The Holy Spirit
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust ...
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How to Honour God
People do some strange things with their bodies these days. They ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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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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A Gospel of Contradictions?
There are times, to be honest, when this good news of Jesus doesn’t ...
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The Evil that Lies Within
There’s so much evil in this world. Pride, selfishness, arrogance, ...
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The Power of Life
There’s absolutely no doubt that Jesus performed some amazing ...
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How Not to Fail
Have you ever stepped out to do something for God in faith, all brave ...
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The Dangers of Religion
It’s quite remarkable really, how easy it is to take God’s mercy ...
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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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When the Holy Spirit Leaves the Building
Question: what’s the difference between following the rules and ...
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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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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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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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Set Your Priorities
How often do you think about your priorities? How often do you weigh ...
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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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Be Washed in the Spirit
It’s strange that whilst we wash our clothes as they become ...
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Cast Off Your Foolishness
None of us likes to think of ourselves as being foolish, and yet ...
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Wanting God That Much
There’s a yearning deep inside each one of us for meaning; it’s ...
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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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Barking Dogs
The message that Jesus died on a cross so that the sins of the world ...
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A Double Helping
I wonder if you, like me, have ever found yourself labouring away, ...
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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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Hold Fast to Your Confession
In my book, there is no better job than being the bearer of good ...
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Yearning to be Transformed
Pretty much everyone wants a better life – whatever that happens to ...
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Guilt and Anxiety
Guilt over the mistakes you’ve made in the past and anxiety over ...
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It’s Really Quite Simple
People can be difficult, have you noticed? I mean, really, really ...
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Open My Eyes
Throughout life, we tend to search for wonderful things; good things ...
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At War Inside
Fights and arguments – who needs them? Who wants them? Conflict is ...
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Devilish “Wisdom”
Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) we have a hierarchy of sin, of ...
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The Highest Privilege
Having done the whole “kids” thing in my younger years, I ...
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The Oil of the Spirit
Have you ever been sunburnt? I remember as a child, a few times being ...
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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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If Only…
Regret is an emotion that, obviously, we wish we’d never ...
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The Greatest Miracle
Imagine that you discover a precious, solid-gold cup in a rubbish ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is ...
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Nothing is Too Hard for Him
You and I need reminding on a regular basis of just how big and ...
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Transformative Power
Have you ever felt inadequate to be a follower of Jesus Christ’s? ...
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What Comes Next
So, perhaps you’re one of these crazy people who’s decided to ...
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The Folly of Stubbornness
When was the last time you ran into someone who stubbornly refused to ...
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A Beautiful Strategy, but…
Westminster Abbey in London has been the site of every British ...
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Out to Lunch
In this tech-driven age in which we live, our senses are constantly ...
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Beyond Imagining
Do you find yourself sometimes scurrying around doing all the things ...
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Blind Fool That I Am
None of us wants to admit to ourselves (let alone to the rest of the ...
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Actions are Driven by Beliefs
I don’t know about you, but I am a master of self-delusion. So many ...
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To Walk Humbly With Your God
If there’s one human attribute that seems to be missing from the ...
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What is Good?
The world these days seems intent on blurring the line between good ...
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Afraid No More
Boldness and bravado often mask deep insecurities and fears. I can ...
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Good Criticism, Bad Praise
None of us likes being criticised. In fact, we much prefer to be ...
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Beware False Teachers
Whenever we believe something passionately, as I certainly do when it ...
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Speak Up!
In any society, any community, there are winners and there are ...
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A Living Hope
Today is Sunday, our day of rest – a day for some good news, very ...
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The Hatred of Sin
When it comes to … you know, those sinners out there … perhaps ...
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Don’t Lose the Plot
Truth, as things turn out, is a difficult thing to hold on to in ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two ...
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Enjoying the Rules
From the youngest age, each one of us has been subject to rules. Our ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God ...
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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say ...
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Resurrection Power
We’ve been reading over the last few days about overcoming sin – ...
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The Power to Be Holy
Victory over sin –especially that one sin that keeps on coming back ...
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How to Live in Victory
Knowing that Jesus died and rose again to set us free from our sin ...
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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by ...
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Making Wise Choices
Have you ever felt pressured to give? You know, when people knock on ...
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I am the Bread of Life
Being hungry is not a lot of fun. Have you ever sat in a meeting you ...
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Breaking Free
Yesterday we talked about leaving our sin behind. About ...
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Stop Making This About You
Some years ago I had a neighbour who drove me absolutely mad. He ...
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More Power Than You’ll Ever Need
Confronted as we are on a daily basis, by the evil that seems to be ...
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More and More Hope
These times in which we live are turbulent times – on a global ...
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God Won’t Let You Drift Away
Yesterday we chatted about the reality that sometimes, we can wander ...
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The Power to Save Your Soul
To be sure, some of the things that God has to say are at the very ...
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Listen
If only, in those difficult moments – in those moments where we ...
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God’s Deep Secret for Your Heart
You know how it is. The daily grind grinds away at you – day after ...
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Be Modest
If there’s one thing that the whole COVID-19 thing has taught us, ...
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The Blessing of Obedience
As any parent will tell you, obedience has its rewards. A rebellious ...
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Your Character Matters to God
As much as we don’t like to admit it, God develops our character ...
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Adrenaline Filled Moments
There are many things that happen in our lives that we find ...
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Will We Never Learn?
I never cease to be amazed by my own propensity to be spiritually ...
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I Ache for You
How can a dead Jesus, in a dark tomb two thousand something years ...
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The Motivations of the Heart
Life just seems to bubble along, have you noticed? I have stuff that ...
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The Blah, Blah, Blah, Treatment
Preaching … sermons … can that really still be a thing in the ...
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Baptise You with the Holy Spirit
Christianity isn’t a religion – it’s not a set of rules to ...
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Lost for Words
If you’ve ever been at a complete loss as to what to say to God, ...
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The One Thing
What’s the one thing that you’d really like to have right in this ...
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Being Human
So where did you get the wisdom that you have today? Where did it ...
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It is Time
Jesus … it’s a name that means many things to many people. But ...
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Time Flies
I was sitting with some friends over dinner recently, and we were ...
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The Dry Sponge
As someone who believes in Jesus, there’s nothing worse than when ...
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Flowering Plants
Why is it that some people seem to power on and grow and flourish so ...
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The Good Oil
I don’t know whether you’ve ever thought of this, but God is in ...
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Talk, Talk, Talk
The easiest thing in the world is to disagree with God, or at least ...
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Mashed Potatoes, Jesus, Olive Oil
Sunday’s coming … another trip to church, same people, same songs ...
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I Love Gadgets
It’s easy to be dazzled by all the hi-tech in our lives, ...
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No Illusion
So let me ask you; what’s this whole Jesus thing all about? Is it ...
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Give Him Your Life
Okay, so we’re hurtling towards another Easter; a bit of a long ...
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Light in the Dark
The idea that you can experience the love of a God whom you’ve ...