(I just had to add a couple more...)
" 'I can't live with or without you.' Exactly!!! You can't live. You have to die!"
-Kevin Hartman on marriage with help from Jonathan's all time favorite rock band U2.
This topic has come up several times in Christian circles of conversation and I have my own very determined position, but I've come across some that have a different position than me and they are also very determined....imagine that!
I want to know what everyone else thinks. What do you think Scripture says? Give verses and/or biblical examples if you can.
Here's the question:
Can a Christian (someone who has been born again-has a salvation experience-professes that Christ is their Saviour) live a lifestyle of sin? Or would that indicate they were never saved in the first place? Or does it indicate a loss of salvation?
I don't think a Christian can lose their salvation, but I tacked it on just in case someone else did. If you think you can lose your salvation you must also address whether or not this is an irrevocable loss or not.
(I'll share my thoughts in the next post).
Thanks everyone.
This home-school creative-writing masterpiece is free of charge, complete with spelling goof-ups. How did I ever make it to 7th grade?Chad knew it was dangerous out in the Montana forest country, but he was tired of zapping aliens on his Nentendo. He wanted adventure, so, without his parents permission, he creeped off their property and after a while of exploring, he heard a heavey, low toned noise comeing at him. Chad wheeled around and started running in the direction he came.
"Why did I disobey my parents and explore past that barb-wire fence?" Chad scolded himself.
He knew something or someone was following him, but, at the moment, Chad wasn't going to turn around and find out.
The low noise seemed to be gaining on him. He knew he wouldn't be able to outrun it. So, with a courages heart, he wipped around, picked up a stick, and started hollering at the top of his lungs. The noise disappeared and all was quiet.
"Oh no!" mumbled Chad. "It's 6:00. I'll never be able to get home in time for sup...hey, where am I?!"
The darkness spilled down like an unwanted guest. When "What in the world?" Chad stamered. He saw a lighted house! He cautioned his way to it.
Suddenly, two people came out of the house. "Mom, Dad?" Chad asked while he bommed toward his home.
As he got there, they were nothing like his parents. "Kidnappers!" Chad gasped as he started running in the opposite direction. How he knew they were kidnappers, nobody knows.
The taller of the two people was upon him and started shaking him. "No!" Chad yelled. "Help, help,
help!"
"Wake up, Chad!" said Chad mom as she shook him awake. "It's almost time for school."
"Mom," Chad said as he wiped the sweat from his face, "I had the worst dream."
The End~
Ezra and Sadie had a lot of fun trick-or-treating this year.
This is the first year Ezra's really gotten into it! I heard once he realized what was going on, he practically bolted from house to house.
Jude and I stayed home to pass out the candy. Later, the boys got a little too enthusiastic and started inviting all the children to "COME IN!!! COME ON INSIDE!!" Which I'm sure most people felt was truly frightening.
Sadie went as the obligatory princess, and we scrounged up a soldier outfit for Ezra.
Sadie said she wanted a haircut, and even though I threaten to cut her hair all the time ("What would you rather do? Brush your hair or get a haircut?) I really didn't want to cut it. So we compromised and cut some bangs.
I should've just said "no". Bangs and curly hair don't mix. Most of the time they are curled up to her hairline. Don't be fooled by this cute picture, on a normal day it makes her look like a poodle with a bad perm.
Today Violet and I planted 100 tulip bulbs. Okay, she mainly ate grass while I planted tulip bulbs. (She was watching the swinging lense cap)
Also, Ezra and Jude LOVE legos. I'm not really sure what the major attraction is. I mean, they're fun and all, but are they realllly that much greater than other toys? 
They must be because, it seems, boys of all ages and sizes go ga-ga for Legos...ahem.
You mix grape juice (in this case, homemade grape juice from concord grapes) sugar and yeast together and pour it in bottles. The yeast reacts with the sugar creating carbon dioxide which inflates the balloons, when the balloon deflates, the wine will be done.The link for the Family Flint memory verses put to song is in the "Welcome" box, in the side bar!
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Violet has five very fervent admirers.
Baseball game. Kids are free, food is provided. Hehehe. They never count on someone bringing an entire army of children that will clean out the hotdogs.
Sadie turns 5. Cake theme:"use up all the frosting tubes, and candy in the pantry", or perhaps it was "tacky". Sadie liked it.
She's been listening to a lot of audio books.
and drawing, too.
We walk.
Jan helps chop apples for applesauce. 
Alan and Ezra take a nap on the trampoline.
4 kids, 1 newly potty trained, 1 accident prone. 50 degrees at night *shiver*. Approximately 25 items that smell like pee at the end of the day. 12 smores are the bright spot.
It's the end of the season for the garden. Jonathan tills it all under.She does this on her own, too, as her "happy" excited noise--like after every bite of applesauce. But I had to kind of coax it out of her for the camera, hence the lovely snorting.
Also, quotes from other kids:
Sadie- "You know, I like eating toothpaste better than boogers."
Ezra- "No thanks, mom. No eggs. It will hatch in me."
Jude- "Excuse YOU! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Sounds good until the last creepy minute. (except we all know to cure Alzheimer's we need embryo's...right?).
Apparently this played at a school in CA.
The voices in unison at the end made me shudder.
Did you ever notice that the word "latchstring" has six consecutive consonants? What a stellar segue into...I am looking for an English word with a Colyer Consonant Rating of better than 13. First, let me explain:
A friend from my Iowa State days, Josh Colyer, was in his usual state of deep reflection when he suddenly became irrationally excited about a formula:CCR = X/v + Y,
where 'CCR' stands for the Colyer Consonant Rating, 'X' is the total number of consonants in the word, 'v' is the total number of vowels, and 'Y' is the longest run of continuous consonants. The earth-shaking ramifications of this breakthrough formula are, well, none. It was just an attempt to quantify seemingly "odd", consonant-rich English words. But for the next week at Alpha Sigma Phi, everyone was quite entertained in the attempt to find the highest-scoring word. Some of the respectable submissions were:schticks [CCR = 7/1 + 4 = 11]
I also found another questionable spelling of the Russian beet soup, "borschtsch", but is it English? The general selection guidelines are [1] proper names shall not be submitted, and [2] the Oxford English Dictionary shall have the final word.
borschts [CCR = 7/1 + 6 = 13]
strengths [CCR = 8/1 + 5 = 13]
twelfths [CCR = 7/1 + 5 = 12]
angsts [CCR = 5/1 + 5 = 10]
