It’s easy to come to God with all our problems and think – well it’s all about me. God – these problems need fixing. But the thing that He so often does is call us to ...

Most of us take our mothers for granted. They’ve always been in our lives and whether or not they are still alive today, I don’t think that any of us really give enough ...

Of all the people on this planet, who is the one person who has hurt you the most, done you the most harm? Can you picture their face? Now, let me ask you, have you forgiven them ...

“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 ...

When something bad happens to us, when we’re hurting, our most common reaction is to look out at our circumstances through the lens of that pain. It’s only natural, but that ...

Have you ever thought about the things that you do to try to please God? How many of them come from Him, and how many of them have been handed down to you as things you should ...

If someone you loved was sick – I mean really sick – would you ask Jesus to heal them? Well, would you? Or is the powerful reality of Jesus’ healing something that you ...

Whether we like it or not, storms blow in our lives – sometimes when we least expect them, sometimes when we’re at our most vulnerable. And yet Jesus has this habit of being ...

Have you ever felt as though enough is never enough? What if I told you that in Christ, you have more than enough? And not just for yourself – more than enough to impact this ...

It’s difficult to imagine sometimes that God can actually make a difference to our lives. You know, deal with the real issues that need dealing with. There are so many things ...

Of all the things that you spend your hard-earned cash on, how many are absolute essentials and how many are luxuries? And, if I can be as bold as to ask this next question … ...

Do you yearn for a deep, intimate relationship with God? Has that relationship, amidst all the distractions that this world throws your way, eluded you from time to time? Is it a ...

Okay, we’ve all heard that sermon “You should read your Bible.” Yeah, yeah, I know … but you know … if only we realised what was at stake here. If only God’s people ...

It turns out that the things that we tend to value most, and the things that God values most, aren’t always the same. And as counterintuitive as God’s values are sometimes, in ...

Have you ever felt like a misfit? Like you just don’t belong? I spent pretty much all my childhood with that uneasy feeling. We want to feel comfortable in our skin. We want to ...

When it feels as though everything around you is collapsing, when your troubles and the pain threaten to overwhelm you, when not one – not even God – seems to be on your side ...

When the battles of life threaten to overwhelm you, what do you do? Where do you turn? They’re important questions to think through, because sooner or later we all find ...

It’s difficult to imagine sometimes that God can actually make a difference to our lives. You know, deal with the real issues that need dealing with. There are so many things ...

For those who lead a hectic life, the temptation is to start thinking of rest as a waste of time – to feel guilty when we take a break, imagining that we should be up doing ...

It’s an uneasy feeling indeed when Jesus calls us to do something that’s way outside our inherent ability to achieve. The stakes can be incredibly high, the risk of failure ...

The desire to reshape God into an image that’s much easier for us to digest is one of the great temptations of this me-centred world in which we live. Indeed, there are things ...

I’ve heard people say that “God never asks you to do something that’s beyond you.” Hmm, I don’t know what planet they’re living on, because God almost always asks me ...

There’s nothing more annoying than when you have a really good plan for how things should unfold in your life, and somehow that plan gets completely derailed. Why does God let ...

It’s one thing to say, “I believe in God, I believe in Jesus,” but it’s quite another thing to open up our hearts and our minds, to let Him in, to give Him the license to ...

There was a time in my life when the idea of believing in Jesus was about as likely as me flapping my arms and flying to the moon. But times change. How about you? Is now the time ...

So many people are like refugees in search of an identity. What’s life all about? Who am I? Where am I headed? What’s my destiny? In part that’s because we don’t really ...

So many people are like refugees in search of an identity. What’s life all about? Who am I? Where am I headed? What’s my destiny?In part that’s because we don’t really ...

I never cease to be amazed how readily we are able to rationalise away our sin, our rebellion, against God … as if sin doesn’t have any real consequences, as if God won’t ...

We all know well that famous syndrome of judging a book by its cover. If you’re in a bookstore or a library, you pick up the books that look good. But the truth is – and we ...

You know how it is – you’re confronted with a problem, an obstacle, that seems completely insurmountable, you wish you could believe that Jesus could help you … but somehow, ...

When you live in a world that values appearance, status and success, it’s all too easy to imagine that God can’t be bothered with us because He’s much too busy helping those ...

Let me ask you … what are you worth to God? In your mind, how much does He love you, value you, compared to the next person? Would He stop what He’s doing for you, or would He ...

Have you ever felt in your faith-walk – whatever that looks like – that you’re really only going through the motions? That something’s missing? That surely there must be ...

One of the biggest things that stops us from powering on with Jesus, from becoming all that He made us to be, is the string of disappointments that we suffer along the way. ...

Believe it or not, God promises each person who believes in Jesus, the power to overcome. The power to overcome temptation. The power to overcome sin. The power to overcome ...

When we compare ourselves with other people, we often find ourselves coming up short in our own estimation. We often come to the conclusion that God would rather work through them ...

I’ll be honest with you. For the first thirty-six years of my life, I barely gave this whole Christianity thing much of a thought … except to poke fun at those nutty ...

Life can take a sharp 180 degree turn in an instant. All the things that you assumed were going to happen for the rest of today, tomorrow, next week, next month … next year … ...

Anyone who has ever been married knows that on their wedding day they made an unconditional promise to their bride (or husband, as the case may be) to stick with them through ...

Life doesn’t always go the way we’d planned. If only that wasn’t the case, eh? But it is. And sometimes the reason for that is that we’ve wandered off on our own, leaving ...

When Jesus does mighty, powerful things in our lives, our first understandable reaction is to praise Him and thank Him. But strangely, there’s something else that He would have ...

Question: Did Jesus actually rise again from the dead, or is that merely a myth? And even if He did, so what? What difference is that really going to make to you and me, here in ...

Believe it or not, God promises each person who believes in Jesus, the power to overcome. The power to overcome temptation. The power to overcome sin. The power to overcome ...

How can a dead Jesus, in a dark tomb two thousand something years ago, make a difference to our lives here and now? How can the Easter story possibly turn your life and mine ...

They talk a lot, these Christians, about the Good News of Jesus Christ. Great. But why is it good news, exactly? Why should any of us take any notice whatsoever of yet another ...

One of the things that I find incredibly scary is just how many people breeze through Easter without giving it a second thought; without even realising that how they respond will ...

So another Easter is just around the corner, and whilst we take these annual celebrations, commemorations, festivals – whatever you’d like to call them – for granted, ...

There are some pretty bizarre celebrations out there in society. We people do some crazy things. We have parades for horse races. Nations shut down for football games. But Easter ...

You and I, we love a good story, particularly when it reaches into our realities and it touches us somewhere deep inside. That’s why we sometimes shed a tear during movies.  ...

The idea of family is an interesting one. You hear Christians say that they’re part of God’s family, but what does that actually mean? Come on, in your day-to-day life, what ...

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 Easter ...

Honestly, I think most of us would be much more comfortable with Jesus if He’d just leave us alone to get on with our lives, so long as He shows up when we need Him. Yep, ...

We often think of marriage as an institution and yet when you get into it, you discover that it’s completely uncharted territory – so difficult can it become that many give ...

Love is a word that we all love to use. It’s a word that we think we all understand. And yet, it’s not until we encounter the love of God that we realise that, up until that ...

When the going gets tough, often the last thing we feel like doing is opening our Bible. Truly. It doesn’t feel necessary. It doesn’t feel relevant And yet, it’s the one ...

Life is full of compromises. I guess that’s true, and yet there are some compromises that we make, you and I, that can rob us of all that God has planned for our lives – even ...

Ask anyone “So, how are things going?” and the answer, more likely than not, will go something like “Oh, you know … busy, busy, busy.” We seem to wear busyness these ...

We kid ourselves sometimes that we can have it all – that we can follow Jesus on the one hand and yet still hang onto things that, in our heart of hearts, we put before God. ...

Anger and bitterness are things we don’t like to talk about much – little wonder! But they’re things that we encounter every now and then. Anger, sadly, can be a daily fact ...

Believe it or not, God promises each person who believes in Jesus, the power to overcome. The power to overcome temptation. The power to overcome sin. The power to overcome ...

The longer we hang on to our sin, the worse things get. You can’t dress it up any other way. And yet, still we want to hang on to our sin for dear life, even though we know that ...

The idea that God can forgive us, I think, is an idea that most of us can wrap our minds around. The idea that He could only forgive us through the death and resurrection of His ...

Life just seems to bubble along, have you noticed? I have stuff that needs doing today, tomorrow, the next day … and so do you. So we get on with doing that stuff, until one day ...

Anybody who prays will know that, rightly or wrongly, we tend to spend most of our prayer time asking God for things – lots of things. The burning question is though, are we ...

I don’t think that any of us ever imagine that God could make a significant difference in this world through us – through others yes, but not us. And yet God has been known to ...

There’s a reason that religious rules feel empty and hollow and meaningless. It’s because they are. Jesus came, in His own words, to set us free. And when He sets us free, we ...

For some reason we’ve had this idea dropped on our heads that all rules are good rules and obeying the rules is a good thing. Well, perhaps that’s true … but there are some ...

What’s God like? Well – what is He actually like? One of the interesting things that God does to answer that question for us – is that in His Word, the Bible, He uses all ...

Christians talk a lot about the grace of God – the unmerited favour of God that He pours out on those of us who so clearly don’t deserve it. But then, in the very next breath, ...

I grew up in an environment of rule-based religion. To me, it felt like following Jesus meant having to wear a straitjacket 24/7. I suspect that, still today, a lot of people see ...

The idea that I wasn’t good enough for God is what kept me from turning my life over to Him for close on twenty years. Twenty years! Of course, I could never be good enough for ...

The idea of actually having a personal one-on-one relationship with Jesus, for many, is an anathema. How could that possibly work? If each one of the 2 billion plus Christians on ...

Preaching … sermons … can that really still be a thing in the 21st century, in this time and place where a four and a half minute YouTube video is way too long to hold our ...

In all honesty, we would like Jesus to be a nice, comfortable, relatable Saviour who would encourage us to be who we want to be, to live the life that we want to live. Problem is, ...

Sin is a word most people don’t like to use these days. But I will use it because it’s the word that God uses. And our sin is the barrier that stands between us and God. The ...

What’s God like? Well – what is He actually like? One of the interesting things that God does to answer that question for us – is that in His Word, the Bible, He uses all ...

The most common reason that people give for praying way less than they know they should is that they’re too busy – too busy to pray. But what if we have that the wrong way ...

When the going gets tough, when we’re in a place we’d rather not be in, it’s easy to get the idea that somehow we’re out of God’s will. After all, success equals God’s ...

From time to time, it’s easy to start imagining that we’re not good enough for God and that whilst He may have sent Jesus for those others who seem so much more worthy, in all ...

Christianity isn’t a religion – it’s not a set of rules to follow, any more than marriage is an institution bounded by strict rules. No, just like marriage, Christianity is ...

If God called you to do something that surprised you, that felt like it was completely beyond you, that looked like He needed to find someone much more qualified than you … ...

They say that an overnight success takes, on average, around twenty years. It’s true. There’s no such thing as a get-rich-quick scheme. And when it comes to our character, it ...

Every now and then I feel the need to get right in your face, and today is such a day. How often do you open your Bible and listen to God speak into your life? And if the answer ...

Most of us get to the point at some time in our lives where we start asking, what’s this life all about? I work hard, I do my best – the days, weeks, months, years are ...

When things aren’t going to our plan, could it be that God has a different plan?

How much do you spend comparing yourself to others? How helpful is it, really?

When God does something new in your life how do you respond?

Loving others can be a tough gig. Truly. But God is right here to help us love them, as He loves us.

Yesterday we prayed a prayer giving our lives over to Jesus. But perhaps you’re having second thoughts.

Question: are you saved or not? When you stand before God one day, are you in or out? Well?

If God seems to have gone missing on you, then this … this is for you!

Most of us get to the point at some time in our lives where we start asking, what’s this life all about? I work hard, I do my best – the days, weeks, months, years are ...

Most of us get to the point at some time in our lives where we start asking, what’s this life all about? I work hard, I do my best – the days, weeks, months, years are ...

When the pain is so bad that nothing makes a difference, God can and will make the difference.

When the pressure’s on, the hardest thing of all is to wait patiently for God.

Sometimes God’s promises seem patently ridiculous. But then, God always delivers on His promises.

What are the little compromises in your life that are robbing you of the promises of God?

Believing in Jesus means following Jesus. And yet there are so many who believe and yet don’t follow.

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

If you’d been God, how would you have chosen to save you, from yourself?