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A Different Perspective Official Podcast

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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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  • A New Soul // A New Page, Part 3

    A New Soul // A New Page, Part 3
    Jan 7 2026
    It's funny how we embark on each new year with great expectations of new things – and yet, we never take a look at ourselves. Our attitudes. How we function on the inside. That never changes. So why would anything else change? Have you ever heard this? Dit dit dit, da da da, dit dit dit, you may recognise it, it's Morse code. Dit dit dit is an "s", da da da is an "o" and dit dit dit in an "s" again. SOS - Save Our Souls, Save Our Souls. It's the emergency distress signal when a plane or a ship or a submarine is going down. Save our souls, SOS. "Soul" is a word that's bantered around a lot these days. "This place doesn't have any soul", 'soul music' and in Christian circles, "soul" is a very common word but what exactly is our soul? I mean, what do you and I mean when we use the term 'soul'? It's one of those terms that we use a lot and yet we rarely stop to understand exactly what it is. The apostle Paul in his letter to the Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 23, talks about us having a soul: May the God of peace Himself, sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and your soul and your body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. So, as you and I stand on the threshold of a new year, what's our soul? Is it worth saving? And what does it have to do with our lives and the quality of our lives? Over this week, we're looking at the rut that many of us get into. We have a tendency, this time of year, to think about life and we look at the rut and what we want to do is, we want to change our circumstances, we want to, kind of, run away from some things and ditch some things and improve some things and then our lives will be fine. Problem is that, for many of us, it's not the rut that we're in but the shape that we're in that's the problem. For many of us we're bent out of shape. We've been squeezed into the worlds mould and it doesn't fit so well and so life is uncomfortable and messy. I can run away wherever I like but until I get out of that mould, my life's not going to be transformed, I'm not going to have a new life, nothing's going to change. Yesterday we looked at our bodies. Today we're going to take a look at our souls. So what is our soul? What does God say it is? Well, the Greek word used in the New Testament for soul is actually a word that you and I are quite familiar with. It's the word "psyche". It's who we are and where we experience life. It is indeed the place of life, life itself. The best description I've ever heard is that our soul is our mind, our will and our emotions. It's where we think, where we decide and where we feel. That's our soul. It's that incredible place where we are human beings and it is in our souls that most of our problems in life occur. Yesterday I was talking about the body and the body's really important. The body's the place where the soul lives, it's the physical dimension and you can't separate the two. If my body isn't working properly, it's going to have an impact on my soul. Trauma in the body spills over into the soul. Hormones are the great link between body and soul, you can't separate the two. And if the body isn't being looked after properly then it is going to have a huge impact on our soul - our mind, our will and our emotions – one of the reasons that we really need to look after our body. But today, I want to talk specifically about our souls and the way that we tie ourselves up in a knots, the way we ruin our own lives because when we misuse and abuse our soul, that ends up ruining our lives. Let me explain it this way. If you and I don't look after our posture, the way we sit and stand, if we don't sit straight or walk properly then ultimately, we going to end up being permanently hunched over. If I slouch in front of my computer all day, I'll end up with a sore back and with headache and weakened muscles and it won't be long, another 10 or 15 years, and I'm just going to be living all my life all hunched over. In the same way, it's the same thing with the soul. If I'm constantly angry, unforgiving, proud, lazy, whatever it is, if I keep using my soul the wrong way, my mind, my will, my emotions, that soul is going to end up, well, hunched over, disabled in a sense. The best word I've ever come across to understand that disposition of our souls is our attitude to life. Some people have a great attitude, positive, optimistic, kind, forgiving and others are more like Uncle Scrooge – always angry, nasty, dishonest, always wanting their own way. See how a soul that's caught in that rut is going to ruin our lives? Some people are approaching their lives with a bad attitude; a soul that's hunched over, almost like it's cramped. A mind that's focused on self, a will that's brutal and won't yield and emotions that are all messed up. If I asked you to name three people in your life right now, who have a bad attitude, I bet you could do that in a split second, you just know who they are. And you know something...
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  • A New Body // A New Page, Part 2

    A New Body // A New Page, Part 2
    Jan 6 2026
    Sometimes we head off into the new year with great expectations – and yet, we just don't look after ourselves. Our body. What we eat. Exercise. Sleep. And so what happens, is that our bodies let us down. One of the things that I notice from time to time is how easy it is to over spiritualise things. There seems to be two opposite ends of the spectrum, two extremes if you like. Over spiritualising and under spiritualising. Some people go about their lives without any real sense of there being a spiritual dimension to things. But there is, it's powerful, it is God's dimension and the devil's dimension too, let's not forget that. We deny the spiritual dimension at our peril. The other extreme though, is to over spiritualise. I've seen that a lot of in my life too. People, who wonderfully, passionately believe in God and yet, they kind of use that as a haven to ignore the physical realities of their lives. For instance, I've visited a lot of Churches over the years and one of the things that I've almost never heard is a sermon on how to look after your body. Truly, people are going through tough times and so they pray and they believe and they pray and they believe and all the time, they're 30 or 40 pounds overweight. Not exercising, not sleeping properly and wondering why their emotions are on some roller coaster ride. Well let's have a little bit of a poke around and have a look at that today, on the program. This week is kind of the start of a new year. It's a great time to have a look at what it means to turn a new page in our lives. So many people are in a rut and what we want to do is, when we're in a rut, we want to change our circumstances when all along, the problem isn't the rut that we're in, it's the mould that we're in. It's not the path that we're travelling, it's the shape that we're in. The apostle Paul knew that. He wrote in Romans, chapter 12, beginning at verse 2: Don't be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the good and perfect and acceptable will of God. In other words, don't let the world squeeze you into its mould. Break the mould, get out of it. Let God renew your heart and your mind so that you can figure out what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God for your life. And see, we are complex people, we're physical, we're emotional, we're spiritual. That's what Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 23: May the God of peace Himself, sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and your soul and your body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Spirit. Soul. Body. Today I want to have a look at the body. See, many people get touchy about the body. I used to get touchy about my body when I was hugely overweight. See, we live in a society that says you're only beautiful if you're trim, taught and terrific, especially women, right? And then, on the other hand, you have these TV programs and the ads on TV and they say, "Oh look, hang all that, eat whatever you want, drink whatever you want, you're beautiful whoever you are. It's okay to eat anything, it's okay to be overweight" … and on it goes. Let me be really blunt. The body makes a huge difference to how much we enjoy our lives. Our body's important, not because of what other people think, not to measure up to their images of beauty and success, that's not important, let's not even go there. Now, I am who I am. I can't grow any taller, I can't change my face, you know what I mean? This is the wrapping that God gave me but you know something else, this body of mine and this body of yours, our body's a temple and I don't mean that in some "new agey, swami" kind of way. Have a listen to what God has to say about our bodies in 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 19: Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you which you have from God and that you are not your own. See, the person who says, "Yeah, I believe in Jesus" – this is what happens. The Spirit of God comes to dwell in us, in my body. I have the very Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, dwelling in me and if you believe in Jesus, so do you. Now if I knew that the Son of God, Jesus, was coming to my place tonight, to have dinner, to visit, you know what, my hunch is I'd make sure the place was clean and tidy, not a mess, don't you think? So why is it that we can believe in Jesus, believe that the Holy Spirit dwells in us and yet, we keep the place a mess? See, our body is a complex, intricate machine. All the studies on robotics and computers, they haven't come anywhere close to the mechanical and cognitive abilities of human beings. Let alone intelligence and emotion and intuition, all those other uniquely human qualities. And sure we're complex but actually, the body's a very simple thing to look after. We only need three things, the right food, a moderate amount of exercise and a good night's sleep most nights. Now Berni, as I was ...
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  • The Same Old Rut // A New Page, Part 1

    The Same Old Rut // A New Page, Part 1
    Jan 5 2026
    At the beginning of a New Year, one of the things that plays on our minds a bit is the notion that we're just caught in the same old rut. Hmm. I wonder – well, I wonder what God's take is on that. Well, as we sit here on the threshold of yet another year. I don't know, my hunch is that, for many of us, there are mixed emotions. On the one hand, there's a sense of anticipation, a sense of hope at what the New Year might bring. This is the time of year where so many of us dream of a better life, of a better future, of fresh new possibilities. And yet, as we look back over the last year and the year before that and the year before that, we can see a constancy, almost a monotony of the same old, same old – same old marriage, same old home, same old job, same old people, same old, same old life. And the sense of anticipation, a sense of excitement at the possibilities that a new year might bring, they evaporate in an instant when we think of the same old, same old. Let's face it; most of us are caught in a rut, that same old rut. Like a groove in the old vinyl records, just going round and round and round, in that rut that never seems to end. What we want is a new page, a new book, a new story, a new life. But as we look ahead to the horizon, as far as the eye can see, all we can see is that same old, same old, same old. I want to tell you a story about a friend of mine called Bob. Bob's a great guy; I've known him since I was a teenager. His trade was electronics and he taught apprentices when I was still at high school. One day he decided to become a minister and he did that. It was a big change, for him and his family, and he went off to do his four years of training. Then, over the years, he ministered in one parish after the next. When it came time for him to retire, well he didn't believe in that. He had a heart, for many years, to work as a counsellor, did all the training and in fact, he became a lecturer in this field. So retirement, for him, was moving out of the city where he lived, leaving the parish ministry behind but establishing a counselling practice in a coastal area outside the smoggy, busy city where he lived most of his life, in a beautiful, idyllic beach side location. Sounds fabulous, doesn't it? Beautiful place where he settled and it seemed kind of odd to me because I imagined that the place where counsellors were needed were back in that dirty, busy, grotty city. That place with all it's pressures and demands and commuting. And I asked him about it. I said "Bob, how could you move up to this place, this beautiful coastal, almost resort and become a counsellor and set up a counselling practice?" And he said, "People think just like you. They think that if they leave the busy city with all its pressures and they have their sea change, then all their problems will go away. But" he said, "actually, it's exactly the opposite. They bring all their problems with them and then, they don't have their friends and family around them, as they once did and everything becomes a whole bunch worse." Mmm, see people think that they'll trade their pressure for relaxation, the city for an idyllic beachside location and then, then it will all get better. The truth is though, it's not their location, it's not their circumstances where their problems lie. The problems lie in their hearts, on the inside where they live. Isn't that fascinating? Isn't it fascinating how we think that if only our circumstances or our situation would change, then everything would be better? We look on the outer things but the reality is that the problems are in our hearts. How many times have you and I thought, "If only I could change this one thing in my life, just this one thing, then everything would be better? If only I had just a little bit more money, not a lot, just another 10%, then things wouldn't be so tight. I could afford a few extra things, then life would be sweet. If only my wife or my husband loved me more. If only my kids would behave. If only I could get a new job. If only this, if only that …" No doubt, there are times in our life when we need a change, when we're ready for a change. A new job, even a new career or a move somewhere, those are good things, by and large but they aren't the solutions to the anxieties and the fears that gnaw away at our souls. They're not the answer to all our woes. We can change the circumstances but if we have things going on inside that go unresolved, then we can change whatever we like on the outside but it's not going to make one shred of difference on the inside. So here we stand at the beginning of a new year. Many of us are wishing we weren't in the same old rut still. Many of us are thinking, looking desperately, seeking a new life, to turn over a new page, to start a new story. But so often we look in the wrong places for that when all along we need God to do something in our hearts. In the Old Testament, in Ezekiel, chapter 36, verse 26 it says this: A new...
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