“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.”Where are your eyes foc...

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.”John 5:39-40As long as ...

3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.

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Are You Looking to Yourself for Salvation?

“An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”...

“An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”John 5:25The first thing we learn about God in the Bible is that when He speaks,...

What Do We Need Jesus to Do for Us?

By grace you have been saved.How would you explain God’s grace to someone who has never heard of it?...

By grace you have been saved.Ephesians 2:5Grace is more than God making salvation possible. It’s more than God opening a door and then standing back to see who will come through. By nature nobody woul...

What Does “Grace” Mean?

You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.When you think about your own salvation, do you tend to emphasise how good of a person you’ve been or how great of a salvation Jesus e...

You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.Ephesians 2:1Many church people have bought into a view of sin that goes like this: We all mess up in various ways, and nobody is perf...

What Is Your View of Sin and Salvation?

You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.Do you think of yourself as… “trapped” in your sins? “Weak” in your sins? “Dead” in your sins? Other? Why?...

You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.Ephesians 2:1We must take the Bible seriously here. It doesn’t say, “You were trapped in your sins.” It says, “You were dead in your s...

How Does God Describe Our Ability to Do What He Commands?

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.Is there a b...

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.Ephesians 2:...

Do You Need a Good Reason to Begin a Journey of Faith with Jesus?

Note then the kindness and the severity of God.Maybe you thought that God’s wrath shows how much God hates you. Can you see, through the cross, that it might show how much He loves you? Maybe this tru...

Note then the kindness and the severity of God.Romans 11:22No generation has been so often told that God loves us, and no generation has struggled more to experience God’s love.One reason for this is ...

Is It Really Possible to Know That God Loves You?

Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace.Have you considered what Jesus has saved you from?...

Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace.Isaiah 53:5Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). On the cross, He became the sin bearer: “He himself bore our s...

Why Did Jesus Come into the World? Why Did He Have to Die? And What Was the Cross All About?

We were by nature children of wrath.Can you see today why, apart from Jesus, it would be impossible for anyone to get into heaven?...

We were by nature children of wrath.Ephesians 2:3This does not mean that if we do some bad things, the wrath of God will come on us. We are children of wrath by nature. That means, by nature, we are a...

Why Is It So Important to Believe the Right Things about God?

We… were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.What are the top three problems in the world today that you would like God’s wrath(judgement) to bring to an end?...

We… were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.Ephesians 2:3One of the greatest problems with evolutionary theory is that if it were true, the world should be a better place by now.If ...