00072 - Be wise this payday
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A third of people in the United Kingdom live one payday to the next. That means no savings, while holding a fair amount of debt. As...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 13, 2022
- 1 min
00071 - Praying for the next Prime Minister
Let’s face it, all Prime Ministers come and go. The longest they can stay is two terms (8 years). Usually, the incumbent has persuaded...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
00070 - Breathe this Public Holiday
When we have public holidays, people tend to go into overdrive on DIY projects, shopping trips, painting things, and not doing what the...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 11, 2022
- 1 min
00069 - Are we desperate for God’s word ?
In 1792 a young girl called Mary Jones gave her life to Jesus, she was eight. By 15 she had learned to read and yearned for a Bible of...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 10, 2022
- 1 min
00068 - Pray for your Pastor
Let’s face it being a Pastor is one of the most demanding roles out there. Trying to keep everyone happy, trying to prepare one or more...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
00067 - Satellites
The former Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 (Satellite 1) in 1957, it was the weight of a person and while travelling at 18,000 mph, was...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
00066 – Cast your nets once more
Albert Einstein once said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result’. Luke...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
00065 - Train up a child
One of the greatest privileges in life is to input into the life of a Child. An African proverb says it takes a village to raise a...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
00064 - The freedom to fail
We all live in a world where success is sold as the only way to get along. Yet failure is likely to play a big part of life. Whether you...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 6, 2022
- 2 min
00063 - Time for a Prayer Walk
When prayer walking your street or community, you bring the presence of God through prayer to rest on that place. Christians have...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 5, 2022
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Carl Brettle
- Aug 5, 2022
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00062 - Be a light on your street
Living out faith on your street can be really rewarding. Often people seek out help and advice from Christians when they have a problem...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
00061 – Don’t give in to Temptation
We live in a world these days, where the very last thing anyone want is to be told is what to do or how to live life, yet the Bible is...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
00060 - The seven mountains of influence
Theologians have for years sought to find the biblical mandate for influencing society. It’s no secret that Christianity has been a...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
00059 – Your Output Reflects Your Input
Have you ever considered what pollutes your brain? What your eyes see, how often they see it. Whether that be a soap opera or violence on...


Carl Brettle
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
00058 - The wonder of creation
Jeremiah 32:17 says ‘Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
00057 - When a miracle smiles up at you.
At the end of a three-week mission trip to Africa, in the town of Sega, Kenya, I felt the Holy Spirit stir, to ask anyone with a medical...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 30, 2022
- 1 min
00056 - The midnight hour
If you find yourself regularly waking in the middle of the night with something on your mind, it might not be insomnia, it might be the...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
00055 - Blessed assurance Jesus is mine
Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer in 1873 listened to a new piece of music written by Phoebe Palmer Knapp. When asked by Knapp, what...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
00054 - Loneliness
It’s weird that despite being more connected to people than ever through social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, people...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
00053 - Persistent in prayer
Have you noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen and when you don’t pray, coincidences don’t happen? It should be no surprise...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 26, 2022
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Carl Brettle
- Jul 26, 2022
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00052 - Little white lies
Have you noticed the concept of lying has been broken down into two areas these days, little white lies, which don’t on the surface seem...


Carl Brettle
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
00051 - Be Healed
A significant promise in the Bible is that of healing. Act 5:14-16 says, ‘they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on...
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