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This month's Article of the Month is from the Puritan John Trapp (1601-1669). The subject is a very practical one and one which is latent in the mind of every true believer: How can I keep myself from falling away, even unto apostasy?. Trapp answers this pressing question under the following heads:

1. Beware of Impostors
2. Good Foundation
3. Count the Cost
4. Pride
5. Aim High

You can read this article now by clicking here: Antidote to Personal Apostasy.

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In His service and grace,

When it comes to old friends, I don't have a problem seperating myself and/or politely declining events/activities that are not consistent with a Godly walk.....

but my dilema is with my extended family who are all Roman Catholic....

they do not keep the Lord's day and if Christmas falls on a Sunday (or Easter Sunday) they do not have a mind to keep it holy....

same for weddings and other events (i.e. 60th brithdays) in which the celebrations feature dj's, loud music & worldly dancing....

I am usually torn and conflicted at these times....

I do not want to participate, but also fear that my parents, etc. feel that I am abandoning or shunning them at these times.....

can anybody else relate to these issues, what is the best way for me handle it? I don't want to straddle the fence or stray from the narrow path in which I try to abstain from vanities....

JAMES BUCHANAN

(19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Minister and Theologian)

Of every man who reads or hears the Gospel, it may be affirmed that there is nothing betwixt him and salvation, except his own unwillingness to be saved. 'Ye are not willing to come to me, that ye might have life,' - that is the Savior's charge and complaint. 'Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely,' - that is the Savior's call and invitation. The warrant of every sinner to believe in Christ to the saving of the soul is clear, it is written as with a sunbeam in Scripture: it lies wholly in the Word, which is the Spirit's message and not at all in the Spirit's witness in the heart. The warrant of the Word is ample; but if any feels that, even with this warrant in his hand, there is something within which keeps him back - a depraved heart, a rebellious will, a reluctant spirit - oh! let him acknowledge his own helplessness, and cast himself, with the simplicity of a little child, on the grace of the Spirit of God!" (The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit BOT p.45)

“The Bible is not a book that tells us what we must do to put ourselves right. The Bible is not just a book with an appeal to us to do this, that or the other, to accept certain ideas and put them into practice. It is not a book that teaches morality and ethics. It is not primarily a book that asks us to do anything. I will tell you what it is–it is the great announcement of what God has done. It is God acting, God coming into the garden to the man and woman in their utter hopelessness. What if he had not done that? Then we would have no gospel. There would be no light. The world would be in darkness at this moment. There would be nothing to say. There would be no hope. But God has come, and God has spoken, and he has revealed a plan and a program.” —Martyn Lloyd Jones