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Joe Dallas May 30, 2012

Prayer’s Block

Every Wednesday we’ll post something to do with doctrine and recovery. Hope it helps. --- Prayer’s Block Anyone who’s tried writing can attest to the frustration of Writer’s Block. It happens when you sit your body in front of the computer, but your mind floats someplace else, refusing to put the harness on and get the flow going. It won’t enter in, and until it does, you stare at the screen, get up and down, play an online game, whatever. Volumes have been written about it, and plenty of despairing would-be authors lap up any advice Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Doctrine, Father, God, Heart, Help, Jesus, Love, Peter, Prayer, Recall, Recognize, Rejoice, Self, Sin, Spiritual, The World, Weak, Writing

Joe Dallas May 29, 2012

Cheaters Never Prosper

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with strengthening marriages. Hope it helps. — Cheaters Never Prosper “Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. Defraud ye not one the other ---“ - I Corinthians 7: 3-5 Sins of omission are harder to spot, and easier to justify, then their more deliberate, obvious counterparts. When I cross a clearly defined line the moral question isn’t a question at all – I shouldn’t have done that. But when I should do something, yet don’t, the casual Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Adultery, Devotion, God, Help, Honor, Marriage, Moral, Needs, Prayer, Self, Selfishness, Sin, Son, Sons, Spouse, The World, Truth, Vulnerable, Wife

Joe Dallas May 28, 2012

The Intensity Trap

Every Monday I’ll be posting something to do with maintaining sexual integrity under the category “Keeping it Clean” Hope it you find it helpful. — The Intensity Trap In the summer of 1966 I discovered a thrill that would keep me hooked for life. I was 11, and we were visiting an old amusement park in the downtown sector that featured one of the country’s biggest roller coasters, a rickety monstrosity rightfully called The Cyclone Racer. Even my first glimpse of it fascinated me: a grinning brown dinosaur daring me to come closer Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Children, Direction, Disco, Faith, Family, God, Gratification, Heart, Help, Honor, Integrity, Marriage, Moral, Porn, Process, Purity, Satisfaction, Sexual Integrity, Son, Sons, Wife

Joe Dallas May 24, 2012

My Big Mouth; My Bigger Error

Engraving by Gustave Dore (1832 – 1883) illustration was published in 1875 - Peter's Denial

Every Thursday we’ll post something to do with relational or emotional concerns. Hope it helps. — My Big Mouth; My Bigger Error When Jesus predicted that all his disciples – Peter included – would forsake Him under pressure, you can almost hear the injury in his voice when he protests: “Even if all are made to stumble because of You, I will never be made to stumble! --- Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny you!” (Matthew 26:33, 35) This was a guy who knew Christ, but still had a lot to learn about himself. I think he meant Continue Reading

Filed Under: Relational Matters Tagged With: Agape, Bitter, Bless, Divine, Faith, God, Help, Injury, Jesus, John, Love, Peter, Phileo, Recall, Self, Son

Joe Dallas May 21, 2012

Who Really Stays Pure?

Every Monday I’ll be posting something to do with maintaining sexual integrity under the category “Keeping it Clean” Hope it you find it helpful. --- Who Really Stays Pure? Let’s face it, sexual purity is both a goal and, these days especially, an achievement. It’s a way of being and living that runs contrary to so much of what we’re exposed to daily. The fact that we’re sexual creatures with natural responses can be enough of a struggle, but add to that the ongoing stimulation of billboards, immodestly dressed women and men, suggestive Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Accountability, Adam, Adultery, Behavior, Bible, David, Fear, Health, Help, Hurts, Injury, Integrity, Internet Porn, King David, Lust, Needs, Peter, Planners, Prayer, Purity, Resist, Self, Sexual Integrity, Sin, Spirit, Spiritual, Teachable, Truth

Joe Dallas May 16, 2012

Eternally Secure, Perpetually Striving

Every Wednesday we’ll post something having to do with doctrine and purity. Hope it helps. — Eternally Secure, Perpetually Striving One of Christianity’s longest running arguments has to do with the believer’s security. If one has been born again, can he ever lose his salvation? If so, how? And, once lost, can it ever be retrieved? I’m not entirely settled on the issue myself. Some of my favorite scriptures (and indeed, ones I draw no small comfort from) bolster the “once saved, always saved” position. “No man is able to pluck them Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Bible, Charles Spurgeon, Christian, Chuck Smith, Death, Doctrine, Faith, Father, God, Hell, Help, Jesus, John, Lord, Love, Peter, Purity, Resist, Scripture, Self, Sin, Spirit, Spiritual

Joe Dallas May 15, 2012

He’s Just Not That Into Him

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with strengthening marriages. Hope it helps. — He’s Just Not That Into Him A book and subsequent film titled “He’s Just Not That Into You” looked at the phenomena of single women who find it hard to accept the fact that when a man doesn’t return phone calls, breaks promises to get in touch, or keeps making excuses for not getting together, it doesn’t mean he had a car accident. Nor was he kidnapped, drugged, or overcome with the flu. It simply means he’s not that into you. Brutal fact, but there Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Affair, Appetite, Art, Behavior, Bitter, Christian, David, Disco, Divine, Doctrine, Faith, Family, Fidelity, God, Grace, Heart, Help, Indulgence, King David, Love, Marriage, Moral, Needs, Porn, Prayer, Purity, Repentance, Scripture, Self, Sin, Son, Spirit, Spiritual, Wife

Joe Dallas May 14, 2012

Well, Then, Act Like One!

Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — “Well, Then, Act Like One!” Clean before my Lord I stand, and in me not one blemish does He see When I placed all my burdens on Him He washed them all from me. -from ‘Clean Before My Lord’ by Nancy Honeytree A common parental technique, which I’m no fan of, shames a kid by contrasting what he’s doing to who he is. I understand the frustration churning behind statements like “Are you a boy? Then act like one!” or “Are you 12 instead of 3? Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Behavior, Father, Flesh, God, Health, Help, Lord, Purity, Self, Sin, Son, Spirit, Spiritual, Temptation

Joe Dallas May 10, 2012

Bless The Jerk

Every Thursday I’ll post an article having to do with either relational or emotional matters. Hope it helps. --- Bless the Jerk There’s no way to navigate a life without getting bumped, bruised or outright wounded by people. No one’s exempt, and generally, the closer we are to people the more capacity they have to wound us. There’s the challenge of intimacy: I want to be known and loved; I don’t want to be injured. And good trying to get the one without the other. Where there’s closeness, there’ll be, among other things, Continue Reading

Filed Under: Relational Matters Tagged With: Bitter, Bitterness, Bless, Blessing, Clarity, Correction, Family, Father, Fear, Forgiveness, God, Hell, Help, Injury, Jesus, Love, Needs, Prayer, Self, Sin, Trust, Wounds

Joe Dallas May 9, 2012

Bad Form

Every Wednesday we’ll post something having to do with doctrine and purity. Hope it helps. — Bad Form “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof; from such turn away.” - II Timothy 3:5 My wife and I have followed the NBC series Smash since its first episode, generally enjoying it; sometimes hitting the pause button when the occasional tryst or needlessly suggestive moment is featured. It centers on the evolution of a Broadway musical based on Marilyn Monroe’s final years, and provides a dynamite cast, terrific musical Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Adultery, Art, Behavior, Christian, Doctrine, Faith, Family, Fear, Gay, God, Help, Honor, Lesbian, Love, Marriage, Moral, Music, Purity, Rejoice, Renee, Repentance, Sanctification, Scripture, Self, Sexuality, Sin, Son, Spirit, Truth, Wife, Writing

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Prayer’s Block

Cheaters Never Prosper

The Intensity Trap

My Big Mouth; My Bigger Error

Who Really Stays Pure?

Eternally Secure, Perpetually Striving

He’s Just Not That Into Him

Well, Then, Act Like One!

Bless The Jerk

Bad Form

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