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Setting the Course
Friday, July 03, 2009
This week on A Different Perspective, we've been talking about building a godly family. Well, at some point the talk has to turn into action, otherwise nothing's ever going to happen. The question is – are we ready? Well, are you?
Series: Building a Godly Family Part 1
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BROADCAST ARCHIVES
The first thing a doctor tends to ask us when we visit is about our family history. And just the way that physical things get handed down to us genetically, so do emotional, behavioral and spiritual things. Question is, what can we do about them?
Series: Building a Godly Family Part 1
Let me ask you something – if you could set about building a godly Family – what would that look like. I mean how would you know when you'd arrived. Man – wouldn't that be amazing. A godly family.
Series: Building a Godly Family Part 1
It's easy to look around at other people's families and think "Boy – how come I didn't get a normal family like them." Truth is though that no family's perfect. And no matter how dysfunctional our family might be, God has a plan.
Series: Building a Godly Family Part 1
You know something – that old saying that blood is thicker than water, it's true. There's a special bond between members of a family. Our family really does matter. And that's why it's time to start looking at what it means to build a godly family.
Series: Building a Godly Family Part 1
As we come up towards the last of 20 programs on faith - the sort of faith that moves mountains - the question for each of us is this - will it work in my life. Is this 'faith that moves mountains' thing safe for me to try at home. Well, is it?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 4
The whole positive thinking, positive attitude thing - well it's been around a while. You go through a tough patch and people tell you to adopt a positive attitude. Hmm. What do you think? I tell you one thing though, negative thoughts - they can rob us of life.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 4
It seems that over and over again, the world teaches us to be self reliant. Life's about succeeding and success is about who we are and what we do and in this day and age, surely we can be and do whatever we want. Oh really?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 4
I remember hearing a really godly man once talk about having godly self confidence. And I thought to my self - what a contradiction. How can you be godly on the one hand, and self confident on the other? That's worth thinking about.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 4
You hear people talking about living a life of faith. That's OK - you and I can talk about it too, until of course the going gets tough. Then, we start wondering "Can I do this?" And the answer is simple - actually, yes you can.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 4
I want to share a story with you - a true story - of a man who found himself drowning in the ocean. And he swam against the tide so hard, it almost killed him. Until God whispered something in his ear. It's the thing that saved his life.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 3
When bad things happen to good people, those good people often react. We throw up our hands, we complain and blame and carry on. We struggle and try to change things we can't change. What if what God really wants us to do is to embrace the journey He's got us on?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 3
Success is about faster, better, bigger, richer - right? And so when we talk about having faith that moves mountains - they're the sort of mountains we want to move. But what if the real power isn't in that place at all. What if the real power, is when we're at our weakest and most vulnerable?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 3
Let me ask you something. If God asked you to step out in faith to do something - something that was going to really cost you a lot in your life - and then He said "And by the way, you won't ever see the results" - would you do it anyway?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 3
You know, most of us, when we hear about the sort of faith that moves mountains, most of us expect to move the mountains we want to move. We expect to see the results, to benefit from them, to revel in them. But that's not always the way.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 3
Faith without Works is dead. I wish I could tell you otherwise - I wish I could tell you that you don't have to put your faith into action - because, well, life's easy, so you just don't need to. But it ain't and you do!
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 2
It's nice to talk about having faith - it's much harder to actually put it into practice. To use our faith in the heat of the battle. Why does God allow battles? Why should we have to use faith? Why does He do things that way?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 2
When we're confronted by a great big mountain - something that's blocking our path that we just can't move - we kind of expect God to use someone else to move it. Someone bigger. Someone stronger. But what if He wants to use the likes of you and me? Scary thought.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 2
When the going starts getting tough in life - you know what we often do - we look to other people to help. Leaders. People more experienced than us. But what if they've lost the plot too. Then what?
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 2
It's great to have faith. But faith isn't like a trophy you keep in a cabinet. It's something you have to use in the heat of the battle. And for many of us, taking that first step - stepping out in faith - well, that's hard.
Series: Having Faith that Moves Mountains Part 2




























