A Different Perspective Official Podcast
God has a habit of wanting to speak right into the circumstances that we're travelling through here and now; the very issues that we each face in our everyday lives. Everything from dealing with difficult people … to discovering how God speaks to us; from overcoming stress … to discovering your God-given gifts and walking in the calling that God has placed on your life And that's what these daily 10 minute A Different Perspective messages are all about.
Episodes
You know how there are some people, when you hang around with them; they're just such a joy to be with. Hmmm. Wonder if God's like that?
There are some people in life who can really get you down. And yet there are others you just love to get together with them. There is something about them. They get it. They understand us. They encourage us, they engage with us, you know the sort. You look forward to having a cup of coffee or catc...
Some days, it feels as though everybody around you is cruising, but somehow we're down in the trenches. Wouldn't it be great to soar like an eagle?
Have you ever been through a time in your life where, I don't know, it seems like everyone around you is doing it easy and somehow you're down in the trenches doing it tough? I remember when I was training to be an officer in the Australian Army. We'd be on exercise digging trenches, fi...
Have you ever noticed that people are busy racing around looking after Number One? Very few of them ever stop to give us a hand. In fact, when someone does, it can be so refreshing.
In this clamorous, competitive world that we live in (you know what I'm talking about), this world where everybody seems to be looking after number one as their priority one, two and three in life. In that kind of world, it seems so rare that we meet ...
The last thing that most of us suffer from is a lack of information – the whole world is screaming for our attention. Sometimes, the quiet assurance that comes from a bit of peace and quiet just eludes us.
Sometimes, it feels like we live in our world where everything and everybody seems to be screaming for our attention.
Take advertising – armies of creative people who think up new, (often), very clever ways of getting you and me...
Getting some balance back in our lives is a challenge for a lot of people. Either we're doing too much or not enough and somehow, life's out of kilter. What we need is some refreshment for our souls.
I don't know about you but one of the things that many people struggle with is getting a sense of balance in their lives. Either life's just so crazy and hectic that we seem to be burning the candle at both ends and eventually we bur...
It's amazing how thoroughly we manage to delude ourselves about our own failings and weaknesses. We're actually pretty darned good at it. But God is a skilful surgeon capable of performing radical surgery.
This week on the program, we've been looking at intimacy with God through His Spirit and His Word. And when you think about it, those are the two things of Himself that He has left here on this planet for you and me. His Spirit –...
Once people get over the fact that the Bible isn't a bunch of do's and don'ts, the biggest thing that stops them from reading it is that it doesn't makes sense.
One of the things that I'm really passionate about is, I guess, just being here with you today and knowing that through our time we've spent together (somehow), God's used that time to draw you closer to Him.
Life's too short to live it without a passionate and a dynamic an...
When you think about it God's gone to amazing lengths to preserve His love letter to us down through the centuries. You know the Bible. Yeah – that's it – His love letter.
Sadly, these days we tend to send and receive very few letters. I mean personal letters, letters of friendship, and letters of love. There's something about receiving a personal letter in the mail. It's so much better than email, it has a stamp and a post-mark ...
No matter how much we want to believe that God is a God of grace, we all at some point end up living life as though He's a God of rules……the law of His Spirit and life can seem a long way off.
When we talk about God, well that name "God" means so many different things to so many different people.
Yesterday on the program, we looked at the notion that God is kind of a bunch of rules and sometimes people want to reduce Him down to be...
Sometimes we can look at God's Word – the Bible and think of it as a book of rules. But it turns out that this notion that God is all about the letter of the law is way off the mark.
Sometimes we can look at God's word, the Bible and think of it as a book of rules. But it turns out that this notion of God is all about the letter of the law is way off the mark.
The law's a funny thing … some people say the law's an ass, it's someth...
We chug, chug, chug through life – and pretty soon, we're running on empty. And then we try filling up with all sorts of different things. But running on the wrong fuel can have disastrous consequences.
In a world that's hungry for some sort of authentic spiritual reality. It just blows me away that God has a plan. He's always had a plan, that plan is to pour His Spirit out on us, His Holy Spirit, a flood tide of His life, His lo...
The biggest thing that keeps us from drawing close to God is the fear of condemnation. He's perfect and I'm not - so I'm in trouble. Makes sense. But fortunately, God's grace isn't logical.
The biggest fear I ever had of getting close to God was the fear of judgement and condemnation. I didn't understand what Holy meant but I understood that if God was God then He was holy and He was good and He was perfect and I wasn't.
And so ...
The only way we really get to know someone is to live with them. Problem is that today, that can just mean shacking up. But God has a plan to make His home in us – and it's so much more than what the world has to offer.
The only way really to know someone is to live with them in the same house, day after day, year after year. Boy meets girl and they get engaged, they get married and on their honeymoon they think they already know e...
Jesus said some strange things. Just before He was crucified He said to His disciples – 'You know something it's good for you that I'm going away.' Really? What was that all about?
When life is parched and dry, empty and hollow Jesus has a plan. That plan is to pour fresh living water into us, deep, deep inside. His plan is to fill us to overflowing with the Holy Spirit. Sounds all religious doesn't it? But here's the thing I rea...
So many people live out a spiritually parched existence and all along God has a plan – a plan of power, a plan of peace, a plan of intimacy, a plan……of abundant life. His name is the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes life can feel, well, parched and dry. We can be doing all the right things – living life, being a parent, working, whatever it is we do – but it's as though we're giving out all the time and not drinking anything in. And we look ...
We live in a crazy, chaotic and confusing world. I mean, if you were God, how would you keep a track of it all? Would you even bother? And when it comes to the little problems, even the big problems, in the lives of people like you and me, well, where would you find the time and the energy to deal with those?
I'm so excited to be with you again today. Here we are at the end of another week. I don't know about your week but mine's b...
It's easy to look at some people and even at ourselves quite frankly and think, if God were going to use anyone for good it wouldn't be that one. It could never be me! Funny how quickly we are to underestimate what God can do, through bog ordinary people like you and me.
Most of us would agree that war is a horrible, ugly thing. So, what motivates people to join the armed forces? I spent ten years as an officer in the Australian re...
Being a mother would have to be one of the toughest jobs going around. And mums often feel that they go unnoticed, that nobody values their enormous sacrifice. Today we're going to meet a faithful mother, who, as it turned out, ended up having a huge impact in this world.
Of all the jobs someone could have in life, have you ever wondered what would be the toughest one? I've had a chance to think about it and I reckon being a mother...
You and I are, well, we're us. But in 100 years' time, if we're lucky we'll be an unknown name on a family tree somewhere. Nothing to make us stand out from the crowd. Probably, in a hundred years' time, we'll be completely forgotten. Or will we?
Have you ever looked at your family tree? I have. My dad gave me a huge piece of paper with our family tree, going right back to the 1700's to a Duchess of Romania. Of course, I recognise...
So let me ask you a question. If God is God, does He speak? I mean, does He speak here and now to people like you and me? Interesting thought. Does He?
It is great to be with you in a new week and look at life again from a different perspective. We live in a world of superstars. We suffer from celebrity syndrome. Many of the people we admire and aspire to, well, they're in the media, on TV in newspapers and the media tends to pump ...
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