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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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Times of Refreshing
When we’re being tempted, the devil dangles something seductive, something attractive, under our noses. It’s a conjuring trick, because where he promises some benefit, it will ...
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A Time of Refreshing in My Life
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 refreshment – ...
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A New Way of Thinking
Might I ask you, what’s dominating your thoughts? What do you tend to think about again and again? It’s a revealing exercise to think about what you’re thinking about. For ...
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This One Thing for You
Yep, it’s the weekend – hooray! Hopefully the chance for a bit of a break. But on this day of rest, there’s something I’d like to share with you. The sense of privilege ...
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You Can Depend on Him
Emotions are a huge part of who we are, absolutely. But when they go unchecked … man, they can get us into some serious trouble. We chatted about this yesterday, as God called ...
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Something to Remember
It’s almost a given that when we’re facing adversity, fighting some battle, in the midst of some mess, we feel completely alone. We may not be, but that’s how it feels. In ...
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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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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the beginning of the next. Whatever camp you’re in, let’s do Sunday together on a high note. Let’s glory in the ...
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The Evil that Lies Within
There’s so much evil in this world. Pride, selfishness, arrogance, abuse … families divided, nations at war, the poor and marginalised tossed on the scrap heap. Yep, there’s ...
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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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Things Jesus Never Said
The meta-narrative, the overarching story that the world today wants to drop on our heads basically goes like this: live a good life and be happy. Fine up to a point, but ...
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The Riches of His Glory
In a world that’s becoming increasingly affluent, it’s getting harder and harder for us to draw a line between our wants and our needs. All too often, especially when we’re ...
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Expect Great Things
I wonder whether when we pray, we don’t sometimes go to God with exceedingly low expectations. Does He even hear me? Does He even care? Is He even there? Low expectations ...
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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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Stop the Brinkmanship
As children, we all played a game of brinkmanship with our parents; testing their limits, seeing how far we could push them, discovering what we could get away with. It’s all ...
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On to Greater Things
When troubles come your way, do you ever wonder what part God played in making them happen? Did that one just slip by Him or was it always part of His plan? And if so, what was He ...
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His Promises are True
Question: can God be trusted? After all, He makes rather a lot of promises in His Word. Some of those, frankly, seem outrageous amidst the hurly-burly of life. Can they, can He, ...
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Which Tribe do You Belong To?
Since time immemorial, humanity has divided itself into tribes – by geography, culture, skin colour, politics, even the sporting team we support. Whatever the criterion, we ...
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Set Your Mind on the Things of God
There’s a very real tension between the plain and obvious logic of things in this world and the seemingly illogical, other-worldly wisdom of God. I wonder, do you feel that ...
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Take the High Road
The world is full distractions. Some of them are very good distractions. But little by little they add up, and before you know it you’re on a slippery slide hurtling downward ...
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Grown-Up Thinking
The longer you exert yourself to do anything worthwhile in life, the more tempting it becomes to slow down, to take it a bit easier, to allow your mind wander … to grind to a ...
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Leave the Regret Behind
Round about now, most of us are processing the year that’s just been … How did it go? Was it a good one or a bad one? So … how did it go? Did you succeed, are you a better ...
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This Crazy Plan
As crazy confusing plans go, this thing we call “Christmas” is right up there. We celebrate it with trees, tinsel and turkeys which in itself is pretty weird. But perhaps we ...
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The Price of Your Fresh Start
Whenever we stop to reflect on the sacrifices that others have made for us to get us to where we are, it rocks you to the core, doesn’t it? That’s because gratitude is an ...
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His Redemptive Intent
When we’re travelling through difficult times, we start asking … well, difficult questions. Have I’ve gone too far? Does God still love me? Or is He done with me? There were ...
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Raising Resilient Children
The old biblical adage that those who spare the rod spoil the child has become rather politically incorrect these days. And, yes, there are far better ways of disciplining our ...
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Things That Break Your Heart
Suffering is one of those conundrums in life that can easily destroy your faith. How could a loving God possibly allow me to go through this? THIS?!! I wonder if I could ask you ...
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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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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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Forget About Everything, Except …
You have a lot going on in your life right now, no doubt. Happy things, sad things; good things, bad things; relaxing things, stressful things … all of which occupy your waking ...
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When You Have Nothing to Give
Have you ever felt even just a bit embarrassed at how little you have to give into the needs of other people, and if you’re a person of faith, toward God’s work? Others can ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Who doesn’t want a more fulfilling life – one that’s free of the blunders they’ve made in the past, one that really impacts this world for good? That’s a natural, ...
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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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Avoid This Bad Habit
When you and I place our confidence in ourselves, in our own abilities, we can quickly end up being over-confident. But when you place your confidence in God … well, you can ...
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Something Interesting
When Jesus speaks, you and I can afford to hang on to every word because they’re packed with meaning and with power. And the very few words of His that I’d like to share with ...
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Seeing Things Differently
It amazes me how two people can look at the same issue, the same thing – the same object, even – and yet see two entirely different things. Why does that happen? How does that ...
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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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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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God Shows His Love for Us
Here we are … It’s Good Friday. The worst and the best day on the Christian calendar. The worst, because Jesus was nailed to that bloody Cross and died. The best, because ...
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While We Were Still Weak
I wonder if you’ve ever heard of “Maundy Thursday”. Well, today’s that day, the day before Good Friday, when we commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus for the likes ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
As you and I look back on our lives, we can both recall times when we’ve said things that hurt people – lies, criticism, ridicule – that must have landed like a dagger into ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (6)
There are times in our lives when our circumstances are far from ideal; when everything appears to be going against us. And it’s in those times that God means for us to live in ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (5)
The Christian view of the respective roles of men and women these days is often sneered at. It’s often criticised because it seems out of touch with today’s 21st century ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (4)
Monogamy is one of Christianity’s greatest contributions to the society in which we live today. Requiring men to show love, to serve and to exercise self-control in their ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (3)
Okay, today … today we’re going for a super dose of the politically incorrect. And it comes straight out of God’s Word. In fact, it’s something of a flashpoint between a ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (2)
Any psychologist will tell you that, despite the whole gender-fluidity thing that’s being pushed in some quarters, there are some very fundamental and powerful differences ...
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Old-Fashioned Wisdom (1)
Have you ever picked up an old book, read it, and thought to yourself, man, that is so old-fashioned? Those attitudes, the way the world was back then … it’s all so irrelevant ...
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Forgive Without Punishing
There are so many different ways of loving the people around us. And us loving them is something that’s very much on God’s agenda for your life and mine. So, what do you do ...
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Think Twice
It’s funny how the human psyche works. Sometimes the obvious can be staring you in the face, but somehow your mind can’t grasp it. It’s only when you come back to it a ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how you’re living your life? How often do you reflect on how you respond to different situations, different stimuli, ...
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Reaching the Goal
One of the greatest deceptions that the devil has perpetrated amongst God’s people is that we can be saved, that we can have the free gift of eternal life, without changing the ...
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Nothing is Too Hard for Him
You and I need reminding on a regular basis of just how big and powerful God is – because, let me tell you, the things we face in this world have a funny way of diminishing our ...
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The Third Temptation
What is it in this world that you yearn for? What pleasures, what possessions, what particular thing do you dream of having in your grasp this side of eternity? And what are you ...
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How High? How Far?
Life has a habit of … I don’t know … chipping away at your faith. Those bumps and bruises, the stresses and strains, the muck that life throws at you have a way of drawing ...
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New Year, Fresh Start (2)
As we step into this new year, there are so many people for whom the hurts, the losses, the failures, the regrets of last year are holding them back, robbing them of that sense of ...
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New Year, Fresh Start (1)
As we step into this new year, there are so many people for whom the hurts, the losses, the failures, the regrets of last year are holding them back, robbing them of that sense of ...
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A New Year, A Fresh Start
As we step into this new year, there are so many people for whom the hurts, the losses, the failures, the regrets of last year are holding them back, robbing them of that sense of ...
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Leave the Past Behind
New Year’s Eve – traditionally a night of great celebration as we leave the past behind and leap into the new year … whoopedy-whoop. But let me ask you, are you in fact able ...
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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 when we’re surrounded by uncertainty, to invest our time, energies and resources in a good work when the ...
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The Most Important Thing
What is the gift of eternal life worth to you? Think about it. Just take your focus off all the ups and downs at play in your life today and focus on the gift of eternal life. ...
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Throwing Stones, Washing Feet
Loving people who don’t love us in return … well, it’s not easy, is it? In fact, our instinct is to give them as much grief as they give us. And that, right there, is why ...
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Don’t Become This Guy!
There are times when we’re absolutely convinced that we’re right. Absolutely! And all those people out there … they’re wrong. And yet, paradoxically … in insisting on ...
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Meanwhile…
We know, you and I, with absolute certainty that one day our time on this earth will end. And as much as our past sometimes fills our thoughts, the real question is how should I ...
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Reaching Your Full Potential
Sometimes it’s hard to come to grips with the fact that we have some real untapped potential. The sad thing is when people live their whole lives without realising that ...
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Don’t Disappear Down This Rabbit Hole
It’s easy these days to get drawn into crazy arguments … all too easy. And before you know it, instead of following Jesus, instead of doing good, you’ve been sucked down the ...
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The Outcome of Self-Worship
Yesterday we explored the not unreasonable assertion that self-worship is the world’s fastest growing religion. Everyone, it seems, is taking “selfies”. And as it turns out, ...
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Things We Take for Granted
One of the things we take for granted is the notion that a human life has a very high, intrinsic value. It wasn’t always so, and in some parts of the world where Christianity ...
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Highly Entitled Individuals
We live, more and more, in the age of entitlement. I deserve better than this. I’m entitled to say and do what I want. How dare they tell me what to do? And yet to live in ...
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Don’t Make This Mistake
We live in strange times. I mean, look back at just these last two years since the COVID pandemic hit us. Look at how different the world is today to what we expected, even just ...
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A Mother’s Teaching
The things that our parents taught us tend to remain with us for the rest of our lives. But mothers and fathers have quite different roles in the rearing of children. Today, ...
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The Risks of Overthinking
With the glut of information (and indeed, misinformation) bombarding us these days, there’s never been a time where rational thinking has been more important. But there’s also ...
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Closer Than You Think
Yesterday we read about how small, how inadequate, how empty we feel sometimes when we get before God. You know that feeling – God is so great, so vast, so loving, but you just ...
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Set Apart for a Higher Purpose
A single spark can set off a fire that will burn a whole forest. And in the same way, little compromises have a nasty habit of robbing us of the good things that God has planned ...
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The Trap of “Group-Think”
One way to maintain harmony, is to tell people what we think they want to hear. The problem with that, is that what they want to hear, isn’t always the truth. What they want to ...
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Let’s Go Fishing
So you believe in Jesus. Great, but what are you doing with that? What impact is your faith having in this world? How many people have been pulled back from the brink of hell, ...
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Remember This
When was the last time you gave something out of love, yet it made you feel sad, as though you’d lost something? That’s not generally how it works, is it? The love-gift ...
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Seeing Things as They Really Are
These days, there are so many things that can and will chip away at our faith in Jesus, until at some point, it feels as though there’s nothing of your faith left. The world ...
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Keep Things Simple
My sense is that sometimes, as we think about our lives, we over-complicate things. We try to over-think things and that leads only to frustration, because we can’t figure it ...
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The Wonderful Things of God
What a treasure that God has preserved here for you and me in Psalm 90. A tender warm prayer from one of Israel’s greatest leaders, Moses, to God Himself. And if there’s one ...
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Tired and Thirsty
So you’re on a journey. You’re thirsty, you’re tired and all you want to do is rest. And then God brings along another one of His divine appointments. Sensational! You ...
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Everything You Have
Can I ask you something today? When it comes to supporting God’s work, giving towards the building of His kingdom, are you stingy or generous? Do you hold back, or do you give ...
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Let the Light Shine
Well, a merry Christmas to you. Wherever you are, however, you’re celebrating it, may the Lord bless you as you remember that He came to this earth to save you from your sin. ...
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How is This Possible?
The question that always rattled around in my mind in the early days of believing in Jesus, was this: why is Jesus necessary in my relationship with God? Why Christmas, why ...
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Don’t Get Too Attached to This Life
Life on this earth is far from perfect. We have great days and good days to be sure, but there are also bad days and indeed, downright awful days. They seem to come in seasons. ...
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Stop Making This About You
Some years ago I had a neighbour who drove me absolutely mad. He belittled my faith and somehow, every time I saw him, he had to say something derogatory. Some little jab just to ...
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The Unbreakable Partnership of Faith
The idea of taking a step of faith, well, that seems like a good idea, doesn’t it? Until the storm clouds roll in. Until the ocean is foaming and your tiny boat is pitching. ...
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Don’t Lose Sight of This Truth
I don’t know about you but a lack of faith, a lack of trust, in God is something that I don’t want to have. And yet, it’s something that lurks there in the background for ...
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Who Exactly are the Children of God?
So, I’m sitting in a Bible study the other day with a bunch of people that I don’t know all that well, yet. And one woman declared, “We are all children of God. Every person ...
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No Such Thing as Insignificance
Have you ever felt, well, insignificant? This sense that other people seem to be powering on with God, but He’s somehow forgotten about you, left you on the shelf? Of all the ...
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Which Jesus Are You Following?
Back when Jesus was walking the dusty roads of Israel, there were many others claiming to be the Messiah, sent by God to save Israel. The question for the Jews, who were ...
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The Church and Adolf Hitler
Have you ever wondered how the church in Germany could have stood idly by, without so much as a whimper, while Hitler and the Nazis slaughtered million Jews? Having walked through ...
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Nothing More, Nothing Less
We all know people who are full of themselves, who think they’re God’s gift to the universe. And then there are those who underachieve because they don’t have enough ...
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Do This for the Lord
If there’s one thing a pandemic will do in putting pressure on societies, governments and individuals, it’s creating conflict and dissent. We’ve seen that over and over ...
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When God Withholds His Blessing
God is a God of blessing, amen? Absolutely. We can all chime in with a hearty AMEN to that one. And yet, sometimes God withholds His blessings. And sometimes the withholding of ...
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Things Money Can’t Buy
It’s so easy, isn’t it – whether you’re rich or poor – to imagine that money can solve all your problems? We know that’s not true, but we cling onto that lie all too ...
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Do you know what I find really, really scary? It’s the people who call themselves Christians, who pretend to be Christians on the outside and yet on the inside they are rotten ...
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Know This!
When was the last time you blurted something out at someone without thinking – something that did some damage, something that you wish, on reflection, you could unsay, undo, ...