The one whom Paul sent with Tychicus to Colossae was no stranger to at least some of the people in Colossae. His story is told in one of the other letters that the two men were going to carry with them. Onesimus, whose name means ‘useful’, had been a slave of Philemon, a man who had come to faith in […]

One of the marks of genuine Christianity is love for those who share ‘like precious faith’. It is amazing to read in Paul’s letters that although he was often in great discomfort himself and suffering extremely adverse circumstances, his concern was always for those to whom he was writing. So it is here in Colossians; Paul wants to send two […]

There was a time in the ‘Christian’ west when virtually every home had a copy of the Bible and a large percentage of the population was familiar with some of its teaching. That is no longer the case. Not only do many people have no concept whatever of Biblical truth, they do not possess and never have possessed a copy […]