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FRESH is a Daily Devotional taking you deeper into God"s Word + closer to Jesus. Each devotion will have a powerful Scripture verse, together with some words of inspiration, hope and encouragement. It"s all about helping you hear from God so that you can live in a rich, dynamic, powerful relationship with Jesus. God"s Word. Fresh, for you, each day.

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How You Live Matters

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2025/08/04

Loving families, when you think about it, are the very bedrock of our lives as communal creatures. Without them, society would fall apart … which perhaps goes some way to explaining the mess the world’s in today. Of course, not every child is blessed to grow up surrounded by a loving, albeit imperfect, mother and father. Fortunately I was and though my parents are both gone now, the upbringing they gave me is something I’ll cherish for all eternity. But that upbringing involved some tough love

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Instinctive Reactions

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2025/08/03

When someone treats you badly, when they ignore you or insult you … how do you respond? The answer for most of us most of the time is that we respond instinctively, treading the same, well-worn path amidst conflict. Look, none of us likes to be ignored, to be slighted, to be thought or spoken ill of. None of us wants the people close to us to snap at us (as they so often do without thinking). But it happens almost daily. So what’s your instinctive response? Those with a strong personality type

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Bringing It All Together

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2025/08/02

It’s estimated that as many as a billion people have died in wars throughout human history. One billion! The 20th century with its two world wars and weapons of mass destruction accounts for a not insignificant proportion of those deaths! And there are still around 135 state and non-state based “armed conflicts” raging today. What’s the matter with us? So, let’s bring this all a bit closer to home. How’s the level of conflict in your life – the people with whom you’ve clashed, those from whom

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United in Love

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2025/08/01

I don’t know how old you are, but I’ve been knocking around planet Earth for 24,246 days – that’s just under 66 ½ years. And over that time, without doubt, social cohesion has decayed dramatically. Huge, apparently unbridgeable chasms have opened up. Why is that? I asked a piece of AI software that question. Here’s how it responded: “The rise of social division in the modern age can be attributed to a complex interplay of factors.” You can say that again! Digital and social media act like

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God's Love for You

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2025/07/31

I wonder how many love songs have ever been written. Millions. As many as the grains of sand on a beach … and then some. Without doubt, love would have to be the single, most sung-about topic in all of human history. Why is that, do you think? Love songs have been a part of human expression for thousands of years. Ancient civilisations – the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Indians – all had their own love songs. Many were passed down orally. Some are still sung today. More

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Demonstrable Wisdom

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2025/07/30

We’ve all met people whom we’d happily describe as being wise. But worldly success alone doesn’t always earn you the label of wisdom. We’d never call a self-serving, arrogant person wise. So what does it actually mean then, to be wise? Some people seem to be incredibly insightful. They have a knack of navigating their way through complexity to successful outcomes. And they’re often powerful communicators, able to bring others along with them. Is that what it means to be wise? Well, perhaps …

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When He Calls

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2025/07/29

Have you ever set out to achieve something – something you really wanted – but then when things turned hard, when you faced opposition, when you grew tired of struggle … you just gave up? Well, you wouldn’t be alone. In 1405, Chinese Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty commissioned Admiral Zheng to lead a series of treasure voyages to expand Chinese influence and trade. But after Yongle's death the new leadership, sceptical and half-hearted, reduced funding and resources. And as a direct result

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Against Overwhelming Odds

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2025/07/28

Every now and then we find ourselves confronted by overwhelming odds. A marriage that’s falling apart. A health prognosis that rocks you to the core. A cash crunch. A mortgage foreclosure. A wayward child. The death of a loved one. What do you do in those times? How do you respond? How do you get through to the other side without completely falling apart? These are important questions because those times come to us all. I’ve been through mine, you’ve been through yours, and there’s every

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For Your Own Good

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2025/07/27

None of us likes to be told what to do. We didn’t like it when we were children, and we certainly don’t like it now that we’re all grown up. I saw a Christian post something on social media recently that went like this: Don’t let anyone who hasn’t walked in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces. Look, I understand the sentiment, but you can take that way too far to your own detriment. Amidst our prideful sense of self-entitlement as we rationalise our shortcomings, we can end up closing our

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How to Grow Fruit

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2025/07/26

Sadly, whilst almost one third of the world’s population – 2.5 billion people – claim to be Christians, many don’t actually have a genuine relationship with Jesus. And, truth be known, they come off looking like hypocrites. There’s nothing worse than a Christian who claims to believe in Jesus yet lives contrary to His teachings, thereby bringing Christ into disrepute. Jesus told a parable about different types of Christians, using the example of a farmer scattering seed: some of the seeds fell

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God's Reward for Humility

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2025/07/25

Humility is something that we regard highly, yet find rarely. I’m not talking about the sort of false humility that parades as a front for the pride within, but a genuine humility where we humble ourselves before God and others. Back in the day, King Hezekiah of Judah fell gravely ill, and the prophet Isaiah, with a message from God, told him that he’d die. So … 2 Kings 20:2-6 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, “Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked

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Be Wary of the Fight

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2025/07/24

One of the best ways of getting yourself into trouble is to get into a fight. I’ve seen people relish the opportunity, confident they’d win, only to come out of it licking their wounds or worse. Have you ever done that? I have, on more than one occasion back in the day, and it’s not something I’m keen to repeat. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no shrinking violet. In fact, I have rather a strong personality. My very name – Bernhard – means strong as a bear. But when we approach an emerging conflict

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Get On With It

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2025/07/23

Might I ask you today, what’s your purpose in life? What gives meaning to your existence beyond making yourself happy? Because, without any shadow of doubt, a life spent purely gratifying your own desires, trying to make yourself happy, turns out to be one of the emptiest, most unsatisfying lives you can ever imagine. So, let me ask again … what’s your purpose? What do you do for others using your unique God-given gifts and abilities to bless and enrich their lives? Early on, at age twelve,

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Be Careful of Your Emotions

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2025/07/22

Have you ever had your emotions run away on you? Sure you have! You know how it goes: something you’re feeling – either good or bad, happy or sad – overrides the common sense that you normally display … so you end up making a decision, or you say or do something that you later go on to regret big-time! We can never ignore our emotions. They’re a huge part of who we are as human beings, as people made – I very much believe – in the very image of God. Imagine if you were completely devoid of

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Lawyers and Judges

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2025/07/21

Whilst I don’t like the fact, it is true that sometimes I make mistakes – errors of judgement, things said or done instinctively – that I later live to regret. But then, the same is doubtless true of you because we all make mistakes, amen?! And here’s how we play it. When we make a mistake, we either try to ignore it or rationalise it away by making some excuse to let ourselves off the hook. But woe and betide that someone else should make a mistake that impacts our lives or even just slightly

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Christianity in Decline

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2025/07/20

There’s a lot of talk these days that Christianity is in global decline. That’s something that many celebrate, hoping that one day soon it’ll be laid to rest once and for all. But is it really true? To be sure, Christianity is declining numerically in its traditional strongholds – Europe, North America and so on – with secularisation, lower birth rates and what’s called “religious disaffiliation”. But in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, it’s booming. By 2060, Africa’s expected to house

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Consistency is Everything

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2025/07/19

Consistency … sticking with something, holding your course despite the pressures, the confusion, the exhaustion, the roller coaster of emotions that so often come your way … is a powerful driver toward success. During the WWI Battle of Jutland, Admiral David Beatty led the British battlecruiser fleet against the German navy. Problem was, he frequently changed course and tactics during the early phases of the battle. That failure to engage the enemy consistently led to confusion, poor

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How You Behave Online

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2025/07/18

The development of communication technology over this last century, each new invention, has enabled us to be further apart whilst communicating ever more quickly and conveniently. These days, there’s pretty much nowhere on Earth where you can’t use technology to communicate. Back in the 1950’s, when my father (who’d emigrated to Australia from post- war Europe) proposed to my mother (still back in Austria), it took almost three months for his letter to reach her and for her response to come back

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I Have Rights

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2025/07/17

In all that we think, say and do, it’s incredibly worthwhile to ask ourselves from time to time – why did I think, say or do that thing? Why did I have those negative thoughts about my sister? Why did I snap at my wife? Why did I splurge on that useless trinket or toy? Why? The reason I share that with you today is that all too often we think, say and do things out of selfishness and sometimes out of pride. The average person is an incredibly selfish creature. Think about it. One of the most

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Stand Up and Be Counted

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2025/07/16

Is it just me or is public debate (fuelled as it is these days by the unbridled freedom of expression that many enjoy on social media) indeed becoming ever more partisan, more vitriolic, more divisive? What do you think? The left lines up against the right, the right against the left. The environmentalists against the industrialists; the industrialists against the environmentalists; the global technology companies against government regulators, the … well, I’m sure you can list many others. But

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