When we’re going through times of trouble, as we all do from time to time, the thought, the question, that plays on our minds is this one: Why is this happening to me? Well, why ...

If there’s one thing in life that’s perhaps more important than any other, it’s the need for us to be honest with ourselves – to take a look and really see ourselves for ...

Each year, here at Christianityworks, we have the privilege of sharing the Word of God with literally millions of people around the globe through these broadcasts. And as you ...

Christmas is a time of celebration, right? And yet how many times have you been through Christmas and it just wasn’t all that it should have been? Well, there’s a reason for ...

If you had a choice between a life of hard work doing what you’re good at doing, or an easy life of wealthy luxury just whiling away the days doing whatever you want, which one ...

One of the things I love about Jewish culture is how richly they use words to paint pictures. So, if you’ve ever wondered why yeast is used as a symbol of sin in Scripture, ...

You and I would like to think that we know ourselves pretty well –  that by this time in our lives we have a pretty good handle on who we are, what we’re good at, and ...

Allow me to ask you plainly today, do you believe in Jesus? If so, then no matter what you’ve done, how badly you’ve behaved, you are one of God’s children. His door remains ...

We all have days when God appears to go missing from our lives. In theory you may well believe that He never leaves you or forsakes you. But in practice … well, where is He? Why ...

We all have a secret thought life. We think things that we don’t share with anyone else, even our closest confidant. And those secret thoughts, in point of fact, hold powerful ...

How often do you hear people speaking well of their enemies? In fact, how often do you speak well of your enemies? My guess? Not all that often. And that’s not because I’m ...

When we were teenagers, changes are that even the best advice from our parents was like water off a duck’s back.  “What  would they know?”  In hindsight – a ...

Have you ever had the sense that God’s calling you to do something for Him? You know … that little voice, that nudge in your spirit. It can be a tad disconcerting because ...

So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to trust in Jesus – the Son of God who died to pay for your sins and rose again to give you a new life for ...

What is the gift of eternal life worth to you? Think about it. Just take your focus off all the ups and downs at play in your life today and focus on the gift of eternal life. ...

This world is full of aches and pains – in our relationships, in our hearts … and hey, even in the old body as it heads towards its inevitable end. In short, things sometimes ...

I think we’re all agreed that as well as our physical bodies of flesh and blood, deep down inside there’s a spiritual aspect to who we are – an aspect, a dimension, that’s ...

Many people are happy to believe in Jesus’ promise of eternal life, in theory, but in practice we know the stark reality of death – a body in a coffin. Our earthly body ...

There are so many cares and concerns, stresses and strains, that we face in life day-to-day. But as much as they occupy our attention and consume our energies, one day … ...

When we were teenagers, changes are that even the best advice from our parents was like water off a duck’s back.  “What  would they know?”  In hindsight – a ...

I have to tell you that the Apostle Paul is my kind of guy. He’s blunt, he’s direct – he tells it the way it is. If we read what he wrote, we’ll never go to our grave ...

The things going on in your life and mine today, here and now, are extremely powerful. In a very real sense, they define our reality. And in a very real sense, they truncate our ...

We’ve been focussing these last few days on the resurrection of Jesus. Did it really happen? And if so, so what? If it really did happen, what does it mean for you and me now, ...

Over the last two thousand years, billions of people have believed in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, death … that’s easy to believe in. But resurrection? ...

Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real or was it not? – has been fiercely debated. And these days many still write it off as a myth. I mean, ...

I remember when I finally became a Christian at age thirty-six, after leading a very self-centred life, I felt so inferior to all these holier-than-thou Christians around me. I ...

We’ve all been to funerals … the loss of a loved one, a friend, a colleague. And those solemn ceremonies are an important part of grieving; an important part of letting go. ...

One of the easiest things to do in this world, is to idolise God’s blessings. In other words, we elevate the blessings of this world, above God Himself. We’ve all done it and ...

We all love that word “victory”. It’s about winning – success, glory, recognition. Who doesn’t want to live a life of victory over their circumstances, crashing through ...

So much of what Jesus taught was deeply rooted in our ordinary, everyday realities. Yes, He did talk about what we believe, but He talked much more about what we do. That’s an ...

Here’s a question for you today. Do you believe in “hell”? Do you believe that it’s a place of physical separation from God and a place of torment, or not? Because what we ...

During Jesus’ trial, Pontius Pilot asked the question “What is truth?”. It’s a question, these days, that I ask myself again and again. I think we all should, lest we be ...

Loving people who don’t love us in return … well, it’s not easy, is it? In fact, our instinct is to give them as much grief as they give us. And that, right there, is why ...

How much time do you have left to love the people around you? When will your last hug of a loved one be? The answer is, we just don’t know. Which means that love should be our ...

One of the greatest battlegrounds, if I can call it that, between those who are of this world and those who belong to Jesus, is the question of abortion. Why are those Christians ...

One of the easiest things to do in this world, is to idolise God’s blessings. In other words, we elevate the blessings of this world, above God Himself. We’ve all done it and ...

One of the easiest things to do in this world, is to idolise God’s blessings. In other words, we elevate the blessings of this world, above God Himself. We’ve all done it and ...

Let me be honest. I have this secret desire for God to bless me. He’s promised a lot in the Bible. I want Him to deliver on all those promises – preferably today, or at the ...

When we succumb to temptation, it’s not a nice feeling. If only we could undo it, wind it back. But we can’t. So who’s to blame. You? Me? Surely not. Must be the devil. Why ...

Here’s the thing about temptation. It’s so alluring. It’s so desirable. And it has to be, because if we yield to it, it’s so destructive. And it assails us all too often, ...

Why is society so down on Christianity these days? What is it that makes the Good News of Jesus so deeply offensive to so many people? Persecution, it seems, is on the rise. Why? ...

So let me ask you today, what’s at the top of your prayer list? What are the top three things that you want to ask God to give you? Perhaps health, or financial security, or a ...

Trust in God. We all know that we should. If you’ve ever opened a Bible, you’ll hear God say it over and over and over again. Trust in Me. But trusting in Him should never be ...

When was the last time you ran into someone who stubbornly refused to listen to reason, who stubbornly refused to yield even though it was, or at least should have been, plainly ...

Tiredness. We all feel tired sometimes.  And actually, it’s something that creeps up on us – so subtly, so unexpectedly that we don’t even realise it.  In fact – ...

None of us likes it when those inevitable life storms come our way, but they do happen, right? And when we’re in the middle of one, it more often than not feels like we’re ...

There’s a real risk, I think, that we can mistake what God’s grace is all about – that we kind of put a fence around it in our hearts and in our minds … in our lives, to ...

Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British coronation since 1066. Amazing. Of course, much of this architectural masterpiece was built subsequently, but it’s ...

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I look at all that’s going on in this world – the way people are behaving, the direction things are headed – and I think to myself, ...

Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ‘the news’? I do. The more you stand back from it, the more it just looks and sounds like a bunch of ...

Created as we are, as social creatures, we by and large love it when our relationships are on an even keel. That involves us pleasing other people and, of course, vice versa. But ...

The world we live in today has changed so much from even twenty years ago – technology, globalisation, attitudes, morality … the way we work, how we’re entertained. Yep, ...

Series Promo Tiredness. We all feel tired sometimes.  And actually, it’s something that creeps up on us – so subtly, so unexpectedly that we don’t even realise ...

If you believe in Jesus, then you’ve no doubt found that your relationship with Him has had its ups and downs. Sometimes you feel on fire, other times … not so much. And the ...

In this tech-driven age in which we live, our senses are constantly being bombarded with all kinds of stuff. As a result, it’s becoming harder and harder to keep our attention ...

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 ...

When we go through times of suffering (as we all do), the last thing we ever imagine is that this suffering could be a blessing. I mean, who would ever use those two words ...

It’s amazing how, after a while, we can become accustomed to discomfort or adversity – to the point where we don’t even notice it anymore, to the point where we even become ...

We each have a different risk-reward ratio at play in our lives. Some are prepared to take greater risks for greater rewards. Others are more conservative in their approach, ...

From time to time, we all come across people who rub us the wrong way – perhaps even people who offend us, belittle us, seek to harm us. We wish we didn’t, but we do. So what ...

Tiredness. We all feel tired sometimes.  And actually, it’s something that creeps up on us – so subtly, so unexpectedly that we don’t even realise it.  In fact – ...

If only everyone on this planet would think the way we do. If only they’d see things the way we do. THEN … wouldn’t life be wonderful? Peace. Harmony. Happy days. Pffft … ...

Judgementalism is a cancer in society today. You only have to spend about five minutes on social media to figure that out. And it’s not just in society. Judgementalism is a ...

There are some intensely uncomfortable things in the Bible… truly. Passages that we’d rather skim over and ignore. Verses that offend our own personal theologies, if you will. ...

By and large, pride is far from a good thing. When we’re full of ourselves and our own self-importance … well, that’s ugly, right? And God opposes the proud, 100% of the ...

Sin is a fact of life. I know that’s not such a popular concept in this day and age, but since when has popularity been an accurate determinant of the truth? Yep, sin is a fact ...

Insults are a fact of life. And when we’re the one on the receiving end … man, they smart, they hurt, don’t they? And something inside us makes us want to get even. But ...

Some people are natural pessimists. They’re typically the detailed people who can see all that’s going wrong. Others are natural optimists – the dreamers, the planners. But ...

Tiredness. We all feel tired sometimes.  And actually, it’s something that creeps up on us – so subtly, so unexpectedly that we don’t even realise it.  In fact – ...

Tiredness. We all feel tired sometimes.  And actually, it’s something that creeps up on us – so subtly, so unexpectedly that we don’t even realise it.  In fact – ...

Personal safety is one of our highest order needs. It follows on immediately after having enough air to breathe if there’s an imminent threat. Often times, it even comes before ...

It can be difficult these days to discern what really is “the truth”. There’s a glut of information out there in this digital age – not all of it produced with a pure ...

The process of maturing as an individual has a lot to do with balancing opposite forces in our lives – holding them in tension, if you will – so that we bring them into play ...

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 ...

Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things you have to get done? And there comes a point in all of that where the joy that you once felt seems to have ...

When you’re out doing good things for God, using your gifts and abilities, your time and resources to share the love of Christ with those around you, there’s a temptation, to ...

Just at the moment, many of those who believe in Jesus are feeling what I call “the big squeeze”. It just feels like the militant forces in society that oppose the gospel have ...

Just about everybody I talk to is able to point to something in their lives that’s just not working.  A Relationship.  Just how they feel about themselves.  ...

I used to think that the aim of life was finding happiness – until that futile pursuit drove me to the brink of life itself. It turns out that there’s something out there ...

There are times when we’re absolutely convinced that we’re right. Absolutely! And all those people out there … they’re wrong. And yet, paradoxically … in insisting on ...

None of us likes to see waste. I mean, it’s senseless, isn’t it? If you have something that could be productive, that could yield fruit, that could make lives better, then why ...

One of the great arguments against the existence of an all-powerful, all-loving God is all the suffering that goes on in this world. So clearly, either God doesn’t love us ...

Freedom is one of those concepts with a lot of “cerebral curb appeal”. In other words, it’s an idea that we naturally want to pull up next to. But it’s a concept that’s ...

One of the things that I find intensely annoying about my parents is that the things they tried to teach me when I was young and rebellious turned out to be absolutely right! ...

It’s easy these days with the “I’m entitled” mentality that pervades our culture to read the Bible through that very same “I’m entitled” lens, to perceive the things ...

Just about everybody I talk to is able to point to something in their lives that’s just not working.  A Relationship.  Just how they feel about themselves.  ...

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 ...

Scripture is often quoted out of context. One of the most common verses is “I can do all things in Christ Jesus”. It’s used to name and claim all sorts of things. But ...

It’s easy to say you should trust God through the difficult times. Doing it though, is much more difficult – because trusting Someone you can’t see in the face of something ...

There are times in life when things seem to be going along pretty well. And then there are times when it all comes crashing down around our ears, at which point we desperately ...

I’ve never been a particularly gifted sportsman, but I do enjoy watching sport. In January this year, a young woman, Ash Barty, was the first Australian in forty-four years to ...

You’ve probably heard that saying that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Great saying. Great theory. But let’s be honest. When the going gets tough, all too ...

As we observed yesterday, there are two equal and opposite forms of criticism that we face in our lives – the sort that seeks to tear us down, and the sort that builds us up. ...

One of the things that the Bible promises us over and over again, is spiritual victory. We aren’t just conquerors God tells us, but more than conquerors. Spiritual victory is ...

There are two equal and opposite forms of criticism you’ll face in life – constructive and destructive. Criticism that builds you up, and criticism that tears you down. And ...

We all, to some extent, wear tinted glasses. In other words, we see things from our perspective, coloured by our life’s experience, our beliefs, and often distorted by our blind ...

When you see someone heading in the wrong direction, about to make a mistake that’s going to hurt them or those around them, helping them to get things right … well, it just ...

One of the most frustrating things in relationships is that other people can be so dense sometimes. (Never us, of course – just them.) And have you noticed how stubborn they ...

There’s a scary thing happening amongst God’s people today. It revolves around what it means to be saved; to have the gift of eternal life. And on that day, I suspect that ...

“Religion” is a word that, frankly, I recoil from – because to me, it carries a lot of baggage. It speaks of rituals and rules, bells and smells if you will, which is ...