Greg Burts

“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; now how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor” (1 These. 4:3,4). 1. Sanctified discernment “Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have…

[In Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby, Nicholas is sent to teach at Dotheboys Hall.  It is a boarding school where there are no holidays, no trips home for the abused and neglected pupils of Mr. Wackford Squeers. Eventually Nicholas intervenes during one of Squeers’s beatings of Smike—a perpetually ill and dim-witted boy who befriends Nicholas—and…