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Joe Dallas April 14, 2015

Staying Power

“By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.” -Christian entertainer Barbara Mandrell, answering the question of why her marriage works I know my wife loves me. But I think it’s taken more than that to keep her with me for 28 years. She also loves, and is obedient to, God. And that’s where a Christian marriage gets its Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Bible, Christian, covenant, Eve, Faith, Family, Father, flake, God, Grace, Heart, Hell, Help, Lord, Love, Marriage, patience, Paul, Renee, Self, Sin, Spirit, Spiritual, Spouse, Struggles, Temptation, Wife

Joe Dallas March 31, 2015

When Consciences Collide: Making Sense of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act

“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.” -Thomas Jefferson Been There, Done That Had That Done to Me Amidst all of today’s clamor over discrimination based on religious or moral standards, I’m remembering an incident when I was on the receiving end of it myself. Continue Reading

Filed Under: A Cuppa Joe Tagged With: Art, Bible, Birthday, Bless, Books, Children, Christian, Church, David, Eve, Faith, Gay, Gay Marriage, God, Heart, Help, Homosexuality, Integrity, Jesus, Justice, Lesbian, Love, Ministry, Moral, Needs, Normal, Politics, preference, Purity, Resist, Scripture, Self, Sexuality, Sin, Son, Truth, Wisdom

Joe Dallas March 17, 2015

Slaughtering Hope

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers exactly what it promised. Betrayal, though — betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. – Playright Steven Deitz Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Behavior, Christian, Crisis, Death, Eve, God, Grace, Help, Humility, Love, Paul, Porn, Process, Recognize, Sin, Spouse, Truth, Wounds

Joe Dallas March 16, 2015

When War Isn’t Hell

"If you have no temptations it is because the devils are your friends, your leaders, and your shepherds. And by allowing you to pass your poor life tranquilly, to the end of your days, they will drag you down into the depths." -St. Gregory Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Adam, Bible, bondage, Children, Dishonor, Divine, Eve, Failure, Flesh, Friend, God, Grief, Heart, Hell, Honor, Lord, Love, Paul, Recognize, Resist, Satisfaction, Self, Sin, Spirit, Struggles, Temptation, The World

Joe Dallas March 10, 2015

Of Headship and Headaches

In the classic movie farce Some Like It Hot, Jack Lemmon, disguised as a woman, dances a tango with a gent who thinks Lemmon’s a lady, and a lovely one at that. But the man has one complaint. “You’re leading again!” he keeps pointing out. Accustomed to taking the lead as a male, Jack’s now finding it hard to dance as a follower. But unless one of them yields, the tango’s going nowhere. Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Books, Christian, Christian Men, Church, Death, Direction, Eve, Faith, Family, God, Heart, Love, Marriage, Movie, Needs, Renee, Scripture, Self, Sin, Spirit, Spiritual, Spouse, Struggles, Trust, Truth, Wife

Joe Dallas February 16, 2015

Pedaling Among the Weary

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -Galatians 6:9 I’m going into training for the April Bike-A-Thon our church sponsors every year. Proceeds go to send abused kids to camp, and I’m always blessed and proud to participate. Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Art, Bears, Bible, Bless, Books, Christian, Christian Men, Church, Corinth, counseling, Culture, David, Direction, Doctrine, Eve, Faith, God, Grace, Heart, Help, Hurts, Love, Lust, Normal, Paul, Porn, Prayer, Purity, Relationships, Resist, Self, Sin, Son, Temptation, Truth

Joe Dallas February 11, 2015

Lord of the Bruised

A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench, till He sends forth justice to victory. -Matthew 12:20 I want that kind of heart. I want to look at a bruised reed and feel protective, appreciating its fragility and its potential. Without that, everything else seems empty. These words from Isaiah 42, re-quoted in Matthew, are interesting, aren’t they? “A bruised reed He will not break.” Matthew cites this as a prophetic reference to Jesus, and it’s important to note this description comes right after a heated Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Church, Depression, Discussion, Doctrine, Eve, Family, Friend, God, Heart, Jesus, Justice, Lord, Love, Lust, Ministry, Mother, Mother Teresa, Sin, Truth, Vulnerable, Wounds, Writing

Joe Dallas December 30, 2014

Honey I Shrunk the Id

They used to drum it into Psych students as a foundational truth – Freud’s Structural Hypothesis, the theory that our minds are composed of a triune entity called Id, Ego and Super-Ego. Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Adam, Behavior, covenant, Eve, Father, Flesh, Friend, God, Love, Marriage, Needs, Paul, Renee, Resist, Self, Sin, Spouse, Truth, Weak

Joe Dallas December 3, 2014

The Transsexual Dilemma: Part 3 of a Five Part Series

The growing support for transsexualism in the culture, plus the growing number of voices within the Church calling for us to not only to show respect and compassion to transsexuals (a very sound idea) but approval as well (an unsound option) has prodded me to post, in a five-part series, an article I wrote on the subject six years ago for the Christian Research Journal. (You can find the entire article it in its original form here) Continue Reading

Filed Under: Doctrinal Matters Tagged With: Adam, Bible, Children, Christian, Church, Culture, David, Divine, Dr. Martin Luther King, Eve, Faith, Fear, Flesh, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Moral, Mother, Paul, Scripture, Self, Sin, Spirit, The World, Video

Joe Dallas November 24, 2014

Wanting

There are many men who have much less than me, Day by day, they make their way And they find more in life than I can see Tell me when will I learn to resist wanting things, Touching things that say, ‘Do not touch’ -“Wanting Things” from the musical “Promises, Promises” It’s a cruel fact of life in this fallen world that we want more than (and other than) what we really need. Continue Reading

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Staying Power

When Consciences Collide: Making Sense of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Slaughtering Hope

When War Isn’t Hell

Of Headship and Headaches

Pedaling Among the Weary

Lord of the Bruised

Honey I Shrunk the Id

The Transsexual Dilemma: Part 3 of a Five Part Series

Wanting

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