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@FluffyYellowDuck What you said made me think of something: often any regret and the level of regret can revolve around what exactly the tattoo consisted of in the first place. For example, if a woman that is soundly converted and walking with the Lord has a tattoo of the name of an ex-bf...

@FluffyYellowDuck What a great chapter, 1 Corinthians 15, from where you quoted! I love how the victory of verse 57 leads immediately to steadfast, confident service in verse 58. :)

@soul man What a privilege to live in post-Pentecost times, when Christ indwells us by His Spirit! :)

@WalterandDebbie What a tremendous chapter is Romans 8! :)

@FluffyYellowDuck At times of painful and intense introspection and sad memories, I do think Isaiah 48.10 and Isaiah 53 are good to read.

Good to remember that in those days - as in some parts of the world today - the very profession of faith in Christ could immediately lead to persecution.

Hi @GodsGrace In the end it's the doctrine and truth held by those who have been saved by God's grace and who have a desire to practise the activities of Acts 2.42, continuing steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and prayers - as led of the Spirit of God out...

Psalm 107.23-31: "23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 24 These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. 25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down...

Hi @MatthewG I've just been reading about the Lord calming the storm in Psalm 107... :)

@Lifelong_sinner It's absurd for anyone to think the Bible teaches that one can be saved Tuesday, lost Wednesday, and saved again on Thursday, and who knows on Friday? Romans 8.38-39.

Those who live and die in sin and unbelief were never truly saved in the first place. Romans 8 is a mighty exhortation to the true believer, full of comforting assurance for the true believer, as are many other passages.

We are probably looking at it from different angles, then...

@Mayflower Yes. Very many Christian young people - from the time onward when Christian girls become women and Christian boys become men - seem to get faith based tattoos which prove very effective - as you have found - in facilitating witness discussions. With little hesitation, very many...

...but I would not minimize the work of Christ in effectively saving the true believer, if that believer can supposedly be lost.

@Mayflower I saw a video about carving pumpkins...

So good to have our friend @Mayflower back with us again. I went to a wedding years ago and the father of one of the young ppl getting married referred to this verse, rather appropriately... :)

I do see from Hebrews 7.12 that the law was changed and what we now have is better than the law (Hebrews 7.19).

It's really the idea of gathering as believers in the Lord's precious name, rather than strictly a particular building, that really counts. It was already so in Malachi 3.16. I love the hymn: "Jesu, where'er Thy people meet, There they behold the mercy seat; To them that seek Thee, Thou art...

"For God so loved..."

@Pearl For the forgiven sinner, the need indeed is to keep 'looking unto Jesus' (Hebrews 12.2), rather than getting too introspective.