Time to bring it on with your email questions.

This first one is from Ed.

"The Bible says we reap what we sow-- good or bad.

If we come to the Lord and ask forgiveness and have our sins

washed away, will we still reap what

we've sown if it's something bad,

or will that be forgiven also?"

Ed, let's assume, for instance, that you've been immoral

and you have sired a child out of wedlock.

And you're ashamed of it.

And so you come to the Lord and say, God,

I had sex out of wedlock and I have sired this child.

And I am sorry, I ask you to please forgive me.

And the Lord will say, Ed, I forgive you.

Your sins are washed away.

But what happens to the sired child?

God doesn't wash that child away.

You still gotta take care of the kid.

He's your responsibility, and what you did

is going to have to have consequences

and you may have to be paying for that the rest of your life.

So, the answer is that the eternal consequences

will be forgiven.

The temporal consequences, you may have to work through.

How much you have to work them through, I don't know.

For example, if you're a glutton,

he'll forgive you for gluttony but you

may have to spend a lot of time dieting

to get rid of 100 pounds.

You know, that's the way it goes.

So, he will not take away all those temporal problems

that you have caused by your actions, all right?

OK.

This is the Elizabeth, who says, "I was told today

that my seven-year-old son must repeat his second grade class.

As a mother, it breaks my heart.

It's an issue that I've been praying

about ever since I noticed his slowness in learning.

But accepting it is really difficult. Even at this moment,

I'm trusting God to help me identify his potential

and to accept him the way God created him.

Please advise me on how to pray for my son."

Well, pray that there will be an influx of God's wisdom.

And you know, work with that boy.

You just never can tell if something might unlock.

If you get somebody that all of a sudden learning, you know,

there's a huge potential.

And he hasn't hit his potential.

Even if he's a slow learner, he's

still hasn't hit his potential.

And if you work hard enough, begin

to get other things involved-- for example, with reading,

we did a program called Sing, Spell, Read, and Write.

We had people singing songs, singing words, singing

the ABC's, and their learning curve just was dramatic.

The same thing with your son.

So, get some special training and spend time, a lot of time,

working on it.

And something might turn, OK?

This is Ruth, Pat, who says, "How often should communion

be served in church?

My pastor believes it can be too often,

so we receive communion only four times a year.

I choose to take it every day at home.

Am I wrong, or is it a personal choice?"

I really think you are.

I think it's an important sacrament of the church.

But I just think having every day, you

see something as communion, just you in the kitchen,

I think you cheapen the sacrament.

I don't think four times-- I mean,

there's no rule in the Bible, you know,

of how often you do this.

But nevertheless, it ought to be something that is set apart

as something sacred.

It's like baptism, you don't baptise somebody every day.

You want to get baptised?

Let's do it again, and again, and again.

You don't do that.

So, I think the same thing with communion.

We show forth the Lord's death till he comes back again.

So it's a very important, sacred thing.

But there's no rule in the Bible how often.

All right.

This is a viewer who says, "Our children are 20, 19, and 16.

They keep arguing with us about not letting them watch movies

that we believe are not good for any age

because they include swearing, nudity, and extreme violence.

We've committed ourselves not to watch those either.

Our kids say that by their age, they

should have the opportunity to choose what to watch and decide

if it's right or wrong.

Our kids still live with us.

Are we being too harsh on them?"

Well, I think not.

The Bible says, "I will not set my eyes on any unclean thing."

It's so easy, with so much out there-- all kinds of stuff.

Listen, if they're living in your house

and it's your TV, you can tell them,

if they want to buy their own TV, then they--

Can go for it.

Go for it.

But they want to use your TV to watch stuff

that you consider is salacious.

But it's very hard to watch anything anymore.

They used to have a PG rating.

That could be pretty violent.

You know, there was one movie that some friends of mine said,

we don't want to have any R-rated movie,

we want to go to something that's PG.

So we went to PG, and here, one of the featured things

was a naked lady getting her-- you know-- drawn by an artist.

And so I said, OK, I think that's great

that PG stuff is something else.

So.

Yeah, it's not easy to stand by that standard.

It really isn't.

I mean you, don't know anymore, but OK.