Hope
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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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Run the Race
There are times in each of our lives when we feel like tossing in the ...
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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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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on ...
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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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A Plan for Tomorrow
It’s funny, isn’t it, that although we know that one day we’ll ...
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Satisfaction for Your Soul
Contentment. Satisfaction. Fulfillment. Those three words speak of ...
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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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On to Greater Things
When troubles come your way, do you ever wonder what part God played ...
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Give the Lord a Chance
Imagine that you’re digging for diamonds. Month after month of ...
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The Lord Will Protect You
Back in the day, the idea of a king being first and foremost a ...
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Your Pain Will Turn to Joy
God has this knack of taking our greatest disasters and turning them ...
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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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Don’t Worry
At this very moment, all that’s happened up to this point in your ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it ...
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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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Rejoice and Weep
Here’s a frightening piece of research. On average, we’ll spend ...
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The Lord is Eternal
You and I, we live most of our lives dealing with the day-to-day ...
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Let Your Hope be in the Lord
When you hit rock bottom – something that I’m pretty sure happens ...
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Where to Find Rest
When I mention the word “rest”, what image springs to mind? ...
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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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Replace Trepidation with Anticipation
Allow me today to run a word by you: trepidation. Straight away, it ...
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Let God Establish Your Plans
We all have hopes, dreams, plans that we tend to dust off and reflect ...
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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the ...
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The Promise of Christmas
The coming of Jesus into this world wasn’t anything like the ...
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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 Freedom Paradox
Freedom is something that we all yearn for. Freedom from rules, from ...
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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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I Wish …
So when was the last time that you felt, shall we say, “ethically ...
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Take the Pressure Down
Have you ever wondered why there’s so much trouble in this world? ...
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The Promise of God’s Rest
Tiredness is one of the greatest pandemics sweeping the globe. Sure, ...
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What God Has Prepared
It’s funny how in life an accumulation of the little things – the ...
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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 ...
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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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Brighter Days
Well, here we are … it’s Sunday, when we can hopefully set aside ...
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How Hopeful Are You?
Can I just ask you to pause for a moment and take stock of how ...
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Separation and Divorce (1)
Marital infidelity and divorce, these days, seem to be considered ...
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Bring Your Habits Before the Lord
Here’s a powerful truth that should never escape us. God wants to ...
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Hold Fast to Your Confession
In my book, there is no better job than being the bearer of good ...
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Your Passion, Your Calling
I wonder if you’ve ever thought of yourself as being in the fruit ...
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Disappointment & Discouragement
I don’t know about you, but I get up out of bed each day hoping and ...
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From a Tent to a City
One of the biggest mistakes that you and I can make is to imagine ...
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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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It’s Under Control
When our emotions are running riot – anger, fear, a sense of ...
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Your New Life Should Be …
When things aren’t ticking along quite as you’d planned, when ...
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Martha or Mary
I regularly have days that are so full, so busy in doing the things I ...
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Have a Drink
Have you ever woken up one day and found your faith in Christ to be ...
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Negative Self-Talk
We all do this thing called “self-talk”. We create a narrative of ...
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Don’t Brag About Tomorrow
So, can I ask you, what are your plans for tomorrow, the next day … ...
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God’s Mercy
I am utterly convinced that we can never ever spend too much thinking ...
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Avoid This Trap
There have no doubt been times in your life when you’ve been ...
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Real Hope
Power and suffering are not two words that we use all that often in ...
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When the Time is Right
Have you ever felt locked in your circumstances? It feels like a ...
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Suffering for Christ
In just a couple of days, on so-called “Good Friday”, we’ll be ...
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Access Into Grace
When was the last time you truly blew it – you fell so hard that ...
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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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Back to the Good Times
When we’re struggling through difficult times, when we’re living ...
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God’s Kindness and Mercy
Life has a funny habit of taking a sharp turn from good times into ...
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Answer Without Arguing
Making fun of our political leaders has become something of a ...
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Who Will Sit on the Throne?
Eternity seems like such a long way away, doesn’t it? Why is that? ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is ...
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Run Hard
Anyone who’s ever decided to follow Jesus will know that some days ...
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In Whom or What Do You Trust?
One of the things that frankly makes me wince every time I come ...
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Compassion and Understanding
Over the years, nationalism – which at its heart is really ...
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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building ...
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Don’t Wilt on the Vine
It’s funny how sin – I know, it’s not a popular word these days ...
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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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Embrace Your New Life Today
If you were able to join me yesterday, you’ll recall that I ...
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A Sense of Urgency
Our days on this earth – yours and mine – are numbered. We have a ...
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Seeing the Whole Picture
So, perhaps God’s called you to step out into some good on His ...
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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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When Christ Calls
Have you ever had the sense that God’s calling you to do something ...
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Your Resurrection Body (2)
I think we’re all agreed that as well as our physical bodies of ...
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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 ...
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A Worthless Kind of Faith
Down through the centuries, the resurrection of Jesus – was it real ...
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Time is Slipping Away
How much time do you have left to love the people around you? When ...
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The Unfulfilled Promises of God
Let me be honest. I have this secret desire for God to bless me. ...
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A Devil of a Decision
When we succumb to temptation, it’s not a nice feeling. If only we ...
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A Decaying Civilisation
Do you ever get sick and tired of watching, listening to, reading ...
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What’s Right and True
It can be difficult these days to discern what really is “the ...
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Beyond Imagining
Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things ...
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Busy Bee
I used to think that the aim of life was finding happiness – until ...
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Peace and Destruction
One of the great arguments against the existence of an all-powerful, ...
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The Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, ...
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God Has a Job For You
One of the things that many people struggle with is a lack of purpose ...
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Bad Thoughts Ruin Lives
There are times in our lives when dark thoughts invade our ...
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Can You Be Over-Inclusive?
Diversity and inclusion are very highly valued commodities in this ...
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Dining with Sinners
Question: do you make it a deliberate policy to invite bad people ...
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Looking Forward to “That Day”
Can I ask you … are you looking forward to the end of your time on ...
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Why Does God Delay?
Sometimes, adversity is an opportunity in disguise … no, let me be ...