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Christianityworks
In Depth Weekly Bible Teaching: Join Berni Dymet as he opens God's Word to discover what God has to say into your life, today. Watch, listen or read. Whichever works best!
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FRESH Daily Devotional
Daily Devotional taking you deeper into God's Word + closer to Jesus. Watch, listen or read. It's your choice. Even subscribe to have it delivered directly to you!
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A Different Perspective
Daily 10 Minute Message exploring issues we all face in life ... from a different perspective; the sorts of things that really matter day-to-day. Listen or read. It's up to you.
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When You’re Guilty of Harm
In most countries, occupational health and safety (or OH&S, as it’s called) is a big deal. And rightly so, because in places where it isn’t, some terrible things end up ...
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What Sort of Neighbour are You?
Neighbours have a funny way of getting on one another’s nerves. Be it a barking dog, tree roots under the fence, cigarette smoke or a boundary dispute, being a good neighbour ...
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God’s Timing is Perfect
I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t always been that enamoured by God’s timing. There’ve been too many times when suffering’s gone on for too long. And frankly, ...
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The World’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme
A man by the name of Bernie Madoff, a former Chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange, holds the title for the biggest Ponzi scheme in human history. He stole, wait for it … $64.8 ...
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The Simple Power of Love
With so much bad stuff going on around us you have to ask yourself, what’s the antidote? What’s the solution? How can we make it stop? Husbands cheating on wives, and wives on ...
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Love Is (2)
We live in a go, go, go, hectic, run at a million miles an hour kind of world these days. And the busier and more connected that we become, the harder it is to remember what ...
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How You Treat Your Staff
Anyone who’s ever been in a leadership role will know that it ain’t easy. People sometimes fall short of your expectations. And without doubt, you’ll come in for your share ...
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Remember Your Reward
Impressing others can, without doubt, bring short term rewards. Impress your boss and you might get a raise, a promotion, or both. But there’s something much more important, ...
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Are You Still Trying to Impress?
No matter how humble we think we might have become, there’s always a temptation lurking deep inside somewhere telling us how wonderful it would be if we could impress other ...
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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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The Power of a Question
If only life were simple … but it simply isn’t. It’s messy, it’s complex. People’s emotions, ours included, are fickle. We’re often faced with tricky situations. Yep, ...
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Does God Still Punish Us?
So let me ask you, does God still punish His children? When you do something wrong, and you know it was wrong, does He still get out His big cosmic ruler and rap you over the ...
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Love Is (1)
We live in a go, go, go, hectic, run at a million miles an hour kind of world these days. And the busier and more connected that we become, the harder it is to remember what ...
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An Abhorrent Concept
In this day and age, no matter what system of government we happen to live under, our desire is to be free; to have self-determination; not to have others tell us what to do. That ...
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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on the promises of God is truly important. I mean, it’s always important but never more so than in times of ...
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Those Who’ve Gone Before
In this fast paced, technology-driven world where you can order up dinner on your smartphone to be delivered to your door in half an hour, people seem rarely to take the time to ...
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The Light that Shines in Your Heart
You know when something’s been baffling you for ages, something’s not quite right but you just haven’t been able to figure it out and then all of a sudden it comes ...
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Have You Unwrapped the Gift?
Imagine for a moment that on one of those really significant birthdays, one with a zero on the end of it, the person you love most gives you a present all wrapped up with a big ...
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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when you breathe your last breath? Why has He still left you here, rather than taken you home to Himself in glory? ...
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Remember the Promise
Back in the days of old, the only sort of boats that existed were sailboats. Intrepid sailors criss-crossed the globe, crossing great oceans to discover new worlds, powered by one ...
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Get out of Jail Free
Sometimes in life – things go wrong – a relationship, our work, money problems, kids….it’s a pretty long list. And when they do, it seems like nothing else ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down through the ages. A shout of joy. But does it still mean anything over two thousand years after the event? What, ...
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Completely Defeated, And Yet …
Easter Saturday … what do we do with that? It’s kind of a nothing day between the terrible events of Good Friday and the spectacularly wondrous events of Resurrection Sunday. ...
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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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A Big Promise
Jesus did and said things that were so, “out there”, so unexpected. As often as you read the Gospel accounts of His life, you can never cease to be surprised. Over the last ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, “Good Friday”, when Jesus was nailed to that Cross for all to see. How could that possibly have been ...
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Despite Your Best Intentions
It’s one thing to have good intentions; it’s another thing entirely to live them out. There’s not a person alive who hasn’t begun their race with the best of intentions, ...
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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there naturally because they’re encoded in our DNA; handed down from generation to generation. But there’s another ...
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A New Life in Jesus
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 ...
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My Redeemer Lives
Most of the time, when it comes to this whole Easter thing, the bit we remember most is the bit where Jesus died on the Cross, to pay for our sin. And that’s certainly a ...
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When the Holy Spirit Leaves the Building
Question: what’s the difference between following the rules and following Jesus? Why is it that we can’t even seem to obey the road rules and yet following Jesus changes ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact legislation you’ll find that it’s largely reactive. Someone does something we don’t like so we make a law ...
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The Very Definition of Failure
Have you ever worked hard, sacrificed much to achieve something, only to discover when you finally got there that it was empty, hollow … not at all what you expected success to ...
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A Plan for Tomorrow
It’s funny, isn’t it, that although we know that one day we’ll pass from this life into the next, day-to-day we think and act as though we’ll live on this earth forever? ...
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Completely Worthless
The allure of all the stuff that money can buy seems to be growing by the day. Our economic systems are becoming ever more adept at separating us from our hard-earned cash. ...
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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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A Reflection of Your Faith
Our faith, yours and mine, doesn’t exist in isolation from our circumstances; from society; from what’s going on around us. Far from it. Our faith is meant to be part of ...
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Times of Refreshing
Life can be a grind sometimes. What we really want is some time of refreshing. Like jumping into a cool swimming pool on a hot day. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at ...
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Your Letter of Recommendation
Quick question: how wealthy are you? Because if you have the basic necessities of life covered – water, food, accommodation – then by any measure, you’re wealthier than you ...
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The Riches of His Glory
In a world that’s becoming increasingly affluent, it’s getting harder and harder for us to draw a line between our wants and our needs. All too often, especially when we’re ...
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Satisfaction for Your Soul
Contentment. Satisfaction. Fulfillment. Those three words speak of wholeness, of wellbeing, of the life that each one of us so desperately wants … but of the life that most ...
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Expect Great Things
I wonder whether when we pray, we don’t sometimes go to God with exceedingly low expectations. Does He even hear me? Does He even care? Is He even there? Low expectations ...
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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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Love Never Fails
We have an amazing capacity, you and I, to focus on things that in the long run simply won’t matter. And if they won’t matter in the long run, you have to ask yourself, should ...
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Totally Amazing Grace
Grace is a rare commodity these days. The world’s system expects you to conform and perform. It expects you to play your little part as an insignificant cog in its grinding ...
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Unlocking the Power of Prayer (Pt 3)
Prayer that yields powerful results is normal in God’s sight. That’s the amazing truth that we discover when we look at what God says about prayer in His Word. So – ...
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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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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, grumpy you. Hopefully it’s not too often, but it happens. How do you behave when you’re grumpy? What does it ...
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Wait for It
We used to have a saying back in my army days. “Hurry up and wait.” It seemed that we were always being rushed to be somewhere on time, only to stand around waiting for hours ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. It’s when our strength seems to have deserted us that we find ourselves in greatest need of it. Don’t you ...
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An Instrument of the Lord
The rescuing hand of God is a constant theme throughout the Old Testament and New. And that’s good news – sensational news in fact, that when we’re in trouble God is right ...
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Stop the Brinkmanship
As children, we all played a game of brinkmanship with our parents; testing their limits, seeing how far we could push them, discovering what we could get away with. It’s all ...
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Don’t Give the Devil an Opening
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s more than enough out there in the world to keep us angry pretty much all the time. People, politics, circumstances, attitudes – you ...
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Unlocking The Power of Prayer (Pt 2)
Prayer that yields powerful results is normal in God’s sight. That’s the amazing truth that we discover when we look at what God says about prayer in His Word. So – ...
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Hate Your Sin
It’s amazing how often we cast a judgemental eye over the bad behaviour of others, whilst being blind to our own foibles and failures. If only we’d hate our own sin as much as ...
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Stand Out from the Crowd
Sad to say that as I examine my own heart, I realise time and again how strong a sense of entitlement has been bred into me simply by being immersed in the culture in which I ...
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Love Is …
I’ve never been a great fan of this crazy idea of … well, “Why say something in six words, when you can say it in sixty?” Flowery language might impress some, but let’s ...
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Wise Up Early
Do you remember being young and stupid? I certainly do; the things I did back in my earlier years! If only we could turn the clock back and put an old head on those young ...
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The Best Revenge of All
When someone wrongs you or someone you care about, and your anger rises up in you until it’s white hot, what’s the one thing that you want more than anything else? Revenge. ...
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The Great Works of God
Have you ever yearned to achieve something “great” for God? Have you dreamed of Him working mightily through you in the lives of others? For many though, it remains but a ...
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Imagine a World Without Love
Imagine with me if you can, a world without love. Terrible isn’t it? But for many, it doesn’t take a lot of imagining because their lives are devoid of love. Sadly, there are ...
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Unlocking The Power of Prayer (Pt 1)
It’s funny that survey after survey shows that 75% of all people have prayed in the last month. And yet most of them would never admit it. What’s prayer all ...
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Unlocking the Power of Prayer
So often, we see things happening in people’s lives and we feel so helpless. ‘The problem’s so big, so daunting….I can’t possibly make a difference. I guess if ...
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Underwrite Your Success
Today we’re going to chat about success: Your success in the kingdom of God. And if you’re a tad sceptical, then good … because whenever someone mixes God’s Word with ...
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Let There be Light
Sometimes life feels like a bit of a riddle: All that stuff going on in your life, your heart, your family, your job … and they just don’t makes sense. What you need is ...
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What is Good?
We live in a world of sharp contrasts. Black and white. Tall and short. Rich and poor. Young and old. But the most important of all is this one: good and evil. So, what’s the ...
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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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How Will You Know?
You always need to be wary of those who claim to have some special enlightenment that others haven’t received. And yet as Christians, we claim exactly that; a special revelation ...
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On to Greater Things
When troubles come your way, do you ever wonder what part God played in making them happen? Did that one just slip by Him or was it always part of His plan? And if so, what was He ...
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When You Just Know
Have you ever wondered why God, in His wisdom, chooses to say the same thing in His Word over and over again? It’s a question I’ve asked myself often. Why would He do that? I ...
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Spirit and Word
It’s amazing but when you think about it God left two things of Himself behind for us on this Earth. Of course He owns all creation – but the two things of Himself that ...
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Satan’s Accusation
Satan is referred to in God’s Word as both a deceiver and an accuser. But have you ever thought of him accusing God of something? Well, back in Job’s day, that’s exactly ...
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Give the Lord a Chance
Imagine that you’re digging for diamonds. Month after month of backbreaking, soul-destroying work for no result. Zip. Nada. So, one day you decide to give up and walk away. But ...
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The Lord Will Protect You
Back in the day, the idea of a king being first and foremost a servant was unheard of. The only time those two words were used in the one sentence was in talking about the ...
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Your Pain Will Turn to Joy
God has this knack of taking our greatest disasters and turning them into His greatest victories. And there’s no greater disaster in all of history than the lifeless body of ...
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Choose Your Friends Carefully
So who are your closest advisors? If you’re married, hopefully your spouse is number one on that list. But what about the rest of your inner circle? Who are they, and should ...
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Don’t Please Yourself
In this age of entitlement you see so many people insisting on their rights that it’s easy for that to rub off on us too. But let’s not imagine that this is somehow a new ...
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His Promises are True
Question: can God be trusted? After all, He makes rather a lot of promises in His Word. Some of those, frankly, seem outrageous amidst the hurly-burly of life. Can they, can He, ...
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The Holy Spirit and Me
So many people live out a spiritually parched existence and all along God has a plan – a plan of power, a plan of peace, a plan of intimacy, a plan……of abundant life. ...
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Have Compassion
The world in which we live is highly competitive: people clamouring for position, for attention, for employment, for promotion, for recognition. Yep, it’s a clamorous, highly ...
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Be Bold
So let me ask you, what does your future hold? I’m sure you have good plans for the year ahead. We all do. But perhaps there are some dark clouds on the horizon as well; some ...
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Don’t Worry
At this very moment, all that’s happened up to this point in your life now lies in the past. You can never go back to it, although you can allow it to haunt you. Sadly, many do. ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it that’s eating away at you, draining you of your zest for life? And how well, pray tell, are you handling it? Some ...
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Which Tribe do You Belong To?
Since time immemorial, humanity has divided itself into tribes – by geography, culture, skin colour, politics, even the sporting team we support. Whatever the criterion, we ...
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The Challenge of Control
The best way to ensure that things turn out the way you want them to, whatever those “things” happen to be, is to have them under your control. Sure, that’s the answer. ...
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The Three Stages of Life
The irony of possessions is that they can very easily end up possessing you. The things given us by God for our benefit and enjoyment can, and often do, become the masters of our ...
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Walking in the Spirit (Pt 2)
Many people have heard the term “Walking in the Spirit”. That would be awesome wouldn’t it? I mean it sounds great. But exactly what does it mean to “walk in ...
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Know God’s Will
The single greatest malady amongst God’s people in many parts of the world is an ignorance of His Word. On the one hand, they yearn to know His will for their lives. On the ...
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Don’t Bow Down to Evil
The world, more and more it seems these days, is requiring us, God’s people, to bow down to evil; to stop speaking against it; not only to accept it, but to applaud it. And the ...
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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh them in your head and your heart to help you decide what’s most important? What should I be doing, today, ...
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Waiting for a Breakthrough
Waiting on God for a breakthrough, in whatever area of your life in which you need one, can be excruciating. And the greater your need, the more you find your confidence in Him on ...
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Rejoice and Weep
Here’s a frightening piece of research. On average, we’ll spend almost 17 years of our lives with our faces buried in our mobile phones. That’s 145,800 hours or 33% of our ...
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Ditch Your Secret Sins
Over the years you and I have seen a good many high-profile Christian leaders fall from grace. And without exception, their demise had its beginnings in some secret, hidden sin. ...
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The Lord is Eternal
You and I, we live most of our lives dealing with the day-to-day minutia. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, that’s just how life is. But here’s the risk: that we end up ...
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Walking in the Spirit
Many people have heard the term “Walking in the Spirit”. That would be awesome wouldn’t it? I mean it sounds great. But exactly what does it mean to ...
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Walking in the Spirit (Pt 1)
Many people have heard the term “Walking in the Spirit”. That would be awesome wouldn’t it? I mean it sounds great. But exactly what does it mean to “walk in ...
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Let Your Hope be in the Lord
When you hit rock bottom – something that I’m pretty sure happens to everyone at least once or twice in their lives – the most devastating part of that is the complete loss ...
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The Lord Gives You Understanding
A friend in need is a friend indeed. There’s nothing like having someone you can rely on, someone in your corner, someone who loves you and cares for you, when you’re in a ...
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The Lord Gives You Power
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have a spiritual strength and resolve through the storms and tempests of life, whilst others are tossed to and fro like a helpless ...