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Good passage; there's the importance of prayer; while the believer needs to keep 'looking unto Jesus' (Hebrews 12.2), right?

It's the Word of God, whether read or heard by preaching.

Goes to show how important is the reading of the Scriptures, right? :)

Was it merely a phase that she went through, then, maybe? People do need to think carefully about ink before getting any, of course.

"Thy word is truth" (John 17.17), indeed.

This is why the Scriptures - God's Word - needs to be our point of reference.

We need to get back to issues of objective truth, centred in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14.6).

Philippians 2 has among the most moving portrayals of the Cross, to which death Christ Jesus was obedient.

I guess your sons and their peers were really saying, by getting inked then, 'It's good to be man' (and similarly for women, coming of age), right? Like you say, part of our culture now.

Malachi speaks of 'the sun of righteousness who shall arise with healing in his wings' (Malachi 4.1). This implies the joy and wonder of justification by faith in Christ (Romans 5, etc.) :)

YW :)

I guess, at least an indirect parallel, which young Christian men and women who get faith based inkings might appreciate, right?

They help us to love Bible reading more...:)

Marginal references to other passages can be very helpful in Bible study and reading.

I guess this kind of faith / Scripture tattoo is really a bit like the idea of Joshua 4.6: "That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?" i.e., intended as a conversation-starter in witness. (If the analogy...

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I'll transfer it to the other thread...

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Hi; good to see you on the forums. I hope you will be blessed by the Scripture discussions. I had a cousin in Brisbane, who lived by the bend in the Brisbane River.

Psalm 51 is the great penitential Psalm. Very searching.