What’s Satan Got Against Me, Anyway?

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Every Thursday we’ll post something to do with Relationship and Purity. Hope it helps. --- “What’s Satan Got Against Me, Anyway?” We don’t know too much about him, but what we know is sobering and instructive. He’s a created being who fell from grace (Isaiah 14:12); he enticed the first humans into disobedience (Genesis 3:1-4); he’s an adversary to all of us (I Peter 5:8); he has specific devices that can be known (II Corinthians 2:11); his future is sealed and we’ll someday be relieved of him and his wiles. Continue Reading

Blew It Again

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Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — Blew It Again Day has begun and I’m already sinning Help me to change this heart that I have Lord, help me taste of the grace that You’re giving. I want to be a spiritual man. - from “Let the Old Man Die” lyrics by Chuck Butler When God puts His finger on a part of your life needing change, a new standard is birthed. Something you may have found acceptable is unacceptable now, making abstinence from that “something” a Continue Reading

Random Ramblings #35: Weekly Reflections, Lessons and Homework

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Every Friday we’ll take a break from topical posts and will post some random personal thoughts.  — A Cuppa Joe - Random Ramblings from a Fellow Struggler It can be interesting and helpful to look at what you’re going through during a given week and ask, “What’s the lesson here, and what’ll my homework be?” Everything we experience is, after all Father-Filtered, in that God allows it with some purpose in mind. (Romans 8:28) So Renee and I are trying, with some success, to break the pattern of reflexively stressing over the Continue Reading

How Do I Know He’s Getting Better? Five Things to Look for When a Man Says He’s Repentant

Remind him that you’re his partner and want the best for him, your marriage and your family.

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — How Do I Know He’s Getting Better? Five Things to Look for When a Man Says He’s Repentant  Wives often ask my wife and I how they can really know their husband, who’s committed some form of sexual sin, is getting better. While there’s no acid test, there are some things I believe a woman can and should expect when her man says, “I was wrong; I’ve repented of it.” If that’s the case, here are the top five things I think she should Continue Reading

Random Ramblings #28: The Blogs in My Own Eye

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Every Friday we’ll take a break from topical posts and will post some random personal thoughts.  --- A Cuppa Joe - Random Ramblings from a Fellow Struggler  The Blogs in My Own Eye You’ll see plenty of Top Ten lists this weekend, usually centered around news stories or entertainment. But since this blogging thing is still relatively new to me, I’ve got a fresh appreciation for women and men who take time, sometimes daily, to crank out thoughts and commentary over the web. So today, let me salute the blogs I click onto regularly by Continue Reading

Self-Watch

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Every Wednesday we’ll post something to do with doctrine and recovery. Hope it helps. — Self –Watch “But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached Christ to others, I myself should become disqualified.” - I Corinthians 9:27 You’ve gotta appreciate Paul’s honesty. Here’s the great apostle/evangelist admitting that even at this point of his life and ministry, self-watch is essential. After preaching Christ to others, he realizes he could step outside God’s approval, and here, I Continue Reading

Avoiding the Holiday Relapse

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Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — Avoiding the Holiday Relapse We dress up and stress up for the Season. No avoiding it. Money is tight when we most want to spend it; schedules are crammed; old or unresolved family issues are highlighted; everything’s hectic, crowded, rushed. So while the notion of depression rates rising this time of year is open to challenge it’s a given that stress, along with waist size and carols, rises considerably. So it’s no surprise when the Continue Reading

You Want Her Trust Back? Here’s Four Ways To Get the Ball Rolling

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Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — You Want Her Trust Back? - Here’s Four Ways to Get the Ball Rolling The married man who uses porn, commits adultery, or gives himself to other kinds of unclean behavior breaks trust. He’s in a covenanted relationship with a woman he pledged himself to, probably with the best of intentions, but somewhere along the way he’s given himself permission to indulge. Sometimes there are problems in the marriage his wife is largely responsible for, Continue Reading

“She”mergencies – Emergency Situations Wives Often Face

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Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. --- Shemergencies Emergency Situations Wives Often Face (And A Few Brief Suggestions That I Hope Will Help!) “I just found out my husband’s using internet porn. What do I do?” 1. Make sure he knows that you know he’s been using porn, and that it is completely unacceptable to you. Don’t accept a simple, “Sorry, it won’t happen again.” Instead, let him know that you consider his porn use to be serious enough to warrant action in Continue Reading

Different Worlds, Common Struggles, Amazing Grace

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Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — Different Worlds, Common Struggles, Amazing Grace How was your Friday night? That’s good. Mine? Oh, my Amish buddies and I just got together to chat over coffee about porn and such. Yes. I was teaching The Game Plan seminar in Ohio, and my host, a wonderful Mennonite pastor with close ties to the Amish community in his area, arranged a pre-seminar meeting between myself and local Amish leaders to acquaint them with our work, talk about Continue Reading