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FRESH is a Daily Devotional taking you deeper into God's Word + closer to Jesus. Each devotion will have a powerful Scripture verse, together with some words of inspiration, hope and encouragement. It's all about helping you hear from God so that you can live in a rich, dynamic, powerful relationship with Jesus. God's Word. Fresh, for you, each day.
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It seems that these days the louder people shout, the more others listen – even if they're in the minority, even if what they're espousing lies somewhere between lunacy and extremism. If they disagree with you, they want to shut you down, cancel you out, erase you from the public square. And that's incredibly intimidating.
In many parts of the world, it's become una...
There are times when evil strikes at us from the outside, in … people, circumstances, systems, social trends that attack the good that we're trying to do. It's happened to you too, right? But there's nothing new in any of that.
Not many years after Jesus had walked this earth, His Apostles were out there doing good.
Acts...
'Evil', I think you'd agree, is a strong word. So there are not many things in our lives to which we'd ascribe that label – 'evil'. A murderer, sure. A child abuser, absolutely. But stuff in our own lives? Not really.
And yet, we can all look back at some particularly bad things we've done – perhaps there are one or two still lingering in your life; husbands who unth...
Let's face it, some days you just don't feel like showing up; for whatever reason – and there are many – you just don't feel like playing the game. Some days, staying in bed feels by far the best option. Some days …
The day that I prepared today's short message, I definitely didn't feel like showing up. I was just getting over a chest infection and I felt awful. But ...
There's absolutely nothing, it seems, that can beat a good run in life. You know, when you have a period of weeks or months when everything seems to be falling into place – your finances, your health, your family, your relationships. Everything just clicks. Fantastic!
I know, I realise that you may not be in the middle of one of those fine, warm, sunny, pleasant stre...
You and I, we're surrounded by so many talented people, aren't we? People who can do things we could never do; who've achieved things we'll never achieve; who have their lives so together that it beggars belief.
Look, much of that talent is somehow baked into them; it emanates from their very DNA. My friend Lorraine who's the most gifted violinist. My old friend Laur...
Can I ask you to cast your mind back over all the mistakes – big and small – that you've made in your life. Financial, health, relationships, career, pride … the whole lot. Doubtless, like me, you could write a book about them.
Those mistakes can weigh heavily on our hearts. Have you let go? Have you forgiven yourself? Or are the consequences still robbing you of you...
According to latest estimates, there are over 5 million podcasts and 600 million blogs out there, collectively publishing nearly 8 million episodes and posts a day. That's on top of "traditional media" where true journalism has largely been displaced by carefully crafted spin … so many people throwing ideas – good and bad – at us … it's hard to know what to believe anymore.
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Almost everything good that we set out to do involves sustained effort over time. It begins as a good idea, but eventually the temptation to take your foot off the pedal, to slow down, to pull over, cuts in. And so … the backsliding begins.
Entropy is a principal of physics that basically says that in any system order turns to chaos, organisation to disorganisation, ...
Imagine for a moment that you're starving … I mean, you haven't eaten for weeks. You're on the brink, your body's shutting down. The suffering is unspeakable. So, what lengths would you go to, to get some food in your belly? Instinctively, the answer is that we'd do just about anything to get fed. Why wouldn't we?
When Jesus had starved in the wilderness for forty da...
Have you ever dreamed of doing something really good, something profound, something that would make this world a better place? We all have, right? But there seem to be so many obstacles in front of you that conspire to stop that dream from becoming a reality.
Do you know what I think the greatest obstacle of all is? Our day-to-day humdrum – just the reality of gettin...
Some people have a real knack for cleverly summing up complex concepts in a single sentence that packs such a punch that it continues to be quoted centuries after they're gone.
St Francis of Assisi, who lived in Italy in the late second and early third centuries AD, is credited with having said this: "Preach the Gospel, use words if necessary." But it turns out that ...
Unless you're one of those annoyingly blessed people who never has to worry about their weight, chances are you've tried many a diet. But how easy is it to undermine all your efforts by falling back into your old eating habits?
Mark Antony was a skilled Roman general and politician in the 1st Century BC. He sought to rule Rome but fell to the temptation of...
Some people are blessed with a natural strength. That's great. Good on them. But for others, emotions and circumstances all too often play havoc with their sense of certainty. And no matter where you happen to be on that spectrum, we all go through times when we're rocked to the core. All of us!
We've been chatting about this whole certainty and uncertainty thing on ...
Here's a mind-boggling fact: over 150 billion text messages are sent globally each and every day through the various messaging platforms – SMS, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal and the like. That's 55 trillion a year. ...
It's easy to feel neglected when we're the ones struggling, while the people around us just seem to be getting on with business as usual. It leaves you thinking … what about me? And yet, how easy is it for us to ignore the suffering of others and simply get on with our own lives?
Perhaps you've heard of the parable of the Good Samaritan, told by Jesus on this very th...
Assuming that you, like most people, want to live a better life – whatever that means to you – what would you be prepared to change to make it happen?
Twentieth century American billionaire, Howard Hughes, wanted success, happiness and a better life. Yet he refused to address his worsening mental health and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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It's a fact of life that you can be absolutely certain of something – certain to the core – until something comes along and pulls the rug out from under your feet, causing you to question everything you were once so sure of.
The truth is that we take a lot for granted – your health for instance. Everything's going along fine. Okay … maybe you don't feel a hundred p...
As you look around at the leaders in this world, bluster and bravado seem to be something of a stock in trade, don't they? Even within your own circle, there are doubtless those who're absolutely convinced that they are God's gift to the universe.
I have a confession to make. I used to be one of those people. Yes, with a higher-than-average IQ, a quick tongue, and se...
I think we're all looking for things that'll make our lives better, because there are bits in all our lives that need making better, amen? We want more good things to happen to us than bad things. Of course the bad stuff is often unavoidable … but still, we want to discover good in the middle of it all, don't we?
Good or bad, so much has to do with confidence ...
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