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Thanks for your comments; and I know that some Christians feel it's obligatory to engage in guilt manipulation of smokers, but I don't see it. If one can quit, all well and good, but it's not wise to use absence of smoking as some supposed sort of gauge to spirituality. After all, great...

It's a phase that both genders go through. I think it's worthwhile doing; some ppl will keep using the piercings; others 'retire' them. I guess the trick is to keep the holes open and usable for if one wants to use them; while knowing if to remove them in certain situations. Sometimes ppl gauge...

1 Corinthians 11.26 links the Lord's Supper with the Lord Jesus' coming for His church, which is what His church is looking for, not signs and wonders and disasters on earth.

So would you ever consider piercings / plugs?

@Naomi25 FYI

Well, you must know, but actually it's highly likely that once you did them she would get accustomed to them very quickly and after a while would hardly imagine you without them. Even if she now says definitely she doesn't like the idea. As regards the other point, well, some ppl years ago might...

His Deity is pivotal. "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily". (Colossians)

Baptism indeed comes afterwards. Acts 2.41.

@Heart2Soul FYI

I guess it's in the tradition of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress...

...or maybe he is right that there is nothing in Scripture that has to happen first before the Lord comes for His church...

Some would see these seven churches as representing tendencies that may arise in any age of the church.

@Naomi25 FYI.

John 14; 1 Thessalonians 4; 1 Corinthians 11.26.

Hebrews is a wonderful book from which to see how types and shadows in the Old Testament are wonderfully fulfilled in the New Testament in the glorious Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

@Heart2Soul So do you think you are permanently in quit mode now?

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

It's the irony of spiritually blind men leading each other and falling into the ditch even as they complain about the light.

Good to remember...

Jhn John's First Epistle is noted for its use of the present continuous. So habitual sin is characteristic of unbelief. Whereas if the cleansed believer is overtaken in a fault, our glorious Advocate continually pleads for us.