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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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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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Blooming Where You're Planted
When you’re confronted with a problem, the easiest thing to do is simply to run away. Don’t like this person? Ditch them. Don’t like my boss? Change jobs. Don’t like my …
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A Kick in the Guts
This world can be a pretty cold and brutal place sometimes. It’s great if you are surrounded by people who care for you, but sometimes circumstances turn against you. Sometimes …
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Banishing Misery
Let me ask you, have you ever sought after God with all your heart? Are you hungry, are you thirsty for Him? Do you want Him more than anything else on this earth? Because …
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Discovering the Power of God (Part 1)
Power – people steal for it, fight wars for it and die for it. Power is a seductive commodity in this world. And yet … so many people are powerless. God talks a lot about …
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Discovering the Power of God
Power – people steal for it, fight wars for it and die for it. Power is a seductive commodity in this world. And yet … so many people are powerless. God talks a lot about …
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The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Have you ever felt that something’s missing out of your life? It’s as though you’re going through all the motions, but one part of the puzzle, in fact a big part of the …
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What's Gone Wrong?
In this world that’s moving ever faster, becoming ever more transactional, becoming more digital than it is real, it seems that more and more, the norm for us is to opt for …
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One Cheering Gleam
Let me be blunt. Large swathes of the church are just going through the motions, playing out rituals, singing songs, listening to sermons … all good things, and yet there’s no …
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Hide and Seek
Have you ever felt as though God is playing a game of hide and seek with you? Sure He’s out there … somewhere … but where? Lord what are you up to? What do you have …
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Ask, Search, Knock
The vast majority of parents are naturally hardwired to want to bless their children. We can’t help it. Of course their disobedience interrupts the flow of blessing, because we …
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Was Jesus Just Kidding?
For the first half a dozen years or so of my Christian walk, I had a rather low view of prayer. I was always way too busy to stop and pray; racing off doing this and doing that. …
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Hope Restored (2)
All too often we get so bogged down in our day to day reality, that we struggle to find any hope in our hearts for the future. And hope is absolutely critical in our day-to-day …
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Prayer that Yields Powerful Results
Now I’m no genius, but every now and then, the obvious hits me between the eyes. I wrote a book a while back called, “Unlocking the Power of Prayer”. And as I was doing the …
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Praying and Preaching
Do you know what’s fascinating? Jesus had His disciples with Him for about three and a half years during His public ministry. And those guys learned a lot during that time. Why …
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On Solid Ground
Life can be hard work. And that’s not a bad thing. We’re made to use our gifts and abilities for the benefit of others and to earn a living. But sometimes life is such hard …
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Eternal Life
The day starts like any other day. You get up, shower, breakfast, brush your teeth … and you’re up and running. Perhaps with more things on your to-do list than you can …
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Damaged Goods
The thing that so often hits me about Jesus hanging there on the Cross, is what happened to His body. We sing songs about the old rugged cross, but … His blood actually soaked …
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I Can Only Imagine
Question: when this life is done and dusted, what are you hoping for? There’s a great song by Mercy Me called, “I Can Only Imagine”. It goes something like this: I can …
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No More Tears
According to the German Society of Ophthalmology, women cry on average between thirty and sixty-four times a year. For men, and this won’t surprise you, it’s a lot less at …
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
No doubt you’ve heard that Proverb: “pride comes before the fall”. How often have you seen the guy who’s absolutely full of himself, living the high life, walking over …
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Hope Against Hope
Without hope, life just isn’t worth living. So many people, even those who say that they believe in Jesus, are living lives of quiet and sometimes desperate hopelessness. And …
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Hope Restored (1)
All too often we get so bogged down in our day to day reality, that we struggle to find any hope in our hearts for the future. And hope is absolutely critical in our day-to-day …
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
No doubt you’ve heard that Proverb: “pride comes before the fall”. How often have you seen the guy who’s absolutely full of himself, living the high life, walking over …
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Judging a Book By Its Cover
At my church we often have homeless people attend our service. Now the statistics are these: over ninety percent of the people who live rough on the streets in our area, either …
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Judging a Book By its Cover
At my church we often have homeless people attend our service. Now the statistics are these: over ninety percent of the people who live rough on the streets in our area, either …
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Are You Pure and Holy?
I was at church the other Sunday and the pastor, during His sermon, asked this question of the congregation: “Are you pure and holy?” I put up my hand and said “Yes, …
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Are You Pure and Holy?
I was at church the other Sunday and the pastor, during His sermon, asked this question of the congregation: “Are you pure and holy?” I put up my hand and said “Yes, …
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Where Will You Spend Eternity?
When you stand before the throne of judgement on that day that will surely come, will you be pardoned, or condemned? Will you spend the rest of eternity in God’s Presence, or …
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The First Among Many
When you hear or read a strange turn of phrase, something odd that you don’t come across all that often, it has a way of grabbing your attention. A couple of times in the New …
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The First Among Many
When you hear or read a strange turn of phrase, something odd that you don’t come across all that often, it has a way of grabbing your attention. A couple of times in the New …
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Forgive Yourself
There’s something crazy going on in this world. Here it is. A couple of billion people believe in Jesus, give or take a hundred million. That’s rather a lot. Yet the vast …
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Forgiving Yourself
There’s something crazy going on in this world. Here it is. A couple of billion people believe in Jesus, give or take a hundred million. That’s rather a lot. Yet the vast …
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Having Faith in Forgiveness
Easter. Yes, chocolate. Yes, a long weekend. Yes, church … perhaps. And yet Easter speaks into one of the most profound needs that each one of us has … to be forgiven. Now, …
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The Passover Blessing (Part 2)
Easter rolls around about this time every year. And the strange thing is that despite all the struggles we’re are facing, despite the emptiness and the yearning for something …
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The Punishment We Deserve
Here’s a sobering thought. If our parents had punished us each and every time we deserved it growing up, I’m not sure that we would have made it into adulthood. And if the law …
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Jesus "Gets" Suffering
Suffering is one part of life that frankly, we could live without. Or at least … we think we can. But it’s an immutable law of life that everyone – and it doesn’t matter …
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Someone is Praying For You
Every now and then, someone will tell me that they’ve been praying for me. And each time, it kind of blows me away … that this person would actually be praying for …
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Keeping Your Power Under Control
Do you know how sometimes, when someone says something profound, it’s the sort of thing that sticks with you for a lifetime? Years ago, I heard a message on meekness – it was …
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Glad Submission
My dictionary tells me that the definition of the word “submission” is to yield to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person. Yich! Who needs that in …
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The Marque of Maturity
Submitting to authority is only really ever a problem, when you disagree with what you’re being told to do. Think about it, most of the laws of the land, we have no problem in …
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Hope Restored
All too often we get so bogged down in our day to day reality, that we struggle to find any hope in our hearts for the future. And hope is absolutely critical in our day-to-day …
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The Passover Blessing (Part 1)
Easter rolls around about this time every year. And the strange thing is that despite all the struggles we’re are facing, despite the emptiness and the yearning for something …
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Honour Everyone
Something special happens in your heart, when someone respects you and honours you. It speaks to your innate sense of human dignity, as someone who’s been made in the very image …
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Respect. Simple Respect
None of us likes to be treated like a doormat. None of us likes to be taken for granted. We all want to be respected. I’ve trawled through various dictionaries trying to find …
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How to Make Better Decisions
When you’re stressed out or angry or irritable or in pain, here’s what happens: you end up making bad choices. You end up, in the heat of the moment, making bad decisions. …
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Evil: Just Refuse Delivery
Sometimes, we get to imagining that evil is inevitable. That when temptation comes knocking at your door, well, it’s so tempting, you just have to let it in. How many times has …
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When God Speaks to You
Every now and then God speaks to us in ways that we don’t expect. In fact He speaks quite a lot, if only we’ll be still and listen. The question is, when He does speak, what …
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The Joy of the Lord
When things aren’t quite going your way, whether it’s an accumulation of little things that’s weighing you down, or perhaps one of those really big things in life, our …
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The Sweetness of Revenge
Revenge, they say, is sweet. When someone wrongs you; when someone hurts you and you choose to take revenge, in the instant when you see them get their just desserts, something …
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Dark Night Bright Light (Part 2)
We all travel through difficult times – dark times in life. Hurts and losses and times when we’re afraid. And the most important thing that we need to know in the middle of …
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Dona Nobis Pacem
Right now, today, according to Wikipedia, there are fifty-eight wars, or, as the definition goes, “armed conflicts”, being fought on the earth. It’s a staggering number, but …
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Just Say the Word
God does some crazy things sometimes. At least that’s how it seems to us. Take Paul the Apostle. I don’t know how much you know about this guy, but he was a mongrel of a man. …
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Stop Being a Wimp
Have you ever felt reticent to go to God with your problems? Perhaps you just made a hash of things and you’re looking at the mess you created and thinking, I can’t go to God …
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A Down Payment from God
Have you ever been jolted with the shocking thought that God may not exist at all? That it’s all just a fabrication? That when you die, there may not be a heaven? Anyone who …
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There's No Need to Shout
The other night, I was speaking at a business event, and afterwards a man approached me to tell me that he was going through a really tough time He said, “Berni I hear what …
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When Nothing Seems To Make a Difference
Fear, I mean real fear, is a terrible thing. It rocks you to the core. It robs you of peace and joy. In fact, real fear can be completely debilitating. Under that sort of pressure …
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Don't Panic
In the middle of a crisis, when you hear some guy yell out “Don’t Panic” … there’s one thing for certain. The guy’s panicking! Look, every now and then, you and I …
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The 800 Pound Gorilla
Fear isn’t something we like talking all that much about. It sends a shiver down your spine. And yet it’s something that we all go through. It’s a universal reality of the …
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Dark Night Bright Light (Part 1)
We all travel through difficult times – dark times in life. Hurts and losses and times when we’re afraid. And the most important thing that we need to know in the middle of …
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Nothing is Bigger Than God
What’s the biggest problem in your life right at this moment? That one thing that’s the root cause of fear and pain. It doesn’t take long to recall does it? We all have …
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A Scary Place
I don’t know about you, but as I look around, it seems to me that the world can be a scary place. Take spiders and snakes for instance. Here in Australia where I live, we’re …
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Get it Right Would You Please?
How often have you set out to do something, something that in your eyes, was a really good and noble and helpful thing to do, only to fall flat on your face? And as you get up and …
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It's Not the Bad Preaching
I know people who rock up to church on a Sunday morning and they sing the songs, they listen to the sermons, they have a coffee and a chat with some friends after the service and …
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Swimming Against the Tide
One of my absolute favourite sayings used to be: It’s so hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Not bad is it? Although, given what I do, these days, I …
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Swimming Against the Tide
One of my absolute favourite sayings used to be: It’s so hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Not bad is it? Although, given what I do, these days, I …
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The Big Picture
There are times when we get distracted, when we take our eyes off the important things in life. It’s only natural, sometimes you have so much going on, you feel so much under …
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They're All Stark Raving Mad
So you’re out there. You’re doing good. You’re even doing good things for God. And yet it’s like everyone wants to come after you with a pick axe. The whole world seems, …
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It’s Time to Take the Promised Land (Pt 2)
We all would like to lay a hold of God’s promises in our lives – peace, joy, prosperity. He promises all of those things. But sometimes, we see them through our own eyes. And …
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Your Destiny
There’s nothing worse than getting lost in the traffic of an unfamiliar city. Back before the days of in-car navigation systems, I had to find my way from the centre of London …
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Indian Arm Wrestle
Have you ever had one of those Indian arm wrestles, where you take on the other guy and try to win? Come on, even the girls have tried it when they were young! It was about trying …
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When Satan Blocks Your Way
Have you ever been in a place where you have this sense that God wants you to go in this direction and you try and do that, you try to follow Him in the direction you believe …
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Life is a Team Sport
In a world where, these days, we worship celebrities, it’s almost implicit that we should be able to go it alone. That success is about being talented, driven and …
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Grace and Peace
When you write a letter, how do you normally start it off? Yeah, I know a whole bunch of people, me included, don’t write that many letters anymore. We’re more into electronic …
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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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Still Work in Progress
Let’s call a spade a spade. I used to be a real piece of work. A toxic cocktail of arrogance, criticism, anger and a whole bunch of other things. Yeah! I had a lot of … …
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It's Time to Take the Promised Land
So many things make so many promises – “buy me and you’ll be happy”. You know the sort of thing! And they never deliver – it seems sometimes we’re on a treadmill of …
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It’s Time to Take the Promised Land (Pt 1)
So many Christians believe in the promises of God – they just struggle to live in those promises. That’s because sometimes we expect the promises to be delivered to our front …
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A Fresh Start
I’ve been to so many churches and listened to so many sermons that to be perfectly honest, felt like dry, boring, theology lectures. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Now please …
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Are You Being Squeezed?
Do you feel sometimes, that you’re spending way too much time and energy trying to please other people? Trying be who they want you to be, doing what they want you to do … and …
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Is it Time for a Makeover?
At some point, you take a look in the mirror and let’s face it, you don’t like what we see. Wrinkles here, sagging skin there, greying hair, perhaps that sparkle’s just gone …
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Learning to Say NO!
Have you ever regretted saying “yes” to someone? They asked you to help with something and at the time, you weren’t all too keen, but … well, you know how it goes … …
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What's Bigger than God?
A simple yet powerful law of physics, is that the closer you are to something, the bigger it seems. That’s why the small child standing right next to you, looks so much bigger …
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Water into Wine
“You can always tell when you’re in a developing country. It’s where the children obey their parents.” When I heard that a few years back, the sad truth of it struck me …
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Why No Miracles?
Every now and then, a missionary from some far-flung, exotic part of the world comes to speak at your church, and they regale you with stories of miracles and signs and wonders. …
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Five Ways to Overcome Fear
Fear and worry are things that we all go through. For some, they are constant bedfellows. Well this week on the program – Berni is doing some real “rubber hits the road” …
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The Healing Charlatans
Have you ever seen those so-called “tele-evangelists” who supposedly have the gift of healing? They prance around the stage and shout lots of “Hallelujah’s!!” and seem …
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I'm in Serious Trouble!
Okay, so here’s the problem I had for the first thirty-six years of my life. I pretty much knew that there is a God out there, somewhere. I’d been brought up in the church, …
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Game Changer
One of the things that the advertising industry encourages us to do, is to compare ourselves to other people. Here’s how it works. They flash up images of beauty and success …
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Running Away Isn't Such a Good Option
Have you ever tried to run away from God? I mean – you’ve experienced His amazing grace and His mercy, but then one day you decide to go with the Frank Sinatra approach of …
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The Perfect Gift for You
Fact: God knows you better than you know yourself. He knows me better than I know myself. He knows that you and I, and everybody else for that matter, are incredibly different. …
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Where the Supernatural Meets the Natural
Life is so … mundane sometimes, so routine, so normal, that it’s all too easy to forget that as well as the everyday physical dimension that we live in, there’s also a …
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Do Not Be Afraid
Fear is a subject that we don’t much like to talk about and yet, it’s important because fear is something that we all travel through. And it turns out that the way we handle …
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The News is Good
Have you ever noticed how darkness can close in on your life? It can end up enveloping you like a shroud. But it happens almost imperceptibly, a bit like the days getting shorter …
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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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We Know How it Ends
Some days, it feels as though evil is winning out over good; injustice over justice; hatred over love; arrogance over humility; deception over truth. Some days, that’s how it …
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Wonder-Working Power
There’s power, power, wonder-working, life-transforming power in who Jesus is, what He did for us way back when, and what He’s still doing for us today. Have you noticed …
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When I First Become a Christian
I remember the day I gave my life to Jesus. It was around 11:30 am Australian Eastern Standard time on the 15th of October 1995, after a church service (I hadn’t darkened the …
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A Clash of Cultures
Down through the centuries, white men have colonised the countries of black men. Most times it hasn’t ended well for the black men. For some reason, white men, back then, …
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Pastors of Poverty
Many a time I’ve run into the attitude, this thinking, that pastors should be poor. That somehow it’s virtuous for the pastor to struggle financially, even if the members of …
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Stress Busters (Pt 2)
We all feel some stress sometimes. That’s normal. But way too many of us are living our lives constantly under way too much stress. And that’s not good. It impacts us …
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