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 …

On those dark days in life, those days when you’re struggling even to see how you’re going to make it through until tomorrow, there’s something powerful that God wants to do …

If you had to explain to someone else what the Holy Spirit is like, what would you say? Why do I ask? Because the Holy Spirit plays a very, very important role in your …

I think I could write a book on all the stupid things I’ve done in my life and no doubt, as you look back on your life, well … I’ll let you be the judge. Question is, how do …

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 …

So many people in this world have lost sight of who they truly are. They go looking for and identity in all different places, but there’s only one identity that’s our true …

Forgiveness. It’s easy to say that we should forgive other people, but actually doing it, well that’s a whole other thing. Some people seem impossible to forgive. So, how do …

Conflict happens doesn’t it? It’s unavoidable. In a marriage, with children, at work, in communities. Wherever there are people in close proximity, conflict happens. But …

We live in a world where we’re encouraged to do our best. From a young age, we’re taught that succeeding and winning are good things. And they are! But at what cost? Some …

Conflict is, I guess, a fact of life. Some of it’s unavoidable, but a lot of it could be avoided with a simple change in thinking. A change of mind, as it were. A little …

People seem so touchy these days. It seems that the smallest thing sets them off. The pressure is definitely on the rise. Question is, what do you do about it? It seems that …

The idea that we might be ignoring God isn’t a pleasant one. But a fact in many a Christian’s life. And it’s a fact that we need to confront, if we’re going to lay hold of …

Have you ever found yourself thinking, “I really need to clean up my act. I really need to become a better person”? But try as you might, you can’t change those entrenched …

So many people are struggling under the burden of their past – the burden of the lies that the world’s been telling them about who they are and who they aren’t. Now it’s …

Have you been finding lately, that you’ve lost a bit of the spring in your step? You know, instead of that zeal, that passion you had for life, you’re feeling just a bit …

I think we’d all agree that there are more than enough rules for us to follow in this world. Road rules, the rules of etiquette implicit in the society in which we live and on …

Imagine that today is your last day on this earth. Today your number’s up. Have you done what it takes, to get into heaven? Well, have you or not? Now, I’m no great …

Love is an easy word to say, but a difficult one, sometimes, to live out. You see, love isn’t just a noun, a thing that you have or don’t have. It’s a verb, a doing word. …

We all have our little foibles, don’t we? Those little bits of immaturity that we just don’t want to let go of. But Jesus, Jesus came to set us free, to set you free, from …

As we chug-a-lug on through life you and I, well it’s easy to get things out of perspective. To focus too much on the petty little things in the here and now, and lose sight of …

When you hear someone talking about living the life God always intended – it’s easy to get the picture that it’s all about us. But as it turns out – a key part of that is …

Getting a handle on God isn’t an easy thing to do. On one hand, He’s unsearchable, unknowable. On the other hand, He wants us not just to know about Him, but to know Him for …

Okay, let’s get right down to it. Christians talk a lot about Jesus and Him dying on a Cross. But what’s the point? I mean what relevance does that have to life here in the …

What are you hoping for, right now in your life? What drought do you have going on that has you hoping for rain, and feeling just a bit sorry for yourself all at the same …

Sometimes we want the best of both worlds, so we try to live life with a foot in both camps. Not only does it not work particularly well, but it definitely gets God’s attention. …

Peace is something that we all crave, and yet it’s something that surprisingly few people ever lay hold of in their lives. Why is that? There’s not a single person on this …

So, you’ve been slogging away through obstacle after obstacle. And you’ve finally arrived … at the end of your tether. Ready to give up. Ready to lay down and die. Now …

If only God would behave in a way that makes sense. If only God wouldn’t leave us in the lurch, right when we need Him. If only God would … if only, right? God doesn’t …

One of the most confusing times in life is when the blessing evaporates. What’s going on? Why is God letting this happen to me? Does He love me, or what? Like I said, it can be …

Have you ever felt as though it’s all over? There’s no future. It’s as though God is finished with us and He’s put us on the shelf. We’re past our “use by” date. …

The way we spend our money, says a lot about how happy we are with life. Paradoxically, the more we spend on ourselves, the more miserable we become. I like riding the bus into …

At some point, when you’ve been living your life for Christ, when you’ve been calling yourself a “Christian” for quite a while, it can feel as though, well, to be honest, …

Some things that Christians believe seem so patently out of touch with the realities of today. Take the whole issue of living together before marriage. Is it perhaps time to make …

The more money we have, the more we’re prone to spend. And at some point, that spending can become wasteful. Imagine how different this world would be, if we had a bit more of a …

Most of us are pretty good at rationalising our own immaturity and bad behaviour. But God’s heart is for us to think like adults, not like children. I hopped on the bus the …

A lot of people get a tad uncomfortable when ministries ask them for financial support. Surely if the ministry trusted God, they wouldn’t have to ask. God would just provide, …

Here’s a question that I get asked a lot – an awful lot. Do I have to tithe? Many churches teach tithing and yet, so many people feel uncomfortable with the practice. When …

Have you ever felt as though it’s all over? There’s no future? It’s as though God is finished with us and He’s put us on the shelf. We’re past our “use by” date. …

Have you ever felt as though it’s all over? There’s no future. It’s as though God is finished with us and He’s put us on the shelf. We’re past our “use by” date. …

It doesn’t matter which country you visit, there’s conflict. Conflict based on race, religion, ethnicity. Hey, in some places, they even have riots over which football team …