A Different Perspective Official Podcast

He thinks he's doing a great job working hard, paying down the mortgage.  But all she sees is that he never has time for her.  He's working flat out, she's feeling unloved and it's all heading downhill fast.

This week on A Different Perspective we're looking at how to communicate love between husband and wife. Actually you can apply it to any loving relationship. So often a wife and a husband well, they want to love one another but...

Mark Twain once said "I can live for two months on a good compliment".  It's true, when people affirm us and encourage us – it somehow builds us up on the inside.

Another new week. You know last week on A Different Perspective we went on a bit of a journey to look at how we can have the kind of marriage that we were meant to have. I guess we looked at some of the really important foundation stones to a great marriage and if you mis...

How often have we all tried to change something in our lives – something on the outside – only to discover that the problem goes far deeper than that.  It's a problem on the inside.

As we contemplate the year ahead, we can't think for too long without thinking about our relationships. The good ones.  The mediocre ones.  And, the downright destructive and hurtful ones too.

Balance – if only we could get some balance back into our lives.  It can be tough can't it?  But the way we spend our time – well it comes from the priorities we set – deliberately, or unknowingly.

Sometimes, our heart can be aching – if only I had enough to give more money to the poor and the needy.  And so the next thing we do is go and buy something useless on the credit card. Hmm.

So often – we can be looking for a miracle – and yet we forget to manage the mundane.  We want God to bless our lives – yet the house is a pig sty and we wonder why we're depressed.

A lot of people spend a lot of their time imagining how good life would be, if only this…or if only that.  In fact, you can spend your whole life living that way. Until finally, you wake up and realise, you were supposed to bloom where you've been planted.

Have you ever been exhausted to the core? It's like there's nothing – nothing left on the inside. What we almost need is a new inside. A new life. Some mighty, new spirit within us. Is that even possible?

It's funny how we embark on each new year with great expectations of new things – and yet, we never take a look at ourselves. Our attitudes. How we function on the inside. That never changes. So why would anything else change?

Have you ever heard this? Dit dit dit, da da da, dit dit dit, you may recognise it, it's Morse code. Dit dit dit is an "s", da da da is an "o" and dit dit dit in an "s" again. SOS - Save Our Souls, Save Our S...

Sometimes we head off into the new year with great expectations – and yet, we just don't look after ourselves.  Our body.  What we eat.  Exercise.  Sleep.  And so what happens, is that our bodies let us down.

One of the things that I notice from time to time is how easy it is to over spiritualise things. There seems to be two opposite ends of the spectrum, two extremes if you like. Over spiritualising and under spiritualising. Some...

At the beginning of a New Year, one of the things that plays on our minds a bit is the notion that we're just caught in the same old rut.  Hmm.  I wonder – well, I wonder what God's take is on that.

Well, as we sit here on the threshold of yet another year. I don't know, my hunch is that, for many of us, there are mixed emotions. On the one hand, there's a sense of anticipation, a sense of hope at what the New Year might bring. Thi...

Well, here we are standing at the threshold, the beginning of another year. Who knows how many of these you and I have left. But while we do have a new year ahead, I want to share some good news with you. Some great news. Some really … fantastic news. Are you ready?

So, what are your plans for this year? Maybe you're planning on changing jobs or studying or maybe you're planning a great holiday or planning on buying a new home or r...

You know, over this Christmas-New Year period, I've been praying for you and everybody else who listens to this program – that the coming year will be a year where you're set free from the things that have enslaved you, because freedom, as it turns out, is just about the biggest gift that God can give us.

This is just such a wonderful time of the year. The sense of a new start, a new beginning and yet, as we've been reflecting this...

One of the things that this bit of a pause between Christmas and New Year affords us, is some time to draw breath and decide what we're going to do differently next year. So … as you stand on the threshold of a new year … what are you going to do differently next year?

Here we are in this funny week in between Christmas and the New Year and I thought (together) we might look back on the year that's been and forward at the year ahea...

As you look back on this last year, I wonder … what would you have done differently? It's worth thinking about, because whilst you can't wind the clock back and do them over, a bit of reflection can help you think about how you're going to handle things in the new year ahead.

Well, here we are in this week between Christmas and New Year. It's a funny kind of week, really, looking back on the year that's just been and with the other...

Well, here we are in that funny little week between Christmas and New Year.  It's kind of a time for looking back and a time for looking forward.  So – looking back on it, how did this year go?

It's great that you can join me again today, right here, on "A Different Perspective". I always think that this week between Christmas and New Year, it's an interesting week. The big rush leading up to Christmas, well, that's over. Christmas...

Well, Christmas is done and dusted. We're in recovery mode … heading out of this past year into the next, starting to think about what lies ahead. And that's appropriate because Christmas marks a new beginning. Christmas marks the beginning of a new life. And that new life is something that God wants you to have. After all, that's why He sent Jesus.

At this time of year, we've all experienced those different emotions at different t...

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like, to have been there on that very first Christmas, when Jesus was born into this world? In one sense, it would have been very ordinary. A little village, Bethlehem. People all around. Business as usual. But in another sense … it would have been totally, mind–blowingly, gobsmackingly amazing!

There's a bunch of guys in the Bible who I envy. Now I know what you're thinking, the tenth...