If you’re open to the renewal of your mind by the Holy Spirit, and if such renewal serves the purpose of making us more like Jesus, then you need to brace yourself—you’re going to get more weird! That’s because Jesus …
I am worried I am going to become a monster. It used to be that I could separate porn from relationships. Now I am not so sure. – Kevin I’m not ready to tell you everything, but it’s just so …
If I hadn’t been caught by my wife, I think I would have been arrested at some point because the porn I started looking at was getting really horrible. – Andy This article is the second of a three-part series excerpted …
We arrive home, and I unload the bags while Penny unpacks her backpack. “Do you have any homework?” I ask. “Nope,” she says. “Well, are you working on anything at school these days?” “Research,” she says. I have learned to …
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No one ever wakes up and says, “I’m willing to resign my sexual life to perversion and degradation.” Most of us, however, find that the longer we remain in unwanted behavior, the more hijacked our experience with it becomes. When …
Throughout the history of the church, God has raised up strange new movements to stand in contradistinction to the staid or culturally acceptable forms of Christianity of the day. Even though our slow and inexorable drift seems always to be …
So, here’s my question: Why isn’t there a bit more crazy in Christianity these days? And I don’t mean crazy as in zany or juvenile (there’s plenty of that!). I mean crazy as in Picasso, Jim Henson, and Martha Graham. …
Shame and self-contempt always stop growth and block healing, yet how often do we treat the tender places within ourselves with violence without thinking twice? We abuse ourselves, mock ourselves, and create a fear of our vulnerability. But we can …
We’re naturally self-centered, so a marriage can succeed only if we work at it. It’s always striking to me how many people approach marriage thinking that if they simply do what comes naturally, everything will work out. That’s not true, …
The only time Jesus told us to “wait around” was when he said to wait for the Holy Spirit to empower us. That’s excellent advice. We shouldn’t be trying to do this alone, because only God can make the complexity …