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The Generosity You Dish Out
Do you mind if I ask you what may be a somewhat confronting question? How generous are you towards others? When you see someone in need, what’s your natural reaction to them? ...
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The Punishment You Dish Out
How do you respond to people who do the wrong thing? How do you deal with those who hurt you, who don’t like you, who diminish you in some way? Come on, how do you react? Our ...
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Be Kind, Generous and Fair
You know what I think? I think that it’s all too easy to over-spiritualise Christianity, to get so drawn into singing songs and slapping people on the back – praise the Lord ...
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When You’re Guilty of Harm
In most countries, occupational health and safety (or OH&S, as it’s called) is a big deal. And rightly so, because in places where it isn’t, some terrible things end up ...
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An Abhorrent Concept
In this day and age, no matter what system of government we happen to live under, our desire is to be free; to have self-determination; not to have others tell us what to do. That ...
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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on the promises of God is truly important. I mean, it’s always important but never more so than in times of ...
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But Then, You Stumble
In just a couple of days we’ll be commemorating that terrible day, “Good Friday”, when Jesus was nailed to that Cross for all to see. How could that possibly have been ...
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Despite Your Best Intentions
It’s one thing to have good intentions; it’s another thing entirely to live them out. There’s not a person alive who hasn’t begun their race with the best of intentions, ...
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That Unshakeable Sense of Guilt
There are many obvious things about each one of us that are there naturally because they’re encoded in our DNA; handed down from generation to generation. But there’s another ...
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When the Holy Spirit Leaves the Building
Question: what’s the difference between following the rules and following Jesus? Why is it that we can’t even seem to obey the road rules and yet following Jesus changes ...
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Your Letter of Recommendation
Quick question: how wealthy are you? Because if you have the basic necessities of life covered – water, food, accommodation – then by any measure, you’re wealthier than you ...
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Confidence and Assurance
Don’t you just love meeting people with an air of quiet confidence, of understated assurance about them. Just being around them makes you feel better about yourself. What is it ...
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An Instrument of the Lord
The rescuing hand of God is a constant theme throughout the Old Testament and New. And that’s good news – sensational news in fact, that when we’re in trouble God is right ...
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Don’t Give the Devil an Opening
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s more than enough out there in the world to keep us angry pretty much all the time. People, politics, circumstances, attitudes – you ...
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The Best Revenge of All
When someone wrongs you or someone you care about, and your anger rises up in you until it’s white hot, what’s the one thing that you want more than anything else? Revenge. ...
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When You Just Know
Have you ever wondered why God, in His wisdom, chooses to say the same thing in His Word over and over again? It’s a question I’ve asked myself often. Why would He do that? I ...
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Choose Your Friends Carefully
So who are your closest advisors? If you’re married, hopefully your spouse is number one on that list. But what about the rest of your inner circle? Who are they, and should ...
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Be Patient In Adversity
What adversity are you facing right in this moment? What is it that’s eating away at you, draining you of your zest for life? And how well, pray tell, are you handling it? Some ...
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The Challenge of Control
The best way to ensure that things turn out the way you want them to, whatever those “things” happen to be, is to have them under your control. Sure, that’s the answer. ...
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The Lord Gives You Strength
When things turn against us, when strife, confusion and pain come at us from all directions, what we need is the strength, the speed, the agility to make it through. That’s what ...
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Don’t Take Revenge
In a moment of anger, in that place of complete disbelief at the utter injustice of how badly someone’s just treated you, the idea of revenge appears so sweet. Conflict is a ...
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Forgive Those Who Repent
Our ability to forgive, yours and mine, is like a muscle that we need to exercise for it to grow stronger. Fortunately, we live in a world where there’s plenty of opportunity to ...
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Keep Your Eye on the End Game
Well, the first week of the year is all but over. As you step into the second, the third, the fourth week, what’s your plan? And even more importantly, what do you think God’s ...
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Be Confident in Uncertain Times
Whatever situation you and I find ourselves in at the moment, whatever circumstances confront us – good or bad – those externals will without doubt impact how we feel about ...
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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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The Intentional Disciple
The word “equality” is highly misunderstood these days. Many are looking for equality of outcome, when what we should be focussing on is equality of opportunity. Allow me to ...
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Misrepresenting God
In the world of luxury goods – handbags, shoes, clothing – there’s a massive and thriving business in creating and peddling knockoffs. Imitations of famous brands using ...
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Friends Like These
A question for you today: What sort of friends have you surrounded yourself with? Good friends, loyal friends, mediocre friends … friends who aren’t even friends at all? What ...
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No Blunt Instruments
“Truth” is an interesting concept. We understand it to be objective – something’s either true or it isn’t. But it can be offensive, hurtful, to the point where we ...
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Revenge or Restoration?
So when was the last time that you felt insulted, miffed, hard done by? It happens for all sorts of different reasons. Sometimes we’re just in a bad mood and the smallest thing ...
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The Chosen
If only some days we’d lift our gaze to the cosmos and realise how truly small we are; how precariously our planet hurtles through space around a minor star, just one amongst a ...
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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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How to be God’s Enemy
So, humour me for a moment – whatever you happen to believe about the existence of an all-powerful, all-loving God … if He does indeed exist, would you really want to become ...
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Being Beethoven
All too often, the gifts and abilities that God’s woven into our very being go unappreciated by the rest of the world. Worse still – and you’ve probably experienced this too ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, what thoughts have I had, what words have I spoken, what things have I done that I know absolutely are wrong? ...
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Tight Fisted or Open Handed?
Most of us wouldn’t consider ourselves to be wealthy. Depending on your circumstances, you might think of yourself as somewhere between “middle class” and … not so well ...
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Protracted Singleness (2)
Today I’d like to share a profound word about those who remain single. Now perhaps you’re not, but doubtless you know someone who is. If so, perhaps you can share today’s ...
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Protracted Singleness (1)
Whilst most people end up married, that’s not the case for everyone. Protracted singleness is far more common than we might imagine. Sadly though, people look at the singlies ...
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Family: When Things Don’t Turn Out The Way You’d Hoped (2)
Families are something we tend to take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family for better or for worse and many of us have started our own families. And yet as much as this ...
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The Mistakes Women Make (2)
The nagging wife is something of an unpleasant and unwelcome stereotype that many women rail against. And fair enough too. But then again, some women do nag their husbands to the ...
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The Mistakes Women Make (1)
The biggest mistake I see women making in their marriages is, once the children come along, relegating their husbands to third, fourth or fifth place in the family hierarchy. Big ...
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The Mistakes Men Make (2)
Too many men have become emotionally distant from their families, both as husbands and fathers. And that, right there, is one of the biggest mistakes we men can ever make because ...
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The Mistakes Men Make (1)
Honestly … a man, when it comes to his family, can be such an oaf. Seriously! We somehow never stop to think what our families truly need from us, so we keep repeating the same ...
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Family: When Things Don’t Turn Out The Way You’d Hoped (1)
Families are something we tend to take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family for better or for worse and many of us have started our own families. And yet as much as this ...
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Family – When Things Don’t Turn Out the Way You’d Hoped
Families are something we tend to take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family for better or for worse and many of us have started our own families. And yet as much as this ...
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Don’t Abandon Your Confidence
Confidence can be a powerful force in our lives, provided that we place our confidence in the right things. With all that life’s throwing at you right now, let me ask you, how ...
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Just Then
Anyone who’s married will be able to tell you that every now and then, their wife or their husband does something completely unexpected. You thought you knew them, but boom! And ...
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The Gospel Cannot be Silenced
There are forces at play in this world that seek to shut down the Gospel; to silence the Good News of Jesus; to deprive God’s people of the opportunity – so speak out the love ...
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Disappointment & Discouragement
I don’t know about you, but I get up out of bed each day hoping and believing for the best. A new day, new opportunities … but some days, things simply don’t work out that ...
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From a Tent to a City
One of the biggest mistakes that you and I can make is to imagine that God’s plans revolve around us, around our comfort and convenience – because His plans are so much bigger ...
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Promises Underwritten
So here’s a question for you: Can you trust the promises of God? I mean, really. Given all the things life throws at you, do the promises of God stand true, or are they ...
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An Audience of One
It’s going on thirty years since my dear old dad passed out of this world. I still think of him. I still wish he was here to chat to. After all, he was my dad. But I wonder how ...
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Is it Making a Difference?
As Jesus walked the dusty roads of 1st century Israel, He did and said some powerful things. Countless lives were touched and transformed. And that’s the point. When eventually ...
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The End of the World
One day, all the things that we hold dear in this world – our relationships, our possessions, our reputations even – will pass away. Every high priority in your life and in ...
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When You Do Good
We live in a world today where the things that we’ve always known to be wrong – greed, lust, immorality and the like – are now not only being called right, but applauded. ...
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When it is Good to Suffer
Suffering is a theme that I love to return to again and again, both in my learning and development and in yours. Because it’s in that place of suffering that we have the ...
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Open My Eyes
Throughout life, we tend to search for wonderful things; good things that’ll bless us, good things that’ll enrich our lives and the lives of those we love. But those wonderful ...
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Encourage Each Other
No doubt you’ve had the experience of feeling a bit down, and then someone’s come along with a simple word of encouragement, and in an instant lifted you up, changed your day ...
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Suspending Judgement
It’s really quite staggering, you know, how often we judge other people – how they look, their facial expressions, their body language, what they say, what they do. In fact, ...
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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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When the Time is Right
Have you ever felt locked in your circumstances? It feels like a straitjacket, right? If feels as though nothing’s ever going to change; as though you are going to be stuck in ...
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God Enjoys You
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “What brings God joy?” I mean, we’re made in His image and we experience joy in our lives. So it stands to reason that He does too. What ...
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Confidence in the Lord
There’s a fine line, isn’t there, between confidence and overconfidence? But here’s a question: can you ever have too much confidence in God? Is it possible to be ...
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When People Plot Against Us
Every now and then, we find ourselves in a position where people are plotting against us. Murmuring. Whispering. It hurts a lot. We feel isolated and it can be ...
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Tenderness of Heart
Have you ever eaten a tough piece of meat? Meat’s allegedly good for you, and you can even pay a bit extra for a superior cut, but if it comes up tough after you’ve cooked it ...
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The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength (2)
The big mistake we make in this life is that we think that happiness and joy are the same thing. They simply aren’t. Happiness relies on our circumstances, and they can change, ...
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Enjoy without Complaining
You know how it is … out of all the important things in your life – your relationships, health, finances – nine out of ten of them are bubbling along just fine, but ...
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Lend Without a Return
In this day and age, the deal is that when you invest in something you expect a return. After all, that’s what, by and large, makes the world economy go round. I lend you some ...
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The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength (1)
The big mistake we make in this life is that we think that happiness and joy are the same thing. They simply aren’t. Happiness relies on our circumstances, and they can change, ...
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The Joy of the Lord is My Strength
The big mistake we make in this life is that we think that happiness and joy are the same thing. They simply aren’t. Happiness relies on our circumstances, and they can change, ...
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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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Bending the Gospel
There’s a lot of pressure on any Christ-follower these days to bend their belief, their understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, away from that old-fashioned interpretation ...
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Close Encounters
It’s always interesting to tap into the experiences of other people, particularly when those experiences are close encounters with God. And that’s exactly what this ...
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Daring to be Different
Jesus promised His disciples many things. One of those promises that we can stand on with shouts of praise and hallelujah is that if they persecuted Him (which they did) they’re ...
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Open… or Closed?
One of the most unpalatable things about being a Christian is repenting; turning away from what we know is wrong – which is why a lot of people hold out on Jesus. The thing ...
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Enemies of the Cross
One of the things that parents fears most is that their child would be led astray by hanging out with the wrong crowd; by allowing the wrong people to become their role models. ...
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Open House
I wonder … what does “church” mean to you? Is it a building (for many it is)? Is it the traditional service that you attend on a Sunday? Is it an institution, a family, or ...
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The Lord Gives Us Confidence
It’s an odd feeling, you know, sitting on this side of the Fresh devotional each day; my side – the side of praying, preparing, writing, recording, shooting a short message ...
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A Job or an Adventure?
So what is it that you do day after day? Perhaps you have a job so you go to work. Or you’re a homemaker. Or retired. What is it that’s going to take up a good chunk of your ...
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Confident Grace
Well, a blessed and a merry Christmas to you on this Christmas day, that one day in the year when we stop to remember the entry of God’s grace into this world through that Child ...
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Comprehending Grace
It’s one thing to have a spectacular “come to Jesus” moment. And if that happened to you, as it did to me many years ago … fantastic. But it’s another thing entirely to ...
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The Golden Rule of Communication
Yesterday we chatted about the absence of civility in public discourse and the powerful role that you and I can play in bringing that back through gracious understanding and ...
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Speaking and Listening
I was just chatting by video conference the other day with Bob Beasley, a dear friend of mine in Canada. He made the point that civil dialogue amongst people of opposing views is ...
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A Sense of Urgency
Our days on this earth – yours and mine – are numbered. We have a finite time left to have a positive, lasting impact on the lives of those around us, those who matter most. ...
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Spreading Your Investments
All the things in this world that we take for granted – whilst they’re here today – could very well be gone tomorrow. In fact, one day no matter how permanent the things of ...
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The Dividend of Doing Good
Do you know the biggest difference between doing bad and doing good? Doing bad is so easy. It just seems to come naturally to us. Doing good on the other hand … well, that can ...
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A Ministry of Encouragement
It’s funny how God (if we’ll let Him) can use even the most mundane of situations to teach us a powerful lesson, even when we’re feeling decidedly unspiritual. That’s ...
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To Whom Does God Listen?
There was a time in Israel’s history when they’d turned their backs on God yet again. And they were suffering the consequences of their rebellion against Him … yet again. ...
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When God Goes Missing
We all have days when God appears to go missing from our lives. In theory you may well believe that He never leaves you or forsakes you. But in practice … well, where is He? Why ...
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When Christ Calls
Have you ever had the sense that God’s calling you to do something for Him? You know … that little voice, that nudge in your spirit. It can be a tad disconcerting because ...
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When It’s Difficult to Love
From time to time, we all come across people who rub us the wrong way – perhaps even people who offend us, belittle us, seek to harm us. We wish we didn’t, but we do. So what ...
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The Dividends of Shunning Evil
There are two approaches to pretty much anything in life that’s worth doing. The first, the one most people take most of the time, is the half-hearted approach. The second, the ...
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The Gardener’s Job
When you’re out doing good things for God, using your gifts and abilities, your time and resources to share the love of Christ with those around you, there’s a temptation, to ...
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I’m Entitled #Not
It’s easy these days with the “I’m entitled” mentality that pervades our culture to read the Bible through that very same “I’m entitled” lens, to perceive the things ...
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Why Are We So Disobedient?
Have you ever wondered why it is that we can be so disobedient, so rebellious, not just toward the authorities set over us on this earth, but towards God Himself? Where does it ...
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Why Christ Offends
One of the key strategies of those who oppose Christianity is to “jam” us whenever we speak up about the things of God, to shut us down by creating an environment of deep ...
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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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Listen Without Interrupting
Have you ever been with a group of people where one person clearly stands out as the smartest one in the room? So you have to ask yourself, how did they become the smartest person ...
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Mentoring the Young Ones
Mentorship is something of a lost art in this day and age. The idea of the older, wiser men and women helping to shape and mould the younger ones seems to have been lost amidst ...