Faith
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake ...
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Tread the Right Path
Life’s journey comes with many twists and turns and a good many ...
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By the Grace of God
So many things in this life seem to demand so much hard work. Good ...
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Run the Race
There are times in each of our lives when we feel like tossing in the ...
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Don’t Be Surprised
There’s an incredible finality about death. You stop breathing, ...
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The Certainty of Salvation
A good many people have the key criterion – the only criterion – ...
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God’s Timing is Perfect
I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t always been that enamoured by ...
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The Power of a Question
If only life were simple … but it simply isn’t. It’s messy, ...
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Those Who’ve Gone Before
In this fast paced, technology-driven world where you can order up ...
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Have You Unwrapped the Gift?
Imagine for a moment that on one of those really significant ...
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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when ...
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Remember the Promise
Back in the days of old, the only sort of boats that existed were ...
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Let Life Begin
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! A refrain of Christians down ...
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Completely Defeated, And Yet …
Easter Saturday … what do we do with that? It’s kind of a nothing ...
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He Did it For You
Well, here we are … that day we call “Good Friday”, remembering ...
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A Big Promise
Jesus did and said things that were so, “out there”, so ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, ...
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Despite Your Best Intentions
It’s one thing to have good intentions; it’s another thing ...
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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there ...
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Leaving the Lawless Life
If you look closely at how governments mostly formulate and enact ...
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A Plan for Tomorrow
It’s funny, isn’t it, that although we know that one day we’ll ...
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A Reflection of Your Faith
Our faith, yours and mine, doesn’t exist in isolation from our ...
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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 ...
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Love Never Fails
We have an amazing capacity, you and I, to focus on things that in ...
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Confidence and Assurance
Don’t you just love meeting people with an air of quiet confidence, ...
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Wait for It
We used to have a saying back in my army days. “Hurry up and ...
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The Best Revenge of All
When someone wrongs you or someone you care about, and your anger ...
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Let There be Light
Sometimes life feels like a bit of a riddle: All that stuff going on ...
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Get Rid of Your Evil
It seems that the only way to stay completely away from the evil that ...
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Satan’s Accusation
Satan is referred to in God’s Word as both a deceiver and an ...
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His Promises are True
Question: can God be trusted? After all, He makes rather a lot of ...
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Have Compassion
The world in which we live is highly competitive: people clamouring ...
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Don’t Bow Down to Evil
The world, more and more it seems these days, is requiring us, ...
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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh ...
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Live Out a Defiant Faith
If only life were all sweetness and light. If only things would just ...
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Will You Decide to Rest?
It’s a real paradox, a conundrum, that even if you’re managing to ...
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Be Washed in the Spirit
It’s strange that whilst we wash our clothes as they become ...
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Don’t be Ashamed of Failure
Failure is something that we don’t like to talk about because as ...
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Your Power to Overcome Fear
Faith, true faith, in Jesus is a good thing – a very good thing. ...
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Live Out Your Faith
Here’s an awkward question: If you’re someone who believes in ...
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Let Your Faith be True
Believing in something outside ourselves seems to be a natural part ...
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
Have you noticed how as you hit the odd pothole, the sharp twist, the ...
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There’s a Race to Run
So as you get ready to step into the new year, might I ask you, ...
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Faith Above Feelings
Whenever God calls us to do something for Him, there’s a part of us ...
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The Truth Revealed
Truth is very much a contested space in this post-Christian age in ...
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Live a Full Life
There’s a world of difference between a full life and an empty ...
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Whom Will God Make Strong?
One of the things I absolutely love about God is His desire to help ...
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On the Other Side
Have you ever been just a bit more than moderately concerned as to ...
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The Person God Wants You to Be
Life throws a lot of stuff at you, right? Constantly, day after day ...
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You Won’t Be Lost
One of the worst things that can ever happen to small children is to ...
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Resting in Peace
When some dies, people say things like “She’s gone to a better ...
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Finding Rest
You don’t often hear people in my position talk about the fact that ...
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A Double Helping
I wonder if you, like me, have ever found yourself labouring away, ...
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A Healthy Dissatisfaction
None of us is perfect. I’m not and neither are you. Which presents ...
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Living Faith
Elite athletes are amazing. Whether they play a team sport or compete ...
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Use Your Head
One of the great tensions of following God’s call on our lives is ...
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Being Right and Being Kind
I’m sure you know how frustrating it can be when you know that you ...
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Is Your Faith Growing?
So, how do you know whether or not your faith in God is growing? Is ...
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True Maturity
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when other people ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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Back to Job
It’s easy to be hopeful about your future when the going’s good. ...
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Expanding Your Horizons
When you make a blunder that really should have you bearing the ...
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Aboard the Titanic
No doubt you know the story of the Titanic. When she launched on ...
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Your First Port of Call
Imagine for a moment that you’re out in a small boat and a storm ...
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No Leap in the Dark
From the outside looking in, it can appear as though believing in ...
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Christmas in July
Depending on where you live, what I’m about to ask you may sound ...
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Let’s Circle Back
When you’re travelling down a rocky road, when life is more down ...
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The Pitfalls of Tradition
Traditions have their upside and their downside. On the one hand, ...
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But I Don’t Understand …
Any parent knows the frustration of telling their children to do ...
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A Matter of the Heart
You’ve perhaps heard it said that without faith it is impossible to ...
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The Deep Mystery of Faith
Apparently, so the scientific theory goes, the universe was created ...
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Weak, Stumbling, Humble Faith
A dear friend of mine, Lowell Wertz, is a 40 plus year missionary to ...
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The Ragged Edge of Faith
It strikes me that religion, or religiosity if I can call it that, is ...
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The Great Turnaround
There are times when all we see ahead is adversity. But it’s in ...
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Walk a Mile
Doubtless, you’ve heard that saying that to understand someone, you ...
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Life Reconciled
This is the day we’ve been waiting for… the day that so shocked ...
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Justified by Faith
When you’ve done the wrong thing, have you ever tried to justify ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and ...
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The Jealousy of God
Might I ask you today, what’s the one thing in your life that ...
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Don’t Grow Stale
Every relationship in our lives at some point is at risk of growing ...
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Know the Truth, But…
The truth, as things turn out, can be a dangerous thing when used in ...
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All the Faith You Have
Have you ever had that sense that “I simply don’t have enough ...
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Trust Without Wavering
Have you ever had someone in your life – perhaps a member of your ...
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If Only…
Regret is an emotion that, obviously, we wish we’d never ...
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Take a Stand
So, might I ask you today, what is it that’s chipping away at your ...
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All I Want Is…
So, what matters most to you? What do you place the highest value on ...
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Absolutely Worthless
A great part of what it means to grow up, to mature over the years, ...
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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building ...
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Getting Your Life Back on Track
So, at what point does God lose patience with you? At what point does ...
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The First Temptation
Your enemy, the devil, has a number of very nasty habits. Up there at ...
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The Lord is Faithful
Yesterday I shared a bit of what’s involved in producing this daily ...
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A Solid Foundation
If you’re anything like me, by now you have a bit of a plan for ...
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He’s Still Looking for Disciples
What sort of a year are you looking forward to? Is it going to be the ...
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He’s Already Blessed Your Socks Off
Inevitably, as we compare this past year that’s just been with the ...
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Announcing Grace
When someone does something for you that you don’t deserve – I ...
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Some Things You Can Be Sure of, But…
One of the most difficult things for us to do is to step out in faith ...
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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? ...
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What Comes Next
So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to ...
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Your Final Destination
There are so many cares and concerns, stresses and strains, that we ...
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An Eager Anticipation
The things going on in your life and mine today, here and now, are ...