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Simple, child-like trust is what counts in matters of faith. :)

Well, I do expect they appreciate you and your convictions a lot in many, in other ways. (More than you maybe realize...) In family life as you would well know, I'm sure we all have our mission fields - and sometimes fellow-labourers - to pray for, constantly In any case, did you really try to...

Isaiah 55 is a similar passage; verse 11 particularly. "My word shall not return unto me void".

The Psalms have such depth, such heights, such Messianic content, such inexhaustible resources for those looking for them in faith. There is often a verse or verses in the Psalms which can add to a serious doctrinal discussion, isn't there?

@Phoneman777 FYI...thread and poll...

He leads by grace.

It has to be all of grace. Galatians contains strong warnings against the idea of going back to the law. Paul preached mainly to the Gentiles and Peter mainly to Jews, but it was the same gospel. I belong, by grace alone, with the carcasses of the discarded sacrifices which were burnt without...

Good to keep 'looking unto Jesus; (Hebrews 12.2) in utter simplicity and dependence. There is so much in religion to draw us away, potentially.

Hard to say; maybe talk to a mod...

What I would do, whether they are to be agreed with or not, is to understand the motive to witness, since tattoos are indeed proven conversation-starters and Christian young ppl know it very well, and so this is the context of the likely motives of young people such as the young lady that my...

I am trying look at how young Christian men and women think and act, when they are motivated to witness. Agree or not, this is one of the things that many of them do.

Did you really try to stop your daughters getting earrings and inkings? It's what daughters do, anyway, especially now.

This is exactly 'on target', so to speak. It's all of Him, all of grace (Ephesians 2.8-9), all glory to Him (Revelation 5.12). :)

FYI, thread I started: https://www.christianityboard.com/threads/favorite-hymns.28318/

Thanks for your comment; I guess the bottom line that each young Christian man or woman comes to is how often conversations about the Scriptures are likely to ensue if they do go for a Bible verse tattoo, etc., such as the young lady did with whom my wife and I spoke; indeed, her John 3.16 led...

Oh okay! I thought we were talking about ear piercing before (and you said that in your area many parents give it to their toddlers). I guess when it came to both ink and ear piercings your daughters had a stronger sense of compulsion than you did at their age, right?

God bless your family, Sir. So do your wife and granddaughter regularly read the Scriptures also?

Indeed it's good to keep our eyes focused on the Lord.

Oh so I suppose you mean that you at one time wanted to do it but even if you had done it you would have maybe found that you didn't particularly like it after all. So maybe you had the same thoughts about a tattoo at the age? (considered it..., but didn't...)