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1. That Syncing Feeling …
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Sooner or later we discover that SINKING FEELING that is the inevitable outcome of a life lived for ourselves.   I regret that much of what we call Christianity will also cause you to sink and not ...

2. He leads Me...
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...  And as it does so the Christ-in-us permeates more and more holistically in our lives and so “the house is filled with the fragrance of perfume.” (John 12:3)      When ...

3. Leadership Matters - Finding Our Voice
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... to make a telling contribution.  Leaders either take us hostage or set us free.   They have a profound effect on our lives.  Sadly for every Good Shepherd there are many more false and evil ...

4. Growing Good Grass
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... it does so the Christ-in-them permeates more and more holistically in their lives.  As John so neatly put it when speaking of Mary anointing the Lord “the house was filled with the fragrance ...

5. Dissonance Breeds DIssidents
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... more than semantic.  Driven people drive people and in the pastoral life this is a major issue.    Many of us bear the scars of a life lived with in or home, church or work lives where ...

6. Burnout
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...  Given these working definitions, it is hardly surprising that burnout has reached pandemic proportions.  It is a crisis which is being lived out in every walk of life –   •Executives ...

7. The Grace to Live Fully
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... see it everywhere I go, be it in my corporate life, pastoral life, family life or indeed my personal life I want to help other to have the courage than the grace to live fully.       For ...

8. Growing Gracefully – Questions, Questions
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... and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and enter into His Sabbath rest. The writer to the Hebrews is seeking to persuade us that we no longer need to live a religious life, but rather accept that Christ ...

9. Does grace promote sin?
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... shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” Understanding the grace of God brings freedom and that freedom, ...

10. The Pursuit of Holiness – Trying to become what you already are
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... but it is, sadly, a stumbling block to living. There is no New Tes‐ tament warrant for “holiness” teaching. The determination for “self‐to‐live‐a‐holy‐life” will invariably cause ...

11. Freedom from religion
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The Law does not give the Christian power over sin. It gives sin power over the Christian [1 Cor. 15:56].  You will remain in bondage as long as you do not know that you have been delivered from the ...

12. Who is Responsible for our Salvation
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... said that this salvation, this liberation and deliver‐ ance, was accomplished by a retirement from works and a dying to self‐effort. It is in quietness (meaning “in tranquillity, utterly undisturbed”) ...

13. Is Our Brand of Christianity Really Christian?
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...  be cast into hell. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE? We must live by Jesus's teachings in order ...

14. Who iAm in Christ
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... his Blackberry to get a live departure update -- When I asked him how he did that he nonchalantly said "Oh, haven't you heard of TubeBuddy". Then he wanted to check something else so got out ...

15. The Chosen --Phew!
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... the answer is that he became a $billionaire the day he moved into the property; he just didn’t know it. Mr. Yates was infuriatingly unaware of what was under the ground he lived a meagre life, struggling ...

16. Striving For The Rest
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... live in fear of re-offending and being put back in prison so we and have no peace.     In order to find inner peace, every person must ultimately confront two fundamental questions – ...

17. A Rumbling Within
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... just some men. All men.  Now in my defence we did warn you on the front-end that this year’s conference was going to live up to its billing –Radical – which by implication meant ...

18. God's Not Deaf
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... our total dependence upon God."   The writer was right God's desire is that we should learn to live in total dependence on him. He wants us to participate in a totally new way of life, HIS! ...

19. Washed Ashore in Lilliput
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The more that I travel the world the more I have become convinced that the believers' relationship to their 'faith' is something akin to Gulliver’s experience when on his first voyage he was washed ...

20. Don't Think - Concentrate
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... the text seemed to say that people who live at the level of the flesh spend their lives THINKING which is why they're so distracted (and distracting) but people of the spirit CONCENTRATE.    ...