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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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  • 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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  • Things I Would Have Done Differently // Onwards and Upwards, Part 2

    Things I Would Have Done Differently // Onwards and Upwards, Part 2
    Dec 30 2025
    As you look back on this last year, I wonder … what would you have done differently? It's worth thinking about, because whilst you can't wind the clock back and do them over, a bit of reflection can help you think about how you're going to handle things in the new year ahead. Well, here we are in this week between Christmas and New Year. It's a funny kind of week, really, looking back on the year that's just been and with the other part of us looking forward at the year that might be. But sometimes the thing that stops us from really getting on and living this next year to the full – is the regret of the year that's just been or maybe the year before or maybe the year before that. We all do things that later we regret. I wonder if I were to ask you to look back over this last year and pick just three things that you regret. What would they be? I truly believe that sometimes we need to look back before we can look forward. Now, I'm not one for living in the past and wallowing in regret. But regret is a funny thing. Regret is about lost opportunities. If only I hadn't done, if only I'd done this and a related word is reproach. It's a sense of blame or guilt that hangs over us from the past because of the mistakes we made, the things we should have done but didn't, the things we could have done but didn't and the things we did but we shouldn't have done. And those three things they bear bad fruit in our lives. They cause pain. It's interesting. There's a prayer in the Old Testament of the Bible, 1 Chronicles chapter 4. It's called The Prayer of Jabez and one of the things that Jabez prays is: Lord keep me from evil that I would not cause any pain. (1 Chronicles 4:10) When you and I do dumb things which we do from time to time, it causes pain, either to us or the people around us or in fact, to both. And as we sit here looking forward to a new year, let's just cast our eyes back on the year that's been and think, what are the things that bring that sense of reproach, that sense of regret on our lives? And truly unless we deal with the regret, the reproach of the past, we just can't move on and enjoy – I mean really enjoy the future. Actually this is quite a common problem. All sorts of people spend their lives carrying around all sorts of baggage that is best left in the past. Yesterday, on A Different Perspective, we talked about taking stock of the year that's just been. On the one side of the page, listing all the positives, all the wonderful things that have happened in life. I don't know about you but I look back on my life and I think, "Gee! This last year has been a wonderful year". It's been a tough year, it's been a hard year too but there are so many things I can look back on and think, "God's blessed me here and this has been wonderful and that's been wonderful." And then on the other side of the page, listing the negatives, the downers, the bad things that have happened either outside of our control that has impacted on us like the London bombing. I mean imagine sitting on the bus at Taverstock Square and all of a sudden the bomb goes off. Nothing that anybody other than the bomber himself could have done about that. Sometimes bad things happen to us that are completely beyond our control. Other times, bad things happen to us because buggerlugs me or buggerlugs you, do some stupid things. And there are a whole bunch of different areas in our lives where we could be harbouring regret. Maybe you've worked too hard this year and haven't spent enough time with your family. Maybe there's been a relationship breakdown, just not enough time invested in that relationship. What opportunities did we miss last year? It's a funny thing how this regret just hangs over us. And you know what we then try and do? We try to deny the root cause. We all do that. We don't want to acknowledge that maybe we had a part to play in this thing. We don't want to own up, we don't want to be frank and open and say, "Hang on, if I had done this better, if I hadn't been so selfish, if I hadn't been so critical, you know maybe it wouldn't have been that bad, maybe it wouldn't have happened at all." And then we rationalise it away and we blame other people. We blame circumstances. One of the things I always have to do is watch my weight. I have to watch what I eat, just my genetics, who I am, who my father was, who my grandfather was, I have to watch what I eat. And often, when I'm travelling as I do for the work and ministry that I do, it's easy to say, "Well, you know I'm travelling and I can't really control what I get served on the plane. And I have to eat where I have to eat". It's really easy to blame everybody else. Actually, it is possible to watch what I eat when I am travelling. And I had to come to a point in my life when I said, "I'm going to stop blaming everybody else and I'm going to take responsibility for this". Sometimes we have to do some radical surgery, we have to say, "I'm sorry, we have to clear ...
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