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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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Be Careful of Your Emotions

FRESH Official Podcast ·

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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What Sort of Person Are You?

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2025/07/15

You don’t like to label people … but let’s be honest, some people are just obnoxious. You’ve met them, I’ve met them … but the question is, do you meet one each morning when you look in the mirror? Twentieth century, New York real estate mogul and hotelier Leona Helmsley developed quite the reputation for being one of the most obnoxious public figures of her time. Together with her husband, she built a vast hotel empire. But she was best known for her ruthless business tactics, the way she

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Bad Religion

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2025/07/14

“Religion” is a word with which I have a rather uneasy relationship. I get that it’s a commonly used term to label a belief system that’s become … well, organised if I can put it that way. But I still don’t like it. How about you? Why don’t I like it? Because so many bad things have been done in the name of “religion”. And I’m not pointing the finger here at any other religions – let’s get right to the heart of it. So many bad things have been done in the name of Christianity and its religious

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Holy Spirit Power

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2025/07/13

So many things promise so much. You can’t spend even five minutes online without some ad popping up spruiking this or that. Mostly they’re just a lot of hot air, but when you’re out of breath – as we all too often are in this fast-paced world – they can easily suck you in. So instead, let me share something with you today that’s real, that’ll never fail, that brings life – rich, abundant, life. After Jesus’ death and resurrection, His disciples were looking for a heavenly answer to their worldly

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The Breath of Life

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2025/07/12

Sometimes – often-times, in fact – the simplest things in life yield the greatest benefits. And we ignore them at our peril. Did you know that deep breathing – several slow deep breaths completely filling your lungs, holding, and then slowly letting them out again – has scientifically proven health benefits? It stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering your blood pressure and heart rate and reducing stress and anxiety. So the very same breath that gives us life can deliberately be

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Take a Deep Breath

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2025/07/11

There’s so much in life that we take for granted, not the least of which is the life-giving ability to breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out – the very breath of life itself. Every minute of every day each of the 8.23 billion people on Earth breathe in and out around 15 times. That’s 7 litres in, 7 litres out, which makes for a 115 billion litres (30 billion gallons roughly) of air movement caused by the human race every minute of every day. That’s an awful lot of hot air, wouldn’t

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Good Common Sense

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2025/07/10

It’s pretty amazing how easily our emotions can override good common sense. Everything from pride to fear, from anger to loneliness can cause us to make some really bad decisions; decisions that we’ll end up regretting down the track. In 1812, Napolean Bonaparte, the self-appointed Emperor of France, launched a massive military campaign against Russia. He put together one of the largest armies ever assembled in Europe – 600,000 soldiers from various European countries under his control. Never

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God's Love Fills the Earth

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2025/07/09

Have you ever felt completely unloved … I mean, as though there’s not a single person on this planet who loves you? I have, and without doubt that was the lowest point of my life. I’m not sure if everyone gets there, but I suspect that at some point we all do. You can feel unloved even when people do love you – and that feeling is the absolute pits. Nineteenth century poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote some dark and macabre pieces. Orphaned at a young age, his life was marked by tragedy,

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Be Confident in the Darkness

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2025/07/08

Do you remember as a child being afraid of the dark? Yeah, so when darkness descends on our lives once more, that fear we once felt comes rushing back. But with all my heart, I know that God wants to give you His confidence amidst dark times. Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who saved around two and a half thousand Jewish children during the Holocaust. She smuggled them out of the Warsaw Ghetto by hiding them in ambulances, sacks, even coffins. She hid her meticulous records of the

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Don't Overestimate Your Problems

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2025/07/07

When you’re faced with a problem, it’s really easy to overestimate its magnitude. The more grief it causes you, the bigger it becomes. It’s only natural. What’s needed here is a sense of perspective. So, here goes. If the sun was hollow, you’d be able to fit 1.3 million earths inside. Just let that sink in – 1.3 million! Yet the sun’s classified as only a medium-sized star in the known universe. The best estimate that astronomers have been able to come up with thus far is that there appears to

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Power From Above

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2025/07/06

It absolutely flicks my switch when the unlikeliest person does something brilliant – something completely out of the box, something that no one expected. How about you? In 2009 Susan Boyle walked out onto the stage of the TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent”. She was quirky … really quite odd. When she told the judges that she wanted to be a famous singer, the audience collectively rolled their eyes. Then she opened her mouth and sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables. She sang it like a

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Stop! Trying to be a Better Person

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2025/07/05

Over the years, it's frustrated the living daylights out of me that, as much as I tried to deal with my own ingrained character flaws (and we all have them), I wasn't able to change any one of them on my own. Man, that used to drive me crazy! How about you? Back in the 16th century, the pirate Grace O’Malley terrorised the Irish seas. She was known for her ruthlessness, commanding a fleet that pillaged ships and coastal settlements. But her life took a dramatic turn after a bold encounter with

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Holy Spirit Power

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2025/07/04

As you and I simply get on with life, it’s kind of easy to drift away from what we’ve believed; what, at the core of our being, we’ve held to be true; what really mattered to us way back when but somehow it’s all been crowded out by the stuff that presses in on us day to day. Back in the early 17th century, Dutch sailor Pieter van der Linde and a few of his crew were caught in a storm that separated them from their ship. Thinking they were near the coast, they sailed on not realising that, in

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This is What It's All About

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2025/07/03

The faster the pace of life gets, and the more crowded our waking hours become with the thousand details that we deal with each day, the more unthinking, the more transactional, the more dehumanised our actions tend to become. What’s something that you do on autopilot day after day? Perhaps it’s making the kids’ lunches and getting them off to school. Or driving the same route to work each day in the same wretched traffic. Or answering the barrage of emails that never seem to stop piling into

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