Here's Ruth occupying herself:
Here's Phillip on his way to school:
As I was dropping him of this morning, "I'm glad now that I got my hair cut." (As if he had any choice in the matter.) I think he knows he looks good :-)
and here's Sarah at her school desk:
Awesome! Sarah looks very determined...how did she like her first game? AND Philip cleans up pretty well! How does he like the school?
ReplyDeletethanks for asking, Stacy. She loved her first game. She's very proud of their "tie." (they don't actually keep score, but apparently Sarah did.) She thought the kids who got tired and just sat down in the grass were very silly.
ReplyDeletePhillip has been beaming ever since I picked him up this afternoon. So far so good on the school...
Sarah looks awesome on the soccer field. Corrie is very excited to be starting Kindergarten at home, too, and would flip with joy if I signed her up for soccer. Ahhhhh, what is happening? Our little girls are school age?!
ReplyDeleteSharon, yes he did add that Verse. This teaching is false because it subtly adds works to the clear and simple condition for salvation set forth in the Word of God. An unbeliever, to avail himself of the salvation offered in Christ, must only accept Him as his own personal Savior, believing that His death for sin on the cross was final and sufficient forever. This is not to minimize the importance of urging a soon committal to the sovereign authority of Jesus Christ. Of course it is recognized that many people may "say" they have faith (James 2:14) but have no genuine conversion. Mere verbal assent or mental acquiescence to the fact of Christ's death, without any conviction of personal sin, is inadequate. That kind of so-called faith is pious pretense.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Bible, salvation is always by faith alone. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can
BSac 143:569 (Jan 86) p. 38
boast" (Eph 2:8-9).1 People can do nothing to merit God's gift of salvation, including making Jesus Christ Lord of their lives. In fact if one were not saved until Christ's lordship was acknowledged, one would never be saved because "the natural man"-"unregenerate man" (Wuest2) or "the man without the Spirit" (NIV)-is not capable of any spiritual good so far as the attainment of salvation is concemed (1 Cor 2:14). To deny this truth is to deny man's total depravity3 and the sufficiency of Christ's death on the cross. To require from the unsaved a dedication to His lordship for their salvation is to make imperative what is only voluntary for believers (Rom 12:1; 1 Pet 3:15). At salvation a person has a new nature through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. The newborn person then has a new understanding and a new capacity by which to respond to the authority of Christ. As Chafer wrote, "Next to sound doctrine itself, no more important obligation rests on the preacher than that of preaching the Lordship of Christ to Christians exclusively, and the Saviorhood of Christ to those who are unsaved."4
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ReplyDeleteSarah and Ruth look so grown-up! I didn't realize Philip was going to try (non-homeschooling) school. Have you found a private Christian school?
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