I did an object lesson once in a men’s group that illustrated this principle. We started with a small cup full of water and talked about how the clear water in the cup represented our minds as God created them.
Unfortunately, we allowed the vile and the vulgar to get beyond our gates. (I recognize [...]
I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut the doors and bar them. Also appoint residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some near their own houses.” (Nehemiah 7:3)
Nehemiah created guidelines for [...]
Homer and Virgil wrote about the famous battle between the Greeks and Trojans outside the gates of Troy. Interestingly enough, the war was started by Paris’ lust for another man’s wife. The Greeks’ siege lasted ten long and bloody years before they came up with the idea. It was simple but risky. Build a huge, [...]
My temptations are my masters of Divinity.
–Martin Luther
After the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed. I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man [...]
This is a book about sexual purity. It was born from a deep desire to see men get free of the sexual idolatry we have been practicing. The lessons it includes were learned from failure. Years and years of failure that finally gave way to a first, small success. That one was followed by another [...]
