As we head into Christmas yet again, we’d all like to think that we have a pretty good life. That we have peace in our lives. But God knows that we can’t have that peace ...

Different people have different views of what it means to be a Christian. For some, it’s an intellectual thing. For others, it’s an emotional thing. But what is it for God? ...

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 ...

I don’t know if this happens to you too, but sometimes life seems to kind of just meander along aimlessly … until you shake yourself and wonder where its all headed? What’s ...

Money, wealth, riches … seductive, aren’t they? Secretly, we all want more. Some people do terrible things to get more. But more … well, more isn’t necessarily a good ...

I hope you don’t mind but I’m about to ask you a question that could be … well … just a tad confronting. Is God in His rightful place in your life – your King of kings, ...

I asked for a show of hands at church the other day. Who believes that we’re saved by faith alone? Who believes we’re saved through what we do? Who believes it’s a ...

Often we wonder why this or that in our life isn’t working out all that well … we do, don’t we? But rarely, if ever, do we make the connection between our rebellion against ...

I never cease to marvel at our capacity for self-delusion. We know that something we’re doing is wrong, that it’s going to have consequences down the track, and yet we keep on ...

Sometimes it’s hard to come to grips with the fact that we have some real untapped potential. The sad thing is when people live their whole lives without realising that ...

Funny, isn’t it, how you can profess to believe in God, but when things in your life head off the rails, the last thing you think of doing is asking God for His help. We all do ...

Might I ask you today how close, how intimate, how real is your relationship with God? And if, in your heart of hearts, you know that it’s not what it should be, what are you ...

When something bad happens to us, it can have us wondering, “Why did God let that happen to me?” We’ve all wondered that. And yet there’s something special that I believe ...

For some people, God is merely a concept … and a distant, irrelevant concept at that. Others though, have experienced His love firsthand and once that happens, life can never be ...

For some people, Jesus is real – for others, not so much. After all, what relevance can He possibly have, here in the 21st century? What impact can He possibly have in the busy, ...

It’s amazing how our own experience limits what we think is possible – what we think is going to happen sometime in the future – and for many, sadly, that is going to lead ...

It’s utterly astounding to me the seemingly endless variety of things that we don’t need – that we will never need – that are out there for us to spend our money on. So ...

Money as it turns out is a great servant, but a brutal master. So many people are struggling with money matters – debt, greed, all sorts of things and there doesn’t seem to be ...

When I use a word like “sin”, what thoughts does it bring to mind? What reactions does it elicit in your heart? Guilt, perhaps? Annoyance? Anger? Should I even use the word at ...

Okay … so perhaps it feels like a bit of a strange time of year to be talking about the death of Jesus. Don’t we usually do that at Easter? It’s almost Christmas! What’s ...

So right now – right in this moment – might I ask you how relevant is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to the things that you’re dealing with in your life? How ...

Holiness is a concept that, at different times in our lives, elicits different responses – sometimes fear, other times disdain, other times a sense of hopelessness. If I were to ...

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 ...

There are enough challenging and even scary things out there in the big wide world to stop us from living life to the full. And so what many people do is they try to cocoon ...

I want to share something with you today that has frustrated the living daylights out of me for many years. It’s something that I really don’t understand; Christians who ...

Money as it turns out is a great servant, but a brutal master. So many people are struggling with money matters – debt, greed, all sorts of things and there doesn’t seem to be ...

It’s a stark reminder to me when I watch the evening news – the riots, the protests, the people demanding this or that – that for those people, the God in whom I believe is ...

The easiest thing in the world for you and me to do is to rationalise away our own bad attitudes, our own bad behaviour towards other people. But God is not one to sweep those ...

Many people these days have an investment portfolio, saving for their retirement. Fine … but how many – seriously – have a giving portfolio that invests in the lives of the ...

The troubles of this world have a funny way of eating away at our hope for the future. As they increase, so our hope seems to drain out of us. Sadly, at the very time when we need ...

Satisfaction and contentment – these are things that we all yearn for; that sense of fulfilment, that sense at the end of a long, hard day that it was all worth it, even if you ...

We all need a word of encouragement from time to time. We just do. And right now, I want to give you a powerful word of encouragement into your heart. Sometimes we feel as though ...

Today I want to take a moment to share a story with you that was the turning point of my life. Nothing has ever been the same since I read this one, short, powerful story. I ...

Money as it turns out is a great servant, but a brutal master. So many people are struggling with money matters – debt, greed, all sorts of things and there doesn’t seem to be ...

Money as it turns out is a great servant, but a brutal master. So many people are struggling with money matters – debt, greed, all sorts of things and there doesn’t seem to be ...

Too many people settle for a dry life, a life devoid of spiritual life, of a real experience of the Presence of God working in them and through them, and that is such a waste – ...

The absolutely certain knowledge that I wasn’t good enough for God, and what’s more that I never would be, kept me from going to Him for two decades. It turns out that my ...

Have you ever read something in the Bible and thought to yourself, “Yick! How can that possibly be? How could God do that, or Jesus say that? No, no, that can’t be right?” ...

It would be really nice if life went along on a nice even keel, but we all know that’s not how it works. There are going to be times when we’re under the pump, and at those ...

Christians … seriously … Jesus this, Jesus that, Jesus is the only way. Who do they think they are? That’s how many people think. Hey, it’s how I used to think. The ...

The thing that stops so many people from stepping out to serve God, from following after His call on their lives, is the fact that to themselves, they seems so … well, ordinary. ...

That’s it, I’ve had enough. Following Jesus is just too hard. I’m ready to break and I can’t take it anymore. It feels like that sometimes. And it’s into that reality ...

There seem to be basically two types of people in this world – those who are a blessing and those who are a burden; those who are an asset and those who are a liability; those ...

So, when was the last time your anger got the better of you? How did it turn out? And how would you perhaps do things differently in that very same situation, if you were given ...

It’s funny how much different things cost in different countries. The comparison between ordinary things like a bottle of water or a haircut tells you a lot about the different ...

Joy, strength, satisfaction, contentment … it’s easy to go looking for them in all the wrong places. Maybe that’s why so many people who are so well off are so unhappy. What ...

The older we get, the more it can feel as though the baggage of the past is weighing us down. And the longer we carry that baggage around with us, the heavier it gets … until at ...

Adversity is a fact of life. That’s not in dispute. But when adversity comes our way, all of a sudden we treat it as though it’s the most abnormal thing that can ever happen ...

For many people (me included back in the day), the idea of “religion”, of God, of Jesus … well it all seems so distant, so irrelevant to the hurly-burly of life here in the ...

So many people in this world are so tired, so stressed out. Life is so relentless these days. We’re always connected. Always responding. Always having things demanded of us. You ...

There seem to be basically two types of people in this world – those who are a blessing and those who are a burden; those who are an asset and those who are a liability; those ...

Wilderness experiences in life come and go. That’s as it should be … with hopefully more going than coming. But today, I want to share something startling, something perhaps ...

Ahh, there are times in life when you’d rather give it all away, throw in the towel, withdraw into your shell. I get that. I’ve been there too. But I have some good news for ...

It’s funny how many blind spots each of us actually has in our makeup. Of course, on our own, we can’t see them. That’s why, I guess, they’re called blind spots. But we ...

So where did you get the wisdom that you have today? Where did it come from? And are there any holes in your wisdom? Any blind spots that keep coming back to haunt you with their ...

If you call yourself a Christian, might I ask you … are you truly a Christian? Not by your own definition, but according to what the Word of God says. Are you “born again” ...

We’ve all heard of those word association tests. You say black, I say white. You say girl, I say boy. You say orange, I say juice. Okay, we all get that. Now, here’s a word ...

I’ve met some seriously loopy Christians in my day. Truly I have. People who believe God for all the wrong things. But then, I’ve also met some who believed God for good but ...

There seem to be basically two types of people in this world – those who are a blessing and those who are a burden; those who are an asset and those who are a liability; those ...

Christians use so much jargon. Sin, salvation, Messiah, Saviour. Seriously? I wonder how many people who use those words truly, truly, in their heart of hearts, understand what ...

Can I ask you – what is it that’s stopping you from laying down everything for Jesus, being prepared to give up whatever He may call you to give up? We all have something. ...

Can I ask you to think back to the last time your plans were delayed, frustrated. How did you feel? How did you react? What did you say to God, hmm? Have you ever noticed how ...

I know many a person who says that they believe in God, and yet their life falls way short of all that He promises it should be. And there’s invariably a reason for that. The ...

Many people know the theory that Jesus died for us on the Cross and that if we believe in Him, if we put our trust in Him, then we immediately receive the free gift of eternal ...

Can I ask you today, what does “Jesus Christ” mean to you? Is He even relevant to your day-to-to-day life? Or is He, in your heart, in your mind, just a bunch of irrelevant ...

As I look back on my life, the one thing that I can’t understand about myself is why it took me so long to accept the grace and the mercy of God. Knowing what I know now, it was ...

There seem to be basically two types of people in this world – those who are a blessing and those who are a burden; those who are an asset and those who are a liability; those ...

There seem to be basically two types of people in this world – those who are a blessing and those who are a burden; those who are an asset and those who are a liability; those ...

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 ...

The fourth of the Ten Commandments is pretty straightforward. “You shall not use the name of the Lord your God in vain.” And yet, over and over I see it happening, even ...

There’s a thing that happens when we put our trust in this Jesus whom God sent to take away our sins. And that is, indeed, why God sent Him to die on that Cross. And that thing ...

Question: what are the things in your life that make you happy? The things that make your heart sing and your spirit soar? What are the things that you value most in your life? ...

I’m old enough to remember black-and-white television. It’s what I grew up with. But then one day I saw my first colour TV in a shop window. I was completely mesmerised. Up ...

I have absolutely no idea where you’re at when it comes to faith in God. None whatsoever. And yet there’s something I have on my heart for you today that, no matter where ...

Many a marriage relationship becomes stale – not because either husband or wife wanted it to, but because they’ve stopped doing things for each other and with each other. And ...

One of the things that we know in life, is that every person is different – different attitudes, motivations, talents, abilities. But so often we don’t put that into practice. ...

Life slips by so incredibly quickly. Days turn into weeks, then into months, years, decades … and bang … one day your life will be snuffed out. That’s it. And that casts a ...

One of the saddest things I see going on around the world is people going through the motions of religion, doing all the things they think they need to do to please God, without ...

I was having dinner recently with some old friends. They truly were old friends. She was in her eighties and he was in his nineties. And as I listened to them talk, I realised ...

The sad face is that, for many people, life just seems flat, grey, lifeless. And sure, we go through the odd season like that. But it’s not meant to go on. It was never God’s ...

As you think about God and all that He has on His plate, what do you imagine His level of attention to the problems in your life is right at the moment? Is He engaged … or is He ...

It’s funny isn’t it, how it’s invariably the little things that can bring us unstuck? One small spark can burn down a whole forest. One small pebble can send a horse lame. ...

It was an incredible revelation to me that God would even bother with me – that someone as insignificant as me would come to His attention, that He would even want to have a ...

One of the things that we know in life, is that every person is different – different attitudes, motivations, talents, abilities. But so often we don’t put that into practice. ...

Have you ever looked around at other people and thought to yourself, “Wow, they are so incredibly talented.”? And of course, beneath that, as we compare their gifts and ...

The hardest thing in the world to do is to admit that we’re wrong. You know the drill. You carry on in a certain way and the further down the path you get, even though you know ...

Every now and then, we can find ourselves in a deep, dark hole, a bleak and lonely place in life where we feel completely helpless. I’ve been there and no doubt so have you. So, ...

Jesus … it’s a name that means many things to many people. But let’s get one thing straight. It’s only when you put your trust in Jesus, as you accept the forgiveness and ...

Sometimes it seems as though nothing is ever going to change. Nothing is ever going to get better. God clearly hasn’t noticed, or He’s lost the plot. There’s not one of us ...

I was sitting with some friends over dinner recently, and we were talking about the future. Now these friends were all a lot older than me, so the sense of proximity, of ...

Here’s the crazy thing. We each have something – one thing more than any other – that’s going on in our life that we wish we could change, that we wish God would change, ...

God has placed a special gift or ability inside each one of us. The sad thing is that it’s so easy for the day to day grind to bury that gift – and the dreams we may have had ...

Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try, go the lyrics of that John Lennon song. Oh, and how easy it is to live our lives today as though there is no eternity, as ...

You don’t have to look very far to see how people’s own destructive behaviour is ruining, not just their own lives, but the lives of those around them. But as much as we see ...

Why is it that so many marriages either end in divorce or linger on as a joyless existence? Why is that – when marriage is meant to be the most incredible blessing from God, ...

Anybody who’s set their heart on living a life of faith, on following hard after God, is at some point going to discover that it’s hard work. So what’s the answer? Give up ...

There’s a strange thing going round these days. It’s this sense that even though we’ve stuffed ourselves full of all that this world has to offer, somehow we’re still ...

Have you ever thought to yourself, as the busyness of all that your life entails seems to consume you, that there must be something more? Surely this isn’t all that life is. ...

God has placed a special gift or ability inside each one of us. The sad thing is that it’s so easy for the day to day grind to bury that gift – and the dreams we may have had ...