To Make Pain Count
When one person breaks through and finds healing, it releases a contagion of hope.
God knows how to transform even the cruelest of scenarios into a place of redemption and restored life. Not just for you, but for multitudes more. And suddenly, all that pain counts for something.
Why You Can't Just Get Over It (and why intimacy demands fidelity)
You took the risk of trusting and disclosing the core of who you are. You were naked and exposed before them. To be rejected or discarded at that point will certainly hurt. And your brain tells you that you never want to feel that way again.
When The Pain Hits Home
That summer changed my life; it changed my outlook and sent me on a journey. Years passed. I searched for answers. I didn't just want logic to break the confusion in my head. I needed to know that we were not all destined to be slaves of our sexual desires.
Shutting the door: What to do when you've gone further than you wanted to
I want to tell you that you’ve only gone too far if you don’t turn around. You may say, “You have no idea what I have done!”
I don’t have to know what you’ve done, because I know the mercy of God.
Don't Answer the Door - How to Resist Temptation
Just think about that for a second! Jesus, who was God with skin on, faced all the same similar temptations that you and I face. Emphasis on the similar. Just because you feel the need to binge on Netflix while eating a tub of ice cream doesn’t mean you are sharing in the sufferings of Christ.
Two Truths and a Lie: The Way Shame Speaks
There is a game called, “Two Truths and a Lie”; it consists of a person telling two truths and one lie about themselves…
Not a Dirty Word
Sex is not the problem. Unrestrained sex is the issue.
I have great concern that we have begun to accept a tainted version of sexuality - one riddled with shame, embarrassment, performance and fear.