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Unlimited: Knocked Down But Not Out

We are experiencing all kinds of trouble, but we aren’t crushed. We are confused, but we aren’t depressed. We are harassed, but we aren’t abandoned. We are knocked down, but we aren’t knocked out (2 Cor 4:8–9, CEB). If there were ever anyone who had reason to complain about their ...

Unlimited: When It Comes To Salvation, To Work For It Is To Lose It

If you are thirsty, come and drink water! If you don’t have any money, come, eat what you want! Drink wine and milk without paying a cent  (Isaiah 55:1, CEV). I saw a strange thing while camping by the beach during the summer holidays. Some of the other men who were camping with their ...

Unlimited: God Gives Meaning to Everything

You believe in God; believe also in me (John 14:1b, NIV). The main reason for unbelief ultimately, is that people only believe what they wish to believe. After all, a small eyelid can shut out the entire sun! Willian Paley, a great favourite of mine, gave this illustration: If you walked ...

Unlimited: The Question of the Meaning of Life

Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God” (Psalm 14:1, NLT). I learned a lesson about the meaning of life some years ago from a young man with an aerosol can. I was doing some casual teaching in a state high school when I met a senior student there who had his arm in a sling, ...

Unlimited: Persist in Prayer

I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs (Luke 11:8, NKJV). The Scripture in Luke 11:8 is very encouraging to any person who hungers after Christ Jesus. In verses 5-7, Jesus ...

Unlimited: The Two Truths of Christianity

What are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? (Psalm 8:4, NLT). All our questions about the universe and existence are part of our main question: “What is man?” Who or what is this being that asks the questions? Only the Christian ...

Unlimited: Live Big!

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown (Matthew 13:8, NIV). Some people want to live big! They want to make an impact on this world! They want to make sure that their lives are not forgotten within a generation of their ...

Unlimited: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted (Matthew 5:4, NIV). To come to God, I must be stripped of my self-sufficiency. The blessed poor in spirit know they do not have in themselves what the righteous law demands. All human philosophy says sorrow is the great trouble of ...

Unlimited: Jesus Reigns!

The Lord says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” The Lord will extend your mighty sceptre from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of your enemies!” (Psalm 110:1–2, NIV). The passage from the Old Testament that is most often cited ...

Unlimited: How To See God in Everything

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:8–9, NIV). What wonderful things are contained in Jesus’ words! What we are determines what we see. This verse says that life is a mirror. It promises ...

Unlimited: Salvation is a Done Deal

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:10). Two thousand years ago all your sins were forgiven, you were given a free pass into the Kingdom of God, and ...

Unlimited: Motivated by the Cross of Christ

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20, NIV). One of the main things wrong with this world is the lack of right standards. ...

Unlimited: Communion And Service

Martha was distracted with all her preparations (Luke 10:40, NASB). Martha’s fault was not that she was preparing and serving the meal: it is a good thing for every Christian to serve others. In fact, “I serve” should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. And ...

Unlimited: The Longest Silence

God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, God, do not be still (Psalm 83:1, NASB). The longest silence was when that woman who was a foreigner followed Jesus along the road, crying out, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! (Matthew 15:22) The longest silence was when the crowd ...

Unlimited: In the Kingdom, Happiness Grows Out of What We Are

Jesus saw the crowds (Matthew 5:1, NIV). Before Jesus spoke the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1–12), Matthew says that Jesus saw the crowds. He sees the crowds, not as we see them, but as God alone can see them. He saw the people as sinners. He saw them as needy. He saw them as dying. He saw them ...

Unlimited: The Mark of the Kingdom is the Presence of the King

For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. (Romans 14:7, NKJV). [The Kingdom of God] is that spiritual state in which the life of God and of heaven is made accessible to men, and they enter into its enjoyment here on earth. If we ask what its marks are we find the answer ...

Unlimited: Not One of God’s Promises to You Will Be Left Unfulfilled

Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true (Joshua 21:45, NLT.) What do you believe about the promises of God? Do you believe that some of them are for you and some aren’t? That he ...

Unlimited: The Gospel Writers Tell Us of Jesus

It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead… Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved (Acts 4:10,12, NIV). We confess with Matthew that Jesus is the Christ, ...

Unlimited: The Glorious Meaning of Christ’s Resurrection

Jesus Christ our Lord… was… declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead  (Romans 1:4, NKJV). What did the apostles find in the resurrection which made them give it this weighty and unfailing emphasis? What was its ...

Unlimited: Reconciled to God

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. (Romans 5:10, RSV). Verse 18 of the same chapter goes on to tell us: …as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one ...

Daily Good News: Peace Be With You!

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid (John 14:27, ESV). Twice, Jesus said to his disciples, “Peace be with you!” Our first peace comes to us when we see the wounds of Jesus and ...

Unlimited: The Perfect Works of Christ

My servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes (1 Kings 14:8). This is a remarkable statement. How could God say that when the Bible specifically records that David had broken the sixth and seventh commandments? The ...

Unlimited: God Paid Your Penalty

He did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus (Romans 3:26, NIV). What right has the Creator of a moral universe to act like this? How can God pass over the sins of some people, and give eternal ...

Unlimited: At the Cross

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:2, NIV). You’ll often hear people saying, “When I got saved…” Or you might ...

Unlimited: The Only Life That Satisfies

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind (John 1:4). If we believe that God exists, then we can also predict that, apart from him, humanity will have a restless desire for something more. Pascal wrote of how, “There is a god-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man, and only ...

Unlimited: God Sent His Son

For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering (Romans 8:3a). This is a most powerful statement by the apostle Paul. Although, as he has said, the law is good, the law yet is ...

Unlimited: I Keep Doing Evil

For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing (Romans 7:18b–19). The apostle Paul here writes of his powerlessness to do good in and of himself. At the same time, he ...

Unlimited: Sin Does It

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it (Romans 7:20). Paul here recognises two powers within himself. There is, on the one hand, he himself; and on the other hand, is the sin living in him. What he wants for his life is ...

Unlimited: Evil is Right There with Me

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me (Romans 7:21). Even when he wants to do good, Paul says that “evil is right there with” him. The principle of sinful human nature is so ingrained in this world and in our very natures that the apostle ...

Unlimited: Jesus is the Sweetest Name of All

You shall call his name Jesus (Matthew 1:21, NKJV). The names of Christ… are all sweet in the believer's ear. Whether He be called the Husband of the Church, her Bridegroom, her Friend; whether He be styled the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world—the King, the Prophet, or the ...

Unlimited: Christ is the Best Teacher

He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself (Luke 24:27, KJV). The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had a great journey, because they were walking with the best teacher, who could interpret the Scriptures with all the wisdom of God. Let us, also, walk with ...

Unlimited: The Lord Has Provided

Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my ...

Unlimited: Jesus is the Good Shepherd

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep (John 10:11, NIV). Seven individual shepherds are mentioned in the Bible. These seven shepherds are Abel, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Christ, and ''the idol shepherd'' of Zechariah 11:16, 17 – a reference to the ...

Unlimited: Ignore the Doubters, and Just Believe

Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.” (Mark 5:36,NIV). It was a dramatic day. Jesus had told Jairus to not be afraid, and to just believe. Jairus believed, but when he and Jesus arrived at the house, Jairus’ twelve year-old daughter had ...

Unlimited: God Became One With Us

A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband ...

Unlimited: To Live is Christ

To me, to live is Christ (Philippians 1:21, NKJV.) There are three cardinal words in the passage: “me,” “live,” “Christ.” The middle term “live” is defined in the union of the two extremes. The two carbon electrodes of the arc lamp are brought into relationship, and the ...

Unlimited: Jesus Can Save You All by Himself

One of Jesus’ companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword (Matthew 26:51–52, NIV). I’m sure that Peter ...

Unlimited: God Pours His Love into Our Hearts

We know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love (Romans 5:5, NLT). Because God, who is our maker and preserver is love, the love of God is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us. God’s love is just as ...

Unlimited: The Offense of the Cross

…the offense of the cross (Gal 5:11, NIV). Do you know someone who’s easily offended? Perhaps it’s you and me. And if we are among this group, then we should consider the offense of the Cross. For the offense of the Cross is not Christ’s offense, it is your offense against ...

Unlimited: Believe in Jesus

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life (John 5:24, NKJV). Nearly one hundred times (98 to be exact), and in almost every chapter, John's Gospel uses the ...

Unlimited: You Are Perfect in Christ

Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.  (Colossians 1:28, NKJV). Do you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles ...

Unlimited: You Can See With Spiritual Eyes

I pray that the eyes of your heart will see (Ephesians 1:19, CEB). When Jesus fed the four thousand, it made a huge impact on the disciples. They thought that finally Jesus was about to announce himself as the true King of Israel, drive out the Roman occupiers, and end the hunger and ...

Unlimited: Receive Jesus

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name  (John 1:12, NKJV.) John’s Gospel is the deepest, most beautiful, most wonderful book in the Bible. John presents Jesus as God (John 1:1,3,10,14,18). John's Gospel is also ...

Unlimited: God’s Does Better Than Photoshop

“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool (Isaiah 1:18, NIV). At times, when I have sent photos of myself overseas so that flyers can be produced for ...

Unlimited: The Evidence of Christ’s Resurrection That Is Open To All

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!  (Psalm 34:8, NKJV.) The establishment of Christianity is the most significant fact in the whole history of the world.  And it happened so strangely! A handful of people who had been discouraged ...

Unlimited: Jesus Is Right Here With You

He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” (John 20:14). What is the most important question ...

Unlimited: Let Christ’s Love Transform You

We, who with unveiled faces all contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:18, NIV). Trying to improve our characters, apart from Christ’s way, is as though the crew of a ...

Unlimited: The Greatest Truth of Christianity

Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed ]the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”  (John 4:42, NKJV). The greatest truth of Christianity is that Christ is the spotless Son of God, the ...

Unlimited: Jesus is Our Saviour

“Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!” (Mark 4:41, NLT). Who is this man Jesus that we should believe on him? The Man of the Cross is the true Adam, the true Moses, the true prophet, priest, and king. Everything in the Old Testament was written ...

Unlimited: There is Fullness in Christ

And of his fullness we have all we received (John 1:16, NKJV). These words tell us that there is a fullness in Christ. There is a fullness of essential Deity, for "in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead." There is a fullness of perfect manhood, for in Him, bodily, that Godhead ...

Unlimited: Giving is Not Just for Christmas

We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. (1 John 4:16, NLT). It happens, especially if you're tired. I mean that moment of semi-panic on the eve of Christmas when you think of all the ...

Unlimited: Jump For Joy!

Be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead (1 Peter 1:6, NLT) The actual Greek word that Peter uses, that is translated here as truly glad, and as in the KJV, literally means “jump for joy.” The Christian can jump for joy even though he or she may have grief in all kinds of trials ...

Unlimited: How to Win The Fight of Faith

Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6, KJV). Christian warfare is utterly unlike the conflicts of this world. It does not depend on the strong arm, the quick ...

Unlimited: The Spirit Gives Life

But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness (Romans 8:10). If you look carefully at this verse, you will see how Paul is again implicitly referring to the Holy Spirit of God as the Spirit of Christ. ...

Unlimited: Those Who Belong to Christ

And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ (Romans 8:9b). The Bible teaches that the Son and the Holy Spirit are not the same person, but that the resurrected Lord Jesus is present with us through the Holy Spirit. For this reason, Paul can call the Holy ...

Unlimited: The Realm of the Spirit

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you (Romans 8:9a). The apostle Paul has just explained to us what it means to be in the realm of the flesh. Yet those who belong to Christ are not in the realm of the ...

Unlimited: The Flesh Cannot Please God

Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:8). Most people, in some way or another are “people-pleasers.” Yet the secret to happiness and to life, both now and in eternity, is to please God. Paul himself was accused of trying to please people. He defended ...

Unlimited: Impossible for the Flesh

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so (Romans 8:7). Having asked the question, “Who governs your mind?” the apostle now gives us one of the only two options. You can choose for your mind to be governed by the flesh or ...

Unlimited: Life and Peace

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace (Romans 8:6). We all want life, and we all want peace. What we experience in our minds will lead us to enjoy life and have peace. So, who governs your mind? Most people in the world think that ...

Unlimited: Set Your Minds on God

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires (Romans 8:5). The apostle Paul has just told us that those who stand without condemnation as a result of ...

Unlimited: The Flesh or the Spirit?

who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:4b). This verse points to the two realms in which we live while on this earth. We live simultaneously in the realm of the flesh and the realm of the Spirit. We do not live according to the flesh, but instead ...

Unlimited: The Righteous Requirement of the Law

in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us (Romans 8:4a). We all want to be able to present ourselves before God having fully met the righteous requirement of the law. To do this would mean that we have would be fully accepted by God, with no barrier ...

Unlimited: Christ Condemned Sin

And so he condemned sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3b). How did Christ condemn sin in the flesh? In the first part of the verse we find the context. Christ didn’t condemn sin by living a perfect life. He condemned sin by dying a perfect death, in the flesh, as a sacrifice for us. It is ...

Unlimited: Set Free

because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). This is the freedom to which Jesus calls us. It isn’t the freedom of the world, which is the freedom to do whatever you like, to do whatever feels good or ...

Unlimited: No Condemnation

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Paul is saying that there is no condemnation for those who are in Jesus Christ. These are those who, because of their sinful nature are still slaves to the law of sin. This seems so contradictory, yet ...

Unlimited: In My Mind

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin (Romans 7:25b). This isn’t the weak, anguished apostle Paul who is speaking. The one who is speaking is the one who has just triumphantly cried, “Thanks be to God, who delivers me ...

Unlimited: Rescued by Jesus

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:25a). Paul’s anguished cry in the previous verse, “Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?” is answered by this second cry, a triumphant affirmation of deliverance through Jesus ...

Unlimited: Who Will Rescue Me?

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? (Rom ans 7:24) This desperate cry of anguish comes from Paul’s recognition that he is a prisoner of the law of sin that works within him. It is a cry of total brokenness. The human condition is so ...

Unlimited: Sin That Works Within Me

but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me (Romans 7:23). Here the apostle Paul mentions two laws which work in him: the law of his mind and the law of sin. In the previous verse Paul observed how ...

Unlimited: Delighting in the Law of God

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law (Romans 7:22). The psalmist knew what it was to delight in the law of God. He wrote, Blessed is the one    who does not walk in step with the wickedor stand in the way that sinners take    or sit in the company of mockers,2 but ...

Unlimited: My Sinful Nature

As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature (Romans 7:17–18a). Paul affirms here that he has a sinful nature. He will have it until God removes it at glorification. Paul ...

Unlimited: He Loved Us First

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen (Revelation 1:5–6, NKJV). I love the sequence of ideas here. God loved us while we were still in need of washing. God ...

Unlimited: Acceptance and Blessings

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age (Galatians 1:3–4, NIV). There is a powerful truth in this verse. We all want grace and peace. We all want to be rescued from “the present evil ...

Unlimited: Are You Marked by His Blood?

When I see the blood, I will pass over you (Exodus 12:13, NIV). Remember the story of that first Passover in Egypt? God was about to rescue his people from slavery. But first, there was a final plague, the most terrible of all. The angel of death would visit every home in the land, and ...

Unlimited: The Greatest Lie

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil? (Numbers 23:19, NIV). We as human beings are far too often misled, misguided and mistaken. Lies often come dressed as truth, bad advice ...

Unlimited: Find the Quietness

In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength (Isaiah 30:15, NIV). Life is full of noise. You have to learn to make yourself quiet before God in order to hear his voice and find peace. In the time of the prophet Isaiah, the nation of Judah was ...

Unlimited: Rest in Jesus

Come to me, all you who are struggling hard and carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28, CEB). Recently, I went on a 17-kilometre hike down into a valley and back up again. Going down was easy but going up was another story! I’m not as fit or strong as I used to be! ...

Unlimited: Exiles Outside of the Gates of Eden

Your God will come to save you… Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away (Isaiah 35:10, NIV). There’s a deep, lifelong longing in us to belong, to be loved, and to be accepted just as we are. More so at some stages of our lives than others, we sense ...

Unlimited: All About Jesus

This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God (Mark 1:1, NLT). I love the way that Mark starts his Gospel by saying it's all about Jesus! He makes it clear that he is announcing Good News! Remember that the word Gospel means “Good News”. More than that, Mark goes on to tell ...

Unlimited: God Hears Your Faintest Call

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered (Joel 2:32, KJV). Why do I not call on His name? Why do I run to my neighbour, when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down and devise schemes and invent plans instead of ...

Unlimited: The Secret of the Christian Life

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work (John 14:10, NIV). Christianity can indeed be made simple. The power to live the Christian ...

Unlimited: Power in the Words of Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know (Acts 2:22, NIV). The Gospel of John records seven miracles that Jesus performed. These illustrate the transforming power of Jesus in our ...

Unlimited: Your Jericho Walls Can Tumble

In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Romans 8:37). Jericho was that famous city whose walls came tumbling down when surrounded by God’s presence and power. Let’s just for a moment exchange Jericho’s walls for those seemingly impenetrable walls ...

Unlimited: By His Wounds

He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds, we are healed (Isaiah 53:5, NIV). As little children, we learned that wounds were never good. They caused pain and fear, and they usually made us ...

Unlimited: What is Your Isaac?

For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake (2 Corinthians 4:5, NIV). Faith and obedience are the wings that raise the believer heavenward. True Christian experience is dependent upon an understanding of the relationship ...

Unlimited: Don’t Be Afraid of Their Faces

Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you (Jeremiah 1:8, NKJV). When I was a little boy of around 10 years old, I used to walk to and from school with my brother. As I walked, I remember looking at the adults who were going about their business. I ...

Unlimited: Be Filled Daily

Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5:18-19, NIV). Christianity is a daily affair like all important matters. We are to be born again daily, we are to crucify the old ...

Unlimited: Give Thanks in Every Circumstance

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:18, NIV). These words of Paul represent one of the most challenging pieces of advice in the Bible. It’s easy to give thanks for the good things that come our way, but “in all ...

Unlimited: Jesus is Your Representative

We are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died (2 Corinthians 5:14, NIV). When our Lord Jesus Christ was baptised, he was baptised for the whole world. He confessed for the whole world. He was penitent for the whole world. Everything our Lord did was as our ...

Unlimited: Live in the Present

Whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?  (John 11:26, NIV). The actress Mary McDonnell has said, “We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.” There’s a lot of wisdom in that. Too many people live in the past – a ...

Unlimited: The Eternal God is Your Helper

I will help you, says the Lord (Isaiah 41:14, NKJV). This morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: “I will help you,” he says. Here are some of the other things he would say to us if we listen to him through his word: “It is easy for Me, your God, to help you. ...

Unlimited: Believe Your Beliefs and Doubt Your Doubts

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief! (Mark 9:24, NKJV). If there is no God, no Creator of the universe, then my brain is the result of the play of meaningless atoms in time and space. If this were the case, how could I trust its conclusions? Where did thought come from? If thought matches ...

Unlimited: God Turns Evil Into Eventual Good

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives (Genesis 50:20, NIV). There is a wonderful significance in the fact that suffering always brings fruit. It always either makes us bitter or better. It either sours us or ...

Unlimited: Naked Before God

All of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ (Galatians 3:27, NIV). Some people have nightmares about being caught out naked. It’s one of our greatest fears. Those who tell us there is a psychological meaning to these dreams say that they represent feelings ...

Unlimited: You Need Never Walk Alone

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age (Matthew 28: 18-20, RSV). From time to time we feel as barren and as fruitless as Aaron’s rod before it budded (Numbers 17). ...

Unlimited: Opinions Over Sacred Days

One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind (Romans 14:5). In this section of the book of Romans, Paul is specifically referring to what we choose to eat and drink. Now he turns his ...

Unlimited: Great Are His Promises

… praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints (Ephesians 6:18, NKJV). It may occasionally seem that God delays answering our prayers. Never think that this is a sign of his ...

Unlimited: Indoctrinated or Gospelised?

Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners (Matthew 9:13). During approximately 100 days between April 7 and mid-July 1994, it is estimated that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed, up to 70% of ...

Joshua and Jesus: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

Have you heard about Joshua and Jesus? Even if you don’t go to church regularly now, you might perhaps remember the story of Joshua and Jericho from when you were a child. It’s a rollicking good story, with the people of God facing an impossible situation, and God coming to their help ...

Unlimited: Righteousness Leads to Holiness

Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness (Romans 6:19b). Some people can be very devoted to their impurity and wickedness. The apostle is telling us here is that as ...