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A Marriage is What You Make It
Couples seem to be divorcing these days at an ever-increasing rate. Much is made of “compatibility” – you hear them say, We just realised we weren’t all that compatible. ...
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Boundaries in Your Marriage
Why is it that so many marriages these days seem to end in divorce, and that many of those that don’t, fall so far short of what they should or could be? Why is that? The most ...
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My Best for My Marriage
Often in our planning for the future, the one thing we leave out of our thinking, is our marriage. The most important of all human relationships. As you begin to think about the ...
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Marriage – The Most Important Thing
There are days when being a husband to a wife simply isn’t easy. And sadly, it’s on days like those, that many a husband simply gives up. Marriage is the most wonderful idea. ...
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An Honourable Marriage
How is it that a marriage, that begins with such a great sense of hope and anticipation, can end just a few year later, in conflict, even divorce? Families are falling apart, ...
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Your Kids Need Your Marriage
More and more families are being torn apart by the scourge of divorce. In many countries, the divorce rate is approaching forty percent. And of those marriages that don’t end in ...
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By the Grace of God
So many things in this life seem to demand so much hard work. Good marriages don’t just happen – they require effort. Bringing up children requires a lot of effort. Career ...
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Run the Race
There are times in each of our lives when we feel like tossing in the towel – be it in your marriage, in your job, in your faith walk. You’re not alone in this. At some point, ...
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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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Rejoice and Weep
Here’s a frightening piece of research. On average, we’ll spend almost 17 years of our lives with our faces buried in our mobile phones. That’s 145,800 hours or 33% of our ...
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Live Out a Defiant Faith
If only life were all sweetness and light. If only things would just go to plan so that we can be healthy, wealthy and wise. If only … but some days are dark days. So, how do ...
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The Freedom Paradox
Freedom is something that we all yearn for. Freedom from rules, from burdens, from responsibilities that weigh us down, from difficult relationships – you name it, we want to be ...
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Changing Values
Anyone who believes in Jesus in this day and age is under enormous pressure – pressure to conform to the world’s immorality, pressure to adopt its measures of success. Serious ...
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Satisfied in Dry Lands
We all yearn for a sense of deep satisfaction with our lot in life; a contentment that’s equally present in the good and the bad; an abiding peace that persists through every ...
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Questioning the Word of God
It’s so incredibly tempting these days to question the Word of God; to cross out the inconveniently yucky verses from your Bible so the whole thing is more agreeable, more ...
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Just In Case
Being married ain’t easy some days. There are so many things that conspire to tear a marriage apart – from the lie that divorce is a valid lifestyle choice, to sickness, ...
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Can You Be Trusted?
Could I ask you a somewhat awkward question today? Can you be trusted? And perhaps, more importantly, can your family trust you? Can they rely on you? Are you there, or are you ...
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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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Separation and Divorce (3)
So, question … does God permit divorce? Touchy subject. Many churches treat divorce as an unforgiveable sin, believing that once divorced you can’t remarry. But what does ...
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Separation and Divorce (2)
As someone who has been through the pain and the tragedy of divorce, I can tell you that the “easy come, easy go” attitude of contemporary society towards marriage these days ...
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Drifting Apart
Our families are so incredibly important in our lives. And yet so many families are struggling. So many families have, shall we call them … “issues”. And sadly, many ...
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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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Why Do People Work So Hard?
As someone who believes in hard work (and I do!), as I’ve grown older and hopefully a tad wiser I’ve come to realise that hard work has a dark and dangerous underbelly. It’s ...
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All for Jesus
No matter who you are, where you live. or what your circumstances may be, there are always going to be some things that you just don’t want to do. And the more of those you ...
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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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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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He’s Already Blessed Your Socks Off
Inevitably, as we compare this past year that’s just been with the year that we’re hoping lies ahead, there are some things that we’d hope would turn out differently this ...
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Thank God for Grace
Yep, it’s Christmas Eve … time to get serious about wrapping our hearts and our minds around the vast, incomprehensible yet intensely personal truth of God’s grace toward ...
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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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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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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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I Have Only You
So let me ask you today, what’s at the top of your prayer list? What are the top three things that you want to ask God to give you? Perhaps health, or financial security, or a ...
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That Yearning
If you believe in Jesus, then you’ve no doubt found that your relationship with Him has had its ups and downs. Sometimes you feel on fire, other times … not so much. And the ...
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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 Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, in being a so-called Christian, is turning what’s meant to be a lifelong, indeed an eternal relationship, ...
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The Power of Monogamy
In many parts of the world, marriage is becoming less and less fashionable. People just live together, break up, move on, find another partner … and that’s life. That’s just ...
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Rub Together Until You Fit
Divorce is a subject that I come back to from time to time because sadly, it’s tearing marriages, lives, and families apart on a global scale, with devastating consequences. ...
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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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Every Sinner Has a Future
It was October 15, 1995, that I walked through the doors of a church for the first time in a long, long time. And I have to tell you, it was a mightily uncomfortable feeling. I ...
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Because You Believed
When it comes to spending eternity with God, the grace and mercy of God are not enough! What Berni, have you gone completely mad? Of course, they are! Well, no, they’re not. ...
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Building Your Forever Home
People these days talk about their “forever home”. Young couples are out there with a growing family looking for their forever home to bring up their family and then retire ...
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Overcoming Disappointment
I’m sure there have been people in your life over the years who have disappointed you. And not just people … situations, circumstances. You save up for a nice holiday and it ...
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The Bitter Taste of Success
In your quiet moments when you imagine your future – as we all do – what picture do you paint in your mind? What are the things that you long for? What does your perfect ...
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Mission Impossible
Sometimes it can feel as though all this spiritual stuff, God stuff, Jesus stuff sits neatly over here in one box, but life with all its chaos and carry on is out of control out ...
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Dealing with Menopause
Anyone who has ever been married knows that on their wedding day they made an unconditional promise to their bride (or husband, as the case may be) to stick with them through ...
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Greener Pastures
We often think of marriage as an institution and yet when you get into it, you discover that it’s completely uncharted territory – so difficult can it become that many give ...
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Baptise You with the Holy Spirit
Christianity isn’t a religion – it’s not a set of rules to follow, any more than marriage is an institution bounded by strict rules. No, just like marriage, Christianity is ...
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It’s Time … I Think
Question: are you saved or not? When you stand before God one day, are you in or out? Well?
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Win Some Lose Some
What are the little compromises in your life that are robbing you of the promises of God?
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Your Words Have Power
The words we speak can either build people up, or tear them down. So, what words do you speak?
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The One Thing
What’s the one thing that you’d really like to have right in this moment?
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Parachute Jump
For many people (me included back in the day), the idea of “religion”, of God, of Jesus … well it all seems so distant, so irrelevant to the hurly-burly of life here in the ...
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Dead Faith
Many a marriage relationship becomes stale – not because either husband or wife wanted it to, but because they’ve stopped doing things for each other and with each other. And ...
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If Only I Could Ask
Here’s the crazy thing. We each have something – one thing more than any other – that’s going on in our life that we wish we could change, that we wish God would change, ...
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Husbands and Wives
Why is it that so many marriages either end in divorce or linger on as a joyless existence? Why is that – when marriage is meant to be the most incredible blessing from God, ...
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Winning the Lottery
Priorities – they’re a funny thing. We know we should prioritise our lives better – our time, our money, our focus. We should spend them on the things that really matter. ...
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My Wife Tried to Poison Me
Ever seen one of those embarrassing street preachers on a corner, up on a soap box, Bible in one hand, shouting “Repent, you sinners, repent or you’re going to hell”? And ...
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That One Thing
“I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow.” That’s uncertain hope. God’s hope is the complete opposite.
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Sorrow is a Powerful Thing
“Identity politics” is a term that’s doing the rounds these days. It’s this idea that you have no right to comment on my lifestyle because this is who I am. But if ...
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Teamwork is Good Work
It’s easy to get all hot and bothered by the inadequacies and limitations of the people around us. Why can’t they just get with the plan and be who I need them to be? In fact, ...
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Love Never Ends
I think that one of the greatest achievements in life, is to love people through to the end. Whether it be husband and wife, whether it be brother and sister, or friend and ...
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Love Hopes …
Love is the single, most powerful force in the universe. There’s no doubt about that. That’s why such amazing things happen when God’s love flows through us, out into the ...
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Love Isn’t … (2)
Without even knowing anything about you, I am 100% certain that you have at least one person in your life, who drives you completely nutty. They do that same thing that they know ...
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Who is God?
Well, today, I’d like to start off with a warning. If you’ve made for yourself a nice, safe, soft, cuddly version of who you’d like God to be, and you don’t want me to ...
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Protracted Singleness
I remember as a single man in the church being made to feel inferior, being left out of social events because I didn’t have a wife. I knew there was something wrong with that, ...
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De Facto Relationships
If you’re expecting God to get all politically correct on us here in the 21st century at a time when people want free speech (unless you disagree with them), then you’re going ...
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Separation and Divorce
Marriage isn’t always a bed of roses. We wish it was, but it’s not. As the two learn to become one there are struggles, there are conflicts. Sometimes it all seems impossible ...
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Drifting Apart
These days divorce is so common that it’s completely unremarkable. It just seems like a valid lifestyle choice. In fact, you read articles in the paper even about the freedom ...
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It’s Not an Easy Road
Family is something we just take for granted. Most of us grew up in a family and sure, we all know that families are part of God’s grand design. But this whole family thing … ...
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Is the Truth Up for Grabs?
So let me ask you – which parts of your Bible do you want to ignore? What are the things that God has to say in His Word, the Bible, that appear uncomfortable or perhaps ...
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God’s Plan for Your Life
Every now and then – not all that often, but occasionally – we get to wondering what life – our life, my life, your life – is all about. A random, chaotic sequence of ...
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The Little Narcissist Within
Have you noticed how divided our society is becoming? Just in these last few years, the temperature of conflict has definitely gone up. Everyone arguing, criticising, disagreeing. ...
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Stop Comparing
Have you ever noticed how happy and successful everybody else seems to be? You compare your life to theirs, and it’s easy to come off feeling as though you’re second best. Or ...
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Don’t Expect the World
The truth is that we all want our lives to go along swimmingly well, from beginning to end. And so, when troubles come our way, which they inevitably do, we end up being ...
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Single Mothers
Those of us who live in a more traditional family unit, husband, wife, children, maybe a pet dog, we generally don’t give a thought to how difficult life must be for the single ...
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Job Security
What are the things that you depend on in life? The things that you assume will still be here in five years’ time? Your home? Your job? Even your marriage? We behave as though ...
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It’s All About Love
It bothers me a lot, when I see churches tearing themselves apart over stupid controversies, when I see Christian marriages falling apart over this or that. You have to ask ...
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Abide with Me
In this transactional, disposable world, in a world where almost half or all marriages end up on the trash heap, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand something ...
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Finding a Way Through
You’ve no doubt often heard it said that God is the God of the impossible. Well that’s easy to say, but when you run into the impossible, believing it is a whole other thing, ...
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Forgiving
Conflict happens doesn’t it? It’s unavoidable. In a marriage, with children, at work, in communities. Wherever there are people in close proximity, conflict happens. But ...
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Dream Date
Some things that Christians believe seem so patently out of touch with the realities of today. Take the whole issue of living together before marriage. Is it perhaps time to make ...
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Burning Enthusiasm
On a scale of zero to ten, how passionate are you about your faith in Jesus? Is there a fire burning in your heart for Him, a flame that can’t be put out, or has it grown dim? I ...
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When Your Patience Wears Thin
Patience is one of those fine character traits that we’d all like to have, but that we never want to use. Because if you have to be patient with someone, then it’s likely ...
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Guys and Girls
These days loose living, hopping into bed with anyone you please, even cheating on a spouse, have become valid lifestyle choices. And sadly, those choices are tearing lives apart. ...
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The Bike Rider
When adversity strikes, as it does from time to time in everybody’s life, our immediate response is to pull back, to withdraw, and at that point many a person will simply … ...
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Is God Stingy?
Have there been times in your life, when you’ve really longed for something, and yet God hasn’t shown up? So let me ask you, is God stingy, or generous? Have you ever felt ...
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A Price to Pay
Why is following Jesus so difficult some days? How is it that the free gift of eternal life can turn into such a hard slog? Anything in life that’s worth having, is going to ...
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Thinking About Divorce?
Marriages seem to be falling apart at an ever-increasing rate of knots. So you have to ask yourself, how does a relationship that began with such a great sense of hope and ...
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The Power of Beauty
Wives often get quite a raw deal out of marriage. Especially, let me say, when they’re married to a man who simply doesn’t honour God. Many a woman is stuck with an ungodly ...
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What He Needs
The Bible has some incredibly politically incorrect things to say about the roles of men and women. So, the easiest thing to do, is simply to reject God’s Word. And that, in ...
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My Soul Thirsts for You
Can I ask you today, in your heart of hearts, do you long for God? Or has that flame gone out. Have you perhaps, stopped thirsting for God? It’s funny how when a couple is ...
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Made to Win
I used to think that I was made to win, to succeed. After all, that’s the message these days. If you buy this watch – you’re a winner. Buy this car or these shoes or this ...
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An Unexpected Sort of Freedom
Some people think that becoming a Christian means losing your freedom. What do you think? On the one hand there are, without doubt, things that God tells you not to do. Don’t ...
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The Enemy’s Out There
So life seems to be chugging along fine, and then one day, you wake up … and things aren’t quite right. Or, worse still, things have completely fallen in a heap. Sometimes ...
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Your Family Needs Your Time
In many places, in many cultures, there’s a commodity that is fast becoming more precious than money. That commodity is time. We’re more connected than ever. We have more ...
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Your Family Matters
You know what they say: you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your relatives. Ain’t that just the truth?! Maybe that’s one of the reasons that families around ...
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Being a Peacemaker
Many of us, most of us, live in peaceful countries. At least, it’s easy to think that, when you are, in fact blessed, to be able to live in a peaceful place. But right now, ...
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Why Faith Works?
Christians will tell you that it’s not about working harder to get into God’s favour. In fact, they’ll tell you that it doesn’t matter how hard you work at being a good ...