(Every Thursday we’ll post something to do with Emotional Issues or Relational issues. Hope it helps) --- Love of the Familiar – A Roadblock to Repentance After years of being immersed in the use of porn and sexual acting out, I had to honestly ask myself, when I repented, how I was going to learn to live without these things I’d so relied on? They were wrong, sure. But boy, were they reliable! Reliable, deeply ingrained and, most of all familiar. Jesus makes an interesting reference to the love of the familiar when He refers to Continue Reading
Playing The Game – It’s Serious Business!
Every Wednesday we’ll post a message concerning doctrine and its role in our purity. Hope it’s useful. Playing the Game – It’s Serious Business! I often encourage my clients to enter into The Game, which is the contest you enter into when you commit yourself to purity. When you regularly give in to sexual sin, you in essence “go with the flow” of the world, the flesh and even Satan. No contest there - you surrendered. Paul describes this surrender pretty well to the Ephesians when he refers to their past: “Wherein in time past you walked Continue Reading