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A Different Perspective Official Podcast

A Different Perspective Official Podcast

De: Berni Dymet
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God has a habit of wanting to speak right into the circumstances that we're travelling through here and now; the very issues that we each face in our everyday lives. Everything from dealing with difficult people … to discovering how God speaks to us; from overcoming stress … to discovering your God-given gifts and walking in the calling that God has placed on your life And that's what these daily 10 minute A Different Perspective messages are all about.Christianityworks Cristianismo Espiritualidad Ministerio y Evangelismo
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  • Precious in His Sight // The Best of the Best, Part 3

    Precious in His Sight // The Best of the Best, Part 3
    Dec 3 2025
    We live in a time of mass production. Commodities are just churned out. People have become … just a commodity. But not in God's eyes…..that's what makes you so very special. I sometimes think about the times when Jesus was training to be a carpenter in his Dad's carpenter shop. The wooden things that he made, we don't really know but probably chairs and tables and doors and door frames, even coffins I guess, it's ironic that ultimately he was nailed to two bits of wood. I can't imagine he ever turned out any shoddy work, I can't imagine he ever made a table that wasn't straight or level or a chair that wasn't solid or a door that didn't fit into the door jam. Well what if he applied the same level of perfection to you and me? What if when we were created he was there? And what does that do to our view of Easter? Yesterday and again today we're looking at Psalm 139 because it's about Gods motivations behind Easter. Psalm 139 is to me like a door into God's heart, to see what was going on inside when He dreamt up this whole Easter thing. We had a look at the first part yesterday and we saw that God knows us so intimately and He's on the journey of life with us, not way off at a distance, not disinterested but right in the middle of it with us. Everywhere we go, even when it's dark and stormy and painful He's light shines in the middle of all of that. That's huge, to know that God is walking every step of the way with us, there's know where we can go and be alone or apart from God, if we go to heaven he's there, if we go to hell he's there if we fly to the farthest ends to the earth he's still there. But how is it that God knows us so well? I mean sometimes we don't even know ourselves that well do we? We can't explain why we do what we do or why we reacted to something the way we did, I mean you and I are pretty complex creatures; there is so many layers to our personality and who we are. Some things are so deep inside us that we can't ever really understand them ourselves or even talk about them. How does God know? Well, the Psalmist in Psalm 139 goes on to explain that to us, and we're going to read that right now. We're reading from Psalm 139 beginning at verse 13. "For you God, you created my innermost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb, God I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are so wonderful I know that full well. My frame wasn't hidden from you when I was made in that secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed substance. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." This is one of the most precious passages in the Bible to me, as we look back on our lives what we see is a mixture of wonderful and desperate, beautiful and ugly, we've done some brilliant things and we done some really, really stupid things, there are great highs and there are dark valleys. But when you and I were conceived God was there, our innermost parts, who we are, our DNA blueprint, the way that we'd look and sound and all our gifts and abilities and strengths and weaknesses, all that complexity He created our innermost being. He knit us together in our Mother's womb; you and I are handcrafted by God, one of a kind, distinctive, completely, utterly amazingly, beautifully, wondrously made. Separate and different from every other person who ever lived, and every person who ever will live, intricately woven, each strand of DNA laid down according to His plan. And not only that God wasn't in control just of who we are but of everything that would ever happen to us. Look at this again, "all the days ordained for me, all the days set apart for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." That's why I so despair when I meet people who waste away there lives worrying and complaining about their lot. Yeah some people have better lives that others, some people seem to get all the breaks and the benefits and the blessings and other people seem to get handed difficult and painful lives, just like Jesus, just like the Apostle Paul. I was just talking, having a cup of coffee just recently with a couple and we were talking about just this, how come God does something mighty and powerful in this persons life and this other person God takes years to do what He's going to do? I don't know! But it's about God's plan, about God's glory. There's a wonderful poem call The Weaver, you may have heard me read it once before, have a listen, it's beautiful. "My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me. I cannot choose the colours as He weaveth steadily, Sometimes He chooses dark threads and I in foolish pride Forget He sees the upper and I the underside. Not till the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly Shall God unroll the canvas and explain the reasons why The dark threads were as needful in the weaver's skilful hand As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He hath planned....
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  • When Nobody Understands // The Best of the Best, Part 2

    When Nobody Understands // The Best of the Best, Part 2
    Dec 2 2025
    We've all been misunderstood. Hey – Jesus was misunderstood. It's not an easy thing. We have good intentions, perhaps we don't execute those intentions perfectly, but all of a sudden the world falls down on us like a ton of bricks. Now over the last weeks on the program we had a look at the fast, well ... God doesn't always do things quite the way we want him to do. Sometimes we feel like crying out to God, "God! What are you doing? Why are you letting this happen to me? How long, our Lord, how long will this go on?" But you see, God has a plan for your life, for my life. And it's a good plan, a plan of getting up close to Him, a plan of being blessed and being a blessing to others. And yet, sometimes ... sometimes ... life can be awful, life can be really harsh and tough and I'm always conscious when I'm talking about God's blessing that someone's sitting there thinking to themselves, "Well I don't know whose life you're talking about buddy," or "Whose God are you talking about but it's certainly not mine". So this week on the program we're going to have a look at what it means to live the life that God always intended for us even when life's tough, even in the reality of life. We all go through those tough times sometimes, I do and the real question is when the chips are down is God still going to show up? When was the last time that you went through a difficult time in life? Conflict at home, in the family, or sickness or fear or the death of a loved one or loneliness? The list goes on doesn't it? There's not one of us who can't point to something difficult or hurtful in life, even when it looks like on the surface we're doing ok. That's the thing isn't it? When we're doing it tough people look at us on the outside, and you and I are pretty good at pretending that everything's ok and then we live out that lie, we live out that surface existence and the feeling wells up inside, no-one really understands what's going on in my life, nobody knows how I feel, I feel so not understood. I recently went through a tough time with the hours that I had to work, I had several really big things going on at the same time and there was about a four month period when I literally only had three days off. And when you're working seven days a week, twelve to fourteen hours a day, now remember I'm no spring chicken, it's really tough. I love what I do but it was a grind, it was very tiring mentally and emotionally, it was exhausting stuff. Now that season is over but back then I remember going to Church and people would ask me, "How you doing Berni?" And sometimes I'd smile and say, "I'm fine." and other times I'd say, "Well you know, I'm working really long hours and as much as I enjoy what I'm doing with God, it's really tough, I'm finding it hard, it's tough on my wife Jacqui and on our marriage." And more often than not no-one really understood. And when we're at that point, when something is dominating our lives and affecting our lives and it hurts and it's difficult, it's tough when no-one understands us isn't it? Because we really would like someone to understand and we get to the point and we say, "Oh, ok God, tell me, how am I supposed to live the life that you always intended for me, a good life, a blessed life when I'm doing it tough and no-one really understands or worse still, they misunderstand us, they misunderstand our good intentions, they misunderstand who we are?" That's a good question because when we're doing it tough we desperately, desperately need someone to understand us, maybe not to do anything except listen and go, "Hmmm, I understand." But that empathy, knowing that there's someone else who just empathises with us, who is just prepared to sit and to listen and to cry with us through the difficult times is so important isn't it? I remember when I was going through really tough times in my life a decade ago, I was so blessed by a couple, a husband and a wife, who were prepared just to be with me and to weep with me when I wept and to laugh with me when I laughed. Can I tell you? These days that is very, very rare indeed, to experience that true emotional empathy and support. It's sad but true. People who are prepared to take the time and travel through the difficult times with us and be there and just cry with us when we need someone to do that for us. Everybody else is so busy, they haven't got time. Everybody else is so busy taking; they haven't got any time to do any giving. You can relate to that. So often I go to Church and I'm guilty of this too, you say, "How you going?" and people say, "I'm really busy, I'm really, really busy." Well that means that we're too busy to understand people who are hurting and for Jesus the most important thing of all is that we walk in love, that we walk sacrificially. We'll talk about that next week on the program. When we're too busy to do that, we're too busy to do the thing that Jesus wants us most to do and when everybody's busy taking and no-one's ...
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  • Planting the Seed // The Best of the Best, Part 1

    Planting the Seed // The Best of the Best, Part 1
    Dec 1 2025
    Sometimes you can be going through a bit of a rough patch in life – a bit like a famine or a drought – and you wonder to yourself what God is up to? But sometimes, sometimes God is actually sitting there, waiting for YOU to do something. It's just fabulous to be together again at the start of a new week. Can I ask you, what do you want to get out of life? I mean when you stand back and survey the landscape called, "your life", the highs and the lows, what are some of the things that you'd love to see there? Relationships, achievements, family, career, money, a promotion, holiday? We're all different, but basically my hunch is that we kind of want the same sorts of things in life. We want health and happiness and fulfilment and a sense of belonging and a sense that we're needed, hope, a future. They're the main things aren't they? In a sense we want a harvest out of life, sure we expect to put in, sometimes we put in too much, other times not enough. But we want to get something out of life. Hmmm … a harvest! Back to your life for a minute, your landscape, the things that you're looking for - are they there? Are you reaping the harvest in your life that you're really hoping for? And if not, why not? I love going to lookouts, you get up high on a mountain somewhere and you look out over the hills and the valleys below and the green fields. There's one in particular I have in mind that I love going to, it's got these beautiful rolling green fields and you can see the ocean and the beaches in the distance. And yet if you look a little bit further you can see some great factory belching smog out into the atmosphere, and you can look over to the left and the sun will be shining over here and over to the right there's a storm going. It's something really uplifting to look out at the good and the bad and the ugly, and it's the same when we look at the landscape of life. When we stop and we get up on a vantage point and look across our lives, it's like looking at this landscape from the lookout, all the bits and pieces. Life's like that landscape, there's the good and the bad and the ugly and in some parts of our lives there's sunshine, fabulous! And you look in another part of your life and there's storm clouds and thunder and lightning and rain. All the different parts of life, family and how we feel inside, our contentment and security and the friends we have and the work we do, all those bits. What do we want out of life? Peace, health, love, pretty basic things actually, and you look at that landscape and maybe in one or two areas those basic things can be missing. You know what I'm talking about. Maybe marriage is not everything it's cracked up to be; maybe work you're so sick to death of it, it's boring, the routine the humdrum; maybe inside you just feel a lostness or a downness that you don't understand why. We go through these things, these are life, and they can happen right alongside, right in parallel with, right at the same time as the other good things. I can be having a fantastic relationship with my wife and not enjoying my work, or visa versa. Or both of those are fine but one of our kids is having some trouble at the moment. We want to have good harvests in our life, but sometimes right now, it's not what we want it to be. And before we can have a harvest we need to plant a seed. There's a great story, if you have a Bible you can read it later, you can go to Genesis Chapter 26, right at the beginning of the Bible. By the way if you don't have one you can go to a website. Biblegateway is the website, and you can read all sorts of different translations of the Bible on-line, good website. Anyhow, you can read about it. It's a story of Isaac who was Abraham's son, Abraham was the father I guess, of the nation of Israel. And Isaac was living in a place where there was famine and drought and he made some mistakes in his life that were exactly the same mistakes that his Dad, Abraham, had made. Isn't it the way sometimes, a chip off the old block? We pick up the good traits of Mum and Dad and we pick up, frankly, the bad ones too. And Isaac blew it! You know he hung his wife out to dry, which was what Abraham had done to Isaac's Mum. And there's a famine and there's a drought in the land, and Isaac wants to run away. He said, "Ah I've had enough of this, let's go somewhere like Egypt, which is much better than this place that God's got me at the moment." But God said, "No actually I don't want you to do that, I want you to stay because I've got a plan for you Isaac, and My plan is, even though there's a drought going on, and even though you've made this huge blunder with your wife, I'm actually going to bless you in this place. Now that's easy for God to say, you know God is there in air- conditioned comfort in heaven and we're down here in the drought and in the famine and in the mess right? And we can sometimes hear God say it, sometimes you'll hear it through listening to a voice like mine...
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