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Are you contradicting Psalm 110.3, Sir? surely not?

We are made willing. "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power" (Psalm 110.3); our will, as worked upon by grace, is not meritorious.

Therefore...we need the grace of God in the Gospel, right? :)

@LC627 FYI...

Ephesians 2 says as much, indeed.

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you" (John 15.16). "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6.37) "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."...

How can I know that I have, in fact, accepted His gracious gift? John's First Epistle tells me that I can indeed know.

Do you think the various tattoo shows are here to stay? (i.e., unlikely to become unpopular).

Excellent question...

Ephesians 2 relates the total depravity to the old nature. John's First Epistle shows there are definite expectations as to the evidence of new life in Christ.

Here is a strong answer to what you said in the passage from Ephesians 2 quoted: "...Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God...

Well, exactly; Romans 3.23.

This doesn't mean of course sinless perfection, but when there is that element of Divine life in a person by the new birth by which the believer enjoys the victory (1 Corinthians 15.57), it's not from that life element in Christ that the urge to sin comes, but from indwelling sin (Romans 8).

Proven conversation-starters, yes. But even if no words are exchanged, they are also silent witnesses, don't you think?

"And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me. " Amen; exactly.

Up here the cold temps. continue...Yesterday or the day before the windchill around minus 30C, I think.

Ephesians 2.1-9: "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had...

Another way of stating this is, Is saving faith a work of the Spirit or a work of the flesh?

@GodsGrace : PS: Leaving aside the strict, legal aspect, which allows it at 16 in some jurisdictions, I do still think that if they really want to have it done — as so many do — then it's wise at least to encourage them to wait until 18, to make it a sort of passage into official adulthood...