A Different Perspective with Berni Dymet

As we look forward to the new year ?' we all have hopes, dreams and plans for our lives. But what are God's plans for our lives. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at our plans for the future from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's funny how our little foibles and failures can rob us of the good things in life. Sometimes, it's as though, well, we're enslaved to our bad habits. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at this slavery from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we look forward to a new year, we all have things in our lives that we'd like to - you know ?' turn around. For the better Join Berni Dymet as he looks at this new year opportunity to turn things around - from a Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here we are, at the end of another year. Doubtless we all look back on some things, that with the benefit of hindsight, we might have done differently. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at the benefits of hindsight 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.

Well, Christmas is done and dusted. We're in recovery mode ??? heading out of this past year into the next, starting to think about what lies ahead. ??? but there are some things we need to get sorted 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.

Christmas isn’t always a happy occasion. In fact, for many, it can be quite a horror. Especially if you have to spend time with people you don’t like. People who, perhaps, have hurt you in the past. So, question, how much are you looking forward to tomorrow? 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 lost 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.

We people are very much into surface things ?' things we can touch and feel. Someone dresses well or performs well or looks good ?' and we judge them to be successful. But God's interested in something else. Something quite different. God's interested in our hearts. Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A prophet ?' a prophet is someone who speaks the will of God. So let me ask you something ?' are there still prophets in this world today, or not? Does God still speak prophetically through some of His people today ??? or not? Well there's only one way to find out ?' what does His Word have to say on the subject? Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever been so thirsty that you think you're going to die? And then ?' then you have a deep drink of fresh, cool, clear, living water. Awesome. In fact Jesus talked a lot about water. Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's nothing worse than a hypocrite. One of the things we're called to be, if we believe in Jesus, is Ambassadors of Christ. But if how we live our lives ?' what we say, what we do ?' if our lives don't measure up ?' then what sort of Ambassadors are you and I going to make? When people look at us ?' what do they see? An Ambassador, or a hypocrite? Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine having a job where you had to try to convince people of something you yourself didn't really believe. That'd be a tough gig don't you think. And yet that's how many a Christian feels when it comes to telling others about Jesus. Because if they themselves haven't experienced the powerful difference that He can make in their lives ?' on the inside ?' how can they possibly tell others about Him? Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We recently received a prayer request from Peter who's been struggling with his weight ?' it's affecting his health, his family. It's ruining his life. Is Jesus in that place with Peter ?' and if He is, can He make a difference? Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If Jesus really rose from the dead all that time ago, if it really, truly happened???.well, what does it mean to us today? What's the relevance? What's the point. Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We live in a time of mass production. Commodities are just churned out. People have become ??? just a commodity. But not in God's eyes???..that's what makes you so very special. Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've all been misunderstood. Hey ?' Jesus was misunderstood. It's not an easy thing. We have good intentions, perhaps we don't execute those intentions perfectly, but all of a sudden the world falls down on us like a ton of bricks. Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes you can be going through a bit of a rough patch in life ?' a bit like a famine or a drought ?' and you wonder to ourselves what is God up to? But sometimes, sometimes God is actually sitting there, waiting for YOU to do something. Join Berni this week, in this 2025 retrospective series as we revisit some of this year's most popular messages. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all end up in tight spots at sometimes. Big or small. Just annoying ?' or tragic. And if God's God ?' well shouldn't He show up on those days? If He loves us ?' wouldn't He help? Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at confidence in the face of adversity from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If any sense of spirituality that we have in our lives is going to be any good ?' well it has to be relevant. Useful. In day to day life. Jesus can't be just a stained-glass window. He has to be a part of life???. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at God for real, from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all try to put our best foot forward in life. Fair enough. But eventually, we can find ourselves trying to impress people rather than being ourselves. So ?' should we try to impress God ?' or is it come as you are? Join Berni Dymet as he looks at experiencing God from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

Tasting and SeeingSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know how there are some people, when you hang around with them; they're just such a joy to be with. Hmmm. Wonder if God's like that? Join Berni Dymet as he looks at the joy of God's Presence, from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some days, it feels as though everybody around is cruising, and somehow we're down in the trenches. Wouldn't it be great to soar like an eagle? Join Berni Dymet as he takes a fresh look at soaring up out of the trenches from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever noticed that people are busy racing around looking after Number One? Very few of them ever stop to give us a hand. In fact, when someone does, it can be so refreshing. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at how God does just that, from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The last thing that most of us suffer from is a lack of information ?' the whole world is screaming for our attention. Sometimes, the quiet assurance that comes from a bit of peace and quiet just eludes us. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at being still, from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Getting some balance back in our lives is a challenge for a lot of people. Either we're doing too much or not enough and somehow, life's out of kilter. What we need is some refreshment for our souls. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at real refreshment from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's amazing how thoroughly we manage to delude ourselves about our own failings and weaknesses. But God is a skilful surgeon capable of performing radical surgery. Join Berni Dymet as he explores God's amazing plan of Spirit and Word ?' from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Once people get over the fact that the Bible isn't a bunch of do's and don'ts, the biggest thing that stops them from reading it is that it doesn't makes sense. Join Berni Dymet as he takes a look at four simple tips for reading God's Word in the Power of God's Spirit ?' from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you think about it God's gone to amazing lengths to preserve His love letter to us down through the centuries. You know the Bible. Yeah ?' that's it ?' His love letter. Join Berni Dymet as he explores God's amazing plan of Spirit and Word ?' from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No matter how much we want to believe that God is a God of grace, we all at some point end up living life as though He's a God of rules??????the law of His Spirit and life can seem a long way off. Join Berni Dymet as he explores God's amazing plan of Spirit and Word ?' from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes we can look at God's Word ?' the Bible and think of it as a book of rules. But it turns out that this notion that God is all about the letter of the law is way off the mark. Join Berni Dymet as he explores God's amazing plan of Spirit and Word ?' from A Different Perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Be Filled with the SpiritSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There Is No CondemnationSupport the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.