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Thanks to all who voted in the poll so far! NB: If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now! :)

@WaterSong Do you have a favorite Psalm? :)

@WaterSong PS: As regards women doing double ear piercing, it's been around for so long now that women of all ages do it; e.g., as when teen girls (and their moms) were doing it in the late 70s, so that a 19 year old in 1979 would now be 60 and her mom aged around 49 in 1979 would now be 90: it...

@WaterSong Well, it's in the Bible as regards bondservants of both genders. Including underlying the language of Psalm 40, anyway. Thanks for your comment.

@Paul Christensen Good point! thanks for your poll vote also! My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite verse and mine also; and I'm sure that other conversations will have arisen as a result of her willingness to have it...

Hi @2nd Timothy Group Your avatar reminds me of this hymn: Three Crosses standing side by side, All broken law aside Two for their own transgressions died, The middle one for mine. Lest I forget Gethsemane Lest I forget thine agony Lest I forget thy love for me Lead me to calvary.

@WaterSong Boys often do it about then. Girls sometimes a bit younger. Pretty harmless for both, I guess; it's so widespread.

@Ferris Bueller Ephesians 2 is a great chapter! it's the quickening by the Spirit by grace through faith that is central and essential. :)

@WaterSong Indeed; it's a wondrous promise! :)

@Sabertooth Oh I indeed agree about what the hymn writer meant in writing, 'the things of earth will grow strangely dim / In the light of His glory and grace'. :)

Romans 8.38-39 is truly comforting.

@ReChoired We fundamentally differ. I am talking about true, saving faith, not the superficial, temporary faith of those who have no root, as per the parable of the sower. The finished work of Christ (Hebrews chapters 9 and 10) is glorious. Feeble man does not spoil God's saving purposes in Christ.

Those who supposedly leave it and live and die in unbelief were never truly in it.

The parable of the sower shows that it was never true, saving faith among those who for a while believe, with no root in them.

@John Caldwell Thanks; maybe it's my screen, but your vote doesn't seem to be coming up in the poll results, above...

And Faith is a work of God. Ephesians 2.8; John 6.29.

Zinzendorf, tr. J. Wesley, wrote: "Jesus, thy blood and righteousness my beauty are, my glorious dress; 'midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, with joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day; for who aught to my charge shall lay? Fully absolved through these I am from...

Hebrews 10.14: "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." This excludes any idea of, Well, s/he's saved now, but by the weekend if s/he doesn't "keep it up" s/he might not be saved after all, or yo-yo from one state to another; this would not be a faith view of...

Everlasting life (John 3.16) is not everlasting if it does not last. The work of Christ is perfect. It does not need to be added to by the faltering efforts of man.

@Ferris Bueller Hope you will feel well soon... "Though thy way be long and dreary, Eagle strength He'll still renew, Garments fresh and foot unweary Tell how God hath brought thee through."