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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 3 Minute Video Devotional taking you deeper into God's Word + closer to Jesus. Watch, listen or read. It's your choice. Even subscribe to receive it daily to your inbox!
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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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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 ...
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What God Won’t Bless
There are times when God feels a million miles away. And that’s rather an unsettling feeling. Even if you don’t love God, if you’re not there yet… still, you know ...
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Why Bother with Holiness?
Being good, doing good, can be hard going. When everyone else is behaving badly – and how often does that happen?! – going against the flow is tough. Is it really worth it? ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” contains some very strange, very difficult-to-believe stories: Jesus turning water into wine; walking on water. ...
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When Brokenness becomes Blessing
Do you mind if I ask you today, have you ever felt broken? Have you ever had this sense that something’s not right; that you just don’t have what it takes to deal with all the ...
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How to Get Over Yourself and Live (Pt 2)
In our natural human state of existence we presume that we are the centre of the universe. Our needs, our comfort, our wants and desires and opinions and …. We have a name ...
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When the Time Comes
We all have hopes and dreams. One day this … one day that … And that’s a good thing, a very good thing. God works mightily through those dreams. But one day it comes time to ...
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Serve God with a Pure Heart
Have you ever had someone do something for you with a bad attitude? It kind of robs you of the joy of what they did, because they didn’t do it with a willing heart. The truth ...
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Your Strength Comes from God
There are times in life when no matter how hard we try, how much energy and dedication we throw at something, things just don’t seem to come together. There’s no clear way ...
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Don’t be Trapped
The thought of being trapped, in whatever form that may take, is a pretty frightening one. Imagine being trapped in the cabin of a sinking ship. Imagine being trapped underground ...
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In Case There’s Any Doubt
I wonder if you’ll join me today for a stroll down memory lane – through those unexpected twists and turns, the long dry flat spots and the pleasant strolls through the woods, ...
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The Foolishness of the Cross
Can I ask you today, how smart are you? As you look back on your life, how well have you followed along the path of wisdom? Perhaps you’ve done pretty well. Almost certainly ...
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Stop Arguing
It doesn’t seem to matter all that much what group of people you get together, why they’re even a group in the first place, disagreements arise. Arguments ensue and ...
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How to Get Over Yourself and Live (Pt 1)
In our natural human state of existence we presume that we are the centre of the universe. Our needs, our comfort, our wants and desires and opinions and …. We have a name ...
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God is Faithful
Whilst the education system may have changed somewhat these days, the concept of pass or fail still exists. You either make the grade, or you don’t. You either graduate with ...
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God Will Keep You Strong
Perseverance is a word that we don’t much like, you and I, because it speaks of suffering through trials in order to make it through to the end. Who needs that? Not you, not me, ...
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You’ve Been Given So Much
Some people absolutely love receiving gifts – they’re wired that way. It’s their love language, if you will – the way they receive love and affection. Others, not so much. ...
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You Have Been Blessed
Let’s be honest. There are days when things just don’t seem to be going our way … at all. Other people are doing just fine. Other people seem to be blessed in their lives, ...
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Grace and Peace to You
When you run into someone whom you haven’t seen in a while, how do you greet them? Or when you send them a letter (perhaps these days, more likely an email or message) how do ...
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You’ve Been Chosen
I wonder what it must be like for a sports man or woman to be chosen to represent their country in an international competition. The honour, the privilege. Amazing! Perhaps ...
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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the attractive people, the successful people, those who happen to be the flavour of the month … while the rest of us ...
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Wisdom to Transform Your Life (2)
There’s probably not a single person on this planet who doesn’t want to be wise. But there are a couple of problems with this whole wisdom thing. Firstly, it’s not always ...
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True Freedom
Would you be free of the burden of sin? I think we’d all desperately like to be. And the good news is that that’s the very reason that Jesus came to this earth. To set you ...
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Out with the Old, In with the New
I’m pretty sure we’d all agree that laws are, by and large, good. Not all of them of course, but most of them. Yet how useless is a law on the statute books that simply cannot ...