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Christianityworks
In Depth Weekly Message: 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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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going along fine and then, bang. The pain shoots up your arm and into your brain and ouch! It hurts. The whole of the ...
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We All Have This Common Need
We all, from time to time, find ourselves in need of the good will of others; of their merciful kindness to get us through things we just can’t get through on our own. We simply ...
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Changed by Grace
Every parent at some point is terrified that their child might end up with the wrong crowd; that those people will lead their beloved son or daughter astray. And well they should ...
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Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Most of us want a changed life. Why? Well, none of us is perfect. We know we have foibles and failures. We’d love to get on top of them and so we want a changed life. You ...
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Have You Been Cruising Through Life?
Cruising has become the vacation of choice for many. In fact, over 30 million people around the world went cruising last year, a number that’s set to rise to 40 million within ...
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Standing Out from the Crowd
We live in a world that’s increasingly focussed on “celebrity status” People can’t get enough of the sordid details of the lives of these so-called celebrities. And ...
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That Time is Coming
Imagine with me, if you will, a world without the sun and, of course then, without the moon too – a constant state of darkness, one that’ll never end. Under those ...
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Transformed by God’s Glory
I wonder, as you look back on your life, what are the things – the people, the relationships, the circumstances, the trials perhaps, the blessings – that’ve shaped you, ...
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God’s Glory Come Nigh
There’s something about a sunny day that just lifts your spirits. Have you ever wondered why that is? Why do we naturally prefer sunshine to rain, or a warm breeze to a cold ...
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Take Stock of Your Motives
So, the last time you said or did something that on reflection just wasn’t the right thing to say or do, did you stop to ask yourself why? Mostly, we don’t. We just plough ...
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Be Careful!
Self-promotion is an ugly thing. People saying or doing things publicly, overtly, just so that others will think well of them … it just ain’t pretty. Why do they do that? I ...
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The Fear of Disapproval
Swimming against the tide, adopting a stance, say, that your friends, family, even society disagree with, is a very difficult thing to do. That’s why most people don’t do it. ...
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How Can You Believe When …
Have you ever felt a disconnect between what you truly long for, how you’d like to be living your life and the way you’re actually living your life day by day, and where ...
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Run the Race to the End
God’s given each one of us a race to run. It’s called life. The life that He has planed for us. But all too often, we want to pull over and give up. When His plan all ...
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Follow the Leading of the Holy Spirit
Allowing someone else to lead us, in this day and age, is for many an abhorrent idea. Come on man, I want to do my own thing. I don’t want to conform. How about you? As an ...
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Build Yourself Up
As any athlete will tell you, if you want to grow stronger you have to exercise. The problem is that so many of us, me included, I have to say, simply don’t enjoy exercise. At ...
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A Miraculous Metamorphosis
I’m pretty sure that you, like most of us, have things in your makeup that you’d like to change. You’d like to be a better person in this area, or in that situation. But ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How am I living my life? Okay, life’s complicated … messy sometimes. But in the middle of all that, how are ...
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How to Travel Light
There’s a reason why successful athletes tend not to carry a lot of extra weight. If they did, they wouldn’t be competitive – they’d never have become successful athletes ...
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What’s in a Name?
Do you, like me, sometimes struggle to remember a person’s name two minutes after you’ve met them? It’s hard, right? And yet, their name is incredibly important to them. So, ...
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One Size Does Not Fit All
I think we’ve all had the exceedingly frustrating experience of dealing with a call centre – bank, utility, insurance company, whatever – where the operator simply can’t ...
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Essential Life Skills (2)
Many people are missing the essential skills they need, to live the life they want to live. All too often, life skills are left to chance. We’re meant to absorb them by ...
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The Message from the Beginning
Love is such a simple word. And when you think about being loved – by your loved ones, by God – that’s such a beautiful thing. Nothing beats that. So why is it then that we ...
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The Ultimate Goal of God’s Love
I’d like you, if you would, please, to picture the face of the most difficult person in your life. Hold it there. Now think of the last few interactions you’ve had with them. ...
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You Can Still Win the Race
You and I will possibly never be the fastest, smartest, or most successful person in the room. But there is something that’ll get us to the front of the pack. Would you like to ...
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Your Change of Heart
Have you ever tried to kick a bad habit? It’s not easy. Whether it’s smoking, eating the wrong foods, being a nasty piece of work, gossiping – whatever it happens to be – ...
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Forgiveness is a Lovely Idea, Until …
Can I be honest with you? I used to be … well, not a very nice person. In my younger years I was so focused on winning, on succeeding, that I’d walk over the top of anyone and ...
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Simply Being There
Anyone who’s ever brought up children knows how important it is to celebrate their achievements with them, and to be there for them when they’re hurting. We know that ...
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Open to Learn
So you’re cooking this great meal, but then you discover that you’re missing a key ingredient. Quick, down to the local grocery store. But when you arrive there’s a ...
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Essential Life Skills (1)
Many people are missing the essential skills they need, to live the life they want to live. All too often, life skills are left to chance. We’re meant to absorb them by ...
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Essential Life Skills
Good life skills are essential to living a good, effective a fulfilling life. And yet in most cultures, the learning of those life skills is left to chance – particularly in ...
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Taking Advice from a Prisoner
If someone wrote you a letter from prison with some advice for how you should live, would you accept that advice? I guess that depends, but you’d be sceptical, right? Most ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone you love, that you can’t imagine ever coming back from that? You can’t imagine that this relationship ...
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Will You Compromise?
Sometimes we’re faced with an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, you know what’s right and deep down you want to do the right thing. But the short-term rewards of doing the ...
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Where do You Stand?
Have you ever noticed how, when life’s toddling along well, you seem to have plenty of people around you. But when all of a sudden things take a turn for the worse, how so many ...
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What the Lord Has Prepared for You
When you’re trying to live your life well … with goodness, with integrity … and yet everyone around you is behaving badly, you begin to wonder, “Is it worth it?” Well, ...
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Wisdom that’s Hard to Accept
The world’s powerbrokers – national leaders, billionaires, celebrities, social media ‘influencers’ – all have a couple of things in common. For the moment, they carry a ...
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Wisdom Before the World Began
The self-help sections of newspapers, or newsfeeds if you’ve gone digital, are bulging these days with worldly wisdom that ranges from the seductive through to the bizarre ...
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How to Live an Extraordinary Life (Pt 4)
Let’s face it, we only get one crack at living our lives on this earth. Before you know it, it’s over. So why waste it? I mean … we can live an ordinary life. A safe life. A ...
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The Rulers Losing Their Power
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ruling over nations, dictating how people should live and what they should believe. It’s not nice. But that ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have their act completely together – the perfect job, plenty of money and a family that you can only dream of? I was ...
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I Love You Lord!
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. With the ground shaking beneath your feet, you’re just waiting for the building to collapse around you and ...
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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases are being added to your dictionary much more frequently than you might expect. But that’s by no means a new ...
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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something for you (as though that weren’t enough) but does it with a good intention, with a pure heart. Isn’t that ...
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When a Billionaire Dies
The world seems, by and large, to be fixated on wealth, wouldn’t you agree? Money, money, money. How can I make more of it? How can I have even just a bit more to afford some of ...
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Is God Even Listening?
Have you been asked for advice and, as you were sharing your thoughts, wondered why this person came to you in the first place? They don’t seem to want to know. They’re not ...
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How to Live an Extraordinary Life (Pt 3)
Let’s face it, we only get one crack at living our lives on this earth. Before you know it, it’s over. So why waste it? I mean … we can live an ordinary life. A safe life. A ...
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Eyes to See
It’s really quite striking, when you stop and think about it, how much the negativity and challenges of the past, coupled with the pressures that we face today, tend to distort ...
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Humbling Yourself
We’ve been chatting this week about achieving greatness – true greatness; not the sort of sham that our celebrity culture holds out, but the sort that impacts the lives of ...
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Salt That Loses its Flavour
Salt is something that most of us use daily to add flavour to otherwise boring food, or to enhance even further the flavour of the most delicious of foods. And yet, important ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without even being aware of it. It happens in sport – okay, fine. It happens in politics – something I guess ...
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Shifting Our Priorities
Serving others is something that, on the one hand, we know we need to do. But on the other, we often find it inconvenient, undesirable … even downright demeaning. When you think ...
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A Radical Rethink
A lot of the bickering that goes on in this world is about who’s the greatest; who’s first; who’s going to be seen to be the most impressive, the leader of the pack. It ...
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Shameful Behaviour
The desire to be thought well of is a secret that many harbour in their hearts. Oft times it spills over into our words, our behaviour … and at that point … well, let’s just ...
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How to Live an Extraordinary Life (Pt 2)
Let’s face it, we only get one crack at living our lives on this earth. Before you know it, it’s over. So why waste it? I mean … we can live an ordinary life. A safe life. A ...
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In High Demand
It’s all too easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we’re rather more important in this world than we actually are; that our services are in high demand; that “busy, ...
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The Power of His Word
Evil is something that we see all around us, if only we’ll look. Often though, we don’t look because it’s just all too much. So we just get on with life. But there’s one ...
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Be Amazed
I don’t know how many church services you’ve sat through in your life but I’ve lost count. It all began for me as a young child. Sitting still for an hour was excruciating. ...
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Jesus Goes to Work
Setting out on a new venture is always dicey. You take that first step somewhat tentatively. You want it to be a good start. You don’t want to upset people on day one. Back in ...
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A Time of Temptation
Whenever things press in on us – be they physical, emotional or spiritual – have you noticed this; temptation seems to come at you at a far greater rate of knots? It’s ...
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Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Have you ever wondered what baptism is all about? It’s an odd little ritual that’s been practised for millennia – first in Judaism and then in Christianity. Even Jesus was ...
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Preparing the Way of the Lord
In my experience – perhaps in yours, too – God does some rather … well, odd things; things that we don’t expect; things that leave us wondering … why? Take for instance ...
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How to Live an Extraordinary Life (Pt 1)
Let’s face it, we only get one crack at living our lives on this earth. Before you know it, it’s over. So why waste it? I mean … we can live an ordinary life. A safe life. A ...
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How to Live an Extraordinary Life
Let’s face it, we only get one crack at living our lives on this earth. Before you know it, it’s over. So why waste it? I mean … we can live an ordinary life. A safe life. A ...
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Eternity 101
So what keeps you going through the incessant daily grind of life; through the tough patches that come your way on such a regular basis? What are you looking forward to? What’s ...
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Sacrifice 101
There’s a tectonic shift going on in people’s mindsets – one that’s been evident for quite some time. It’s the global shift from a collective, mutually responsible world ...
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Holiness 101
Can I ask you today just to stop and think … what’s the highest priority in your life? Because your priorities end up dictating the course of your life. If we don’t think ...
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Sanctification 101
Cleaning up your act, whatever act you’re needing to clean up in your life, is tough. Those old habits die hard. They just seem to want to cling to you and drag you down. Or is ...
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Empowerment 101
Many a time we know all too well that we’re falling short – that we need to do better here or there in our lives – but it’s so hard to have all your bases covered at once. ...
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Repentance 101
Question: If God forgives us our sin through Jesus’ sacrifice on that blood-drenched Cross, do we then need to change the way we live, turn away from our sin that alienated us ...
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Salvation 101
Every now and then, it pays to go back to basics – both to ensure that we’re getting them right, and to remind ourselves of what’s truly important. And the single most ...
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Living Life as an Ambassador of Christ (Pt 2)
Many, many people believe in Jesus Christ – and yet somehow there’s a gap between what they believe and how they live. It seems that other people are out there doing things ...
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You Were Created For Victory
The idea of living a victorious life is a seductive one, but also one that’s easy to misconstrue in an age where success has become the holy grail of human existence. It’s all ...
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The Essence of Empathy
Empathy is one of the most poignant and powerful expressions of love known to humanity. Being there for someone, aching with them, or indeed celebrating with them, just speaks ...
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The Sacrifice Acceptable to God
When you see a man walking down the street with a bunch of flowers, do you ever wonder why he bought them? Out of a spontaneous act of love, for a special occasion … or as an ...
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Have You Ever Wondered, Why …
Have you ever wondered why sometimes the joy you once had, the joy you believe God wants you to have, seems to have evaporated? Poof, gone! It’s almost as though God’s ...
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A Cleansing from Within
When you stop and think about it, we know instinctively that our actions flow directly out of what’s going on in our heart. The problem is, all too often, we don’t stop and ...
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Be Open to God
When we head down the wrong path, when we know that what we’ve done is wrong, we instinctively want to run and hide from God. Crazy, right? Yet that’s exactly what we try to ...
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When Will Evil End?
With all that’s going on around the world, many of us are asking ourselves – when is all this evil going to end? And that’s not, by any stretch, an unreasonable question. ...
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Living Life as an Ambassador of Christ (Pt 1)
Many, many people believe in Jesus Christ – and yet somehow there’s a gap between what they believe and how they live. It seems that other people are out there doing things ...
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The Power of Words
If only we realised the power of our words. I heard someone say once that words are containers of power. The things we say to others can either bring life or death, truly. I was ...
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You Can Rely on God’s Integrity
What do you do when you find yourself in a tough spot feeling completely alone? Come on! What do you do? Do you just suffer your way through it alone? Or do you reach out to God? ...
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When Problems Become Miracles
Life is mostly just about doing the same things day after day. As a wise mentor of mine likes to say, some days you just have to plod for God. But every now and then, you hit a ...
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The Dividends of Discipline
I have yet to meet someone who enjoys being disciplined; who loves it when someone else pulls them up for how they’re behaving. How about you? A good many people – and I ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? With a gentleness perhaps, kindness, humility, warmth … wisdom. Or don’t they get that vibe from you? ...
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Dying To Christ Daily
If we’re going to be completely honest with ourselves, a good many of the things we desire in this world are selfish, misguided … just plain wrong. And come on, that ...
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Radical Surgery is Required
Most of us have a pretty good sense of the difference between right and wrong. And so we set about trying to do more right than wrong. Just a little bit more right. Just a little ...
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When God Speaks (2)
So many people are asking the questions “How can I hear God speak to me?” and yet they leave their Bibles on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. There is such incredible power ...
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The Recipe for Peace (5)
Peace is about more than dealing with the stuff that happens to you – the people, the circumstances, the challenges … all those externalities. It also involves being ...
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The Recipe for Peace (4)
Okay, so how do you actually experience the stillness, the calmness, the peace of God – which He absolutely wants you to do – when the hurly-burly of life constantly crashes ...
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The Recipe for Peace (3)
Day-to-day, let me ask you, what drives your thinking? What causes you to do what you do; to be who you are? Most people, if they’re honest, would have to say … their ...
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The Recipe for Peace (2)
Here’s a blunt, inconvenient truth: your attitude towards the difficult people in your life can either maintain your sense of God’s peace or rob you of it. No, your peace ...
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The Recipe for Peace (1)
So many things in life can rob you of your peace. But right up there at the top of the list are our relationships. Those difficult people. The conflict. A sharp word, or even a ...
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In the Eye of the Storm
The stuff that life throws at us sometimes can be downright terrifying. Other times, it just seems to grind us down. Either way, what we really need is peace. Where, pray tell, do ...
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How to Recognise a Lie
Deception is all around us these days. Whilst editors and journalists have been putting their own spin on the so-called news for years, these days, because fake news is rampant, ...
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When God Speaks (1)
So many people are asking the questions “How can I hear God speak to me?” and yet they leave their Bibles on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. There is such incredible power ...
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When God Speaks
So many people are asking the questions “How can I hear God speak to me?” and yet they leave their Bibles on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. There is such incredible power ...
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How Much do You Complain?
There’s nothing worse than a whinger, is there? Someone who’s constantly complaining about everything as though the world owes them. Nothing’s ever good enough. No one’s ...
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Unrealistic Expectations
So, what are you hoping for in your immediate future? Doubtless some good things, yeah? And perhaps a blessed release from the pressures and problems of today. But things don’t ...
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Go Fast or Go Far
Teamwork is lauded everywhere you look – in successful companies, winning sporting teams, churches, families. It’s a great concept, but man, those other people can be such a ...