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Dating for marriage

Verses many preachers avoid

The Importance of Balancing Grace and Accountability

The old man, the flesh and the cross

Our relationship with the Bible

The deceitfulness of sin

To be pleasing to God

Neglecting such a great salvation!

How narrow is the gate?

Our part in salvation

Where are you going, church?

Which is the faith that saves?

Why victory does not come

Can we be realistic in love?

Something missing in our gospel

False gospels and the faltering church

What is the image of God in us?

Why I believe Calvinism is heretical

Christian premarital counselling

Dating for marriage

The challenge of biblical creation

'God sees me through Jesus'

'Three wrong but common ideas'

'The battle belongs to the Lord'

"We must have enough faith"

"Nothing we need to do"

Who can be a disciple of Jesus?

Privilege and responsibility

The elephant in the church

Serving God or ourselves?

'Believers' who don't believe

Unwilling to compromise

Danger - nominal believers!

Responding to the truth

Dishonest teachers

Obedience is a bad word!

Are you offended with Jesus?

Not to give up

Anxiety, foe and friend

When faith becomes alive

When we move from the truth

It's a matter of perfection

Our response decides our growth

Religious or spiritual?

The new religion

Jesus has come to set us free

Whom God has blessed!

Why isn't the Christian life comfortable?

How is God in control?

Listen, question, obey

Temptations must not lead us to sin

How can a God of grace punish people?

When spiritual authority crosses a line

Selection criteria for leaders

The twists and turns of our mind

Fighting our battles

Going after other gods

Three levels of Christian life

Protect ourselves from the world

Unrealistic expectations

Walking before God

Do we count ourselves righteous?

Seeing grace in Romans 7 and 8

Understanding the grace of God

Why only a few are saved?

Lamps under a bushel

Staying in faith

Songs of a broken man

Living with consequences

What is God like?

Brothers with differences of opinion

Being in Christ and following Him

Incomplete evangelism

Comfort for Christians with questions

Christian, what do you think about the Bible?

Always asking for signs

Is God a puppet master?

Returning from compromise

The spirits of the time

The kingdom of God

How shall we give?

Growing in faith

Jesus defines sin

Are we legalistic?

By might or by the Spirit?

Dimensions of love

Why are we so defensive?

What is the Bible all about?

Looking at the mirror

What grace is and is not

This is not godliness

How is our love for God?

Entering the kingdom of God

Ignore doctrine, ignore life

The tussle between law and grace

Is Jesus the only way?

Motivation for godliness

The Christian's Promised Land

Your ministry in the church

Faith growing through doubts

Why suffer when there is God?

Attitude of independence

If we have been forgiven

Excuses for sin?

Knowing the fear of the Lord

Walking through uncertainties

Judge not!

Overcoming in trials

Basking in the love of God

Want to be great?

Are we becoming like Jesus?

Who are false teachers?

Baggage from the past

A heart to serve

Never to stagnate

Presuming to be a Christian>

Jesus wants to set us free

Look out for backsliding

Going forward in humility

To be free from people

Encouraging ourselves

War on the flesh

Walking in the light

The wisdom of this world

How shall we worship?

Made in the image of God

How shall we forgive?

Promises and warnings

Many voices in the air

The God of all comfort

Worthy of our calling

Does God answer all prayers?

Are you a disciple?

The mission of Jesus

God's dream church

Faithful from the heart

A faith that endures

God's will or mine?

Giving our account

Running our race

Assurance of life

Change your thinking

Dealing with shame and guilt

The way of cleaning

After we sin

Grace and discipline

Grace and God's approval

The Bible as the word of God

God's plan for us

Be sure of your salvation!

The true grace of God

The prodigal son

Bringing down strongholds

Believers, followers and disciples

Are you in love with Jesus?

Missing true spirituality

Are you born of God?

A godly man

Extreme spirituality

Friendship with God

The practical Christian life - audio book

Understanding the Bible - audio book

Authority - use and misuse - audio book

'Pointers along the way' on YouTube.

#789 Seeing ourselves

#790 Going on with Jesus

#791 Sheltering under excuses

#792 Conviction of sin

#793 The kingdom of God

#794 The gate opens wider!

#795 Gifts and calling

#796 The power of the word?

#797 Serving the King

#798 The curse of nominal Christianity

#799 Answers to prayer

#800 What is grace?

#801 Walking together?

#802 Through suffering

#803 Jumping to conclusions

#804 John's baptism

#805 Who should we listen to?

#806 Conviction of faith

#807 How do we understand salvation?

#808 Grace and victory

#809 Imperfect servants of God

#810 Condemnation is sometimes good

#811 Power from above

#812 Christianity based on personal opinions?

#813 Enduring in trial

#814 Man's response to God

#815 Offended with God?

#816 Overdoing humility

#817 Wisdom from above

#818 Leaving it all to God

#819 Misplaced inclusiveness

#820 So, you don't want to be a Pharisee!

#821 Christians and obedience

#822 To speak as the Father teaches

#823 The illusion of religion

#824 Consequences

#825 Excuses

#826 Tied to the past

#827 Looking through coloured glasses

#828 Declaring the whole

#829 Grace is not a cover

#830 By training or by birth

#831 The Department of Faith

#832 "If My people..."

#833 Can I do all things through Christ?

#834 The value of faithfulness

#835 Why do people resist God?

#836 The blessing of forgiveness

#837 Hypocrites will be exposed

#838 Leaning on ourselves?

#839 Applying the truth

#840 When God gives up on some

#841 Are all things from God?

#842 The basis of our standing with God

#843 The gap between the mind and the body

#844 God's love and the narrow gate

#845 How we see ourselves

#846 Clash of ministries

#847 Walking in the fear of God

#848 Walking with God

#849 Are we obligated to sin?

#850 How God uses Satan

#851 Why pray?

#852 Are you being made whole?

#853 Is this promise for us?

#854 Political thinking

#855 According to the spirit

#856 The problem with the church

#857 A crash course in godliness

#858 We are just voices

#859 Ananias and Sapphira today

#860 Misplaced ambitions

#861 Only believe vs. obedience

#862 Baptised into death

#863 Can faith save us?

#864 Walking by the Spirit

#865 What is victory?

#866 Superficial faith

#867 Crucified with Christ

#868 Checking with reality

#869 By faith or dead works?

#870 Counterfeit victory

#871 COVID and unanswered questions

#872 Young Christian girls going wrong

#873 Happy festival, RIP, etc.

#874 Incomplete prayer

#875 Is God in everyone?

#876 One test for spiritual growth

#877 How vulnerable are we?

#878 The crux of the Gospel

#879 Two types of brokenness

#880 If we don't love the truth

#881 Learning through prayer

#882 The hardness of our heart

#883 Praying with burden

#884 Job description, not title

#885 Theological exaggeration

#886 Believers, yet foolish

#887 Our will

#888 Standing on the shoulders of giants

#889 Restoration to God

#890 The man with just one talent

#891 God's bigger plan

#892 Sympathy for our weaknesses

#893 Claiming to be wise

#894 God cannot deny Himself

#895 Faith cannot ignore reality

#896 A man who seeks God

#897 Are you bound to the church or God?

#898 Righteousness and mercy

#899 Spiritual discernment

#900 Our sinful response

#901 Misplaced zeal

#902 Discerning between soul and spirit

#903 Curing the sickness or the symptom?

#904 The sinfulness of self

#905 Why grace should not be hyped

#906 Living under a higher law

#907 Why did Paul speak in tongues?

#908 It's all about the heart

#909 Making sense of God

#910 Experiencing more of salvation

#911 The sieve we use

#912 By grace through faith

#913 Eve and Satan today

#914 Knowledge based Christians

#915 Our challenge in dealing with others

#916 The tendency to cool off

#917 How we start is crucial

#918 Faithful with money

#919 Love God or people?

#920 Waiting for things to change

#921 The circumcision of the heart

#922 The God shaped vacuum

#923 Thinking outside the box

#924 When they say peace and safety

#925 Followers or disciples?

#926 Dead to the Law

#927 Going to extremes

#928 Sanctification God's work or ours?

#929 Magic stuff Christians do

#930 Healed through His wounds

#931 Wish, hope, faith

#932 The voice of the shepherd

#933 Elephants never forget?

#934 Where the Bible is silent

#935 Our choice matters

#936 The Holy Spirit and the world

#937 Jesus in our context

#938 Responding to revelation

#939 The essentials of conversion

#940 Looking for religious solutions

#941 What we consider as virtue

#942 Exaggerating the work of God

#943 Decent sinners

#944 Dangerous deconstruction

#945 When a brother sins

#946 The law of the Spirit of life

#947 Will God heal?

#948 Is our heart in our ministry?

#949 Doctrines based on proof texts

#950 Do we have to get baptised?

#951 Are we indeed dead to sin?

#952 Justice versus forgiveness

#953 A wrong way to interpret the Bible

#954 The greatest gift to the children

#955 Choices made in secret

#956 God is not like us

#957 Made for man

#958 Until we come to zero

#959 Taking forgiveness for granted?

#960 God will always be righteous

#961 The secret tunnel to victory

#962 Why does God want our worship?

#963 A lot depends on us

#964 Receiving a ministry from God

#965 A believer and sin

#966 Two types of testimony

#967 Make sure you are truly a Christian

#968 If we stop learning

#969 When scientists went wrong

#970 The word or the One who spoke it

#971 Extreme responses

#972 The Gospel replaced

#973 Each one of us

#974 The real reason

#975 What exactly is grace?

#976 Why do people get offended with Jesus?

#977 Cannot get away with compromise

#978 Grace vs. works

#979 The immediate cost of sin

#980 Leaning on stray verses

#981 If we love Jesus

#982 Agonising over salvation

#983 Leaving all battles to the Lord?

#984 Disproportionate reactions

#985 Practical perfection

#986 Unreasonable debates

#987 When intellectuals stray from God

#988 A form of godliness

#989 When we hear the truth

#990 Is the Bible inspired?

#991 Make-believe is not faith

#992 Doctrinal differences, big and small

#993 Believers without wedding dress

#994 When we aren't healed

#995 Are you a progressive Christian?

#996 If we pretend to ourselves

#997 What we think of ourselves

#998 Thus far, and no farther

#999 Being subject to one another

#1000 Forgiveness

#1001 Hearing God's call

#1002 God's laws on our heart

#1003 Who are chosen?

#1004 Conversion is not complete until

#1005 Boys and girls growing up

#1006 Jesus remains faithful

#1007 Checking with reality

#1008 Has God shut His eyes to our sins?

#1009 Free from the wrath of God

#1010 Really, what is repentance?

#1011 Real freedom from law

#1012 Our inner quest

#1013 Stay out of danger

#1014 Trust vs. understanding

#1015 Only acknowledge your sin

#1016 The rich and the needle's eye

#1017 If you can't forgive someone

#1018 Milk and meat

#1019 "I don't have enough faith for that"

#1020 Playing tricks with our mind

#1021 Part time Christians

#1022 When godly virtues clash

#1023 Take responsibility

#1024 Purifying servants of God

#1025 There's no standard Christian experience

#1026 When we are not so sure

#1027 Taking up our cross

#1028 Leaving it to God

#1029 Falling away from God

#1030 The spiritual Christian vs. the natural

#1031 Leaders who won't judge!

#1032 God's word and our opinions

#1033 The goal that drives a Christian

#1034 I will never leave you

#1035 Called and chosen

#1036 Faith is a much misunderstood word

#1037 Entering into God's rest

#1038 Are we getting stagnant?

#1039 Entering into light

#1040 Confusion about repentance

#1041 Jesus didn't come for the righteous

#1042 Overlooking a transgression

#1043 The great omission

#1044 False prophets are popular!

#1045 When there is conflict

#1046 Victory made simple

#1047 Forks in the road

#1048 The essence of conversion

#1049 Faith and works

#1050 Our wedding dress

#1051 You don't have to stay down

#1052 Conscious and unconscious sin

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