When was the last time you baulked at serving someone else? Come on, we all do it. When was the last time you avoided serving … and why? The other day, the paper guillotine …

Have you ever found yourself blundering along through life, and then, WHACK! Something hits you out of the blue. You know you should have seen it coming, but you just didn’t …

How you and I live, how we behave, how we present, has a lot to do with whether or not people perceive us as being credible, especially, let me say, when we start giving them …

It’s easy to over spiritualise this whole Christianity thing. Look, laying hold of the spiritual dimension is a good thing, but let’s not forget the physical side. How you …

Have you ever felt as though God simply isn’t listening to you? That, no matter how much you pray and how much you believe, He’s just somehow gone deaf on you? When …

Life can be cruel sometimes. Other times, mundane. We travel along our journey wondering “What’s it all about? Is there really any point?” Perhaps there are a few highlights …

In any relationship, often people do the most unexpected things. It’s true in our human relationships and it’s particularly true in our relationship with God. Sometimes, …

When things aren’t turning out in your life the way you’d planned, the way you’d hoped, how do you react? How do you respond to God? What does it do, to your faith in Him, …

If I asked you to rattle off three adjectives that describe Jesus, just the first three that come into your mind, what would they be? It’s easy, when it comes to our …

None of us likes criticism. We just don’t. And yet, the criticism of a true friend is one of the greatest gifts we can ever receive, even if it doesn’t quite feel like it at …

Life here in the 21st century seems so … divorced, so disconnected from the whole God dimension. We rush here, we rush there … and before you know it, you’re heading in the …

Many people have a love-hate relationship with their work. On the one hand, they couldn’t imagine not working, but on the other, they can’t wait for the weekend to …

Different people respond to the pressures of modern life in different ways. One answer, is to give up. To draw a line and say “That’s it, I’ve had enough.” Have you …

Life can be cruel sometimes. Other times, mundane. We travel along our journey wondering “What’s it all about? Is there really any point?” Perhaps there are a few highlights …

Life can be cruel sometimes. Other times, mundane. We travel along our journey wondering “What’s it all about? Is there really any point?” Perhaps there are a few highlights …

So how often to you stop from everything you’re doing, just to take a break and enjoy what all that you’ve accomplished? Hmm? One of the things we all need in our often …

If you’re anything like most people, then there’s every likelihood that you feel tired. Constantly tired. What’s the answer? What’s the solution? The more you look …

Those unpredictable things that happen in life, those unexpected twists and turns, can I ask you, how exactly do they fit with the plans that God has for you? Sometimes, it …

Theft is a strong word and none of us likes to think of ourselves as a thief. But the temptation for financial gain through the odd small lie or deception, is always there isn’t …

No one wants enemies in life, and yet, from time to time, we all have them. The question is, when they attack us, how can we bring peace into that relationship? I had a really …

So many people, so busy, doing so many things. And yet, it seems that so often all that stuff amounts to, well, not much. Perhaps that’s because people are busy labouring in …

One of the most frustrating things in the world is when you have a plan, a good plan, to do something, good, and it just doesn’t work out! We all have hopes and dreams and …

Sadly, this world is populated by difficult people. People who don’t always play the game, the way we want them to. The movie “Mary Poppins” is a true classic. One of the …

Pain is a fact of life. Sadly though, there are too many churches these days, that seem to have lost the will to comfort those who are hurting. Let me ask you this question …

Did you know that there are over twenty thousand Christian denominations in the world today? Twenty thousand! With that much choice, how do you choose? If you were out looking …

These days, so many people are so fed up with church, that they’ve simply stopped going. It’s so easy to poke fun at this thing called “church” because we live in a …

You know the biggest problem most people have with finding a church to belong to? Finding one that really meets their needs. I really enjoy going out for a good coffee. There …

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 …

Love is something that countless songs have been written about. It’s something that the whole world seems to want – and yet, what love is and how to get it has never been so …

Have you ever felt led to give something away, to be generous to that person over there? But something, something was holding you back. It’s great being around generous …

Have you ever felt that the devil is winning in your life. Time and time again, you fall to the same temptation. Surely, the devil is winning! Many people struggle with …

So, let me ask you, is the devil real, or not? Do you believe in the existence of a personal force of evil, or not? Jesus, we’re told, was thrown into the wilderness by God, …

So, let me ask you, does God want you to be happy? Does God want you to be successful? Does God want you to have nice things? Well, does He, or not? This world is full of so …

Yah, so you blew it again! The same temptation, the same sin. Again! Can you really go to God, again, and ask Him for His forgiveness? Really? Anyone who’s been a parent …

It’s easy to refer to God as our Father, and yet, I wonder how many of His children actually live their lives as though He truly is their Father. I had a great father. He’s …

Have you ever wondered, “What’s God really like? When He looks at me, what does He see? What does He think of me?” I’ve been a father for a good many years now. And …

Love they say makes the world go round. More songs and poems have been written about love than just about any other subject. And yes – love is absolutely essential in our lives. …

When was the last time you lost at something? You know, you wanted to win, but it didn’t turn out that way, so you ended up feeling like a loser. Let’s face it … we love …

Pride and humility, are complete opposites. And in a world where everybody’s trying to put their best foot forward, humility can be difficult to find. We all know people who, …

Why is it that some people become wise, and others, frankly, just don’t? What is it that holds some people back, from the getting of wisdom? There are two types of people, …

Pride alienates us from people and from God. But we can’t live this life on our own. That’s why pride is such a destructive force. Let’s face it … pride is such an ugly …

Pride is the antithesis of love. It’s the complete opposite of love. And pride, as ugly as it is, is something that we’re all prone to, from time to time. They talk about …

Without hope, life simply isn’t worth living. Think about it, if you don’t have something good to look forward to, what’s the point in going on? Some days, it’s …

Love they say makes the world go round. More songs and poems have been written about love than just about any other subject. And yes – love is absolutely essential in our lives. …

Love they say makes the world go round. More songs and poems have been written about love than just about any other subject. And yes – love is absolutely essential in our lives. …

One of the risks in believing in Jesus, is that He may ask you to do something, that you don’t really want to do. Can I ask you, how do you become Jesus’ friend? …

When you hear that name “Jesus” what images does it conjure up in your mind? What does brand Jesus mean to you? One of the things that God’s blessed us with is an …

Let me ask you, if Jesus came back, say, tomorrow afternoon and took a look at how you’re living your life, what exactly would He find? The easiest thing for any employee to …

Question: When do you expect Jesus to return? When do you expect your life on this earth to end forever? If it happened tonight, would you be ready? Back in the first century, …

Question: on a scale of one to ten, how satisfied, how content are you in your relationship with Jesus? Is it a good journey, or has it become a difficult one? It’s easy to …

We pretty much all want to live a good life – the life God always intended. But sometimes life can be tough – I mean, really tough. So then – how do you live that good life? …

So, how do you know whether you have the gift of eternal life or not? What is it that you can look at, as evidence of your salvation? There are many people wandering around …

One of the things that holds so many people back from giving their lives over to God, is the guilt that they feel, over all they’ve done wrong. Question: why did God have to …

Can I ask you, what bad behaviour, what bad habit of yours, is eating away at the foundations of your life? What is it, that you’re doing, that’s robbing you of God’s joy …

You hear people talking about eternity as though it’s a long time. No, it’s not, it’s forever and ever, without end. And that makes your eternity, a very important …

Possessions are interesting things. On the one hand, some of them at least are necessary. On the other, they can end up ruining our lives. We all love to have stuff. Years ago, …

I don’t know where you are in your faith journey, whether you’ve taken the step of giving your life to Christ, or not. But wherever you are, there’s something important that …

You know that old saying, don’t you? Never do today that which you can put off until tomorrow. And frankly, that’s how many people choose to live out their faith. One day. …

We know that pretty much – what we get out of life depends on what we put into it. Problem is – sometimes we don’t feel like putting in. In some situations we just want to …

A question for you today: on balance, are you a person who’s filled with the joy of the Lord, or are you miserable, negative and fearful? It bothers me greatly to see …

Evangelism is a word that makes many a Christian cringe. And in a sense, I think, rightly so, because it carries with it some negative connotations. I used to wonder, if I were …

Might I ask you again today, if you believe in Jesus, if you believe that He is the Son of God, how comfortable do you feel sharing that ostensibly good news, with others? When …

Let’s imagine that you feel led to share your faith in Jesus, with someone who doesn’t yet believe. How would you go about it? I was on holidays interstate recently, and on …

On a scale of zero to ten, how comfortable are you, in sharing your faith with those who don’t yet believe in Jesus? “Evangelism”. It’s a term that, frankly, makes most …

Brand Jesus, by and large, has a pretty good reputation out there in the marketplace. Really. So why is it then, that people aren’t coming to faith in Him, en masse? Just …

All too often, prayer is something that we deploy into a difficult situation, as a matter of last resort. But that’s never how it was meant to be. Have ever you noticed how …

Question: when was the last time that you shared your faith in Jesus, with someone who hasn’t yet believed in Him? Someone headed, for a terrible, terrible eternity? Hmm? One …

Sometimes when we look around – in our own lives and indeed, across the globe – there are so many things going on that are unfair. Injustices. Violence. The rich and the …

We love comparing ourselves to other people. We just do. And all too often, we don’t come off too well in that comparison, do we? Have you ever felt like your life is stuck …

We would love to think that following Jesus is easy. Well, at the very least, it should be a darned sight easier than what it is, surely! Have you ever felt like walking away …

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 …

When a new person wanders into your church on a Sunday morning, how does your church treat them? How do you treat them? I received an incredibly sad email from a man the other …

When you feel as though no one appreciates you or understands you, when life’s really getting you down, how do you deal with that? How do you get on top of it? Let’s be …

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 …

Sometimes when we look around – in our own lives and indeed, across the globe – there are so many things going on that are unfair. Injustices. Violence. The rich and the …

Sometimes when we look around – in our own lives and indeed, across the globe – there are so many things going on that are unfair. Injustices. Violence. The rich and the …

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 …

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 …

As the respective roles of men and women continue to change, it’s not always easy, either as the man or the woman, to know how to relate to each other. In these days of …

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 …

It’s easy sometimes to imagine that we’re not good enough or smart enough to be used by God to achieve amazing things. But nothing could be further from the truth. Back in …

Have you noticed lately, just how impersonal the world has become? It’s as though all this great technology at our fingertips, instead of connecting us, only draws us further …

God has given each one of us unique, amazing, stunning gifts and abilities. But for what purpose? To what end? She walks out onto the stage of this huge auditorium – all …

Life’s becoming so difficult that many, many people are turning to counsellors to help them through the issues they’re struggling with. This week on the program – …

It scares me that here, at the beginning of the 21st century, we’re being duped, én masse, into believing that being an individual, is more important than being part of a …

Some people spend a lifetime accumulating things. Wealth, reputation, possessions, and yet, they never seem happy. They never seem satisfied. I want you to meet a guy who’s …

Sometimes, that feeling of “being different” can have a really damaging impact on our sense of self. So much so, that low self-esteem is rampant in society today.You know that …

Do you find yourself, sometimes, comparing yourself to other people? Coming to the conclusion, perhaps, that you’ll never be as good as they are? Hmm? There are so many …

In this world, there’s right and there’s wrong. And yet, it’s all too easy, to become so fixated on what’s right, that you end up, turning it into a wrong. It’s good …

We all have someone in our life who’s difficult. You know that person who just seems to mess things up for you. So might I ask you, how do you treat that person in your …

In a perfect world, we’d all play nice with each other, and we’d all get on just fine. But, obviously, we don’t live in a perfect world. And that means that sometimes, …

People do some horrible things to us sometimes. So, when someone does something horrible to you, might I ask you, how do you respond to them? How do you, treat them? …

Over the last couple of weeks on the program, we’ve been spending a day each day at the office with Jesus – simply following Him around through the stories in a couple of the …

If only life would go the way we wanted it to. If only the good things we have planned for ourselves, would always come to fruition. If only! I can’t begin to tell you the …

Obedience is a very unpopular concept these days. It sounds so, well, let’s be honest, old-fashioned. And yet obedience builds strong foundations. The sort of foundations we all …

When God asks us to do something we don’t really want to do, how often do we do it with a bad attitude, grumbling all the way? There’s nothing worse than a gift that’s …

Things can be going along just fine, but then all of a sudden, the pressure’s on. And that’s the time, when we’re under pressure, that we discover what’s really going on …

There are times in everybody’s walk through life, when it feels as though through that one same temptation, the devil is winning. What happened to this victory that Jesus …

Hypothetically speaking, if I were to tell you that I believed in the existence of the devil, what would you think of me? Hmm? Yes, it’s true – I believe that the devil …

Jesus lived on this earth over 2000 years ago. That’s a long time – and for many people, they want to believe in Him, they want Him to be real – but those old, old stories …