Posts from July 2022
How Pornography Ruins Marital Sex
The following quote is from the book Married Sex by Gary Thomas and Debra Fileta: Guys, one thing is clear: the best way to ruin your desire for your wife is to look at pornography. If I need to think about what gets me going, I first need to rid myself of anything that stops me from getting going. And if statistics are to be believed, more than half of today’s husbands are sabotaging their marital bed by viewing pornography.…
One Bad Reason To Wait To Have Sex Until Marriage
Does “saving yourself” for marriage mean you will have an amazing sex life? A few years ago, after I preached on a biblical view of sex, someone came up to me and said, “Wow! I felt like I was in youth group again.” I wasn’t sure if that was good or bad, but I smiled and continued on, saying hi to people. I later learned that he was implying that was bad. It was as if he was saying, “Thanks…
July 2022 Reading Challenge
July 2022 Reading Challenge Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn 322 pages Biography Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal . . . and lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her…