Paul said in the scriptures, "I do the things I don't want to do and the things I do want to do I don't do! Can you relate? So how can we resist this war we are in against our sinful nature, "the flesh"? The Bible provides the answer: spiritual discipline. Not in our own strength but in the strength of the Holy Spirit. Prayer, fasting, reading God's word... the spiritual disciplines that Christians have been doing for centuries.
When someone says something's "Gone to the Dogs" it usually means it's gone downhill. In the Bible, the Gentiles (non-Jews) were regarded as 'dogs'...
In every nation, God accepts those who fear Him; those who were outside are made to be insiders. Looking at Acts 11. As Peter...
Tom Burke
