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Double Edged Sword
It’s one of those strange paradoxes of life, almost to the point of being a fundamental law of the universe, that every good thing can be turned into a bad thing. Every blessing ...
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Who Will Answer the Door?
Some days the power of the devil to tempt you in the wrong direction seems so much greater than either your own power to resist him or God’s power to stop him. That’s just how ...
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Answer Without Arguing
Making fun of our political leaders has become something of a national pastime for many people in society today, not to mention whinging, complaining, attacking, undermining and ...
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Swimming in the Sky
I’m sure that you can think back on some really scary things that you’ve had to do in your life. But today I want to share one that really, I mean REALLY, freaks me out! I ...
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Sweet Poison
These days there’s a health debate raging about sugar. Now, whilst most nutritionists will tell you not to have too much sugar, what they’re not telling us is that sugar is ...
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Revenge Ain’t So Sweet
Revenge, so the saying goes, is sweet. I mean if someone hits you on the nose, you hit them back, only harder. That’s how it goes, isn’t it? After all, what’s the ...
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The Sweetness of Revenge
Revenge, they say, is sweet. When someone wrongs you; when someone hurts you and you choose to take revenge, in the instant when you see them get their just desserts, something ...
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Swimming Against the Tide
One of my absolute favourite sayings used to be: It’s so hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Not bad is it? Although, given what I do, these days, I ...
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Out Pops the Answer
One of the things that amazes me is the creativity that God’s planted inside each one of us. Just when you have no idea how to take something forward – you stop and think and ...
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Sweeter Than Honey
I want to tell you about a friend of mine, Neil. He’s well into his eighties and he’s lived, shall we say, a colourful life. After a recent operation his body is a bit frail ...
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Overboard with Jesus (1)
Too many Christians try to live out a safe, convenient and comfortable Christianity … and then they wonder, why isn’t it working? Others, they can hear Jesus calling them, but ...
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Overboard with Jesus
Too many Christians try to live out a safe, convenient and comfortable Christianity … and then they wonder, why isn’t it working? Others, they can hear Jesus calling them, but ...
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust in Jesus. He promises that He’ll be our God and we, His people; that He’ll dwell in our midst. It all comes ...
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Building Lasting Relationships
Relationships can be one of the most enriching or one of the most destructive parts of our lives. Depends on the sorts of relationships we enter into and build. Join Berni Dymet ...
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Escaping from the Siege
With everything we have going on in our lives, we can sometimes get to a point where we feel as though we’re under siege – everything is conspiring together to rob us of life. ...
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Don’t Throw Stones
When we see someone else doing the wrong thing, all too often we feel compelled to throw stones. It’s a reaction sadly, that Christians seem more prone to than the general ...
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The Faces We Wear
We all put on different faces from time to time. Sometimes knowingly and sometimes without even realising it. Now the problem is that the face is supposed to reflect the heart. ...
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The Power of Life
There’s absolutely no doubt that Jesus performed some amazing miracles. He made the paralysed to walk, the blind to see, Lazarus to rise from the grave. But what was the point ...
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How Not to Fail
Have you ever stepped out to do something for God in faith, all brave and enthusiastic, and fallen flat on your face? Me too. Then we wonder why God didn’t show up. Lord, what ...
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Dealing with Difficult People
There’s one thing about other people. They’re everywhere and we just can’t get away from them. At home. At work. At church. They’re there. And sometimes, they’re ...
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Dealing with Difficult People
If you haven’t noticed there are people everywhere. It’s hard to get away from them sometimes. And some of those people are difficult to deal with. Turns out that they can ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Live Out a Defiant Faith
If only life were all sweetness and light. If only things would just go to plan so that we can be healthy, wealthy and wise. If only … but some days are dark days. So, how do ...
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Where to Find Rest
When I mention the word “rest”, what image springs to mind? Sitting on a tropical beach somewhere with palm trees swaying gently in the breeze? Perhaps being tucked away in ...
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The Art of Living (Pt 4)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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Don’t be Ashamed of Failure
Failure is something that we don’t like to talk about because as kryptonite is to Superman, so is failure to the success-oriented, success-worshipping mindset of today. ...
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Let Your Faith be True
Believing in something outside ourselves seems to be a natural part of what it means to be human. Each us, at some point, goes looking for that “thing” to believe in; that ...
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Don’t Take Revenge
In a moment of anger, in that place of complete disbelief at the utter injustice of how badly someone’s just treated you, the idea of revenge appears so sweet. Conflict is a ...
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The Art of Living (Pt 3)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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The Art of Living (Pt 2)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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The Art of Living (Pt 1)
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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The Art of Living
We pay a lot of attention to a lot of things – but how we live our lives, isn’t generally one of them. Many people know that perhaps something isn’t quite right, ...
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Living a Life of Peace
God’s plan for our lives is to live out a life of peace. It’s so easy to forget that. And it’s so easy to live in constant turmoil – and not even notice that there’s ...
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An Uncomfortable Christmas
We love to have a pantomime view of Christmas. Cutesy – Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus – the manger. But when you get down and dirty – when you check out Christmas ...
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Wanting God That Much
There’s a yearning deep inside each one of us for meaning; it’s something that many are looking for but can’t seem to lay hold of, a yearning actually that lies behind the ...
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Great Expectations
It’s funny how what we expect – is often what we get. Take Christmas. What do you expect to get out of Christmas this year? But God – Gad has some great expectations ...
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Faith Above Feelings
Whenever God calls us to do something for Him, there’s a part of us that wants to stay inside our comfort zone. There’s an inertia, a resistance, a fear of what it might cost ...
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Message in a Bottle
Here we are heading into this Christmas thing again – and for most of us, it’s a bit of a challenge just even to pay any attention to what it’s all about. Every year – ...
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Message in a Bottle
Sure, it’s sill a few weeks out from Christmas. But the stores are all decorated and we’re on our inexorable way once again, to eh 25th of December. Christmas Day. But this ...
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Misrepresenting God
In the world of luxury goods – handbags, shoes, clothing – there’s a massive and thriving business in creating and peddling knockoffs. Imitations of famous brands using ...
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The Truth Revealed
Truth is very much a contested space in this post-Christian age in which we live, with everyone clamouring for their version, their truth narrative if you will, to gain supremacy ...
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Are You Asleep at the Wheel? (Pt 2)
One of the really uncomfortable things that Jesus talked about was the fact that here on our journey through this life to eternity a whole bunch of us have this tendency of ...
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No Blunt Instruments
“Truth” is an interesting concept. We understand it to be objective – something’s either true or it isn’t. But it can be offensive, hurtful, to the point where we ...
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Are You Asleep at the Wheel? (Pt 1)
One of the really uncomfortable things that Jesus talked about was the fact that here on our journey through this life to eternity a whole bunch of us have this tendency of ...
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Easily Deceived
Let me throw something at you and see what you think: Any Christian who doesn’t realise that they’re living life on a spiritual battlefield is, by and large, kidding ...
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Feelings or Values?
Our emotions are a huge part – a massive part – of who we are. You can’t ignore them – nor should you. But at the same time, they have a huge capacity to lead us astray. ...
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Don’t Waste Your Life (2)
For so many people who believe in Jesus, there is a yawning gap between the life that Jesus promises, and the life that they’re actually leading. The compelling urgency of just ...
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Ambassadorial Wisdom
There has always been (and I suspect there will always be) a considerable amount of friction between people of faith and those who aren’t; between those who believe in Jesus and ...
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Don’t Waste Your Life (1)
For so many people who believe in Jesus, there is a yawning gap between the life that Jesus promises, and the life that they’re actually leading. The compelling urgency of just ...
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Throwing Stones
Hurling stones at Christians seems these days to be par for the course. In part, that’s because of some of the overt hypocrisy that goes on. Fair enough… no one likes ...
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The Promise of God’s Rest
Tiredness is one of the greatest pandemics sweeping the globe. Sure, we’ve seen other more spectacular ones like COVID come and go, yet tiredness contributes to more deaths each ...
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Don’t Waste Your Life
For so many people who believe in Jesus, there is a yawning gap between the life that Jesus promises, and the life that they’re actually leading. The compelling urgency of just ...
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Finding Rest
You don’t often hear people in my position talk about the fact that we get tired. After all, I’m the preacher. I’m supposed to have all the answers. Yeah, right! But we do ...
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Seeking Him Out
When adversity slaps you in the face (yet again!) how much do you feel like reaching out to God? The answer for many, is not all that much. So we just sit there and stew in our ...
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Lifting the Load
We all carry burdens around in our lives. For some they’re heavy burdens indeed. For others, not so heavy, but even those tend to slow you down; they have this effect of taking ...
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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 ...
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Feeling Weary?
We all get to feeling weary at some point. It doesn’t matter how strong or enthusiastic you normally are – at some point. it all gets too much. “What’s the matter with ...
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Be Loving
So, how often do you judge a book by its cover? Without being too judgemental, it’s likely that, if you’re being honest, the answer is … rather a lot. It’s the same for ...
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Living Faith
Elite athletes are amazing. Whether they play a team sport or compete in individual events, they train so incredibly hard to become the best they can possibly be. So when you ...
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The Art of Doing Nothing
On a scale of one to ten, let me ask you, how busy is your life? Are you one of these people who, when asked how things are going, answers “Oh, you know, busy, busy, busy”? Of ...
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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 ...
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God Will Stop at Nothing
Have you ever found yourself wallowing in the consequences of your mistakes, wondering what the road back might be – the road back to wholeness and ultimately, the road back to ...
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Satisfied in Dry Lands
We all yearn for a sense of deep satisfaction with our lot in life; a contentment that’s equally present in the good and the bad; an abiding peace that persists through every ...
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Power Unlimited (2)
Believe it or not, God promises each person who believes in Jesus, the power to overcome. The power to overcome temptation. The power to overcome sin. The power to overcome ...
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Where are You At?
Might I ask you quietly, plainly, directly … where are you at in terms of your faith in Jesus? Are you completely anti, lukewarm perhaps, or on fire? Wherever you’re at, would ...
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Power Unlimited (1)
Believe it or not, God promises each person who believes in Jesus, the power to overcome. The power to overcome temptation. The power to overcome sin. The power to overcome ...
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Power Unlimited
Believe it or not, God promises each person who believes in Jesus, the power to overcome. The power to overcome temptation. The power to overcome sin. The power to overcome ...
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Signs, Wonders & Miracles (Part 2)
Do you believe in signs, wonders and miracles for today? The supernatural power of God disrupting the natural order of things by breaking into your, natural, mundane little old ...