Being Strong in the Lord

God doesn't say to be strong in your might or to be strong in your pastor's might. He says to be strong in His might. Instead of thinking, "Look what I've been through, I’m just struggling to keep my head above the water" we need to be thinking "I know I can't do this in my might, I may as well be strong in the Lord!"

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Effective Prayer

Some people say that God answers your prayer with “yes”, “no”, or “wait”. That is not what the Bible says. The Bible says that effective prayer accomplishes much. God says that a prayer that is offered in faith will be effective.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

The amazing thing about Rosaria’s saving testimony was that for a decade, Rosaria was ‘hidden in plain sight’, from the Christians in her community. Christians saw her as the ‘enemy’. Except for one elderly Presbyterian minister, who treated her as a loved and valued human being.

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Grant Peterson
Just A Survivor

In the early days of the second Gulf War, a young US private named Jessica Lynch was captured by the Iraqi military.  Most of her squad died in the roadside ambush. The initial reports were that she put up a valiant fight, been shot a couple of times and suffered some severe wounds.

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Love Restoration

Hosea had been betrayed by his wife, Gomer. He had obeyed God and chosen a wife who was a harlot. For a while, things seemed to go well. However, Gomer’s past gradually returned to haunt her.

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Unrequited Love

The great tragedy is that we can have a ‘head knowledge’ of God’s love for us, but emotional scars and patterns of hurt keep us from living and experiencing the depths of His love.


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Looking Out For Each Other

In John 13, Jesus made one of his most potent demonstrations of how Christians are to love each other when he washed the disciple’s feet. Jesus was demonstrating humility. However, there was much more to Jesus' actions than just a lesson on servanthood. 

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Returning to Love

In spite of what popular culture says, people don’t just wake up one day and fall out of love. We can fall out of trees, or fall off a ladder, but we can’t fall out of love.

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Grant Peterson
Raw Trust

The retelling of one particular event in Jesus' ministry reveals some of the tell-tale signs of that raw, often unrefined trust, that throws caution to the wind and realises the potential of God's power. 

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