Struggles | Joe Dallas Online

Joe Dallas March 11, 2013

Naked, Unashamed and Accountable

Every Monday we’ll post something about maintaining your sexual integrity. Hope it helps. — Naked, Unashamed and Accountable And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. - Genesis 2:25 Shame wasn’t part of the human vocabulary until sin entered the picture. Adam and Eve were, as countless paintings and films suggest, innocently erotic and erotically innocent. No clothes and, I daresay, no inhibitions. That was then, and then was worlds away, ages ago. Today shame permeates the human experience. No Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Accountability, Adam, Art, Christian, Church, Confession, Corinth, Eve, Gay, God, Help, Honesty, Integrity, Love, Paul, Porn, Purity, Resist, Self, Sexual Integrity, Sin, Son, Sons, Struggles, Temptation, Trust, Truth, Weak, Wife 7 Comments

Joe Dallas February 18, 2013

Of Morsels and Birthrights

Every Monday we’ll post something about maintaining your sexual integrity. Hope it helps. — Of Morsels and Birthrights Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. - Hebrews 12: 16-17 I used to think Esau got a raw deal. He was a young man of the earth, skilled in hunting and physical prowess, Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Bless, Blessing, Christian, Church, Death, Divine, Failure, Faith, Family, God, Grace, Gratification, Hell, Help, Integrity, Justice, Moral, Normal, Porn, Repentance, Resist, Self, Sexual Integrity, Sin, Son, Spirit, Spiritual, Struggles, Truth, Weak Leave a Comment

Joe Dallas November 15, 2012

With Love, Disappointed

Every Thursday I’ll post an article having to do with either relational or emotional matters. Hope it helps. — With Love, Disappointed “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia --- At my first answer no man stood with me, but all forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.” - II Timothy 4:10-16 “For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.” - Philippians 2:21 Live enough years and Continue Reading

Filed Under: Relational Matters Tagged With: Anger, Barna, Behavior, Bless, Blessing, Christian, Disco, Doctrine, Friend, God, Grace, Heart, Hell, Help, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Love, Peter, Relationships, Self, Sin, Son, Struggles 3 Comments

Joe Dallas September 19, 2012

Sin: The Presence, the Power and the Difference

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

Every Wednesday we’ll be posting something to do with doctrine and purity. Hope it helps. --- Sin: The Presence and the Power and the Difference I had a bucketful of emotional and sexual struggles when I first came to Christ, all of which I assumed would disappear once I was born again. And for a few weeks, it seemed they did. In the newness of my relationship with Him, and the outright wonder of salvation itself, I felt no sexual temptations; experienced no fantasies. I gave myself over to fellowship, drinking in the Word, prayer Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: A Beautiful Mind, Christian, Doctrine, Faith, God, Help, Holy Spirit, Purity, Resist, Ron Howard, Scripture, Sin, Son, Struggles, Temptation, The World, Truth 2 Comments

Joe Dallas August 13, 2012

I Know I’ve Got a Problem. Now What?

Every Monday we’ll post something to do with personal purity. Hope it helps. — “I Know I’ve Got a Problem. Now What?” Then said Evangelist, “If this be thy condition, why standest thou still?” He answered, “Because I know not where to go.” — Pilgrims Progress I’ve yet to have a Christian man walk into my office and ask, “Is porn wrong? Is an adulterous affair OK? Can I sleep with my girlfriend?” My clients haven’t wondered what’s right or wrong. They come in knowing they have a problem, but wondering, Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Affair, Behavior, Christian, Conflict, Direction, Faith, Father, Francis Schaeffer, Friend, God, Grace, Health, Help, Honor, Jesus, John, Lord, Love, Lust, Marriage, Needs, Peter, Porn, Purity, Repentance, Satisfaction, Self, Son, Sons, Spirit, Spiritual, Struggles, Temptation, The World, Visual, Weak 2 Comments

Joe Dallas August 8, 2012

Starting Over

I’m on vacation this week and so am repeating some prior posts. Looking forward to being with you again next week, with new material. God bless. — Starting Over The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. - Olympic Gold Medalist Jesse Owens In 1984 I stepped into a professional counselor’s office for the first time, frightened at the prospect of discussing things I’d never spoken to anyone about, and Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Christian, Christmas, Counselor, Doctrine, God, Grace, Help, Holiday, Self, Sin, Spirit, Spiritual, Struggles, Truth, Truths, Vulnerable, Wife 2 Comments

Joe Dallas July 16, 2012

3 Prayers with a Guaranteed ‘Yes’

Every Monday we’ll post something to do with personal purity. Hope it helps. --- 3 Prayers with a Guaranteed ‘Yes’ I’m not big on terms like “deliverance” or “transformation”, though I believe in both. They’re both clearly commended in the Bible, and I celebrate them. But I think they’re too often misused as ways of pumping people up to get them to expect immediate, complete relief from whatever ails them. And that, both history and scripture show, is a set up for disappointment. Because although we have indeed been Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Bible, God, Heart, Help, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Love, Moral, Purity, Sanctification, Scripture, Self, Sin, Struggles Leave a Comment

Joe Dallas June 25, 2012

Memories

Every Monday we post something about maintaining your sexual purity. Hope it helps. --- MEMORIES “Mr. Dallas,” the card read, “how long have you been sexually sober? And does it ever get easier?” A pointed but fair question. I was teaching a conference in Orlando last October, and during the Q and A session, one of the attendees sent up the card wanting to know about my consistency over the years. Feeling a bit like I’d just been asked if it was boxers or briefs, I replied that it had been 27 years since I’d viewed Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Anger, Behavior, David, Faith, God, Gratification, Heart, Help, Indulgence, Integrity, Jesus, Love, Lust, Marriage, Movie, Orlando, Porn, Purity, Satisfaction, Self, Sin, Son, Struggles 5 Comments

Joe Dallas April 25, 2012

Home Sweet Battlefield

Every Wednesday we’ll post a message having to do with doctrine and purity. Hope it helps. — Home Sweet Battlefield I’m reminded daily that although God created the World, this World is not the way He created it. It became something else. When Adam sinned, everything in the environment – man, woman, the earth itself and the spiritual realm – changed. Read Genesis 3 in its entirety and you see the devastation of Paradise Lost, and the new form the world would take. An ongoing battle would ensue between Satan and Eve’s Seed, Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Adam, Bless, Blessing, Books, Culture, Doctrine, God, Help, Love, Lust, Movie, Prayer, Purity, Resist, Self, Sin, Son, Spirit, Spiritual, Struggles, Temptation, The Game Plan, The World, Triggers, Visual Leave a Comment

Joe Dallas April 4, 2012

Debriefing Canaan

Woodcut after a drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 - 1872) from the "GroÃe Haus-Bilder-Bibel (Large House Pictures Bible)" by Dr. Martin Luther. Published by J. Ebner, Ulm (1877)

Every Wednesday we’ll post a message having to do with doctrine and purity. Hope it helps. — Debriefing Canaan And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel -Numbers 13: 30-33 They were sent in to spy out the land God had promised, Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Bless, Blessing, Children, Christian, Discussion, Doctrine, Faith, Family, God, Grace, Help, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John, Peter, Purity, Sin, Spiritual, Struggles, Temptation, Trust Leave a Comment

Naked, Unashamed and Accountable

Of Morsels and Birthrights

With Love, Disappointed

Sin: The Presence, the Power and the Difference

I Know I’ve Got a Problem. Now What?

Starting Over

3 Prayers with a Guaranteed ‘Yes’

Memories

Home Sweet Battlefield

Debriefing Canaan

Joe Dallas

Connect

Recent Posts

Under New Management

The Game Plan Seminar – This Weekend May 18th, 2013 – Promo Video

Without Provocation?

We Who Are Seen

The Minimalist

Categories

Archives

Recent Comments

Joe Dallas

Follow Joe

Recent Posts

Categories

Archives

Tags

Recent Comments