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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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  • The Plans God Has For You // Onwards and Upwards, Part 5

    The Plans God Has For You // Onwards and Upwards, Part 5
    Jan 2 2026
    Well, here we are standing at the threshold, the beginning of another year. Who knows how many of these you and I have left. But while we do have a new year ahead, I want to share some good news with you. Some great news. Some really … fantastic news. Are you ready? So, what are your plans for this year? Maybe you're planning on changing jobs or studying or maybe you're planning a great holiday or planning on buying a new home or renovating or a new car. What's the plan? Companies spend a small fortune on creating their strategic plans. But a down turn in the economy, an accident, sickness, those things can bring those plans unstuck in an instant. So what is the plan? I mean if God has a plan for my life, for your life, what would it look like? I don't know if you're a parent but what does a parent's plan look like for their children? Well, we want them to be healthy, we want them to be happy, we want them to discover their talents and to use them and to be fulfilled. But also we want them to experience and taste life. You know as parents we do want them to be allowed to make mistakes, to learn for themselves, to grow for themselves and to have a great life. The last few days on A Different Perspective, we've been looking at the things that can hold us back from living a great life. You know – the habits, the behaviours, the bad ways of thinking, the anger, the dissent, all those things that yield lousy fruit in our lives. It's almost like sometimes we're enslaved to them. We've broken so many New Year's resolutions over the years, we just can't get free from them. Now, if that was your kid would you want them to be enslaved to some bad habit? Would you want them to be on a treadmill all their lives trying to get power or money or success? Or would you want them actually really to enjoy their lives? Come on! Really, what would we want for our kids? Pretty obvious, isn't it? We want them to have a full, wonderful, satisfying life that they would look back on at the end and say, "Mum and dad gave me a great start and I have enjoyed my life." There was a time in Israel's history where in their relationship with their God, God their Father, well, they rebelled. God had brought them into their Promised Land. God had given them everything, abundance of the land and they decided that they were just going to live their lives their way and do all the things that God said don't do. They worshipped idols, there was injustice in the land, they did some bad things. And as a direct result of that, God allowed the Babylonians to come and invade Israel – to destroy Jerusalem, the Temple, to kill a whole bunch of people and then take the rest into slavery in Babylon. And that slavery lasted for seventy years in the history of Israel. It began in 587 BC and for the next seventy years they were enslaved in Babylon. And while they were there, this is what He said to His children, Israel, through the Prophet Jeremiah. He said this: When the seventy years is over I'll be there and I'll bring you back because I know what plans I have for you' said God 'plans for your welfare, not for your harm, to give you a future with hope. Then you'll call on me and I'll hear you, you'll pray to me and I'll answer you. When you search for me with all your heart you will find me. (Jeremiah 29: 10-13) Beautiful, isn't it? Here are these people who are in slavery because of the things that they have done wrong in rebelling from God. And as we were talking yesterday about this whole slavery thing, I was watching someone in a workplace recently and they have a habit of being really, really critical of other people. Other people can never match up to their standards. They're always wandering around behind everybody's back criticising person A to person B and person B to person A. And I think, you know, this person is like a slave to this spirit of criticism that they've got going on inside. Because all of that criticism is it healthy, does it bring joy, does it bring collaboration, and does it bring teamwork? No. What it does is that it brings hurt and dissention and pain and anger and people throw rocks at each other, you know what I mean. And I thought, "This person is a slave to that spirit of criticism going on in their lives." So the things that we do wrong end up putting us in slavery just the way that when Israel rebelled against God, they ended up in slavery. You might think it's stating too strong a point. Look at the number of marriages that fall apart because people are enslaved to having affairs, drinking too much, going out, working too hard, not having relationships between husband and wife, the worlds full of it, isn't it? And here we have this beautiful statement from God, "When the time's over, I'll be there and bring you back because I know what the plans are that I have for you – plans for your welfare not for harm to give you a future with hope. You'll call on me and I'll hear you. You'll pray to me and I'll answer ...
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  • Out of Slavery // Onwards and Upwards, Part 4

    Out of Slavery // Onwards and Upwards, Part 4
    Jan 1 2026
    You know, over this Christmas-New Year period, I've been praying for you and everybody else who listens to this program – that the coming year will be a year where you're set free from the things that have enslaved you, because freedom, as it turns out, is just about the biggest gift that God can give us. This is just such a wonderful time of the year. The sense of a new start, a new beginning and yet, as we've been reflecting this week on "A Different Perspective", it's so easy for the hurts and regrets of the past to haunt us, to hold us back in the New Year. And we can literally be enslaved by behaviours, habits and things that we think and do but if we truly thought about it, we'd admit to ourselves, "Well, they're wrong." But somehow they can hold us captive and rob us of a life worth living. I wonder if I asked you to look at your life, what are those things? What are the chains that hold you back? What are the things that enslave you? Slavery, being enslaved is not something we think much about these days. I mean really, isn't it a thing of the past? Sure Negro's were taken to the United States and to the United Kingdom and that's all over and done with. That's the past. We don't have slavery anymore. Well, actually that's not true. The estimates are … there are about 27 million people living in slavery in the world today – 27 million people. That's more than at any other time in history. Add to those official slaves, if I can call them that, people living and working in the export processing zones of Indonesia, of Malaysia, right across South East Asia. Millions of people being paid a few cents an hour in almost slave like conditions to make the clothes and the runners and the shoes and the toys that we in the West take for granted. And what about the people that are enslaved by poverty? The number is probably in the hundreds of millions. When you look at it like that it's a startling, painful, horrible reality. Slavery is flourishing if I can put it in those terms but I would like to suggest to you that it's much, much bigger than even that. Over this last week on "A Different Perspective", we've been talking about the things that hold us back – the regrets, the thoughts, the behaviours, the habits, the negative things, the things that if we were really honest with ourselves we'd say, "I know they're wrong." Those things bear bad fruit in our lives and you know something? They're just like the chains that the Negro's had around their ankles when they were being shipped from Africa to America. Jesus made that point. He talked about it in terms of sin. I'll talk about what sin means in a minute but listen to what He said for a bit. He wants us to have an abundant life and He said, "Look, if you are involved in sin it's like you're a slave to sin," and He said, "I've come to give you an abundant, rich and full life." He never denied that we'd have tough times but the whole subject of sin was something He talked a lot about. And the word sin means something very specific. We load it with a whole bunch of cultural and theological baggage I think sometimes. But the word "sin" means literally "to miss the point", to miss the point of life, to miss out on the share of what's on offer. When you look at it in that sense you think, "Well, it does make sense, I know that when I get angry with people, I'm ruining my life and I'm ruining theirs. I know when I talk behind people's backs, I know when I stab them in the back when they're not there, I know that's not good. I might want to do it, I've been used to doing it but I know that actually what it does is that it robs me of a life worth living." Jesus said this: I tell you the truth, anyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family but a son or a daughter belongs to it forever. (John 8:34-35) I have met people who live in the biggest houses in the most affluent suburbs and have the flashiest cars sitting in their driveway. And those people are no less slaves than someone who is living in chains. They're slaves to bad behaviour. They're slaves to their consumerism. They're slaves to building a bigger house and spending more money and trying to get their hits that way. They're slaves to power, slaves to money, slaves to position, slaves to status in society. And our behaviour ends up causing hurt and pain and suffering to us and to other people. We end up missing the point of life. We end up missing out on what really is on offer from God. That's why it's called sin. But here's the crazy thing for me, each one of those 27 million official slaves and the hundreds and millions like them right around the world, there's one thing that they want more than anything else in life – they want freedom. I was reading the autobiography of a man called Josiah Henson recently. Josiah Henson lived in the late 1700's, early 1800's and he was the man about whom that great book, Uncle Tom's Cabin was written. He was a real ...
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  • Turning Point // Onwards and Upwards, Part 3

    Turning Point // Onwards and Upwards, Part 3
    Dec 31 2025
    One of the things that this bit of a pause between Christmas and New Year affords us, is some time to draw breath and decide what we're going to do differently next year. So … as you stand on the threshold of a new year … what are you going to do differently next year? Here we are in this funny week in between Christmas and the New Year and I thought (together) we might look back on the year that's been and forward at the year ahead. It's a bit of a turning point, I guess, between what's been and what's going to be. Over the last couple of days, we've looked at the year in review – what's been. In particular, yesterday, we had a chat about dealing with the pain of regret. Today, I'd like to take one step further. We're going to look at turning things around. Just looking at your life, here and now – where you're at? What in your life would you like to see turned around? Probably since calendar's were first invented, people have been making New Years' resolutions. You know the ones: "I'm going to lose some weight this year, I'm going to give up cigarettes and smoking, I'm going to achieve this, I'm going to work harder at that, I'm going to go to the gym every day." You know because you've been there. I've been there. We've done that, we've got the t-shirt. It's a natural thing to do in this funny little week between Christmas and New Year. A lot of people, whether they're in the Northern Hemisphere in a cold winter or in the Southern Hemisphere here in a warm summer, a lot of people have this week off. And we like to look back at the things that have been and think, "Well, you know, it wasn't a bad year or it's a lousy year or I would have done this differently". And we also look forward – we dream, we hope, we plan. There's something, I don't know, wonderful about contemplating the next year in the New Year. But it's also true that by and large, the resolutions that we make in this quiet Christmas/New Year period, well, they normally don't last. By the end of January, most New Years' resolutions have been broken at least a dozen times. And what we do after we break them because it's such an incredible sense of failure, "I didn't even get to the end of the first month of the year", you know that feeling – we bury them. We don't want to actually even remember that we made them because it's such an embarrassment that we failed so early. Are you with me or am I the only one going out on a limb here? But as we look back on this last year, there are some good things that happened to us and I guess there are some not so good, some bad things that happened. And you look at the bad things, some of those things are completely out of our control but some of the bad things that happen to us are within my control. They're because we do silly things and New Years' resolutions are generally about changing those things. If someone's overweight, the reason (normally) that they're overweight is because they eat too much and they don't exercise enough. And so a New Year's resolution is taking those things that are in our control that are causing us grief or pain or just things we want to change and making a resolution of short-term pain for future gain. Losing weight is about sacrificing in the short-term, not eating the chocolates and the biscuits and the cakes and all of those sorts of things, right? So that we can fit into our clothes again and we can feel better and we're healthier and we have more energy. The formula of the New Year's resolution is the same every time – short-term pain for future gain. It's about achieving something. And you know when there are things that are in our control that are bearing bad fruit in our lives like over eating, like drinking too much, like smoking, like being super critical, like gossiping, like … the list, you know the list. We all know the list. We all have some of these things in our lives. On the one hand, we can look at them and be really depressed and think, "I can't change that." On the other hand, we can look at them and say, "There is an incredible opportunity that awaits me here, to change my life for the better." Thomas Edison I think, the man who invented the light bulb, said this, he said: Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and it looks like hard work. You love that? I love that saying. Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and it just looks like hard work. When we want to turn something around in our lives, it requires effort and commitment as well as the decision. It's something that we need to stick with. And that's the reason that we fail. That's the reason it can be tough. "I'm going to lose weight" and the first time we get hungry in the afternoon, we go and reach for the chocolate bar or we're going to reach for a piece of cake in the fridge. I'd like to talk about this whole "turning things around" with a twist. You know something in our lives is heading on the down and here ...
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