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A Beneficent Dictator?
      Am I Totally Free? Am I a little bunch of atoms that has to work out a direction for its own actions each day ? Or am I a member of a family whose loving father has a life he wishes to live in and through me? The answer to the first question is "no" a ... read more

A Clean Heart (Matthew 15:9-12)
      I'm going to swear so get ready, ok? It's just a mild swear because I wasn't good at swearing at all. Ok, are you ready? Damn! Alright? Now, that wasn't hard, was it? It wasn't hard for you, but still, it's a part from an illustration, it's still l ... read more

A Heart Cleansed By Faith (ACTS 15:9)
      Two of the most tragic words in many of the lives and probably of your own life, two of the most tragic words are these: "I can't, I can't, I can't stop being angry. I can't stop taking tranquillizers. I can't stop losing my temper. I can't stop th ... read more

A New Life
      Can you change your life? Can you break the patterns of thought and habits of behaviour that have ruled your life for years? Some of us dream of a permanent holiday-not just a wishful break in the Caribbean where something unexpected may happen or where w ... read more

A New You
      What Are You? You did not come into this world as a little animal that has to start finding out what it should do here. You came as a person who has been created by our Maker inside his own Son: this is why at times you feel you are not only unique but ... read more

A Personal Guidance System
      It does, doesn't it? Exciting at six; exciting even at eighteen; but after you've mouthed the same old platitudes year after year (you can't trust people, think great and you'll be great, nobody can be honest all the time), life seems to grow more and ... read more

A Simple Gospel
      From time to time, loved ones, what we have done is pause in the study of Romans, and that's what I'd like to do just today, before we begin to tackle in detail Israel and all that God has to show us through the people of Israel, and I'd like just once ... read more

Am I Just My Mother's Child?
      Your Birth When were you born? Now, is that when you really started to exist? Some would say that you might have existed in a previous life as an animal or a different human being. People who believe in reincarnation would say that this could be your sec ... read more

An Awakened Conscience
      When God is mentioned, most people today feel nothing. The whole idea seems something that is beyond our ability to conceive. We just cannot get hold of anything beyond the vague associations of archbishops, church, and religion. It seems as if part of us ... read more

Any Life Greater Than Death?
      We're discussing whether there exists any life greater than this human mental, emotional, and physical life that you and I experience. Is there any superhuman life? We've been looking at a remarkable "more-than-human" life that was lived in the first ... read more

Are You Important?
      One of the most difficult concepts to accept is that you're so insignificant. All of us feel this even though we don't say it. After all, everyone else seems to put up with it! Nevertheless, it makes you wonder whether you're anything more than a littl ... read more

Are You Successful?
      Many of us today think we're nothing! Often we say and do things that make others think we're arrogant or proud or sure of ourselves. But inside our own hearts we hide a different self-a self that feels it's worth nothing, achieves nothing, and will di ... read more

Baptism With The Spirit (Romans 7:15)
      We've been talking the past two Sundays about the biggest problem that each one of us faces in our every day life and I think you'll agree when I tell you what it is. It's the problem expressed by Paul in that verse that we read. "I do not understand ... read more

Can We Experience It?
      Many of us human beings have tried to fly. This is true not only of the early aviation attempts where men strapped themselves into all kinds of winged contraptions and jumped off cliffs. It is true of people like you and me, who feel the frustrations of o ... read more

Can You and God Both Have Free Wills?
      To live as if you are totally responsible for yourself -- or to live as part of another person who is absolutely wise and all-powerful -- that is the question! And the answer that most of us give is "we only know the first and have no idea how to experie ... read more

Can You Begin Again?
      You need money? You get a job! Right? Of course--that's just commonsense. You're feeling a little depressed--so you take an upper, or a sherry, or an icecream. You feel a little inferior? Go out and buy a new outfit or stereo that your friends will admi ... read more

Can You Live It?
      Most of us feel we were made for bigger things -- bigger things than we're involved in! We recognize that there are megalomaniacs - people who think they're Napoleon or God; we know that's insane and wrong. But we still feel we have something unique in ... read more

Communion - Jesus' Travail For You (Isaiah 53.11)
      If you have a Bible with you please turn to Isaiah 53:11. This is the real reason for taking communion and it's the basis of really taking it and not just eating bread and drinking wine. You remember it's the miraculous description of Jesus' experience ... read more

Conscience and Will
      Some of us feel that we are bigger than this short life we have here on earth. Something inside us makes us feel we were made to live longer. Somehow it seems such a waste that a complex organism like our brain and body, our emotions and our minds should ... read more

Daily Life Without It!
      We've all experienced a life-power that surprises us by its unexpected strength or its unexpected consequences. There isn't one of us who has not been elated by physical energy that has surged within us at times of extreme exhaustion or traumatic crisis ... read more

Dead Inside
      Do you ever feel at times that you're just a consumer statistic, a head to be counted or taxed, another bundle of learned responses and programmed behaviour? More of us than ever before feel we're becoming objects to be manipulated rather than free huma ... read more

Deduction or Induction?
      We think of our modern era as the scientific age. Science, we say, is based on the careful observation of facts on the basis of which we formulate scientific principles. We then modify these principles periodically as observed facts increase our knowledge ... read more

Dichotomy or Trichotomy?
      The Person who made us humans explained very clearly down through history that we operated on three levels of life-not two! Even in the simple outline of our creation which He presented to mankind in its childhood at the beginning of the world, he showed ... read more

Ernest O'Neill's Testimony
      It is good for every one of us to give our testimony from time to time, and though you have suffered mine before, I think that I should give it today. I was born in Belfast about 46 years ago into a working-class home. My dad worked in the shipyards in ... read more

Faith for What?
      Most of us wonder what life is really about. We don't, of course, express this to other people because they all seem to know. So, we keep on living day after day and do the things we're supposed to. Eventually, we avoid this basic question altogether an ... read more

Fallen Nature
      What was it like to be the first person on the earth? The account given in the first book of the collection of history books called "The Bible" helps you to imagine it. Seemingly, the Maker of the world was able to give directions via mental or verbal c ... read more

Freedom From Self
      Where is the Blessedness? "Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul refreshing view Of Jesus and His Word?" Do these words express the cry in your own heart? In private as you read this, what is your reaction to ... read more

Good or Godly
      Many of us think of religion as morality. We think that "being religious" just means "being good" or "being a moral person". We slip into this error because we read a Biblical statement like "God whom I serve with a clear conscience" (2 Timothy 1: ... read more

Has There Ever Been a Superhuman Life?
      What lies behind all this life that we see around us? Plant life, human life, animal life, emotional life--is there any kind of super life that brought all this into being? We've answered "yes." Not only have we the circumstantial evidence of order and ... read more

Have You Got It?
      Imagine a math teacher placing calculators on her desk and telling the class she wanted them to begin using them. After a few days she finds half the class use them but half do not. So the next day, she gives them thirty square roots to work out in 15 min ... read more

How Do We Then Live?
      If you are not just a collection of atoms thrown up by some mindless explosion millions of years ago but were in fact created by an intelligent and loving Being as part of his own Son, how then would you live ? Obviously very differently from the strategy ... read more

How To Love Like Jesus Did
      Do you remember the scene that took place about 2000 years ago in that park outside the city of Jerusalem? Darkness had fallen and in one corner of the park there were a few peasants lying on the ground, sleeping and then a little way off from them, there ... read more

How To Receive A Clean Heart
      I'd like to try to speak on how to get a clean heart this morning. There are Christians and then there are Christians and then there are Christians. That's right. Then at different stages of my life I was each of those. This morning you are one or other ... read more

How to Tell Whether You Have it or Not
      Human life consists of the exercise of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual powers. We were all born with these abilities and our lives are limited by them. However, our Maker never intended that--He always meant us to share His own superhuman li ... read more

How To Walk In The Light (1 John 1 & 2)
      This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth. But if we walk in the light ... read more

Humanity
      It's such a new thought -- the thought that you are actually part of someone else. In a way it's the first thought that is real for you -- beacuse you entered this world as part of your mother. But somehow once we've been born we begin to regard oursel ... read more

Inner Knowledge
      Has your mother ever said to you, "It's just a woman's intuition!", when you asked her how she knew what you were going to do? Often women seem to have a sixth sense that is more developed in them than in men. They seem to have an insight into people ... read more

Inner Space
      Present Dissatisfaction Today more of us than ever are able to choose what school we attend, what jobs we want, what clothes we wear, what vacations we take, and what we do with our leisure time. But, despite all the mental and emotional satisfaction tha ... read more

Internal Gyro-compass
      Most of us feel deep within us that we know what we ought to do. Even if we have lived amoral lives for many years, we still feel stirrings within us that urge us to do what we know is right. Although we try to dismiss these feelings as childish inhibitio ... read more

Is the Bible True?
      What is life about? Why are you here? Why does the earth exist? All of us humans can give our best answers to these questions, but even to Einstein we have to say, "What do you know about these cosmic questions?" We have to say this because all of us hu ... read more

Is There Superhuman Life?
      We've been discussing on this page the question "what is life about?" Why are we here? What's it all in aid of? We've been particularly concerned with the question of whether there is any life beyond this one that we are all experiencing here on eart ... read more

Its Laws
      Have you ever had to live for a month in a room that lacks the conveniences or orderliness that you are used to? Isn't it uncanny how you adapt so well to your situation that the end of the month finds you much less irritated by the things you missed tha ... read more

Its Symptoms--the Ten Commandments
      Have you ever imagined that you were somebody famous or rich? Have you ever dreamed that you could do things far beyond your natural powers? Have you had moments when you thought, "I can be different--I can escape from this narrow, little life I live?" ... read more

I'm Part of Someone Else
      Most of us feel we're on our own! We have felt this way ever since we left the family home. Some of us feel it even before that. We try to become part of somebody else by making friends or marrying, but often we still feel we're alone. This is a downrig ... read more

Know The Holy Spirit
      Do you know which book is a perennial best seller, or which kind of book? Brookes has its day, Jonathon Seagull has its day, Blind Ambition has its day, but there is a kind of book that hooks generation after generation of readers. Do you know what kind? ... read more

Lie or Reality?
      We believe what we were told when we were young. You're on your own in this world -- it's tough out there -- no one will look after you when your parents die. So get a good education so that you can get a good job and have children and keep yourself sec ... read more

Living Above Time
      Life in Space We humans have always imagined a vast "space" world exists somewhere in the universe where beings like us would be capable of travelling huge distances and performing superhuman feats. Of course, we have always smiled at these dreams of ... read more

Living Inside Out
      Most of us live either to please ourselves or to please others: either way somehow results in our becoming slaves -- slaves to others' opinions and approval or slaves to our own strong desires and inherited attitudes. There is another way -- live the way ... read more

Living Originally
      "Oh, often have I washed and dressed, And what's to show for all my pain-- Let me lie abed and rest -- Ten thousand times I've done my best -- And all's to do again!" Houseman's poem expresses the jaded malaise that weighs down many of us ... read more

Living Without A Clean Heart (Galatians 5)
      Let me give you an example of how what you say shows the real state of your heart. Lets say you have a friend named Stephanie who you think exaggerates and you say to someone, "Stephanie is alright, but she exaggerates a little." Now it is so easy to sa ... read more

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