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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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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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The Authentic Christian Life

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2025/07/02

Authenticity and integrity are attributes we tend to value highly. Although, sadly these days, they’re all too often shouted down by a world more interested in personal gain than in decency and truth. Of course, there’s nothing new in that. Back in the late 18th century, slavery was still deeply entrenched in the British economy. The transatlantic slave trade was a brutal and lucrative industry involving the forced transportation of millions of Africans. British politician and committed

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Neither Gracious Nor Beautiful

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2025/07/01

According to the World Health Organisation, each year around 1.2 million people globally die in road accidents, with tens of millions more suffering non-fatal injuries. Back in the early church there was a couple, Ananias and Sapphira, who suffered a fatal accident. Although, it wasn’t really an accident. Acts 5:1-6 There was a man named Ananias. His wife’s name was Sapphira. Ananias sold some land he had, but he gave only part of the money to the apostles. He secretly kept some of the money

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Danger! Cliff's Edge

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2025/06/30

Imagine just for a moment that you’re standing at the edge of a cliff. Below you, the rocks are sharp, the fall is fatal, the wind is howling. But someone’s posted a warning sign: “Danger—Cliff’s Edge.” You’d think twice about getting too close, wouldn’t you? That’s exactly what this passage is – a warning sign, and it’s not to be taken lightly. Hebrews 10:26-27 If we decide to continue sinning after we have learned the truth, then there is no other sacrifice that will take away sins. If we

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With Radiant Face

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2025/06/29

Some people seem to be more resilient than others. Okay, your background and your “personality type” are going to have some bearing on that. But still, we each have to play the cards we’ve been dealt. So how can you become more resilient in facing the things you have to face? Back in AD 155 Polycarp, the Bishop of Smyrna (located in what is today, Turkey) was arrested for refusing to worship the Roman Emperor. When urged to renounce his faith he famously declared, "Eighty and six years have I

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A Life Worth Living

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2025/06/28

I never actually set out to offend people … honestly, I don’t! But some days it’s unavoidable that some will find what I have to share … well, offensive. Today could well be such a day. Do you like being comfortable? I certainly do. I have a soft, brown leather lounge chair in the corner of my study. I’ve had it for years and I swear it’s the most comfortable chair I’ve ever sat in. It’s my thinking chair, my praying chair, my relaxing chair. We do like to surround ourselves with comfort so,

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The Rollercoaster Ride

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2025/06/27

During those tough times in life, we invariably find ourselves on an emotional rollercoaster. No sooner have you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps than your emotions seem to plummet into the depths of despair. You might be interested to know that the world’s largest rollercoaster is called “Kingda Ka”. It’s located in a theme park in Jackson, New Jersey in the good old US of A. Kingda Ka launches you from 0 to 128 miles per hour (that’s a bit over 200 kilometres per hour) in just 3.5 seconds

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Why Am I So Sad?

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2025/06/26

One of the things that makes the bad times that we sometimes travel through in life feel even worse is, in the midst of them, remembering the good times that once were. What went wrong? Why can’t things be like that again? Why am I stuck here? That phenomenon of lamenting the good times does indeed make the bad times feel much worse; the dark times feel much darker; your isolation feel more complete. That’s why, during those times, it feels like you’re the only one. But rest assured, when you do

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God of All Things

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2025/06/25

There are going to be times in life when things, people, circumstances, our own stupidity even, come against us; when we just want to curl up in a ball and die. It happens to all of us. When the going’s good, when life’s easy – happy days! Enjoy it. But let’s get real, those times don’t last forever. Things come along to spoil them. And sure, we can tough them out … until we can’t, until the daily grind grinds you down so far that you don’t have anything left. It’s been a wondrously humbling

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He Heard My Cry

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2025/06/24

Early the other morning, while it was still pitch black outside, I was preparing today’s message and there was a cat outside my study window crying out, howling desperately. It only went on for a few minutes but that pitiful cry stuck with me. It really was quite haunting because it transported me back to those few times in my life when my pain was so deep that all I could do was sob. I don’t how your life’s played itself out, but anyone who’s been around the block just a few times has been

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A Rewriting of the Script

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2025/06/23

Had you been able to write the script for your life at, say age ten, what would you have written? What would you have hoped for? And perhaps, most importantly, has it turned out that way? It’s pretty safe to say that for most of us things haven’t panned out quite how we’d hoped. Because in writing that script, we’d never have included the hurdles, the hurts, the trials, the temptations that we’ve each been through. Nor would we have written in our regrets over past mistakes, their impact on our

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Upside Down, Inside Out

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2025/06/22

We each have to make sacrifices along the way. But have you ever thought through what a sacrifice really is? Because if we don’t get that bit, then you have to ask yourself – why even bother? It seems to me that a sacrifice means giving up something that you want today for something that you want more down the track. Chess players might sacrifice a bishop to lure their opponent into a move designed to take their queen. A mother will sacrifice her own comforts, often her own needs, to give her

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Your Hidden Potential

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2025/06/21

Do you know what’s really tragic? When someone’s hidden potential goes unrealised because the world can’t see it, because even the person themselves can’t see it. That is such a tragedy! So what hidden talent lies lurking beneath your skin, hmm? Hedy Lamarr is best known as a Hollywood actress of the 1930’s and 40’s. She starred in many successful films and was celebrated as one of the most beautiful and glamorous women of her day. So you can see how easy it was for the press and the public to

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In Those Hidden Moments

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2025/06/20

We all face temptations in life. Sure, people draw the line between right and wrong differently these days, but at the end of the day right is still right and wrong is still wrong. So how do you respond to temptation? Augustine of Hippo, who lived during the 4th and 5th centuries AD, became one of the most influential Christian theologians in history. But before his conversion, he led a life marked by indulgence in worldly pleasures. For years he struggled deeply with immorality and the so-called

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Beware of Fake Friends

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2025/06/19

Did you know that you can now buy an AI friend? Yep! An artificial intelligence company going under the brand name “Replika” will sell you, and I quote, “The AI companion who cares. Always here to listen and talk. Always on your side.” Fantastic. What could possibly go wrong? On the one hand, it’s pretty clever, right? On the other, how tragic that a human being would need to resort to a computer program for friendship – after all that's what AI is, that and a sophisticated database called a

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Every Time You Remember, Forgive Again

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2025/06/18

A question for you today … well a couple actually. Who are the one or two people in your life who’ve hurt you the most? And since then, have you been able to forgive them – I mean, completely forgive them? There’s one man in my life who, in the worst possible way, has betrayed me more than anyone else on the planet. And I’ll be honest with you, forgiving him these past thirty years (yep, it’s that been long!) has been an ongoing struggle. Now, I know the theory. Forgiveness sets you free – and

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Be Careful What You Tolerate

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2025/06/17

Finger pointing, judgementalism, is endemic in society today. And, sad to say, it seems to be a favourite pastime for many a Christian too. Before I became a Christian I was a brute of a man, almost completely ignorant of the things of God. So the way I lived, how I treated people, made perfect sense to me. Judging me would have made absolutely no difference to my behaviour. And yet while we’re busy judging those sinners out there, we can find ourselves ignoring the bad behaviour much closer to

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Friends Who Lighten the Burden

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2025/06/16

Some friends … well, all you have to do is think about them and it brings a smile to your face. That’s a pretty darned good thing, don’t you think? I have a good friend in South Africa called Jonathan. He’s a radio morning show host and you know what morning shows are like. They’re upbeat, happy … the sort of tempo to set you in the right frame of mind as you’re fighting the traffic on the way to work. And Jonathan is exactly the right guy to be doing that. But I know him off air too. I stay at

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