A Different Perspective with Berni Dymet

One of the most stressful things in this life is not having enough to go around. Enough time, to get everything done. Enough money to make ends meet. Enough skills and abilities to get the job done. When you’ve suffered under the stress of not enough, how have you coped with it? Join Berni Dymet as he takes another look at the stress in your life - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stress these days just seems to be a fact of life and yet ... all too often, we put ourselves under more stress than we need to. Why is that and what can we do about it? Join Berni Dymet as he takes another look at the stress in your life - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

These days, way too many of us are living under way too much pressure and stress. And that’s not good, so we long for an idyllic life living on a beach somewhere with not a care in the world. But that’s not realistic is it. So what’s the answer? How do we deal with stress? Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the stress in your life - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Inside OutSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Connecting Iniside and OutSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Choosing What is BetterSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Heart of WorshipSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Who or What do I WorshipSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Okay, so Jesus promised us an abundant life. And so often we’re head down, pedalling so hard, we lose sight of the big picture. If there is a heaven and a hell - and eternity to go with them - then the reality of heaven and hell is infinitely bigger than the reality of here and now. What about life then and there?Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes as we’re travelling through things in life that we’d rather not be travelling through, we can get to imagining that any promise of God’s blessing, of an abundant life - must be a promise for some time way off in the future. Certainly not for here and now! But what if I told you that He means if absolutely - for here and now.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I spent a good chunk of my life looking for happiness, but I never found what I was looking for. Problem with happiness is that it’s linked to our circumstances - can’t be happy if something difficult is happening. Turns out, I wasn’t looking for happiness at all. What I longed for, was joy. It’s just back then, I didn’t realise that, because I didn’t know what Joy was.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don’t think there’s a single person on this planet, who doesn’t want to have peace in their lives. A cessation of conflict and wrangling and fighting. Of course conflict comes in many different forms - the words, is a conflict with God. Turns out that one of the things Jesus wants to bless us with, is peace.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Blessing of RighteousnessSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Life can be a grind, and frankly life can get us down. We all know that. And so our view of what life is, and what it should be, becomes all twisted - inside out and upside down. So it’s time to get things right way up again. It’s time to discover what God has to say about the life He wants for us. Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at this whole 'abundant life' thing from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the ways that God explains His relationship with us, is that He is our Father, and we are His children. And actually, when you think about it, a father-child relationship is, or at least should be - an incredible blessing. So, if God’s our Father, and we’re His children - shouldn’t that be ... a blessing? Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at this whole 'abundant life' thing from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If there’s one thing we can all agree on about Jesus is that He didn’t do anything by half measures. No -- He threw Himself into things and when He said something, He meant it. So - when He promised us an abundant life' - the words in the original Greek language literally mean - a super-abundant life! Told you - He doesn’t do anything by halves! Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at this whole 'abundant life' thing from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jesus promised each of his disciples - that’s anyone who believes in Him - an abundant life. Yeah, right!! But in the same breath - in the very same verse in the Bible, he also says that there’s a thief - and all the thief is interested in is to steal, kill and destroy. Well - if Jesus talked about him - this thief - then maybe it’s worth you and me taking a closer look. Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at this whole 'abundant life' thing from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we hear Jesus promising us an abundant life - which is exactly what He does promise us - it’s easy to think 'Yeah, right! Must be for someone else.' But actually ... it’s not. It’s a promise for everyone who decides to follow Jesus. Question is - how does it work? How can we have an 'abundant life' Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at this whole 'abundant life' thing from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes - sometimes God decides to do something radically new in our lives - it’s as though He puts a new song in our hearts. Hmm. So what do you do with that? Join Berni, as he takes a look the God of new beginnings - from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes, when there are good things happening in one part of our life - things start falling apart in another. It’s almost as though when God is birthing something new, there are birth pangs. Join Berni, as he takes a look the God of new beginnings - from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The past is a funny thing. We can’t change the past - yet it hold back so many people from living today and tomorrow to the full. How can we break the power of the past over our lives? Join Berni, as he takes a look the God of new beginnings - from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If God is God then I guess He can do anything - right? Even deal with the most difficult issue or circumstance in our life - right? Question is - if God is God - do we actually believe He can do that? Join Berni, as he takes a look the God of new beginnings - from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Life can seem like more of the same. Same old same old. So many of us end up feeling like we’re trapped by our circumstances. But God is a God of new beginnings. Join Berni, as he takes a look at life - from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here we are in that week between Christmas and New Year. A time for looking back and a time for looking forward. So - looking back on it, how did this year go? Join Berni Dymet in looking back on your year from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Next week when Christmas is done and dusted, we’ll be in recovery mode. Out with the old year, in with the new ... but, there are some things we need to get sorted in this year that’s fast slipping away, before we can grab hold of next year with both hands. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have been there on that very first Christmas when Jesus was born into this world. Like ... sitting in that field with those shepherds. Just imagine ... Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Okay so we all know that bit in the Christmas story, where Mary and Joseph discover there’s no room at the Inn. But what was that like, and what does that have to say to you and me today? Actually it wasn’t a happy time and it has rather a lot to say today. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes on the journey of life we find ourselves completely alone. We can even be surrounded by lots of people, and yet still ... be alone. If that’s where you’re at this Christmas, what does God have planned for you? Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The other Sunday, the pastor at my church was talking about dying. He made the point that people’s greatest fear is to die alone. I’d never thought of it that way, but it makes a lot of sense. So ... what does this have to do with Christmas? Well, as it turns out ... everything! Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don’t know if you’ve ever thought of this, but on the surface of things, Christmas is a crazy idea! I mean, what exactly was God thinking by sending His Son to become a man - and to be born in some drafty, smelly shed out the back of Bethlehem. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the problems that many people have is reconciling the supposed wonder and joy of Christmas, with the humdrum realities of their lives. How ... how do you do that? How do you take this Christmas message and make it real in your life? Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know that first Christmas ... it didn’t just happen. It wasn’t like God hadn’t told His people that He was going to send them a Saviour. It’s just that ... well, they were so focussed on the here and now, they really hadn’t stopped to consider the big picture. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well ... here we are again. It’s December. It’s almost the end of another year ... and it’s almost Christmas time. Again! Happens year after year. Christmas. Question is ... what do you make of it? What do you do with it? It’s an age-old problem. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at your Christmas - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well, at some point in our lives, eventually, we come to the realisation that the idea, the promise of overnight success that the world has been dangling under our noses is an empty promise. It happens to all of us, eventually. And at that point, what we need is hope. Not a vague, uncertain hope, but a rock-solid, absolutely certain hope. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you think about it, pride and impatience are two sides of the one coin. Maybe that’s why so many people are in such a hurry to become an overnight success. Problem is, our plan isn’t always God’s plan, and impatience leads to an enormous amount of frustration. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a theoretical concept, we all believe in character-building. It’s a good idea. It’s a good thing. Sure! But as a practical exercise, character building, almost always hurts. And when it’s us that’s hurting, character building doesn’t seem like such a good idea Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’ve heard that saying, haven’t you - Dear God, give me patience ... NOW! It’d be really, really nice if we could learn patience instantly. In fact it’d be even better if we didn’t need to learn it at all. But sadly, when it comes to setbacks and delays, trials and temptations, there’s really only one way to learn patience ... and that’s the hard way Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

That’s it, I’ve had it. I only ever try to do the right thing, and each and every time God puts obstacles in my road! ... Have you ever thought that? Sure you have. So have I. That’s why today, we’re going to look at those God-ordained setbacks and delays Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don’t know how you imagine your life will turn out, whether you’ll achieve your life’s purpose or not, but often times, and you see this very much of people in the Bible, God puts dreams in their hearts, He puts a call on their lives, but they don’t get to see end game. That, to some, can be somewhat disconcerting. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The thing about the dreams that God puts on our hearts is that their execution is much, much, much more difficult than their conception. It’s easy to sit on the sofa and dream about something great that God is going to do through us, but getting out there and actually living the dream, well, that’s another thing altogether. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s one thing to have a dream in our heart. It’s one thing to have a sense of God’s calling on our lives. But if we truly believe that God is calling us to something, then at some point, we need to stop dreaming and start doing. And that, let me tell you, is one of the most difficult times of all. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don’t know about you, but I have often thought to myself, wouldn’t it be nice to become an overnight success. All this hard work, all the grind, if only we could bypass that bit and just arrive and success. Problem is, that life often heads in the other direction. Just when we think things are bad ... they go from bad ... to worse. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever been impatient with God? I mean you’re ready to get on with it! You’re ready to go and do what God made you to do. And yet He, for some unknown reason, doesn’t appear to be in any hurry. It’s enough to drive you crazy! Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at the good plans God has for your life, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

God’s wisdom as it turns out ... well on the one hand, when we’re sitting there all wrapped up in our selfish desires, God’s wisdom seems pretty counterintuitive. Seems to cost a lot and not deliver too much. But actually - God’s wisdom delivers just enormous blessing. Question is - how do we get our hearts in a place where we’re ready to listen?Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whilst some people under spiritualise life - I have to do it all in my own strength, others over spiritualise. They expect God to do the things they can do and then they wonder why things fall in a great almighty heap. So where’s the balance - between us killing ourselves at something versus leaving it all to God. What’s the middle ground? How’s it supposed to work?Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all have the odd panic attack from time to time. Or anxiety gnaws away at us and grinds our bones into dust. But there’s and antidote. There’s a cure. And whilst sometimes we can’t administer it to ourselves, we can give it to others. That cure - is called ... encouragement. Costs nothing, but gives so much.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some people - frankly - talk too much. Blah, blah, blah - on and on. In their own eyes - they appear so wise. But you know what I’ve noticed? The really smart people, the wise ones talk less and listen more. In fact the more I see, the more I learn ... the more I come to the conclusion that wisdom is, well ... understated.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ever flown off the handle at someone - said something that you wish you could take back but you can’t? Yep we all have. And sometimes we still do. What we need - what we really need is a piece of wisdom that we can put into action - right there in the heat of that moment. A piece of wisdom ... that works.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

None of us likes to think of ourselves as a fool - that’s a label we reserve for other people. And yet - we’ve all done foolish things in our lives. So - how can we avoid foolish mistakes from this point forward? And how can we avoid the impact of those foolish mistakes? Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at wisdom, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here’s one of the biggest deceptions going around at the moment. If I hang onto all my money, then I’ll be safe, secure and happy. Hmm. If only that were true. But it isn’t. By and large, it’s a lie. Safety, security and happiness - I mean real fulfilment - only tend to come our way, when we let go of the money. Join Berni Dymet - as he takes a look at wisdom, from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.