Backsliding can be conquered – but don’t procrastinate! Come home today.

Backsliding often creeps up on you without your realising. Beware the cunning enemy trying to lull you into backsliding!

We all have the capacity to backslide. It’s when we think we are standing firmest, that we need to be most careful of falling.

Backsliding is a common struggle for Christians.

When we talk about Pharisees, we can often think that compromise is ok, for the sake of humility. It isn’t!

Pharisees see Christianity primarily as a moral code. It’s so much more!

David sees the way that sinful people plot evil and commit to sinful courses, instead of rejecting evil before it has time to take root. Let us not make the same mistake.

David warns us against thinking too highly of ourselves and not hating our sin. There is a better way!

Paul warns Timothy of people who look for pleasure outside of a relationship with God. This is a misguided way living.

Job could’ve pretended to be perfect, but he made the decision not to hide sin in his heart. Let’s find freedom through confession, rather than hiding our sins away.

Job shows us that a pure life is possible. Will you make a covenant to be pure, as he did?

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.

Leading up to Election Day in South Africa, let’s consider the words of our own Archbishop Tutu, who believed in mercy and forgiveness, but also justice.

King Solomon and Freddie Mercury both got the treasures they were aiming for, and yet they both died unhappy men. True treasure that satisfies is not found in money, sex, fame or power – but only in God!

Jesus’ message when he began preaching was a call to repentance. With His kingdom at hand, let’s turn from sin, rather than simply apologizing for it.

Living according to God’s Word is not restricting, as many people think. In fact, it is what brings us the greatest freedom of all.

What is the good news that Christmas brings? It is that a Saviour was born, who would reconcile us to God.

When David realized his sin, he asked God to restore him to a place of joy. Sin takes joy away – God restores it.

David does not downplay or deny his sin, but confesses it openly to God, in order to find forgiveness.

My strategy to fight off temptation begins with being aware of my own struggles. If I know where to expect temptation, I can be ready for it before it even comes.