A Different Perspective with Berni Dymet

You know ? I think I could put up with going to church ? if it wasn’t for the other people. I mean truly, some of them can be a real pain. Hypocrites. That’s what goes through a lot of people’s minds and that’s why so many don’t go to church. But what if God always new that thing called 'church' would be like that? ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at church, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Let’s face it ? from a marketing perspective the thing they call 'church' ? well, it doesn’t exactly have a rosy reputation does it? Really. In fact on some quarters 'church' has become a four-letter word. So ? was church really God’s idea, and if so ? what was He thinking? ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at church, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A lot of people in a lot of places are wandering around, completely exhausted. So much to do. And that exhaustion, it turns out, can rob us of our confidence, of any sense of optimism for the future ... Join Berni, as he takes a look at some of the things that shake our confidence ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every now and then, something hits us in life completely out of the blue. Like a Tsunami. No warning. And in its aftermath, finding any sort of confidence to get on with life can be really tough ... Join Berni, as he takes a look at some of the things that shake our confidence ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’ve doubtless heard the story of 'The Little Engine that Could.' It’s a funny thing, but when we’re at the bottom of some huge great mountain, climbing it can feel completely impossible ... Join Berni, as he takes a look at some of the things that shake our confidence ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isn’t it interesting how often we end up comparing ourselves with everyone else? And so often we come up with the conclusion that we’re the ugly duckling. So is it true, or are we missing something? ... Join Berni, as he takes a look at some of the things that shake our confidence ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s sad but true that sometimes, things that happened in our formative years, can still impact on us emotionally today. Robbing us of a quiet, Godly confidence and assurance ... Join Berni, as he takes a look at some of the things that shake our confidence ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’ve all heard that saying about lying straight in bed at night. It turns out that the way that we live our lives, has a lot to do with the confidence, or alternately the uncertainty that we feel in our heart. Join Berni, as he takes a look at living a confident life ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s a funny thing ? but when what we believe doesn’t line up with how we live, then what we believe becomes less and less relevant. All of a sudden, faith?..turns into a nagging uncertainty. Join Berni, as he takes a look at living a confident life ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hope is a funny thing. It’s meant to be a certainty that something good is going to happen. But too often, hope is replaced by uncertainty, doubt?.even fears. Hope becomes a hit and miss affair? Join Berni, as he takes a look at living a confident life ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever felt out of place? A bit like an exile in a foreign land, like you don’t belong. We all feel that sometimes ? and you know something, my hunch is that God’s in that thing somewhere? Join Berni, as he takes a look at living a confident life ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ever felt like the world is running out of control? Like life is out of control? Nothing seems certain anymore ? and those fears and uncertainties just eat away at you. Join Berni, as he takes a look at living a confident life ? from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been chatting on the program about following Jesus with confidence. And as we wind up that series, there’s one more thing that I would like to share with you. In fact, it’s the most important thing of all. Join Berni Dymet as takes another look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If someone told you that you were a slave, how would you react? Probably like 99.9% of us ? you’d exclaim ? I’m not a slave, I’m free!! And yet it turns out that many, many people are wandering around with a very real slave mentality. And that ? that’s something that Jesus wants to do something about. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What you and I would really like is for the future to be plain and clear. But life’s not always like that. Sometimes it feels a bit as though we’re walking through life in a thick fog. Things aren’t as clear as we would like to be. Now all of a sudden, when you need your faith the most, it seems to elude you. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So you’re chugging along through life, doing your best to follow Jesus and then all of a sudden, the enemy throws a spanner in the works. You had a good and godly plan to do this for the Lord, but now, evil’s somehow disrupted those plans. Perhaps it’s strife and conflict. Whatever. It shakes your confidence. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we have our mind set on something, there’s nothing worse than someone or something coming along and forcing a change of plan on us. After all ? our plan ? it was a good one. So how do you react when God Himself drops a change of plan into your life, hmm? Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we’re travelling through a time of trial, it’s not all that easy to follow Jesus with confidence. Is there something that we can do, to experience that confidence in Him, when the going get’s tough. Well, as things turn out, there is. And it’s pretty simple too. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we’re travelling through a time of trial, it’s not all that easy to follow Jesus with confidence. Is there something that we can do, to experience that confidence in Him, when the going get’s tough. Well, as things turn out, there is. And it’s pretty simple too. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Following Jesus with confidence isn’t always that easy. It’s not enough to be told, have faith in God. We need to know how. So today we’re going to embark on a bit of a live case study. We’re going to meet a woman who’s in a great deal of pain. Her name is Hannah. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the biggest reasons we experience the emotion of disappointment, is because our expectations were wrong in the first place. And that’s particularly true when we’re going through a tough patch, and we look God in the eye and ask ? Why are you letting this happen to me? Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our preference in life, if the truth be known, is for things to be easy. Success, prosperity ? sure. That’s where God’s blessing must surely be. But Jesus ? well He calls us to journey with Him, on a road less travelled. And it’s not always what we want it to be. Join Berni Dymet as takes a look at how to follow Jesus with confidence - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

God’s Word says that love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things ? and it turns out that since God is love, since God’s our Dad, turns out that that’s exactly what His love towards us ? yes you and me ? looks like. Exactly. Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

These days kids seem to have more than they ever had before ? at least in the western world. But with all the technology and affluence that’s increasingly coming their way ? well, there’s one thing they’ve lost many of them. It’s the attention of their parents ? and they’d give anything to get it back. Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

These days kids seem to have more than they ever had before ? at least in the western world. But with all the technology and affluence that’s increasingly coming their way ? well, there’s one thing they’ve lost many of them. It’s the attention of their parents ? and they’d give anything to get it back. Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Remember when you were a child and you fell over and skinned your knee ? the thing we needed most back then was the affection and the reassurance of one of our parents. And even now ? when things happen, it’d be great to have a Father’s affection. God’s our Father ? so do you think ??? Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the things that we dad’s pretty much like to do whenever we can ? is to be generous to our children. We want the best for them, right ? we want to lavish our love on them. Well ? if God’s our Father ? what’s He like? Is He generous ? our not? Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes being a dad involves dishing out some tough love to our kids. Something that every father experiences. Something that God experiences. And when that happens, we can feel as though God’s forsaken us. But nothing, nothing could be further from the truth... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Let me ask you something ? does God punish us? OR does He discipline us? Or does He do both? And when He does ? it is out of His anger, is it about justice or retribution. What’s it all about? How does it all work?... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Jesus went around calling God His Father, well, that really threw the cat amongst the pigeons. The religious leaders called it heresy! And still today, this idea of God being a Father, can jar with us ? because not everyone has fantastic memories of their dad! ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we’re in the middle of life ? in the middle of whatever trial or difficulty or hurdle happens to be confronting us this week, it’s kind of hard to get our minds around the fact that God is this incredibly faithful and loving God. That’s when we need to learn some things about God’s past! ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The fact that God is love is ? well, pretty commonly known. We know that God is love ? but do we really? Do we know it in our hearts? Do we know it in our experience? ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he takes a look at God’s incredible Father heart, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With so many distractions and pressures out there to tear our families apart these days, way too many people lose hope in the future of their family, way too early in the piece. In fact it’s either the hope or the hopelessness that we have in the future of our family, that drives our behaviour towards them. Which is it for you ... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unforgiveness is like a wedge that tears families apart. And actually, it’s one of the biggest contributors to the disintegration of families across the globe. What if a culture of blame and unforgiveness were replaced with one of forgiveness? How would that change your family? ... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When all is said and done, prayer is the most powerful thing that you and I can ever do, in a situation of adversity. In fact, prayer that yields powerful results is entirely normal in God’s sight. So, in a world where families are falling apart en masse, what impact would family prayer have, do you think? Turns out that families who pray together, stay together... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the reasons that families are falling apart all around the world, is that they don’t spend enough time together. Being a family can be hard work, sure. But it can also be fun. Lots of fun if we do it the right way. As things turn out, families that play together, stay together... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Across the globe, families are falling apart. They don’t mean to, it just happens. Well there’s one thing ? one very simple, natural thing that you can do to substantially reduce the probability of that occurring. And that, is this. Make sure that most days, you share a meal together. Can it really be that simple? Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our families ? imperfect as they are ? are a huge blessing from God. But the cornerstone of any family, is the marriage. The cornerstone of your family ? if you’re a parent ? is ? YOUR marriage. To put it bluntly, your family, desperately needs your marriage... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Families across the globe are being torn apart. It’s not just a social phenomenon. It’s a deeply personal, deeply painful experience. And one of the reasons it’s happening is that we’re not giving our families the time that they need and the time that they deserve. Time to do something about that! ... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When a caterpillar spins itself a cocoon, it does so for a few reasons. The cocoon provides it with protection. The cocoon provides it with a safe place to grow and transform ? and eventually, a beautiful butterfly emerges. That’s exactly what a family’s supposed to be like. A cocoon... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most of us imagine that out there, somewhere, is a perfect family. In fact, probably, our family is the worst one on the street. But the reality is that all families have struggles. 100% of them. There’s no such thing as the perfect family, and the sooner we come to grips with that, the better off our family will be... Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The sad reality is that across the globe, families are being torn apart. Our enemy the devil delights in that, because family, all along, was God’s plan. But we’re not going to take this lying down, because God wants to bless your family. In His book, family matters. A lot. .. Join Berni, as he takes another look at your family ? from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our 'do-it-if-it-feels-good' kind of world, self-control isn’t something that we like to talk much about. But the reality is ? self-control is really important if we’re going to have a great life. Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There’s an elderly lady ? Ethel ? whom I’ve known for many years. She bakes the most amazing sponge cakes. She’s also a really gentle person. In fact, give me her gentleness over the sponge cakes any day. ..Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Faithfulness. You know, pretty much, faithfulness only really matters when the chips are down. And when they are ? a faithful friend is ? well words can’t describe. So ? how can we be faithful friends? ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we were growing up ? we all knew the 'goody two shoes' type of person. Yuck! But the older and wiser we get, the more we realise ? that goodness in people is a wonderful quality... Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever compared someone in your life that’s kind and someone that’s not. Pretty obvious who we’d rather be around. So ? how can we develop kindness in our lives ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Lord ? give me patience ? I want it now! Says it all doesn’t it. But patience it turns out is one of the greatest blessings that we can ever have in our lives ? question is, where do you get it? ... Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peace. Now there’s a word that means different things to different people. But show me a person who doesn’t want peace in their lives. How do you get that peace? ...Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all have good days and bad days. But some people ? well they seem to have a special something ? a deep joy ? come what may? How do you get that sort of joy in your life?... Join Berni Dymet ? as he explores the fruit of the Spirit ? from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.