Abstaining from the Appearance of Evil

It is always amazing how certain passages of the Bible suddenly seem to stand out at different times in life. I remember when I was once visiting with my sister and her husband, that she mentioned that it is important to teach our children not simply to abstain from evil, but to abstain from all appearance of evil. This short exhortation of the apostle Paul in I Thessalonians 5:22 had never really struck me before that conversation. Maybe that was true because my children were young and I had...