard the Titanic
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 ...
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Who Are You Following?
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 ...
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No Leap in the Dark
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 ...
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Just In Case
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, ...
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Family Matters
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. ...
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De Facto Relationships
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 ...
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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 (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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Imperfect People
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 ...
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Perseverance isn’t Passive
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. ...
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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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So, Do Not Fear
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 ...
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What Kingdom Really Means
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 ...
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To Cope … or to Conquer?
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 ...
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Your Passion, Your Calling
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 ...