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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … …

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 …

“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 …

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. …

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” …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …