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One of the Costs of Ignoring Sin Nature
The vast majority of individuals, no matter what their socio-economic background, do not have a rap sheet 50 items long. Even if most of a person’s crimes weren’t that “serious”, that kind of criminal record reveals a person’s total disregard for law and their fellow-man. The worst offenders are people who have chosen a life of evil, of theft, of violence, and no one is stopping them. There is nothing complicated about evil. It’s what people do if there is neither internal self-discipline nor external restraint to stop them. Continue reading
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Sowing the Wind, Reaping the Whirlwind
Some years ago, the Glenrothes Gazette ran a weekly column called “Christian Viewpoint”, and I submitted articles for it on an occasional basis. Eleven years ago this month, the UK was in turmoil. A young girl had been kidnapped, abused, and … Continue reading
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Tagged consequences, looters, paedophiles, reaping and sowing, riots
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