Author: glochooselifeadmin
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Faith or Fear?
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear.” My book ‘Dangerously Alive’ starts as follows: “I sped around the bend in the road on my motorbike, but quickly scrambled to a stop, surprised to see a figure in the middle of the road, just ahead of me. He was holding a…
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World Citizen or Insular Individual?
Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by the needs I see around me or those I see on TV from around the world that I just want to blot them all out by switching channels and watching a…
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Bold or Ashamed?
Romans 1:16 “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.” A Zimbabwean young man wrote the following before he was martyred: “I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the Holy Spirit’s power. The die has been cast. I have…
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Pool or Mirage?
Watch the video here Isaiah 35:7 “The mirage shall become a pool.” (NASB) A platoon of soldiers was marching through the blistering heat of the Egyptian desert during the Second World War in desperate pursuit of water. Their guide was confident of where to find it, but suddenly one of the troops spotted a beautiful…
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Ready or Not?
Matthew 25:13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” I once preached on the parable of the ten virgins near the Burundi/Congo border. It’s not a complicated parable. Do take a look at it in Matthew 25. My sermon could be boiled down to three things: A number of…
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Fitness or Fatness?
1 Corinthians 6:20 “You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body.” Ken Cooper said: “We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.” I was on a 3-hour flight to Chicago and I knew it wasn’t going to…
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Resolution or Resignation?
1 Corinthians 2:2 “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Happy New Year! I wonder how the year ahead is looking for you? Maybe you’ve made a few New Year’s resolutions, maybe not. I remember one year breaking my major resolution within minutes of the…
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Backwards or Forwards?
2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have run the race, I have kept the faith.” So it’s New Year’s Eve and the end of another calendar year. How would you evaluate the last 365 days? In verse 7 above, Paul was looking backwards on his whole life and doing a positive…
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Ups or Downs?
Philippians 3:12-14 “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind…
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Joyful Trials or Painful Shortcuts?
James 1:2-4 “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” Has it been a tough year? It has for me. When going through…