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Startling, Definitive Research – Spiritual Growth & Victory Over Sin

Startling, Definitive Research – Spiritual Growth & Victory Over Sin

Last week I attended a presentation by Arnie Cole, CEO of Back to the Bible and the Center for Bible Engagement, on a major piece of research conducted across Australia (and the USA). The research set out to discover what, if anything, of all the things we do as an expression of our Christian faith (going to church, worshipping, praying, listening to sermons, attending home groups … apparently they came up with a list of 150 things!) has a positive impact on our spiritual growth.

Not a bad question. Would it surprise you to know that of all those things we do, only one made a measurable and dramatic difference? That’s right, just one!

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Back from the Brink of Suicide

Back from the Brink of Suicide

I think that sometimes we’re prone to trivialising the Word of God. By that I mean, we don’t take it seriously enough.

We skim over it and yet somehow we fail to take it heart. We don’t really grasp that it’s meant for us, for our lives. We completely miss the fact that God’s Word is filled with the power  – His power – to radically transform our lives.

So … here’s a story to remind us of the awesome power of God’s Word.

In the week leading up to Easter, I received an email from a woman in Europe (let’s call her ‘Margaret’) who was literally at the point of taking her own life, when a Christianityworks radio progam started to go to air on her local radio station.

This is what she wrote to me (her name and some minor details have been changed to preserve her anonymity):

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The Top 3 Reasons Why Brilliant Ideas Fail

The Top 3 Reasons Why Brilliant Ideas Fail

Have you ever had a brilliant idea that just flopped? Oh good – it’s not just me then!
So … welcome to the club.

Okay – why do our “brilliant ideas” fail sometimes?

Well here are the top 3 reasons and what you can do about them …

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The Secret of the Empty Tomb

The Secret of the Empty Tomb

So besotted are we by the blood-red message of the Cross, that it’s all too easy to remain there at Calvary, glorying in what Christ did for us, without ever moving on to the second part of the Easter story.

And little wonder!!

But the message of Easter is a message of two equal parts. A message that takes place in two places. Up on a hill, and down in a garden. Up on a cross and down in a tomb. It’s a message about a new beginning … and an amazing future.

So let me ask you a question, also in two parts: What is the secret of the empty tomb? And what does it mean for your life, here and now?

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How to Avoid Foot in Mouth Disease

How to Avoid Foot in Mouth Disease

Have you ever said something that you’ve ended up regretting? Sure you have. Me too.

And once it’s out there, you just can’t take it back. Words … words are such powerful things. A good word costs so little, but yields so much. A bad word takes such little effort, yet can destroy a relationship that’s taken a lifetime to build.

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The Power of Praying for the Lost

The Power of Praying for the Lost

One of the things that we absolutely love to do here at Christianityworks, is to ask our faithful supporters if we can pray for them.

And there’s one prayer request that comes out on top each time – I mean by a country mile!

The single most frequent prayer request that we receive is for the salvation of a loved one – son or daughter, husband or wife, grandchild …

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The Touch of the Master’s Hand

The Touch of the Master’s Hand

At some point, we all get to feeling burnt out … like life’s passed us by. Doesn’t matter how successful we are or appear to be.  It hits us all sometime. We look at all those smart, clever, brilliant people all around us and kind of figure that God must be done with us.

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