Insecurity, low self-esteem, hold many a person back from being all that God created them to be. And for some people, it’s time to get a revelation of what God sees, when He …

Life is full of peaks and troughs. And all too often we can be intoxicated by the triumphs and crushed by the disasters. Way too many people live their lives on an emotional …

In this crazy-busy world in which we live, prioritising all the things that we have to do can be quite a challenge. And yet, deciding what to do next, has a huge impact on the …

Joy is such a simple word. Three letters. One syllable. So why is it in such short supply?So many people believe in Jesus. And yet they don’t experience His joy. And that’s so …

Joy is such a simple word. Three letters. One syllable.So why it in such short supply? So many people believe in Jesus. And yet they don’t experience His joy. And that’s so …

Many a person’s life is out of whack. Things are out of alignment. It’s just not working the way it should be. This wall is crooked, that window isn’t level and this door …

Many people, even those, might I say who believe in Jesus, live life with a sense that something … something’s missing. It’s not easy to put your finger on. But surely there …

Love is something that we all want. It’s something that we all need. We’re very good consumers, when it comes to the commodity of love. But honestly, how good are we, at …

We live in a disposable society. Look at the packaging they wrap around all the things we buy … straight in the bin. And we live in a society where even relationships have …

Obedience, in this day and age, is not a popular concept. Just listen to that word – obedience. In the context of your life, it sounds kind of old-fashioned, restrictive, yich! …

Have you ever done something wrong for the umpteenth time, and you start thinking to yourself, at some point, Jesus has to be done with me? At some point, it has to be …

It’s easy to go along to church each Sunday, sing the songs, listen to the sermon, pat yourself on the back and yet … still harbour a quiet disdain for some of the people in …

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 …

Today is Mother’s Day in most parts of the world. Not everywhere, but almost everywhere. Mother’s Day is a special day when we remember the sacrifices our mothers have made. …

Suffering has a funny way of pulling us off course. We want to follow God’s call on our lives, but the moment the going gets tough, a whole bunch of people fall by the wayside, …

Suffering at the hands of injustice is pretty much as bad as it gets. Not only is our innate sense of justice deeply offended, but at the same time we’re hurting. The injustice …

No one likes to suffer. You don’t, I don’t, and yet, God has a lot to say about suffering. And what He does say, well, it ain’t all that pretty. I’ve often thought that …

When we suffer an injustice, when we discover in our own experience, yet again, that life’s not fair, we want to rail against it, don’t we? We want to behave badly, and all …

Many workplaces are a powder keg, waiting to go off. The tension in some organisations is palpable and sometimes it’s management’s fault. So, how do you react, how do you cope …

Question: How do you treat people you don’t like, people you don’t agree with, people you don’t respect? How do you respond to them? God tells us to do some crazy things. …

Every now and then, you run into a Scripture verse that packs a real punch. A verse that in just a very few words delivers a knock-out blow. The one we’re going to look at …

Christians talk a lot about faith. Their faith walk; faith this; faith that. But what is faith? Well, faith is what you need to get through the things you can’t get through …

When was the last time that you were accused of something that you didn’t do? It wasn’t a very nice feeling was it? So, how did you respond? And looking back on it, how might …

Churches, these days, are a lot different from the churches that we read about in the New Testament. For one thing, those churches back then, well they didn’t have great big …

The moment we give our lives to Jesus Christ, two important changes take place. Firstly, our status, who we are changes. And secondly, the purpose of our life changes, or at …

Discipline is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, none of us enjoys being disciplined. Ever. On the other hand, without discipline, without being taught obedience, we would be …

It’s funny how we’re prepared to make sacrifices in life to achieve the goals that we want to achieve, but then, when following Jesus, when serving Him involves sacrifice, we …

Difficult times, times of trial, can have us questioning our faith in Jesus. They can have us wondering whether He’s real, or whether we’re just deluding ourselves, hanging …

When you find yourself in a time of trial, a time when your faith is being put to the test, it’s not a lot of fun, and amidst the pain and the uncertainty, often, it doesn’t …

Christians talk a lot about faith. Their faith walk; faith this; faith that. But what is faith? Well, faith is what you need to get through the things you can’t get through …

In your walk through life with Jesus, have you ever been tempted to give up on Him? Turn back from that relationship? Go your own way? If so, you wouldn’t be the first one to …

We often don’t think all that much about the things we say and how we say them. We just kind of blurt things out. But the problem with that is the things that we say have the …

Victory and defeat are complete opposites. They lie at the complete opposite ends of human experience. And yet, there are times when they come together and those times, well those …

Those of us who live in a more traditional family unit, husband, wife, children, maybe a pet dog, we generally don’t give a thought to how difficult life must be for the single …

Life is full of seasons. Seasons to be serious, and seasons for having a good laugh. Times when things are getting us down and times to lighten up a bit. Yep, life is full of …

Looking back on Easter, what was it all about again? What did we just celebrate back there on Good Friday and Easter Sunday? What was the point of it all? Easter, when you …

Christians talk a lot about faith. Their faith walk; faith this; faith that. But what is faith? Well, faith is what you need to get through the things you can’t get through …

Christians talk a lot about the resurrection of Jesus – it seems quite central to what they believe. But what is this whole resurrection thing about? Did it really happen? And …

Well, today is the day when we celebrate the fact that Jesus rose again to give us a new life. But, not everyone believes that He rose again. I mean, it’s pretty far-fetched, …

Have you ever felt completely alone? You know, when you’re hurting, aching and nothing anyone can say or do makes any difference. It’s a black hole, and in that hole, you’re …

The Cross of Christ is a serious business. But I wonder as we celebrate what happened there on that hill, Golgotha, I wonder how many of us really, in our heart of hearts, …

The Cross of Christ, that brutal crucifixion, looked like the biggest defeat in all of human history. This supposed Messiah, strung up on a cross, nailed hands and feet, gasping …

Sometimes, being a disciple of Jesus Christ, means standing apart from the crowd and being different. Not always, but sometimes. And when that time comes, we each have an …

You know what they say. When you fall over, get up, dust yourself off and keep on going. But there’s another bit to that. You don’t want to keep on falling over in the same …

Bringing up children is a huge responsibility. It’s a huge investment too, requiring a lot of sacrifice along the way. But inevitably, it’s an investment that also pays huge …

Have you ever wondered whether God is bothered by how little time some people spend with Him? I mean quality time, unhurried time, undistracted time. Do you think, perhaps, that …

As we head into Easter week, it’s so, so easy just to focus on having that long weekend and munching on that chocolate … that we ignore that distant awareness that there’s …

Every morning when we get up out of bed, the biggest determinant of the sort of day that we’re going to have is the attitude in our hearts. And it turns out that our …

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh, that’s just a small sin. God won’t care. He probably won’t even notice”? Ever thought like that? Well, let me be blunt. That’s …

When you’re head down, working hard at life, it’s all too easy to lose sight, I mean, completely lose sight, of the power that God has to help you deal with the difficult …

What are the things that you depend on in life? The things that you assume will still be here in five years’ time? Your home? Your job? Even your marriage? We behave as though …

Christianity has a funny way of getting up people’s noses, in the pluralistic world in which we live nowadays. So we get to thinking that perhaps … well, maybe we are being …

The pressure seems to be rising, have you noticed. In society there’s more and more conflict and as individuals, many people just feel as though they’re under more and more …

Okay. It’s time for some straight shooting today on relationships –specifically, your relationship with the people who drive you nutty. The ones you see coming and straight …

Easter’s a bit of a funny time of the year. I mean, in a sense, we probably understand what God was up to at Easter. But you know, there’s a real danger that we say “Well …

With all the sexual abuse scandals in the news and the #metoo movement in full swing, the thing that staggers me is how widespread the abuse of women actually is. Not just in the …

As we live life not thinking all that much about the deeper things, just making it through day by day, it’s not uncommon for an uneasy feeling to creep up on us. A feeling …

Jesus had some incredibly unsettling things to say about what sort of faith is required for us to enter into heaven. Incredibly unsettling. So, with your faith in the state that …

Who needs Easter? Really. It seems so distant from the cut and thrust of day-to-day life. A long weekend perhaps. A bit too much chocolate. Even a church service, maybe. But does …

Living life is something we don’t think much about. It’s like drawing the next breath, you’re just on autopilot. But we can live life well, or we can live life badly, …

Heaven, hell, eternity … all that stuff … is so other-worldly that amidst the business of living life, they seem completely irrelevant. But one day, make no mistake, they’re …

Democracy around the globe, right at the moment, seems to be a sick little puppy. There is so much entrenched tribalism between left and right, so much arguing, so much deep …

People are dying to have a great life. Who doesn’t want to have a great life? But for so many, it just isn’t working out that way. Maybe they’ve got everything they need – …

It bothers me a lot, when I see churches tearing themselves apart over stupid controversies, when I see Christian marriages falling apart over this or that. You have to ask …

Grace. It’s a word that rolls so easily off the tongue. We sing songs about it. We hear sermons about it. But, might I ask you, is your heart overwhelmed by the enormity of …

When you boil it all down, the reason that God sent us His Son, is to save us from the unthinkable consequences of our sin. And in Christ, our forgiveness is so utterly complete, …

Not everything that God calls us to do, always makes sense at first. In fact, sometimes, it goes completely against the grain. Question is, will you follow the call, will you do …

Forgiving people who’ve hurt you, well that’s a great idea, in theory. But in practice, when you’re still hurting, how do you set about actually doing that? One of the …

The truth is, forgiving people who’ve hurt us isn’t always such an easy thing to do. But deep in our hearts, we know that unless we do forgive them, the hurt will just keep on …

How secure are you in your relationship with God? What do you believe that He’s going to do on that occasion when you’ve failed Him one time too often? Boot you out of His …

Easter’s a bit of a funny time of the year. I mean, in a sense, we probably understand what God was up to at Easter. But you know, there’s a real danger that we say “Well …

Ninety–nine percent of the time – God’s truth is … well, counter–intuitive. It goes against the grain. It swims against the tide of popular opinion. And yet, scratch …

It’s easy to feel guilty about the struggle we each have in dealing with the sin in our lives. Because somehow we imagine that we’re the only ones going through this struggle. …

The work of God the Holy Spirit is sometimes surprising, sometimes unconventional, sometimes quite unsettling. How do you react to that? How do you respond to something that He …

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 …

The Holy Spirit is God. We talk about God the Father and God the Son, but how often do you hear people talk about God the Holy Spirit? And in any case, why is it that Christians …

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 …

God is faithful. That truth rolls so easily off the tongue. Living your life as though that’s true, living your life based on that truth, making decisions, taking steps of faith …

If only life were perfect. If only we didn’t have to deal with those things that we have going on that we’d rather not having going on. If only … right? If you think …

Half of the women living on planet earth today are under the age of 25 – and there are so many issues that confront them – about who they are, how they fit in, where their …

Have you ever had that uneasy feeling in your heart? Sometimes you can put your finger on the root cause, other times it just kind of sits there for no obvious reason. You may not …

Too many people who call themselves Christians are like, well, they’re like stunted trees with a shallow root system. When the storm comes, it’ll rip them up and blow them …

In a world where, in a spiritual sense, people generally believe that all roads lead to Rome, that any faith in something good will do, how can we possibly sustain the position …

All too often in our lives, the imperfect experiences of the past, make it difficult for us to lay hold of the perfect love that God has for us. And not comprehending, not …

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 …

So let me ask you, at what point does God give up on us. When we’ve failed Him for the millionth time, when we’ve made the same mistake yet again, fallen to the same …

Don’t you wish you were able to deal with the sin in your life, your foibles and bad habits, much more quickly than God seems to be dealing with them? I mean come on God, …

Half of the women living on planet earth today are under the age of 25 – and there are so many issues that confront them – about who they are, how they fit in, where their …

Leadership in the workplace is a great privilege and even a greater responsibility. Sad to say though, that leaders who profess a faith in Jesus, don’t always handle the task of …

Have you noticed your passion and commitment at work has been waning? You’d love to be more enthusiastic about your job, but when Monday rolls around (again!) all you want to do …

We all want to be good parents when we bring children into the world, but nobody ever tells us what a tough job it is. Nobody ever tells us about the challenges and the demands of …

In a world that’s becoming ever more materialistic, in a world where both parents and children, more and more, draw their values from what they see on their phones than from …

Can I ask you what might be a bit of a touchy question today? Is God real to you? I mean is He making a powerful difference in our life, or is “God” a vague notion, a theory …

You’ve no doubt often heard it said that God is the God of the impossible. Well that’s easy to say, but when you run into the impossible, believing it is a whole other thing, …

No one likes to suffer, but in a spiritual sense, suffering can cause us to take our eye off the ball as we wonder, what the blazes God is up to and why He’s letting this happen …

We live in a world that on the one hand promotes a “me, me, me” philosophy, and yet on the other cruelly sells people short. Little wonder that so many people have lost their …

Most of us don’t handle rejection all that well. Whether it’s being left of the invite list to a social function or having your soulmate trade you in for a newer model, …

Suffering, on its own, is bad enough. But when the suffering comes at the hands of injustice, it can be almost unbearable. How do you respond when you’re on the wrong end of an …

Whenever someone comes to me with a problem that’s eating away at them, my first question, always, is how often do you open your Bible? The most common response? An awkward …

Let me ask you something: where do you run for protection? You know, on those days when the whole world seems to be against you, when your circumstances take a sudden turn for the …