Living as a Christian

You Can’t Outgive God

The question to my heart is, do we think of the Lord’s things as a priority?

Jonny Rogers

Counting the Days

Never mind the six months until your holidays, have you ever thought about counting the days of something much more important. How about the days of your life?

See No Evil

If, like David, we want to enjoy the Lord’s presence, we must resolve to look away.

Standing At The Crossroads

If you are standing at the crossroads of a new life situation, whether as a student, as an employee or moving into a new community, Daniel’s example is one to follow.

What Keeps You Awake At Night?

Our health, job and family are often impacted by matters beyond our control and so there is not much we can do to change the cause of our fear. What we can do is make a decision – a resolution.

New Year, New Beginning, New Me

If the calendar changes, perhaps I can change too.

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

The cost of discipleship.

Joel Hawthorne

Fear God

“Fear God and keep His commandments.” It is only one description of the life of faith, but it is a valuable one – it is the way of wisdom.

Freedom to Choose

You are a free agent. You have a measure of independence. So what are you going to do?

The Discipline of Body Building

There is a body that you should be interested in building up: the body of Christ. If you are a believer, you are part of this.

The Discipline of Gathering

It has often been pointed out that a single coal will soon grow cold. Have a number of coals together however, and the heat will remain for a long time.

Finding Joy

Some people have the mistaken idea that living for God and being happy are mutually exclusive, as if God doesn’t want us to have any joy here under the sun.

The Discipline of Evangelism

Evangelism is hard work but with discipline we can develop.

Paul Coxall

Pursuing Purity

Are you struggling with something that is hindering your life from being as pure as it could be?

Discipline of Time

Each day we are given twenty-four hours of time and we are responsible for how we use it.

Paul Coxall

Daily Prayer

God is truly there, and He is a personal God who carefully listens to us as we speak to Him. Prayer, therefore, should characterise every believer.

David Williamson

Discipline for Godliness

We are not merely to wait for godliness; we are to pursue it.

Paul Coxall

Pursue God Not Gold

If, in search of the good life, you are pursuing almighty gold instead of Almighty God, Ecclesiastes is warning you, you are making a big mistake.

Learning From Experience

Learning from experience is invaluable, and we often learn most from our mistakes. It is wise, however, and often less painful, to learn from the experience of others.

Get the Right Perspective

The perspective of youth is refreshing. Life is stretching out before you and there are many dreams to fulfil. There is great value, however, in the perspective of a wise, old believer.

My Help Comes From The Lord

My hope is simply that, through reflecting on what has helped me in my relationship with God while being close to those suffering from depression, it might be of help to someone else.

The Day Our Minds Will Be Like Christ's

We have the potential here and now to be more like God’s Son, as we demonstrate that we ‘have the mind of Christ’ (1 Corinthians 2:16).

Can We Safeguard Our Minds?

The mind is the battleground where good and evil incessantly confront each other.

Is It Possible To Have The Mind Of Christ?

At the risk of stating the obvious, in order to have the mind of Christ we must have a change of mind.

The First Time A Man's Thoughts Were Aligned To God's Thoughts

It is true to say that we are born with a mind programmed to sin habitually. The Bible asserts of man that the ‘the thoughts of his heart [were] only evil continually’ (Genesis 6:5).

How The Mind Has Been Affected By Sin

The consequence of Satan’s first assault upon humanity was cataclysmic.

Satan Targets The Mind

From the tactics he employed in his cunning assault upon Eve in the garden of Eden, it is clear that our ‘adversary the devil’ (1 Peter 5:8) understands the vital influence of mind on behaviour.

Have You Thought About Your Mind?

The mind is an elusive entity. Having no physical form, it is extremely difficult to define. It does not show up on any interrogative scan of the body, yet we know that it exists in each one of us.

Priorities In Love

God couldn’t make it any clearer: we are to love Him with all our heart, soul and mind and He is to be our ‘first love.’

Priorities In Judgement

Judging others is such a common human fault – perhaps even more common among Christians!

Priorities In Church

It’s that time of the week again: prayer meeting night. You’ve had an extremely busy day and your head is pounding. So what do you do?

Priorities In Relationships

How much do you value relationships? Are people important to you, or are they merely things to be trodden on or used for your own purposes?

Priorities In Devotion

I always feel sorry for Martha in the biblical story as she seemed to be doing the right thing with the right motive but somehow got it wrong.

Priorities In Time

There just aren’t enough hours in the day. Anyone with a hectic life will identify with this and say ‘life is just too busy’.

Priorities In Life

It has been said that the most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.

God Works to His Own Timetable

'in His times He shall shew' (1 Tim 6:15).

We Are Stewards of Time

‘Redeeming the time’ (Ephesians 5:16)

Received New Life From God? Now Live the Rest of Life For God!

‘That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.' (1 Peter 4:2-3)

Time is Short, Now is Precious

‘Teach us to number our days’ (Psalm 90:12)

How Jesus Christ Embraced Time

‘Mine hour is not yet come’ (John 2:4)

The Most Important Person of All Time

'when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son' (Galatians 4:4)

What is Time?

'by whom also he made the worlds' (Hebrews 1:2)

Christian life is about serving God from a standpoint of love.

Alasdair MacPherson

Thanksgiving in Prayer

E M Bounds instructs us that "prayer, praise and thanksgiving all go in company ... Praise and thanksgiving are so near alike that it is not easy to distinguish between them."

Phil Workman

Adoration in Prayer

The greatest joy anyone can experience is to appreciate and adore the beauty of God.

Paul McCauley

Studying the Bible

Just as a prospector forgets the hours of backbreaking labour when he finds some treasure, so the Bible student counts hours of study as nothing when he discovers nuggets of truth.

David Williamson

Memorising the Bible

In Bible times, access to books and written materials was a luxury. In an era before the printing press, let alone the Internet, the stories of a culture were maintained through oral tradition.

Justin Pratt

Nothing Less

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”

More Grace

“God hath not promised skies always blue, Flower strewn pathways all our lives through; God hath not promised sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.”

No Hope

I reasoned that to fully appreciate how great our hope is, I would need to consider the negative: that is to say, what it is like to have “no hope”.

Waiting and Watching

Having lost her sight as a baby, Fanny J Crosby wanted to reserve her first experience of sight for the day she would see her Saviour.

Overflowing Hope

Does my hope overflow in the way Paul prayed it would for the early Roman Christians? Is my hope easily distinguished from the optimism or breezy disposition of the world?

Faith

Faith and hope seem to be inextricably linked. Often, in scripture, they are joined by love.

Perseverance

As a teenager, Joni Eareckson (now Tada) lay face down and helpless. She could easily have chosen to consign herself to the hopeless and “poor me” corner of life.

Confession in Prayer

True confession is indispensable to a believer´s spiritual progress. To neglect confession is to bring spiritual progress to a tragic halt

Jonathan Seed

Reading the Bible

In the Christian life there are a number of healthy spiritual habits we all need to cultivate: prayerful, careful and regular reading of scripture is one of the most important.

Eric Baijal