Our God’s Most High

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Every Monday we’ll post something about maintaining your sexual integrity. Hope it helps. — Our Gods Most High A depressing, recurring phrase shows up throughout the Old Testament books of the Kings and Chronicles: “King so-and-so ruled, and he did not tear down the high places.” The phrase “high places”, in fact, appears some 100 times in the Old Testament, and that alone makes the subject worth our attention. Evidently the high places of ancient times were raised locations, elevated areas where stones or monuments were Continue Reading

Unchained

"You have the power, as Paul says, to resist what you used to be in servitude to..."

Every Monday we’ll post something about maintaining your sexual integrity. Hope it helps. — Unchained “I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Men don’t come into my office because of a bad decision they made. They come because of hundreds, even thousands of bad decisions, linked together to forge a chain they, like Jacob Marley from the Dickens story, gird and wear of their Continue Reading

Who’s Afraid of The Big Bad Wife?

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Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wife? Make a generalization about men and women and someone will point out an exception, proving that generalizations are only generally accurate. That said, I’ll still make one: Lots of men are afraid of their wives. Hold on – I’m not saying these guys are wimps, or that their wives are amazons. I’m only saying that something happens in many, many marriages whereby the husband lives with ongoing fear of his Continue Reading

Three Reasons I Honestly Thank God for the Struggle

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Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — Three Reasons I Honestly Thank God for the Struggle “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” - I Thessalonians 5:18 I’m a Christian man who wrestles, on a fairly regular basis, with sexual temptation. That hardly puts me in a special category and, in fact, makes me nothing more than the average Joe. Those temptations don’t come because of deficits in my life, since I’m married to a Continue Reading

The Gay Marriage Debate: Winning, Losing or Dropping Out? (Part 4)

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Please Note: I really appreciate your patience as I’ve been writing on the subject of the Church’s response to same sex marriage. Last Friday, though I’d planned on posting the final part of this series, time didn’t allow. Now I find, as writing what was supposed to be the third and last part, that a proper treatment of the subject requires more space than one post allows. Kindly bear with me, then, as I strong this series out into four more installments. And please stay with me as I post each one, since this is a subject requiring Continue Reading

Random Ramblings #42: Remembering God’s Precious Gifts

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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 Don't Forget God's Precious Gifts Fine looking couple, don’t you think? That’s my son Jeremy and his lovely girlfriend at Prom Night last weekend. I’ll bet you just said “cute” or “sweet”, and you’re right, but the word “glowing” keeps coming to my mind. The kid’s in love with a beautiful, smart, classy young lady, and they’ve got each other glowing. They Continue Reading

Morphing Marriage

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Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with strengthening marriages. Hope it helps. — Morphing Marriage “Know you not that from the beginning He created them male and female? For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” - Mark 10:6-9 Morph: (as verb) Change smoothly from one image to another by small gradual steps using computer animation techniques. It’s changing as you read this, undergoing a steady morphing generating applause, condemnation, Continue Reading

How Then Should We Respond? Homosexuality and The Church

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I’d sure appreciate your prayers, as this weekend I’ll be speaking in Atlanta for the Love Won Out conference on homosexuality and the Church’s response. I don’t normally post on this topic since I’ve already written a number of books and articles on it, but today I would like to pass along an article I wrote for the Southern Baptist Voice back in ’02 on the subject of a Biblical response to this difficult issue. It’s a long post, but if the subject is of concern to you, I hope you’ll find this a useful read. God bless, and have Continue Reading

Unchained

"You have the power, as Paul says, to resist what you used to be in servitude to..."

(This week, in honor of the season, I’ll be posting parallels between A Christmas Carol and the issues we discuss on this blog) --- Unchained “I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Men don’t come into my office because of a bad decision they made. They come because of hundreds, even thousands of bad decisions, linked together to forge a chain they, like Jacob Marley from the Continue Reading

Who’s Afraid of The Big Bad Wife?

couple walled off

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wife? Make a generalization about men and women and someone will point out an exception, proving that generalizations are only generally accurate. That said, I’ll still make one: Lots of men are afraid of their wives. Hold on – I’m not saying these guys are wimps, or that their wives are amazons. I’m only saying that something happens in many, many marriages whereby the husband lives with ongoing fear of his Continue Reading