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Alannah Francis
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Sinned again and worrying about what God thinks? Here are 5 Bible verses to reassure you that you are not cast away
The Bible is the best place for us to develop a more informed realisation of what God's love is, what it means to be loved by Him and how we should respond to it. Here are 5 Bible verses to help you start to do just that.
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Forget your reputation and other things that are necessary if we want to be more like Christ
Here are three simple things that you can do to show your solidarity with those who are excluded in society.
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3 ways to keep your spiritual growth from stalling
Spiritual stagnation can happen to everyone and it isn't always a case of not doing enough or needing to do more. Here are some simple tips that can help you kickstart your spiritual growth if you feel like its ground to a halt.
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Feeling unclean due to past sin? Let these Bible verses help you rediscover God's power to cleanse
If you are feeling unclean because of past or present sin, take a look over the following Bible verses and rediscover God's power to refresh and renew. You may even find it helpful to say the first two psalms as prayers as you ask for forgiveness and help in distancing yourself from sin.
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4 tips for staying in control of your temper when speaking with someone you strongly disagree with
Here are three tips for tackling the temptation to throw charity out the window when you're locked in discussion with someone over something you passionately disagree about.
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4 things that might be destroying your joy in the Lord and why they shouldn't
Without realising it, you may have been the only obstacle standing in your way of experiencing the joy that's readily available to you.
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5 Bible verses to keep help you separate truth from lies
Whether it's a dubious marketing offer in a supermarket, a heavily embellished house description on a property sales website or the face-to-face lies of a close friend, we all have experience of being deceived. Falling victim to deception doesn't just risk us losing our cash, it also poses a great danger to our physical, emotional and spiritual health.
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Where do your heart and treasure really lie? 3 areas you can check to see whether Christ really is getting your all
The kind of investment that we're required to make when we follow Christ is the kind that means putting our all in. Like other investments, there are certain risks involved – losing friends, enduring suffering from those who wish us harm, but with Jesus, there's no risk in the end product. Here are three things areas which we can study when working out where our heart and our treasure lies.
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Record-breaking NFL quarterback Brett Favre thanks Jesus as he's inducted into Hall of Fame
On Saturday, record-breaking Christian quarterback Brett Favre was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. Favre began his speech with a joke about returning to the field before moving on to thank Jesus.
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What does it mean to live a good Christian life? Here are 9 Bible verses that help give the answer
The following scripture is handy to memorise or have to hand when you are acting as an ambassador for Christ. (So, that'll be all the time, then.) They're also useful when thinking about how to articulate what it means to live as a Christian to others.
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Summer doesn't have to be a season of spiritual slacking: 4 things to progress with in the holidays
When it comes to summer, we tend to press pause on a lot of things, and that can include our commitment to practising our faith. But summer doesn't have to be a season of spiritual slacking.
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Rio 2016: what the world's top athletes can teach us about stepping up our spiritual game
Over the next few weeks, each athlete will learn things about themselves, their opponents and their sport as the games progress but as spectators we can also pick up a few pointers as we seek to run the race Christ has set out for us.
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Barack Obama at 55: What does he have to say about his Christian faith?
Here are four quotes which reveal some of what he's had to say about his Christian beliefs over the years.
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3 amazing things you discover about yourself when you find God
Here are just three of things that we find out about ourselves when we find God.
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He comes to set you free: 4 Bible verses on the Lord's power to break every chain
Here are some Bible verses which will also enable you to see that regardless of the power that chains have, the Lord's power to break them is far greater.
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