cartoon: submission

The breaking of the will – submission – how much is safe?

…more total depravity Steve….wdn’t it be more reasonable to think that God might create the hunger,but stops at the force-feeding?

Faithlessinfatima,

I, for one, am glad God force feeds us. We wouldn’t want to partake of our own.

He truly is the Good Shepherd who brings us home as we continually wander off.

I know we disagree on this aspect of the Christian faith, Faithlessinfatima…that’s ok.
(I’m just throwing in my 2 cents) (and I don’t mind expounding, either..but it is really ok that we don’t see it the same)

I think I’ve said it here a couple of times before…none of us is saved by our “good doctrine”.

Steve…I’m curious,is there anything Lutheran you don’t believe…as well,are there other doctrines that you wish the Lutheran’s believed?

hmmmmmmmmmmm

That’s how I raise my kids too. I wake them up in the morning by beating in their faces, just to remind them who’s boss(David)

You sure about that?? Last picture I saw of you, it looked like they laid the beating on you. 😉

Steve…..hopefully,not Exodus 34:20…I mean,I’ve eaten veal,but never have been tempted to cook a kid in it’s mother’s milk 😉

Kim,

I didn’t think you had a whole lot of anything of substance over there any more.

I hear that the vacuum that the lack of Christianity has created is being filled nicely by Islam. (It’s not too much better on this side of the pond)

In this life, Kim, we are still under law. Try robbing a bank and see if I am not right.
Also, since we continue to wander away from Christ, the law brings us to repentance and then we are raised anew in Christ. That is the life of the Christian…repentance and forgiveness.

You are totally correct Kim, we are not under the law for our righteousness, but live in the freedom that Christ has won. But as children of God, we want to do what God wills, and since we can’t…we repent.

Faithlessinfatima,

Thanks be to God that we do not have to do that stuff anymore!

Steve.

I do my best to walk closely with Jesus, to offer him my life, heart, worship, work, because I love him. I love him because he first loved me. When I fail, and sin, I run to him in repentance, asking for cleansing and forgiveness, because I don’t want to be separated from him. Because I love him. His spirit convicts me of those sins when I am not aware enough of them myself.

Yes I am under the physical law of the land. But its the fact that I love Jesus which keeps me from robbing a bank. The keeping of law is not a motivation, apart from loving God and my neighbour, in which is contained all the law and the prophets.

The law cannot produce love. Grace, in Jesus, trumps the law.