FRESH Official Podcast
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.
Episodes
Do you remember as a child being afraid of the dark? Yeah, so when darkness descends on our lives once more, that fear we once felt comes rushing back. But with all my heart, I know that God wants to give you His confidence amidst dark times.
Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who saved around two and a half thousand Jewish children during the Holocaust. She s...
When you’re faced with a problem, it’s really easy to overestimate its magnitude. The more grief it causes you, the bigger it becomes. It’s only natural. What’s needed here is a sense of perspective.
So, here goes. If the sun was hollow, you’d be able to fit 1.3 million earths inside. Just let that sink in – 1.3 million! Yet the sun’s classified as only a medium-siz...
It absolutely flicks my switch when the unlikeliest person does something brilliant – something completely out of the box, something that no one expected. How about you?
In 2009 Susan Boyle walked out onto the stage of the TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent”. She was quirky … really quite odd. When she told the judges that she wanted to be a famous singer, the audience ...
Over the years, it's frustrated the living daylights out of me that, as much as I tried to deal with my own ingrained character flaws (and we all have them), I wasn't able to change any one of them on my own. Man, that used to drive me crazy! How about you?
Back in the 16th century, the pirate Grace O’Malley terrorised the Irish seas. She was known for her ruthlessn...
As you and I simply get on with life, it’s kind of easy to drift away from what we’ve believed; what, at the core of our being, we’ve held to be true; what really mattered to us way back when but somehow it’s all been crowded out by the stuff that presses in on us day to day.
Back in the early 17th century, Dutch sailor Pieter van der Linde and a few of his crew wer...
The faster the pace of life gets, and the more crowded our waking hours become with the thousand details that we deal with each day, the more unthinking, the more transactional, the more dehumanised our actions tend to become.
What’s something that you do on autopilot day after day? Perhaps it’s making the kids’ lunches and getting them off to school. Or driving th...
Authenticity and integrity are attributes we tend to value highly. Although, sadly these days, they’re all too often shouted down by a world more interested in personal gain than in decency and truth.
Of course, there’s nothing new in that. Back in the late 18th century, slavery was still deeply entrenched in the British economy. The transatlantic slave t...
According to the World Health Organisation, each year around 1.2 million people globally die in road accidents, with tens of millions more suffering non-fatal injuries.
Back in the early church there was a couple, Ananias and Sapphira, who suffered a fatal accident. Although, it wasn’t really an accident.
Acts 5:1-6
Imagine just for a moment that you’re standing at the edge of a cliff. Below you, the rocks are sharp, the fall is fatal, the wind is howling. But someone’s posted a warning sign: “Danger—Cliff’s Edge.” You’d think twice about getting too close, wouldn’t you?
That’s exactly what this passage is – a warning sign, and it’s not to be taken lightly.
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Some people seem to be more resilient than others. Okay, your background and your “personality type” are going to have some bearing on that. But still, we each have to play the cards we’ve been dealt. So how can you become more resilient in facing the things you have to face?
Back in AD 155 Polycarp, the Bishop of Smyrna (located in what is today, Turkey) was arrest...
I never actually set out to offend people … honestly, I don’t! But some days it’s unavoidable that some will find what I have to share … well, offensive. Today could well be such a day.
Do you like being comfortable? I certainly do. I have a soft, brown leather lounge chair in the corner of my study. I’ve had it for years and I swear it’s the most comfortable chair ...
During those tough times in life, we invariably find ourselves on an emotional rollercoaster. No sooner have you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps than your emotions seem to plummet into the depths of despair.
You might be interested to know that the world’s largest rollercoaster is called “Kingda Ka”. It’s located in a theme park in Jackson, New Jersey in the g...
One of the things that makes the bad times that we sometimes travel through in life feel even worse is, in the midst of them, remembering the good times that once were. What went wrong? Why can’t things be like that again? Why am I stuck here?
That phenomenon of lamenting the good times does indeed make the bad times feel much worse; the dark times feel much darker;...
There are going to be times in life when things, people, circumstances, our own stupidity even, come against us; when we just want to curl up in a ball and die. It happens to all of us.
When the going’s good, when life’s easy – happy days! Enjoy it. But let’s get real, those times don’t last forever. Things come along to spoil them. And sure, we can tough them out …...
Early the other morning, while it was still pitch black outside, I was preparing today’s message and there was a cat outside my study window crying out, howling desperately. It only went on for a few minutes but that pitiful cry stuck with me.
It really was quite haunting because it transported me back to those few times in my life when my pain was so deep that all ...
Had you been able to write the script for your life at, say age ten, what would you have written? What would you have hoped for? And perhaps, most importantly, has it turned out that way?
It’s pretty safe to say that for most of us things haven’t panned out quite how we’d hoped. Because in writing that script, we’d never have included the hurdles, the hurts, the tri...
We each have to make sacrifices along the way. But have you ever thought through what a sacrifice really is? Because if we don’t get that bit, then you have to ask yourself – why even bother?
It seems to me that a sacrifice means giving up something that you want today for something that you want more down the track. Chess players might sacrifice a bishop to lure th...
Do you know what’s really tragic? When someone’s hidden potential goes unrealised because the world can’t see it, because even the person themselves can’t see it. That is such a tragedy! So what hidden talent lies lurking beneath your skin, hmm?
Hedy Lamarr is best known as a Hollywood actress of the 1930’s and 40’s. She starred in many successful films and was cele...
We all face temptations in life. Sure, people draw the line between right and wrong differently these days, but at the end of the day right is still right and wrong is still wrong. So how do you respond to temptation?
Augustine of Hippo, who lived during the 4th and 5th centuries AD, became one of the most influential Christian theologians in h...
Did you know that you can now buy an AI friend? Yep! An artificial intelligence company going under the brand name “Replika” will sell you, and I quote, “The AI companion who cares. Always here to listen and talk. Always on your side.” Fantastic. What could possibly go wrong?
On the one hand, it’s pretty clever, right? On the other, how tragic that a human being wou...
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