Best Dymet Podcasts (2025)

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Trust in the Lord 2:30

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Stress, or the need to alleviate it, is the number one felt need in society today. What does that say, pray tell, about the way we’re living our lives? Perhaps you’ve heard me say this before but I’ll say it again, because I know it absolutely to be true. Whilst pressure is inevitable, stress is optional. Pressures come at us from all sides – that’…

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Tolerance Versus Endorsement 2:30

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If there were just one word to sum up the dominant moral ethos of this age, it would be the word “tolerance”. It’s become the hallmark of decency, of concern, of love. And yet instinctively we know that some of the things we’re being called to be tolerant of are … quite plainly, wrong. In this ‘anything goes’ world in which we live, why wouldn’t to…

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Blessings in Poverty // Blessings in Strange Places, Part 1 9:40

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Jesus once said Blessed are the Poor in Spirit. Does that mean that Christianity’s just for losers? Not on your life. But what did He mean? There’s a powerful truth in that statement that can change our lives. I was listening to a song the other day, and one of the lines in the song said this, "We've conquered outer space but not inner space." It's…

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The Joy of the Cross // It's Time to Start Enjoying Your Life, Part 3 23:26

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Joy is a wonderful thing. And it turns out that Jesus died in order that we might have His joy. True. But sometimes, sometimes we squander that joy – what an incredible waste. Paint the Picture Over these last few weeks we’ve been taking a look at joy, especially God’s heart for us to have His joy in our lives – a complete and overflowing sense of …

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Come to Jesus 2:30

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If ever there was a time in human history when ordinary folk like you and me needed to relearn, to rediscover, the art of rest, it’d have to be here, now, today. With all the technology crowding in on us, our constant connectedness the outside world, the bright little screens disrupting our sleep patterns … yep, today’s the day. Between emails, SMS…

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The Sabbath Rest of God 2:30

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Of all the things we experience in life – the good, the bad, the ugly – without a shadow of doubt, one the most pleasant, one of the most wonderful … is rest. T’ain’t nothin’ like putting your head down on that soft pillow at night after a long hard day. In fact, when you think about it, rest is absolutely vital to our survival. You can’t keep func…

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Time Alone with Jesus // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 10 9:36

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If you want to enjoy someone, you have to spend time with them. It’s not rocket science, is it? So why is it that so many people believe in Jesus, want to follow Him, but they just never – well, enjoy Him? This morning I was up a bit early, a bit tired I'd have to confess but I made myself a cup of tea and I went and sat in my favourite arm chair i…

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Hidden Sin // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 9 9:54

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We live life sometimes as though joy is something that we experience on the outside. But actually it’s something that lives in our hearts. And when we try to store up rubbish in our hearts, we shouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t come up smelling like roses. There's a basic maxim in today's society that if it feels good, just do it. As long as it d…

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What Jesus Wants 2:30

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I don’t think any of us needs a lecture on the benefits of rest, of taking a break from our labours, of drawing away and having some “me time”. But if that’s the case, why are so many people living such stressed, frazzled lives? I came home from an international ministry trip recently – a 15 hour flight there and back, an eight hour time change at …

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There's No Joy in Exhaustion // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 8 9:38

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Sometimes we work so hard at enjoying our lives – we end up absolutely exhausted. Stress, tiredness, overwork are epidemics in our society. And you can’t enjoy life, when you’re always exhausted. I have a confession to make, I'm an addict but fortunately the thing that I'm addicted to is well, it's something good. It's called "the joy of the Lord".…

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Getting the Balance Right 2:30

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When it comes to living out your life in what, frankly, is a crazy world these days, it’s becoming more and more difficult it seems to strike a happy work-life balance. Some want to take it easy yet have it all, while others are working themselves into an early grave. There’s all sorts of research out there these days about work-life balance. In on…

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Driven to Deliver 2:30

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Can I be blunt today and ask you, are you a workaholic? And if not you, are you married to one? Or is one of your adult children a workaholic? Because speaking from experience, I can tell you, it’s a shocking disease. According to a joint report by the World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation, in 2016 long working hours l…

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Unforgiveness in Your Heart // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 7 9:40

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We all want to enjoy or lives. We do – but sometimes, we carry things around in our hearts, that rob us of that joy. Like unforgiveness. We blame other people, but the reality is, it’s up to us to deal with unforgiveness. We've all been in a place where we've been hurt by someone. Maybe it was just being ignored or excluded from something or perhap…

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The Thief in the Night // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 6 9:38

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Joy is such a wonderful thing – it’s something that Jesus wants for each one of us. But sometimes people and things and circumstances come along, like a thief in the night, to steal it away. It's great to be with you at the beginning of another week, gee the time rolls by quickly doesn't it? Now imagine, imagine for a moment that a thief breaks int…

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Working Long Hours 2:30

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The need to work is something that we take pretty much for granted. After all, we need to put food on the table, a roof over our heads. And though sadly, many are unemployed and that’s tough, there’s something else going on with work that’s equally bad. While some workplaces are moving towards a shorter working week, others are headed in the opposi…

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No Excuses 2:30

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We can get grumpy for all sorts of reasons – a lack of sleep, low blood sugar, hunger, stress, unresolved anger, injustice, conflict. Hey, even bad weather can make us grumpy. And when you’re grumpy, the words that tumble out of your mouth … well, they can be pretty ugly. Have you ever had someone lash out at you out of nowhere? Those words stung, …

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Receiving God's Joy in Our Sorrow // It's Time to Start Enjoying Your Life, Part 2 23:38

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We tend to think of joy and sorrow as being opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. But God – God has this thing where He wants to pour His joy, into our sorrow.. A Letter of Some Friends Last week on the programme we began a new series called, “It’s Time to Start Enjoying My Life”. Look around, the joy in this world seems to be in such very short…

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The Pain of Correction 2:30

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So, a couple of questions for you today: How much do you like being corrected? How much do you like being disciplined? Come on! Have you ever found yourself saying, “I can’t wait for someone to point out my mistakes and correct me”? Not likely! Even more abhorrent in this day and age is the notion of God’s discipline, God’s correction. Though it re…

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Honour God with Your Wealth 2:30

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Perhaps you’ve heard me say this before, but I’m going to say it again today because it’s so incredibly important. In this life, pressure is inevitable. Stress, on the other hand, is entirely optional. One of the biggest pressures we can face is financial pressure. How stressed are you over your finances? You can hardly pick up a newspaper or liste…

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Can This Joy Really Be For Me? // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 5 9:39

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I don’t know about you – but I spent years wandering in the wilderness because I felt that I wasn’t good enough for God. And so I spent years on missing out on His love and His joy. What a waste! This week on the program we've been talking about receiving and living in the joy of God. A joy that people look for in all sorts of weird and wonderful p…

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Model Behaviour (3) 2:30

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Suffering is a nasty thing, a terrible thing, a thing that we don’t want to have to go through, or deal with, or even mention. But just as surely as God made little green apples, you and I still have some suffering to get through in the days that remain for us here on this earth. Well, there’s a cheery thought – glad you joined me today? Sure you a…

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The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 4 9:39

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We tend to think of joy and sorrow as being two emotions at opposite ends of the spectrum. But joy – real joy it turns out is like an antidote for the bitterness of sorrow. It always has been. When it comes to experiencing joy in our lives, for most of us, well we think that joy and sorrow are mutually exclusive. You can't know joy when you're unde…

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Entering into the Gates of Joy // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 3 9:39

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Some people try to believe in Jesus from a distance. I tried – and believe you me, it just doesn’t work. So when you talk to them about the joy of the Lord – they say “Sure – but not for me.” Really? Over the last couple of days on the program we've been talking about the fact that it's God’s plan to fill us completely and utterly with His joy, to …

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Model Behaviour (2) 2:30

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Do you know what I hate? I hate it when I’m made to suffer when I’ve done nothing wrong; when my good intentions are misconstrued and people turn against me. We’ve all been there and it’s a terrible thing. Nelson Mandela was pivotal in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Whilst he initially advocated non-violent resistance, he later cof…

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Model Behaviour (1) 2:30

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Without doubt, we live in a brutal world. We’d like to believe, for instance, that slavery was eradicated long ago. But according to the World Economic Forum, as of 2021 there were over 50 million people globally living in conditions of modern slavery. 50 million! The very concept of slavery is patently abhorrent and yet it’s been a fact of life pr…

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Whose Idea is Joy Anyway? // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 2 9:39

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Joy is one of those things we all want to have. Not one person on this planet who doesn’t want it. So – where does it come from. I mean who’s idea is it and…well, is it for me? There is something awesome about being around a person who has a deep sense of joy. Maybe you know one or two people like that and you know, often they're not sort of over t…

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Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart 2:30

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It’s easy these days to feel pressured – pressured by a lack of time, a lack of resources, the demands that work and life in general place on us, pressing in, it seems, from every direction. What is it in your life that makes you feel pressured? One of the things that can all too easily set me off is my email inbox, especially after I’ve been trave…

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Why Is Joy In Such Short Supply? // It's Time to Start Enjoying My Life, Part 1 9:54

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Joy is one of those precious commodities that seems to be in such short supply. We go looking for it everywhere – so many things promise joy, but end up being just a mirage. Why is that? It's great to be with you on a fresh new week on the program and today we're starting a series of ten programs, this week and next week, to take a look at joy. It'…

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Don't Play Hide and Seek With God 2:30

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Remember when you did something wrong as a child how you’d hide it from your parents? Sometimes you got away with it, other times you didn’t. Either way, it wasn’t a nice feeling having to hide things or getting caught, was it? In 1963, eleven men pulled off an audacious heist in the UK that became known as “The Great Train Robbery”, stealing £2.6 …

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Why is Joy So Elusive? // It's Time to Start Enjoying Your Life, Part 1 23:31

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It’s such a simple word. Three letters. Just one syllable. So why is joy so elusive? We try so hard to find it –but, you know… Why is Joy in Such Short Supply? Well, it’s great to be with you again this week and we are starting a new series on the programme called, "It’s Time to Start Enjoying My Life". I really am looking forward to this series be…

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Don't Swallow the Jesus Cocktail 2:30

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Down through the centuries – indeed, to this very day – “religion” has been used to perpetrate unspeakable atrocities. There’s no arguing with that. So how does something that’s meant to be good end up becoming manifestly evil? Let’s use the Christians as our bad example for today. Somewhere between several hundred thousand and several million peop…

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Leave It To God // How to Deal with Anger, Part 5 9:51

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Anger is an interesting thing – it comes from our sense of justice. Even God gets angry. Problem is, sometimes our sense of justice can be a little distorted. So when we experience angry – what can we do with it? Anger is one of those basic facts of life and in many respects it's a natural reaction to a whole range of situations. Sometimes we think…

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Overcoming Financial Stress (5) 2:30

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One of the reasons that Jesus made such a splash back in His day is that in the face of the brutal realities of the Graeco-Roman world, coupled with the corruption of Israel’s religious leaders, He proclaimed and lived out a message of radical unselfishness. Back in 1836 George and Mary Müller founded the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. …

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Overcoming Financial Stress (4) 2:30

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Whether you’re rich, poor, or somewhere in between, there always seems to be that temptation to want more. And it’s amazing how adept the marketing machines of this world have become at tapping into our various trigger points for instant gratification. Yet along the way, to be honest, there have been times when we didn’t know whether we’d be able t…

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Be Slow to Speak // How to Deal with Anger, Part 4 9:39

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It is so easy to go from cool, calm and collected one minute into a temper tantrum in the very next. Dr Jeckle and Mr Hyde. But God has some really practical advice as to how to handle that situation. When you get a group of people together there seems to be, well, two sorts of people there. First there's the person who talks all the time, never sh…

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Overcoming Financial Stress (3) 2:30

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In the world of high finance, many use debt to make more money. It’s called a leveraged investment. You borrow someone else’s money, invest it, and hopefully make more money. I don’t know about you, but I don’t live in the world of high finance. In so-called developed economies, the big worry – both for financial regulators and individuals – is the…

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Dealing with a Hot Temper // How to Deal with Anger, Part 3 9:39

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Every now and then – we all through a temper tantrum. And so often it’s over the craziest little things. A hot temper isn’t a good look. So – how do we deal with it? How can we conquer it? Now when we're bringing up children we expect them to have temper tantrums. They're never fun of course but a temper tantrum is part of growing up. It's a part o…

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Overcoming Financial Stress (2) 2:30

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Headline after headline is telling us that financial pressures are tearing lives apart. And the more we hear about the financial crisis, the more pressured we feel. I saw another headline the other day: “Ordinary Workers Can’t Afford Their Rent.” The article talked about the fact that even teachers, police officers, nurses – these professionals who…

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A Matter of the Heart // How to Deal with Anger, Part 2 9:39

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Bitterness and anger can become a habit – an attitude that grips our live. It’s like a venom that pumps through our veins. Fortunately though, there is an antidote. God made certain of that. Anger is a real problem in this world, it's running at plague proportions and yet it's something you don't hear people talk much about. Psychologists have come…

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Overcoming Financial Stress (1) 2:30

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One of the biggest causes of stress in society today is personal finances. Rising prices. Rising rents. Punishing mortgage interest. Health care. How do I make ends meet? It’s causing a lot of people a lot of worry. This Newsweek headline recently caught my eye: “Financial Insecurity Causing a Mental Health Crisis.” Let me quote from their survey: …

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The Root of Bitterness // How to Deal with Anger, Part 1 9:51

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Bitterness is something that we sometimes carry around in our hearts. And so often, we don’t even realise that this root of bitterness has taken hold in our lives. What is it and what can we do about it? I don't know if you've noticed but when a seed falls to the ground and dies ultimately it sprouts and takes root. And if it was the seed of a plum…

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Why Stay Foolish? 2:30

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Empowerment is a word we all love. Hey, who doesn’t want to feel empowered? Who doesn’t want to be able to crash through their problems? But you can’t talk about empowerment without mentioning responsibility and accountability, at which point, many recoil. What, really? Any psychologist will tell you how important it is to acknowledge your own role…

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Faith That Conquers the World // Having the Sort of Faith That Conquers the World, Part 3 23:31

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The only faith the Bible talks about, the only sort of Faith Jesus talked about was the sort of faith that moves mountains. The sort of faith that conquers the world! The sort that has powerful results. Conquering Faith There are times in our lives when we have to overcome obstacles. Now not every obstacle is there for overcoming, let me say. Somet…

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Being Your Authentic Self 2:30

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The mantra of this age seems to be … be your authentic self! Do what comes naturally. Be who you feel you really are. Which very much sets up the culture wars between so-called conservatives and liberals. What do you make of all that? Nineteenth Century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson put it like this: “To be yourself in a world that’s con…

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Overcoming Faith // By Faith, Part 10 9:38

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Just before He was crucified, Jesus told His somewhat frightened disciples that they should be of good cheer, because He’d overcome this world. Then the Romans nailed Him to a cross. Doesn’t sound very cheery to me. Doesn’t sound too much about “overcoming” to me. Well, over these last couple of weeks we've been chatting about faith, the sort of fa…

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Don't Head Back to Prison 2:30

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I’m fairly certain that just a single night locked up in prison would be more than enough to cure me of any future criminal intent that might be lurking in my heart. How about you? Which is why I find recidivism – those criminals who repeatedly reoffend – so completely incomprehensible. American gangster Al Capone rose to prominence in the 1920’s d…

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Self-Promotion in Disguise 2:30

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Let’s face it, boasting is an ugly habit. It’s crass. It turns most of us off … and yet people still do it. But not all of it is “in your face” so to speak. A good deal of self-promotion, of bragging, comes dressed in any number of disguises. Yep, boasting arrives incognito. Take humble bragging. “Oh, I’m so exhausted from my vacation in Paris; the…

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Unwavering Faith // By Faith, Part 9 9:41

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When God calls us into something that’s really hard, scary, tough, radical … He does that sometimes, have you noticed – what we need is unwavering faith. Yeah, right! Where do you get that, pray tell?! You know what I think is absolutely the most difficult thing about faith, it's that sometimes when I believe God for something He doesn't give me th…

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Conquering Faith // By Faith, Part 8 9:39

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Faith is an awesome thing – it’s a gift from God and one of the reasons God gives us faith and then takes us through trials to grow our faith is so that we can conquer the things of this world. That’s what the Bible teaches us. Problem is that when we’re in the middle of the conquering bit – well, that can get a bit scary. There are times in our li…