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Devilish Pride
Have you ever had the devil dangle a temptation under your nose that sparked your imagination as to how successful you could become; how impressed others would be? You’re not ...
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Pride is Destructive
So, how much do you enjoy living or working with a prideful person or indeed being surrounded by several of them? It’s not a lot of fun, is it? Without doubt, one of the most ...
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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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Things Jesus Never Said
The meta-narrative, the overarching story that the world today wants to drop on our heads basically goes like this: live a good life and be happy. Fine up to a point, but ...
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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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Confidence and Assurance
Don’t you just love meeting people with an air of quiet confidence, of understated assurance about them. Just being around them makes you feel better about yourself. What is it ...
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Get Rid of Your Evil
It seems that the only way to stay completely away from the evil that rules this world, that reaches into every nook and cranny of life, is to lock yourself away and live a ...
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Will You Decide to Rest?
It’s a real paradox, a conundrum, that even if you’re managing to get plenty of rest – enough sleep, a break from your labours – you can still end up feeling anything but ...
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Replace Trepidation with Anticipation
Allow me today to run a word by you: trepidation. Straight away, it takes you to a place you’ve been before of fear, of agitation about something that might happen. Trepidation ...
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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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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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My Debt He Paid
Interest rates go up and down on a regular basis. When they’re up, those who’ve borrowed find it harder and harder to repay their debt. And some, sadly, end up drowning in ...
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The Ideal Family
No doubt from time to time you’ve thought: “If only my family were normal like everyone else’s!” Sure you have … because somehow we still believe in the fairy tale of ...
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Avoid This Bad Habit
When you and I place our confidence in ourselves, in our own abilities, we can quickly end up being over-confident. But when you place your confidence in God … well, you can ...
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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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Pride Plunders
Over the years, I’ve come across some really clever, successful people. How about you? People who can achieve so much more than you or I ever could – but there’s one thing ...
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Joy Amidst Trouble
Can I ask you, what is it that brings you joy in your life? At the very centre, at the very core of your being, what fills you with joy? And what happens to that joy when things ...
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Avoid This Trap
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 ...
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At War Inside
Fights and arguments – who needs them? Who wants them? Conflict is a terrible thing that robs us of our peace and our joy. And how easy is it to blame the other guy? I mean … ...
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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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Don’t Kid Yourself
There’s a risk (rather a large one actually) that the more we grow in maturity in our relationship with Jesus, the more His commands rule in our heart, the more we can get to ...
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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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Stepping Out on Solid Ground
Because we’re all human, our hearts are regularly torn between doing what’s right and succumbing to what’s wrong. It’s not just you or me. Everyone who sets their hearts ...
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A Solid Foundation
If you’re anything like me, by now you have a bit of a plan for your year ahead – the things you want to achieve, the holidays you may want to take, the relationships that ...
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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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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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Bridging the Gap
One day … yep, one day God is going to do a powerful work through me. One day, He’s going to send me here or there to do this or that. Amazing. I can’t wait. One day … ...
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Just a Little Bit of Pride
Do you know that feeling of wanting people just to think a little bit better of you – that desire to get just a bit more recognition for who you are and all that you’ve done? ...
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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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Sidestepping Your Mistakes
Accepting correction and instruction is something that, by and large, most of us aren’t all that good at. And yet, it’s that correction and instruction which, in the end, help ...
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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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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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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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The Path Away from Pride
Pride isn’t just ugly – that’s something we see every time we run into a prideful person. Pride is more importantly downright dangerous because it separates us from God. And ...
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God Hates Pride
Evil comes at us in many different forms in this world. But somehow, there’s always one thing that lies right at the heart, at the core of evil. And that one thing is pride. ...
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Hang On For the Ride
Life sometimes seems a bit like a rollercoaster ride … up and down, up and down. Sure, sometimes things go along on an even keel for a while but then, without warning … up and ...
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The Lord Will Be Your Confidence
With pretty much anything in life, there are different levels of passion and commitment with which we can approach them. There are different degrees of intensity with which we can ...
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Individualism vs Collectivism
Seeing the faces of both young and old buried en masse in their smartphone screens has become one of the enduring images of our time. Yes, it’s frustrating, but when you think ...
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God as Your Guide
I don’t know how it goes for you, but what I find in life – yes, even in a life of ministry as mine is – it’s easy to lose sight of God. To lose sight of His plans and ...
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The Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who climb mountains, sail seas, blast off into space, go places and do things that stretch the boundaries way ...
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Why Does God Hide?
Let me ask you something. If you were God, would you kind of hide yourself away, the way He seems to do, or would you make it plainly obvious to all and sundry that you are in ...
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Rock Solid Love
When all else fails, the love of God for you, stands forever. Unchanging. Unending.
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Cleaning the Inside of the Cup
No one likes a hypocrite, so let’s make sure that we’re not that guy!
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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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A Walk on the Wild Side
People talk about daydreaming as though it’s a bad thing. But sometimes the dreams in our hearts are there because God put them there. Now … there’s a scary thought! A good ...
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The Gift of Confidence
They say that the world needs adventurers. And we do – people who climb mountains, sail seas, blast off into space, go places and do things that stretch the boundaries way ...
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Avoiding
I don’t think there’s a single person on planet Earth who, right in this instant, is living the perfect life – a life that’s completely problem-free. So what are the ...
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Hidden Treasure
If someone could give you the one thing that you really, really want, what would it be? Think about it. And then, when you had it, would it satisfy you deep down for the rest of ...
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Coincidence and Prayer
Prayer is a funny thing. Sometimes we turn to prayer as a last resort. But what if, instead, it was our first option. What if, instead, we took more and more to God in prayer – ...
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A Hell of a Long Ride
It’s not always a popular thing to talk about, but there is a heaven and there is a hell. Jesus made that very clear. And there’s only one thing – one thing and one thing ...
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The Best for His Kids
We all have a tendency to allow compromises into our lives. And you know, when we do that, it’s like giving the devil a foothold to start plundering our lives. And that … ...
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The Face of Confidence
We live in a world that values success and, up to a point, there’s nothing wrong with that … until we cross over that line where self-promotion and over-confidence become our ...
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Now Here’s a Crazy Idea
Imagine praying to God for a week, without asking Him for anything.
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Upside Down and Inside Out
As you and I cast our gaze forward to the year we’re about to step into, I think the biggest mistake we can make is to hope for all the wrong things out of life. Hope for the ...
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A Stupid Thing to Do
Worry, worry, worry. We all do it, don’t we? We don’t think about it all that much. When something’s out of our control, something that could go the wrong way, we tend to ...
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Don’t Kid Yourself
So right now, today, how’s your relationship with Jesus? Is it real? Is it vibrant? Are you powering on with God? Or is something not quite right? Do you perhaps have this sense ...
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Pride and Prejudice
We all have a sense of entitlement about certain things in our lives. I’m entitled to respect. I’m entitled to be treated fairly. I’m entitled … well, fair enough. But at ...
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Generosity Was Always God’s Idea
We love to be around generous people, you and I. We really do. But let’s put the shoe on the other foot just for a moment and ask ourselves, “How generous are we?” Let me ...
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God’s Blessing – Hidden in Plain Sight
Here’s a radical thought. What if, just think about this, what if the blessing of God is all around us? What if the blessing of God is hidden right there in plain sight? What if ...
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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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Abide in Me
Call me crazy, but it seems like an incredible anomaly for someone on the one hand, to say “I believe in Jesus”, but on the other for their lives to be something of a mess. It ...
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Practical Guidance from Above
It’s scary when you see some Christians going all super-spiritual, apparently seeing and hearing God under every rock and behind every tree. But what’s just as scary, are ...
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Hiding in a Cave
When things in your life have been at their worst, when you’ve been completely rock bottom, let me ask you, on a scale of zero to ten, how inclined were you at that point, to ...
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Abide with Me
In this transactional, disposable world, in a world where almost half or all marriages end up on the trash heap, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand something ...
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Breathtaking Stupidity
I think I could write a book on all the stupid things I’ve done in my life and no doubt, as you look back on your life, well … I’ll let you be the judge. Question is, how do ...
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The Widow’s Gift
Giving financially to God’s work causes some people stress, and other people confusion. Am I giving too much? What’s the right amount to give? What does God expect? I received ...
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The Widow Gives Her All
Would it surprise you to know that God doesn’t give two hoots about how much you give in order to support His work? Why? Because there’s something else that’s far more ...
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What a Ridiculous Proposition!
Of all the stupid things I’ve done in my life, and there are plenty as I look back, particularly in my early years, the whole thing of chasing after money would have to be the ...
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The Bike Rider
When adversity strikes, as it does from time to time in everybody’s life, our immediate response is to pull back, to withdraw, and at that point many a person will simply … ...
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God’s Ideal for Thee and Me
Many people have a love-hate relationship with their work. On the one hand, they couldn’t imagine not working, but on the other, they can’t wait for the weekend to arrive. ...
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Why Did God Rest?
So how often to you stop from everything you’re doing, just to take a break and enjoy what all that you’ve accomplished? Hmm? One of the things we all need in our often hectic ...
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Dad’s Kids
It’s easy to refer to God as our Father, and yet, I wonder how many of His children actually live their lives as though He truly is their Father. I had a great father. He’s ...
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God and the Widow
Have you ever found yourself looking down on people who haven’t achieved what you’ve achieved? Who don’t have what you have? Well, have you? In a world that rewards ...
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Are You Kidding You?
Can I ask you, what bad behaviour, what bad habit of yours, is eating away at the foundations of your life? What is it, that you’re doing, that’s robbing you of God’s joy ...
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Godly Self-Confidence
So many people’s lives are being plundered, ruined, because they believe the distorted self-image that the world projects on them. I remember the first time I heard about the ...
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Hide and Seek
Have you ever felt as though God is playing a game of hide and seek with you? Sure He’s out there … somewhere … but where? Lord what are you up to? What do you have planned? ...
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Was Jesus Just Kidding?
For the first half a dozen years or so of my Christian walk, I had a rather low view of prayer. I was always way too busy to stop and pray; racing off doing this and doing that. ...
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On Solid Ground
Life can be hard work. And that’s not a bad thing. We’re made to use our gifts and abilities for the benefit of others and to earn a living. But sometimes life is such hard ...
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
No doubt you’ve heard that Proverb: “pride comes before the fall”. How often have you seen the guy who’s absolutely full of himself, living the high life, walking over the ...
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Swimming Against the Tide
One of my absolute favourite sayings used to be: It’s so hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Not bad is it? Although, given what I do, these days, I ...
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Praying for Presidents & Prime Ministers
Wherever you live, politics can drive you crazy. We’re pretty good armchair critics and, to be sure, politics can be an ugly game, especially if you happen to disagree with the ...
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Your Kids Need Your Marriage
More and more families are being torn apart by the scourge of divorce. In many countries, the divorce rate is approaching forty percent. And of those marriages that don’t end in ...
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An Antidote for Anger
With all the pressure that we seem to be under these days, anger is increasingly becoming an issue. We’re more connected today than we were a generation ago. Emails, messaging ...
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
If you were to be stranded on a desert island and you had a choice to take just one person with you, what sort of person would you choose? A proud one, or a humble one? Humility ...
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The Irritating Individual
Can I ask you to picture the face of the one person on this planet who irritates you the most? You feel something in your heart – anger, resentment, fear … whatever the ...
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What Kids Really Need
Being a parent is absolutely one of the most difficult and challenging things we can ever, ever do. And in part, that’s because there’s always a generation gap between parents ...
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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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Fiddling the Books
Okay, an awkward question: have you ever lied on your tax return or fiddled the books … even just a little bit? Perhaps overcharged a client, or filched something from work to ...
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I Will Provide For You
Have you ever been in a place where you didn’t have the money even to put food on the table? Where you didn’t have the money to pay the next rent payment, the next mortgage ...
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Victory Amidst Turmoil
Have you ever found yourself in a situation of uncertainty, of turmoil or conflict or fear … and no matter how much you pray, God hasn’t stepped in to change your situation? ...
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A Sense of Identity
I watched a TV cop show recently about a young boy who thought he knew who his father was, but he discovered that this man had snatched him from his real parents as a young child ...
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Incy Wincy Spider
I remember a few years back seeing a spider’s web. It was perfectly formed, with droplets of dew hanging off every little thread and as the morning sun hit it, the whole thing ...
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Deciding to Do Right
Sometimes we find ourselves mired in the consequences of the mistakes that we’ve made. In the consequences of our sin, in the consequences of, let’s be blunt about it, our own ...
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This is Going to Sound Stupid
Now … I know this is going to sound stupid, but you know what I’ve discovered? When I pray about something first, things seem to go much better. I told you I was going to ...
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Jesus in our midst
It’s an odd thing, but so often I end up speaking with groups of people – people who I’ve never met before. Here at home and in indeed in countries all around the world – ...
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You Are My Hiding Place
When disaster strikes, where do you turn? When people are nasty to you, where do you turn? When you just don’t know which way to turn, where do you turn? Well, where do you ...
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The ANZAC Bridge
ANZAC day. Such a sobering commemoration. Those young boys from New Zealand and Australia headed off to that war on the other side of the earth, not really knowing what waited for ...
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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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Avoiding The Works of the Flesh
Okay, so Jesus came to set the captives free. That’s what He said of Himself: Luke 4:18-19: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to ...
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Sorrow That Leads to Change
Sorrow isn’t something that we’d ever wish upon ourselves. Why would we? And yet, what if I told you that there’s one type of sorrow that God wants for us; that’s actually ...