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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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A Heart After God
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 ...
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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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Do Not Be Afraid
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 ...
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Do Not Be Afraid
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 ...
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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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Overboard with Jesus (1)
Too many Christians try to live out a safe, convenient and comfortable Christianity … and then they wonder, why isn’t it working? Others, they can hear Jesus calling them, but ...
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Overboard with Jesus
Too many Christians try to live out a safe, convenient and comfortable Christianity … and then they wonder, why isn’t it working? Others, they can hear Jesus calling them, but ...
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God Encourages Those Who are Troubled
The word ‘affliction’ isn’t a particularly nice one. It’s definitely not one that we’d ever want to take ownership of. And yet, there are times when it’s precisely the ...
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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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Building Lasting Relationships
Relationships can be one of the most enriching or one of the most destructive parts of our lives. Depends on the sorts of relationships we enter into and build. Join Berni Dymet ...
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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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Escaping from the Siege
With everything we have going on in our lives, we can sometimes get to a point where we feel as though we’re under siege – everything is conspiring together to rob us of life. ...
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The Faces We Wear
We all put on different faces from time to time. Sometimes knowingly and sometimes without even realising it. Now the problem is that the face is supposed to reflect the heart. ...
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Dealing with Difficult People
There’s one thing about other people. They’re everywhere and we just can’t get away from them. At home. At work. At church. They’re there. And sometimes, they’re ...
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Dealing with Difficult People
If you haven’t noticed there are people everywhere. It’s hard to get away from them sometimes. And some of those people are difficult to deal with. Turns out that they can ...
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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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Love Is (2)
We live in a go, go, go, hectic, run at a million miles an hour kind of world these days. And the busier and more connected that we become, the harder it is to remember what ...
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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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Love Is (1)
We live in a go, go, go, hectic, run at a million miles an hour kind of world these days. And the busier and more connected that we become, the harder it is to remember what ...
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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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Get out of Jail Free
Sometimes in life – things go wrong – a relationship, our work, money problems, kids….it’s a pretty long list. And when they do, it seems like nothing else ...
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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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A New Life in Jesus
For most of us, Easter just comes and goes. We’ve done it before…. lots of times. We know the story. We know how it ends. Of course, we know it’s important – the ...
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My Redeemer Lives
Most of the time, when it comes to this whole Easter thing, the bit we remember most is the bit where Jesus died on the Cross, to pay for our sin. And that’s certainly a ...
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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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Times of Refreshing
Life can be a grind sometimes. What we really want is some time of refreshing. Like jumping into a cool swimming pool on a hot day. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at ...
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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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Unlocking the Power of Prayer (Pt 3)
Prayer that yields powerful results is normal in God’s sight. That’s the amazing truth that we discover when we look at what God says about prayer in His Word. So – ...
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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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Unlocking The Power of Prayer (Pt 2)
Prayer that yields powerful results is normal in God’s sight. That’s the amazing truth that we discover when we look at what God says about prayer in His Word. So – ...
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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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Unlocking The Power of Prayer (Pt 1)
It’s funny that survey after survey shows that 75% of all people have prayed in the last month. And yet most of them would never admit it. What’s prayer all ...
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Unlocking the Power of Prayer
So often, we see things happening in people’s lives and we feel so helpless. ‘The problem’s so big, so daunting….I can’t possibly make a difference. I guess if ...
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Spirit and Word
It’s amazing but when you think about it God left two things of Himself behind for us on this Earth. Of course He owns all creation – but the two things of Himself that ...
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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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The Holy Spirit and Me
So many people live out a spiritually parched existence and all along God has a plan – a plan of power, a plan of peace, a plan of intimacy, a plan……of abundant life. ...
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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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Walking in the Spirit (Pt 2)
Many people have heard the term “Walking in the Spirit”. That would be awesome wouldn’t it? I mean it sounds great. But exactly what does it mean to “walk in ...
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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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Walking in the Spirit
Many people have heard the term “Walking in the Spirit”. That would be awesome wouldn’t it? I mean it sounds great. But exactly what does it mean to ...
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Walking in the Spirit (Pt 1)
Many people have heard the term “Walking in the Spirit”. That would be awesome wouldn’t it? I mean it sounds great. But exactly what does it mean to “walk in ...
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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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The Art of Living (Pt 4)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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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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The Art of Living (Pt 3)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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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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The Art of Living (Pt 2)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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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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The Art of Living (Pt 1)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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The Art of Living
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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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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Living a Life of Peace
God’s plan for our lives is to live out a life of peace. It’s so easy to forget that. And it’s so easy to live in constant turmoil – and not even notice that there’s ...
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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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An Uncomfortable Christmas
We love to have a pantomime view of Christmas. Cutesy – Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus – the manger. But when you get down and dirty – when you check out Christmas ...
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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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Great Expectations
It’s funny how what we expect – is often what we get. Take Christmas. What do you expect to get out of Christmas this year? But God – Gad has some great expectations ...
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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 ...