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Rediscovering Holiness  Premium Content - Click for Info

If you think it's just a set of rules, you may be surprised.

Holiness. What a strange word. Sounds a little fanatical. What does it even mean? As a teenager, I would have answered that question, "No dancing, no drinking, no movies. Read your Bible in the morning, pray every day, and you'll be fine. The rules are clear. Keep them and thou shalt be pronounced holy."

My idea of holiness, however, didn't stay that simple. During my twenties, I saw many of those ...

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March 30, 2010  8:01am

Thank you for taking out time to write this excellent piece about how to treat and guard the freedom God has so freely given us.

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