If you’ve ever prayed, “God, give me what I deserve,” take time today to thank him for not answering that prayer! Often our times of prayer, and our lives in general, are fixated on what we want from God and specifically, on the things we feel we have earned or deserve. These are often legitimate […]
Mow Your Marriage: The Fine Print on Opting for the Resort
I recently wrote about the need to mow your marriage. The grass is greener on the other side because you don’t have to mow it. Marriages are high maintenance. Lust, affairs, crushes, flirtations, and fantasies are not. So here’s a question: would you rather live in your house or in an all-inclusive resort?
Mow Your Marriage
The grass is greener where you water it. The grass looks greener on the other side because you don’t have to mow it. In my last two posts about Kate Upton and about the key to sexual purity, I mentioned how the appeal of lust is that our spouses become too human, whereas lust operates […]
The key to sexual purity…
There are many men out there who do not want to look at pornography, do not want to lust over women they see throughout their day, and want to treasure their wives in every way they can. I am one of these men. But the decision to do or not do these things is not […]
Kate Upton: ‘I felt terrible about myself’ after S.I. swimsuit cover
I ran across an interesting article about Kate Upton, the 2012 and 2013 cover model for Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition. You can read the article here (included photo is modest), which I’m quoting from, written by Ashley Majeski for NBC’s Today.com. “After my first Sports Illustrated cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid […]
Porn is getting smeared in the news and in research studies
Data, research, and statistics are great. Especially when they show what many of us have known about porn for a long time. But people don’t always listen to preachers. Or care about what something does to their heart, their soul, and their relationships. But they’ll listen to the news. And to data, research, and statistics. […]