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@Acolyte :Yes, I love that Philippians 2 passage!

@Acolyte : Hi there; so you still smoke a few cigarettes, do you? but not too many? don't bear yourself up, anyway...

Romans 8.38-39 is clear about the true believer's eternal security. John's First Epistle has a lot to say about assurance of faith.

Now it sounds as if pro-EU MPs want to permit only "correct" views being expressed:

Well, exactly; with the discrediting of socialism, there needs to be another myth that politicians talk about in order to justify high levels of taxation and bureaucracy.

Good to remember; it's a matter of adult choice and responsibility. Seems like your daughters anyway almost celebrated the fact that it's what new adults do as women.

After all, the politicians need the perceived need for more bureaucracy and taxes to come from someplace...

@Waiting on him Anyway I think that by now the make military and biker ethos of tattoos has been safely disposed of. You family is among abundant evidence otherwise, right?

Blame it on global warming...

Welcome back winter...

Great verse there!

PS: We are going through Galatians now in our local church; remarkable to see how the Galatians - many of them from a Jewish background - seemed instinctively ready to go back to law-keeping. Paul's warnings to them are very strong.

Dull but dry this morning.

Great verse there! (I love Philippians!)

@charity: Romans 12.1 is indeed very important, yes. As you indicate, culture is also significant; and those who have lived in a number of countries will likely admit that one can cultivate Christian attitudes by God's grace without necessarily adopting what might be termed the political...

In Philippians 2, Paul reminds his readers that the Lord Jesus 'humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name that is above every name'.

If it isn't, why not?

Well, together with words of encouragement, she'll finally get a fuller view of your thoughts on whether tattooing would be a worthy pursuit for her, won't she? :)

Don't you think also that now a lot of Christian men and women think similarly?

Acts 2.41-42 has the pattern, including baptism.