If you find yourself backsliding, don’t despair. God offers you a way out.

David claims that God is the one who preserves people (and animals!) Are we looking to Him, or something else, to sustain us?

Uncle Bud Robinson beautifully reminds us that God completely forgives our sins, using three pictures from Scripture. Are you holding onto guilt that God has already forgiven? Embrace His complete forgiveness today!

The Bible is clear that though we fall short of God’s mercy, YET He is merciful to us. What a wonderful truth to take to heart!

Our souls get stained and dirty, and this hampers our usefulness to God. We need cleansing, and only One can cleanse.

For Paul, God’s grace was at the centre of His life.

What keeps us ‘two worlds apart’ from God? Sometimes a heartache, or sometimes a sin or mistake makes us avoid Him. These very things should make us run to Him instead.

Is God only good to Christians? Psalm 145 says that God is good to all people, and Jesus’ words in Matthew 5 confirm this.

Psalm 145 says talks of God’s grace and compassion. How incredible that He would withhold His anger and pour out mercy instead!

On this Good Friday we consider the way in which Jesus absorbed God’s anger so that guilty people may come to God without fear. His blood is what ‘propitiates’ God’s wrath.

Receiving the blood of Christ is the only way to cleanse your soul. As the hymn says, ‘what can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

Philemon was rightfully owed an apology and payback by Onesimus, but Paul pleaded with him to forgive. Perhaps it is time for you to forgive somebody, even if they owe you?

Paul the servant leader offered to take on the debt that Onesimus owed Philemon. What a picture of servant leadership!

Paul was the type of person who built people up. We followers of Christ should always be encouraging and not breaking people down.

People have a habit of delaying their day of salvation. They think “I’ll do it tomorrow” and then tomorrow never comes! But Paul says that TODAY is the day of salvation. Will you accept His offer today? .

What is the salvation God offers us? It is salvation from sin’s punishment, sin’s power, and one day sin’s presence.

God uses all sorts of things in our lives to reveal Himself and draw us closer to Him – even when we aren’t aware. But in the end, we’ve got to accept the invitation and not reject it.

Who deserves salvation? None of us. Who is offered salvation? All of us.

Onesimus was slave who ran away from his owner Philemon, and encountered Paul who led him to Christ. There’s an “Onesimus” in all of us, running away – but Christ reaches out his hand to save us.

Many people believe that God will see their goodness and save them. But the Bible paints a different picture of God’s saving grace being gifted because his people believed first.