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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The True Test of Character
There are times in life when, as the expression goes, we feel the heat; when there seems to be a scarcity of the living water that Jesus promised. And it’s in that place that we ...
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Comfortable Christianity
Let me be bold today and say to you that there’s no such thing as “comfortable Christianity”. In fact, what an oxymoron! If you want to just diddly-bop through life, go on ...
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But Do You Really Know?
When you’ve made a blunder – I mean, a really bad one – it’s one thing to believe that God’s forgiven you. It’s another thing entirely to be able to accept that ...
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Cherry Picking Scripture
I saw a coffee mug advertised online recently with the following inscription on it: ‘I can do all things through a verse taken out of context’. I thought to myself … man, I ...
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How Hopeful Are You?
Can I just ask you to pause for a moment and take stock of how you’re feeling right now; of your emotional state? And in doing that, let me ask you, how hopeful … how ...
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Questioning the Word of God
It’s so incredibly tempting these days to question the Word of God; to cross out the inconveniently yucky verses from your Bible so the whole thing is more agreeable, more ...
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Who Are You Following?
At what point did we decide that our feelings, our emotions, the world’s decaying morality all mixed into one should be the final arbiter of the truthfulness, or otherwise, of ...
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De Facto Relationships
The world being what it is, with devices which only a few years ago would have been considered to be supercomputers now in the palm of our hands, marital infidelity has never been ...
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Separation and Divorce (2)
As someone who has been through the pain and the tragedy of divorce, I can tell you that the “easy come, easy go” attitude of contemporary society towards marriage these days ...
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So, Do Not Fear
Do you believe in Jesus? If so, then your faith in Him is meant to give you victory: victory over your sin and victory over your circumstances, because often the combination of ...
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Faith Comes by Hearing
Why is it that children need to be both encouraged and admonished by their parents and teachers over and over again, in order for them to develop a healthy confidence in ...
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Just Then
Anyone who’s married will be able to tell you that every now and then, their wife or their husband does something completely unexpected. You thought you knew them, but boom! And ...
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Prophecy – True or False?
There seem to be a lot of people on my social media feeds these days claiming to be apostles, prophets and the like. And yes, those are gifts that the New Testament talks about. ...
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To Cope … or to Conquer?
With all that’s been going on in the world, not to mention the normal day-to-day stuff that life dishes up, many are only just getting by, struggling to cope. But what if life ...
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The Gospel Cannot be Silenced
There are forces at play in this world that seek to shut down the Gospel; to silence the Good News of Jesus; to deprive God’s people of the opportunity – so speak out the love ...
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Blessed Beyond Measure
What are the blessings that you’re hoping will come your way soon from the hand of God? What have you been asking Him for? What’s right up there at the top of your list, hmm? ...
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All for Jesus
No matter who you are, where you live. or what your circumstances may be, there are always going to be some things that you just don’t want to do. And the more of those you ...
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The Lord be With You
Just living out each day honouring God, following Jesus wherever He leads, standing apart from the evil that the world peddles as being the norm in the “enlightened era” in ...
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Jesus Came to …
I feel the need today to chat with you about the little compromises that may be creeping into your life. You know … those “little sins” – the ones that in your estimation ...
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Ups and Downs
I don’t know about you, but the plan I have for my life is that it should all bubble along just nicely, punctuated often by some happy times and very, very rarely (if ever) by ...
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More Power
The truth be known, no matter how strong a person you may be, there are times when we all feel powerless – powerless to confront and to deal with the things in our lives that, ...
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Not What You Want to Hear
Criticism is never pleasant. It touches a raw nerve. It smarts. Sure, I know I’m not perfect, but I don’t want to hear others. Yet constructive criticism helps you grow, ...
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But I Don’t Understand …
Any parent knows the frustration of telling their children to do something, and having them demand to know “why?!” as a precondition to their compliance. Sometimes there’s ...
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Martha or Mary
I regularly have days that are so full, so busy in doing the things I have to do that it’s difficult to carve out the time, let alone the emotional energy, to spend with Jesus. ...
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Have a Drink
Have you ever woken up one day and found your faith in Christ to be dry, to be parched, to be so much less than you know it should be? Sure you have – me too! Question is … ...
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From Father to Son
One of the more special relationships we can have in this life is as a parent – not everyone of course, but most. And even if you’re not a parent, it’s not difficult to ...
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Pleasing God
The secret hope that each of us harbours is that if we follow Jesus, if we obey Him, then He’ll bless us in the way that we want to be blessed. Healthy, wealthy and wise. At ...
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Is it Making a Difference?
As Jesus walked the dusty roads of 1st century Israel, He did and said some powerful things. Countless lives were touched and transformed. And that’s the point. When eventually ...
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When You Do Good
We live in a world today where the things that we’ve always known to be wrong – greed, lust, immorality and the like – are now not only being called right, but applauded. ...
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Emotional Clarity
One of the things that most of us aren’t all that good at is reading other people’s emotions … before we say or do what we were going to say or do. But there’s something ...
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Negative Self-Talk
We all do this thing called “self-talk”. We create a narrative of our lives that we repeat to ourselves over and over again to the point where it not only impacts our lives, ...
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Avoid This Trap
There have no doubt been times in your life when you’ve been afraid. Me too! And sure, it’s a natural, built-in response to keep us safe. But if we live in that state for too ...
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When the Time is Right
Have you ever felt locked in your circumstances? It feels like a straitjacket, right? If feels as though nothing’s ever going to change; as though you are going to be stuck in ...
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Working for Peace
The main reason that we find ourselves in conflict situations is that we want one thing, and the other person wants quite the opposite. It’s a well-worn path, the one that leads ...
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Jealousy and Selfishness
Jealousy and selfishness are two of the most basic of all human emotions. Indeed, they manifest from a very early age – pretty much from when a child begins to be able to ...
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Devilish “Wisdom”
Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) we have a hierarchy of sin, of bad behaviour, in our heads. Murder, theft, adultery – they’re really bad. Selfishness, jealousy, boasting ...
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Payback Time
Have you ever felt that God is against you, that He’s not on your side anymore, that He just keeps on putting obstacle after obstacle in front of you, adversity heaped on ...
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The Highest Privilege
Having done the whole “kids” thing in my younger years, I wasn’t sure how I’d handle becoming a grandfather. Really, it bothered me. But the moment I laid eyes on her, ...
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False Teaching
Here’s a crazy statistic: there are over twenty thousand Christian denominations in the world today. Twenty thousand! That’s nuts. So, with all those different perspectives, ...
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Your Tongue and Your Heart
So, a question: how do you treat people … at work, your family at home, your neighbours? When you look at them, do you see their humanity or do you treat them just as objects? ...
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Blocking Satan
Satan has a burning desire to play merry hell with your heart and with your mind. Make no mistake, he is in the business of drawing you away from God, away from following Jesus. ...
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Back to the Good Times
When we’re struggling through difficult times, when we’re living out the consequences, frankly, of our own sin, it’s easy to imagine God sitting up there in the comfort of ...
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God’s Kindness and Mercy
Life has a funny habit of taking a sharp turn from good times into bad; from a time of abundance to a time of famine; from a time of joy to a time of sadness. And the further we ...