If sexual purity is so important, why did God give us such a strong sex drive? How come we are so visually-oriented? Why do we want sex as much as we do?
After all, when someone has an addiction to alcohol or drugs or cigarettes, he can quit it for good. Sex isn’t like that. Married [...]
Maybe you’re thinking, “But I like sinning.” I’m not here to lie to you. Sexual sin can be fun and exciting. Duh! There’s a reason why so many people do it. But that’s your flesh talking. Do a realistic cost/benefit analysis, and you’ll find that the fun and excitement don’t outweigh the negative consequences.
We’re like [...]
For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. (Romans 7:18-19)
So we are saints who sin. We may want with all our heart [...]
In the last chapter, I talked about how our self-image acts as a thermostat to regulate our behavior. Now I would like to share how our false self-image can become a prison for us.
I’m currently watching old episodes of the original “Battlestar Galactica” T.V. series with my oldest son. Last night’s episode (“The Long Patrol”) [...]
Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”
Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during [...]
King Hezekiah (715-687 BC) dug his well before he needed the water. He created a tunnel 1750 feet long to divert the waters of the Gihon Spring so that they flowed into the west side of Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:30). He then sealed the cave from where the waters originally sprung. By doing so, he [...]
The key to a good defensive strategy is to prayerfully dig the well before you need the water. In other words, don’t wait until the moment of temptation to decide how you will handle it. That’s much too late. In the moment, you are weak and believing all the lies that the Enemy is selling.
You [...]
Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!”
So we continued the work with [...]
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:3-4)
We don’t fight against flesh and blood, and we don’t fight with worldly weapons. [...]
