- Wed, Dec 23, 2009
- Sexual Purity
Accountability Groups: Men Helping Men in Their Walk With God
To experience true accountability, we have both the right and the responsibility to ask each other hard and to-the-point questions.
Resources: Sexual Purity
- Wed, Dec 23, 2009
- Sexual Purity
Addiction Proofing: A Strategy for Spiritual Renewal
At any one time, 10% of our congregations are addicted (involved in damaging behaviors), 30% are compulsive (hearts preoccupied with pleasure), and all are eventually tempted.
- Mon, Jan 18, 2010
- Sexual Purity
As someone who has remained sexually pure, how do I forgive my girlfriend, who lost her virginity in the past?
Your desire to marry someone who has remained pure is a great goal. However, because we are sinful by nature, some people do have sex outside of marriage, maybe even before they became a Christian.
- Fri, Mar 05, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
Can you give me some resources for understanding homosexuality and how the Church should respond?
I’d recommend a book called Informed Answers to Gay Rights Questions, by Roger Magnuson. I’ve read it and its helpful. Also, a book by R. F. Lovelace, called Homosexuality and the Church.
I haven’t read Homosexuals in the Christian Fellowship by D. J. Atkinson, which is out of print but may be in a school library. Not sure if it takes a biblical approach or not, but it seems to relate to subject area. I see reference to an article by D.F. Wright in Evangelical Quarterly 61, 1989, p. 291-300, called “Homosexuality: The Relevance of the ...
- Tue, Mar 16, 2010
- Christian Life, Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
Counting the Cost of Sexual Immorality
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has joined a long line of leaders, both secular and Christian, who have committed adultery.
Someone suggested, in light of this, that I post about fleeing and resisting sexual temptation. First, consider this from God’s Word:
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet ...
- Thu, Feb 04, 2010
- Christian Life, Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
A Definition of Addiction
Inconsolable pain, the kind that drives away every vestige of happiness and renders us incapable of fully enjoying any pleasure, can be handled only be discovering a capacity for a different kind of joy.
- Thu, Dec 31, 2009
- Christian Life, Sexual Purity
Desperate To Be Free
I have been having an online affair with a woman I have never met. Will God forgive me?
- Thu, Dec 31, 2009
- Christian Life, Sexual Purity
Deterring Immorality by Counting Its Cost
If only we would rehearse in advance the ugly and overwhelming consequences of immorality, we would be far more prone to avoid it.
- Tue, Jan 05, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
Do We Celebrate Diversity?
I submitted the following opinion piece to the Gresham Outlook in August. It wasn’t printed (no excerpts either). Because it reflects trends not just in my area but around the country, I’m including it here.
A few weeks ago, I entered Gresham’s Multnomah County Library, with my oldest daughter, a freshman at Barlow. As we walked in, there in the free literature rack, easily accessible to anyone, were multiple copies of two homosexual newspapers. On one cover were two lesbians passionately kissing each other on the mouth, with a block lettered message on a t-shirt: “WE RECRUIT ...
- Tue, Jan 12, 2010
- Sexual Purity
Easily Entangled (Hebrews 12:1): One Christian Man’s Battle with Pornography
At the age of eleven I put my faith in Christ. I was drawn to the foot of the cross and decided to follow Jesus. I loved God with all my heart and was so grateful to be one of His forgiven children.
Shortly after that milestone in my life, I entered puberty. All of a sudden things changed. My interest in females went from high to “off the charts.” The girls at school now touched off emotions that went to the core of my very being. I was a hormone on legs.
- Mon, May 17, 2010
- Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
Enjoying Mental and Sexual Purity (audio)
Randy Alcorn speaks on sexual purity at Good Shepherd Community Church. May 15 & 16, 2010.
- Tue, Jan 19, 2010
- Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
Expressing Our Concerns about Same Sex Marriage in a Pluralistic Culture
Last week, same sex couples were married all over California.
The future is predictable. Streams of people will come from all over the country to be married in California, and then will go back to their home states and argue that their marriage licenses should be honored. What will the states decide?
The biblical basis for opposition to same sex marriages is expressed in online articles such as “What does the Bible say about same sex marriage?”, and in James Dobson’s book What’s Wrong with Same Sex Marriage?
But how do we articulate a concern about same sex ...
- Thu, Jan 21, 2010
- Christian Life, Doctrine and Theology, Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
Fences and Freedom
When the summer started, our grandsons weren’t having all that much fun in our big side yard. Why? Because there’s a road on the north side of our yard, and these days the cars present a real danger to careless children chasing balls. And our grandsons love to chase balls.
- Thu, Jan 21, 2010
- Christian Life, Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
Fences Bring Freedom: How boundaries can liberate us
We live in the same house that we did when our daughters were small. Now they're grown and we have four grandsons. All those years our daughters were growing up, we never built a fence in our yard. There was no need.
- Tue, Jan 26, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
Gay Rights As Seen by Some Homosexuals
In a special section of New Republic magazine. Andrew Sullivan and other gay writers called for an abandonment of the civil-rights approach. Sullivan faulted the civil-rights approach. Sullivan faulted the civil-rights strategy because it is based on two faulty assumptions: “that sexuality is equivalent to race in terms of discrimination, and that full equality of homosexuals can be accomplished by designating gay people as victims.”
Sullivan, the gay, white male, is as quick to point out the differences between race and sexual orientation as is James, the straight, black female. “Unlike blacks three decades ago,” writes Sullivan, “gay men and ...
