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Christianityworks
In Depth Weekly Bible Teaching: Join Berni Dymet as he opens God's Word to discover what God has to say into your life, today. Watch, listen or read. Whichever works best!
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FRESH Daily Devotional
Daily Devotional taking you deeper into God's Word + closer to Jesus. Watch, listen or read. It's your choice. Even subscribe to have it delivered directly to you!
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A Different Perspective
Daily 10 Minute Message exploring issues we all face in life ... from a different perspective; the sorts of things that really matter day-to-day. Listen or read. It's up to you.
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Your Inner Core Strength
There are people in this world who will oppose you – some for the right reasons, some for the wrong reasons. How you respond to them has a lot to do with your inner, core ...
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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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Don’t Get Carried Away
It’s easy to come to the conclusion that being a Christian, following Jesus, honouring God, is much easier in the good times than in the bad – that singing His praises is much ...
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Enjoying the Rules
From the youngest age, each one of us has been subject to rules. Our parents told us what we could and couldn’t do. And if you’re anything like me, as a child and as a ...
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God Conversations
When you get together with friends and family, perhaps over a cup of coffee or over a meal, what do you talk about? I mean, last time you socialised with, perhaps, people from ...
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Make a Joyful Noise
Do you know what I’ve noticed? It’s much easier to make a joyful noise on a Sunday than it is to serve God with a good heart on a Monday. It’s much easier to sing those ...
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So … How’s Your Self–Image Looking? (Part 2)
Poor self–esteem is a global pandemic. Too many people are living with deep insecurities that are robbing them of the abundant life that Jesus died and rose again to bring them. ...
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The Faithful Love of God
So, at what point did we come to the conclusion that it’s all up to us – that following Jesus along that narrow, often difficult path is completely our responsibility, ...
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The Happy Warrior
So, another question for you today. When you speak up in defence of the truth, in defence, perhaps, of your faith, how do you speak? What does the expression on your face and the ...
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Saving Sinners
Yesterday we read about loving your enemy – one of the many intensely inconvenient things that Jesus had to say. And it’s not just something that He said. It’s something ...
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The People You Dislike
A question for you today … well, two actually. Firstly, how many people do you have in your life right know whom you dislike intensely? And secondly, when you run into them, how ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins through His sacrifice on the Cross: and a new life from now to eternity. In other words, pardon from the past, ...
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Conformity versus Morality
The pressure these days to depart from the truth, to forsake what God tells us is right, to dispense with it as the irrelevant babblings of an outdated church, is intense. Perhaps ...
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An Unhealthy Detachment
At some point along the way, anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus has a choice to make. Will they actually do what He tells them to do, or will they just carry on with business ...
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So… How’s Your Self-Image Looking? (Part 1)
Poor self–esteem is a global pandemic. Too many people are living with deep insecurities that are robbing them of the abundant life that Jesus died and rose again to bring them. ...
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So How’s Your Self-Image Looking?
Poor self–esteem is a global pandemic. Too many people are living with deep insecurities that are robbing them of the abundant life that Jesus died and rose again to bring them. ...
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What Suzy Says of Sally
We read earlier this week about judgementalism, and I just want to circle back to it again today because that tendency to judge others and then to turn it into gossip or anger is ...
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Count Your Blessings
There’s no doubt that together we’ve all been through some really difficult times this last couple of years. And those trials have a tendency to make us forget the blessings ...
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Both Grace and Truth
I grieve over political tribalism amongst God’s people. Not because I don’t have my own political views, but because I ache at seeing Christians define themselves first and ...
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Grace Without Truth
We’ve been chatting these past few days about the truth – God’s truth. And we’ve seen that truth without grace is but a steely imitation. Truth without grace isn’t ...
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Truth Without Grace
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been talking about truth – God’s truth. But even His truth is sometimes wielded as a weapon by His people, in a way that wreaks havoc ...
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The Church to Look Out For
I don’t know where you’re at in terms of your relationship with Jesus, but an integral element of that relationship is being part of His body – part of the family of ...
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“Opinion” versus “Truth”
One of the things I’ve noticed – and perhaps you have too – is that it’s very easy in this day and age, given the constant barrage of media messages, for us to drift away ...
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God Wants to Heal My Heart (Part 2)
We all have a heart. Not just that amazing little machine that keeps us alive, but a heart deep inside somewhere. The place where we live and laugh and cry and ...
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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 Tender Love of God
It’s a rough and tumble world that we live in. Criticism can be hurled your way without notice. Those feelings of inadequacy rise up and before you know it, the lie that God ...
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Don’t Expect Them to Applaud
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the moment we set out to live a good life, to do right, to love others, to work hand-in-hand with God to overcome our inherent weaknesses, the ...
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It’s Time to Flourish
As you look at your life today, right here and now, would you say that you’re flourishing in life or not? Come on, is “flourishing” an adjective that you could safely use to ...
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Don’t Sound the Retreat Just Yet
There’s a trend these days amongst some of God’s people to see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a ticket to comfort and success. Perhaps “trend” is not the right word. ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution than ever before. For some, that still means being shot or beheaded. For others, it’s governments limiting ...
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Standing Up For Your Rights
I was taken recently … no, “taken” is entirely the wrong word! I was deeply disturbed recently … by something a very popular Christian wrote on social media. Deeply, ...
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God Wants to Heal Your Heart (Part 1)
We all have a heart. Not just that amazing little machine that keeps us alive, but a heart deep inside somewhere. The place where we live and laugh and cry and experience ...
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For Your Own Good
I look back on some of the times in my life, some of the things that I’ve done, and I think to myself, Berni, how could you have been so stupid! You too, huh? We have an amazing ...
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The Key to Peace
We each yearn for peace – for our hearts to be at rest, for the knowledge that we’re safe – and yet, if these past couple of years have taught us anything … hey, the world ...
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It is Well With My Soul (6)
There’s something about the hymns of old that reaches deep into our souls. But with the ever-shortening attention spans that we’re developing, there’s a great tragedy ...
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All is Well With My Soul (5)
Over these last couple of years, with a pandemic sweeping the globe, many people have died. And many people, even God’s people, have lived in fear of dying. But fear of dying ...
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It is Well With My Soul (4)
All too often when disaster strikes, when we’re suffering as a result, we cry out to God for the pain to end, for Him to deliver us from the suffering, without enquiring of Him ...
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It is Well With My Soul (3)
Have you ever had this terrible sense of foreboding that something bad was going to befall you – but then, without warning, something happens to end your fear and that huge ...
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It is Well With My Soul (2)
“Sin” is the central dilemma of humanity. No, it’s not a popular word these days. Many consider it to be a reflection of the irrelevant religious views of a bygone era. But ...
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Your Road to a Stunning Life (Part 2)
Way too many people on this planet – even people who passionately believe in Jesus – are living something way less than the stunning life that God has planned for them. And ...
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It is Well With My Soul (1)
The world, life … call it what you will … has an uncanny way of throwing some pretty awful things our way from time to time. Other times, it’s happy days. But through it ...
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The Rules Don’t Apply
Have you ever come to the conclusion that because God loves you so much, this one little verse in the Bible …. well, it doesn’t really apply to you? If you have, then I’m ...
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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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The Importance of Discernment
The one thing we’re not short of in this day and age is information. And as we’re being bombarded left, right and centre, the big decision for each of us now is, whom or what ...
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Keep Your Emotions in Check
We’ve been reading the last couple of days about our emotions because they’re such an important part of who we are. But when we allow them to overwhelm us, we become ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
Everyone you know, no matter how much they love you, will at some stage disappoint you. And that emotion of disappointment can end up ruining not just your day, but if you allow ...
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That Emotional Fog
Have you ever had the situation where you’re driving on a road at good speed, and all of a sudden you hit a pocket of fog? You’re hurtling through it, but you can’t see a ...
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Your Road to a Stunning Life (Part 1)
Way too many people on this planet – even people who passionately believe in Jesus – are living something way less than the stunning life that God has planned for them. And ...
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Your Road to a Stunning Life
Way too many people on this planet – even people who passionately believe in Jesus – are living something way less than the stunning life that God has planned for them. And ...
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You Can’t Be Serious
Despite all that Jesus had told His disciples about His coming resurrection, it had fallen on deaf ears. And let’s not be too hard on them. Would you or I have reacted any ...
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All Gone Quiet
On this day every year, I close my eyes and put myself inside the tomb where Jesus’ body lay. It’s pitch dark. It’s dead silent. And the body of my Saviour lies there, ...
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Red Wine
Good Friday – the day when we remember that on that Cross, Jesus died. He shed His blood so that the price that God’s justice demands for our sin – yours and mine – would ...
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Unleavened Bread
Sometimes when communion is passed around at church – a small cup of grape juice, and a nice, fluffy little cube of white bread – let me be honest here … I want to scream. ...
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Bitter Herbs
This whole notion of “sin” … well, it’s not particularly popular in this day and age. And yet, you and I both know that when we do something wrong, it has consequences. It ...
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Roast Lamb
So here we are in Easter week casting our minds back to that Passover Festival when Jesus was betrayed and crucified. And the Passover, back then and still today, was celebrated ...
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A Time to Remember
Easter week comes around so quickly. And we seem to pass through it so quickly – often without much thought beyond, perhaps, the long weekend that it offers some. And yet Easter ...
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The Passover Blessing (Pt 2)
Easter rolls around about this time every year. And the strange thing is that despite all the struggles that people are facing, despite the emptiness and the yearning for ...
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It’s Time to Choose
A person without a sense of purpose in life – something at the core of their being that they know they’re called to do – is like a piece of driftwood bobbing around in the ...
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Your Sense of Purpose
There seem to be two types of people walking planet Earth today – those with a strong sense of purpose, and those without one. There doesn’t seem to be much in between. So ...
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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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How to Repent
So, these last few days we’ve been reading about the vitally important subject of breaking free from the power of sin in our lives so that we can be all that God made us to be. ...
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Resurrection Power
We’ve been reading over the last few days about overcoming sin – actually living out the victory over sin that Jesus won for us on that cross. We need the power to do that. ...
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The Power to Be Holy
Victory over sin –especially that one sin that keeps on coming back to bite you again and again – is, on the one hand, a foregone conclusion, but on the other is something ...
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How to Live in Victory
Knowing that Jesus died and rose again to set us free from our sin … that’s one thing. But living out that truth, putting an end to that one sin that keeps tripping you up… ...
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The Passover Blessing (Pt 1)
Easter rolls around about this time every year. And the strange thing is that despite all the struggles that people are facing, despite the emptiness and the yearning for ...
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Stop Blaming the Devil
Over the years, I’ve had a good many people tell me that they’re under spiritual attack. But sometimes, you look at the way they’re living their lives and you think to ...
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Doom and Gloom Merchants
Over these past couple of years, there’s been a lot of doom and gloom doing the rounds – both in the media and in people’s lives, fuelled by what I call ‘the doom and ...
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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by that is this: is Jesus truly the Lord of your life? Have you put all that you are, all that you have, every hope, ...
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Release for the Captive
One of the things that Jesus promised would happen through Him was release for the captives. Most of us though, have never really thought of ourselves as being captive to ...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Being Small
We’ve all felt small and insignificant from time to time – perhaps that’s how you feel now. Small … insignificant. And somehow, in this success-driven world in which we ...
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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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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? Above all else? The Creator of the universe? How do you, in your heart and mind, apprehend the reality of who ...
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Merchants of Hope (Pt 2)
All too often we get so bogged down in our day to day reality, that we struggle to find any hope in our hearts for the future. And hope is absolutely critical in our day-to-day ...
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Treating Burnout
With all that’s been happening in the world over these last couple of years, many people are suffering the effects of burnout. They may not want to admit it, but it’s true. ...
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The Burden of Wealth
This world in which we live, you and I, operates on the unwritten and yet inviolable law that wealth is good and poverty is bad – which means that pretty much everybody is ...
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Relative Deprivation
When was the last time that you looked at what someone else had and felt a lesser person because you didn’t have the same thing? Be it a new car, a happy marriage, or a great ...
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The Day of the Lord is Coming
There’s a great business bestseller called “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” written by a man called Stephen Covey. And his habit number 2 is to begin with the ...
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That One Master Habit
It’s funny isn’t it, how easy it is to drift away from good habits back into bad ones? You decide to eat good, healthy, whole food. You enjoy it, feel better – only to find ...
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Creating Order from Chaos
The unpredictable things that often happen in life have a tendency to cause chaos. I’m sure you’ve experienced that. But then there are those things that are predictable ...
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Monday Mornings
Many people struggle with “Mondayitis”. It’s this sense of heaviness, of foreboding, that seems to descend on you at the beginning of the week, and it is simply not a good ...
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Merchants of Hope (Pt 1)
All too often we get so bogged down in our day to day reality, that we struggle to find any hope in our hearts for the future. And hope is absolutely critical in our day-to-day ...
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Merchants of Hope
All too often we get so bogged down in our day to day reality, that we struggle to find any hope in our hearts for the future. And hope is absolutely critical in our day to day ...
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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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How to be Holy
Obedience. Now there’s a double-edged sword if ever there was one. Certainly, when we’re in control, we want others to obey us. But how much do we enjoy obeying someone else, ...
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Asking the Wrong Question
Too many so-called Christians are asking the wrong question. Instead of wondering how to honour God through their holiness, they’re asking themselves, what can I get away with? ...
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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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When Feelings Aren’t Enough
One of the most powerful truths of the Bible is that “love” isn’t just a noun, it’s also a verb. It’s not just something that you have or don’t have, it’s also ...
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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the amazing things that God could do through us. But then, with a thud, it’s back to reality. Nah. Nice ...
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Having Faith that Moves Mountains (Part 4)
Faith is an awesome thing. To be able to rely on God for everything – all our needs. His provision. His comfort. His encouragement and support. And when things get tough, when ...
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Persecution Rising
There’s no doubt that the persecution of Christians is on the rise. Yes, in some brutal ways in some parts of the world, and even in the comfortable west, where we’ve ...
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A Change of Appetite
Believe it or not, your body has a finely tuned appestat – that part of your brain that tells you when you’re full and when to stop eating. The problem is that for many, ...
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The Power You Need
Whenever I’ve set about trying to fix something in my life that’s broken, well, you only get so far. It seems like your efforts stall and there’s a point at which you come ...
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The Great Sovereign Remedy
Lust is a word that we don’t use all that often in modern-day parlance. Why? Because it’s a judgemental word. It dares to suggest that some of our desires are, well, wrong ...
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Self-Improvement Wednesday
The notion that you and I can turn our own lives around, that we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and become a better person, is an attractive one. The problem is, it ...
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Sin Kills
Death is something that you think more and more about, the older you get. I can tell you, with almost a full head of grey hair, these days, the view of the end of this life is ...
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Putting Sin to Death
Sadly, way too many of those who call themselves by Christ’s name – “Christians” – have far too cosy a relationship with sin. There’s almost a flippancy when it comes ...
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Having Faith that Moves Mountains (Pt 3)
Faith is an awesome thing. To be able to rely on God for everything – all our needs. His provision. His comfort. His encouragement and support. And when things get tough, when ...
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Powerful Kindness
There are few things in this world that are at the same time simpler, easier and cheaper to deliver, than good, old-fashioned kindness. If that’s the case, why are people so ...
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From Runt to Ruler
Sometimes, it’s the seemingly most benign, most innocuous passages of Scripture that pack the greatest punch. Today, we’re going to look at one of those. Get ready for the ...