Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
When I was 11 years old, I didn’t know it, but I became a part of something that would be come to be known as the purity movement. I entered the movement by reading the book I Kissed Dating Good-Bye by Joshua Harris. The focus of the purity movement was to help young people remain sexually pure. In our sexualized …
Christian Life, Sex
This month on the blog, we’ve looked at the various ways men and women are different. Our bodies are different. Because of these differences, we think differently and our brains don’t function the same way. This, in turn, causes us to have different priorities. There are many differences in the ways that men and women function. What I’m Not Saying …
Christian Life, Sex
The last two weeks we’ve looked at how men and women are different both in the way their bodies function and in the way that they think. These differences in physical make up and ways of thinking cause males and females to have different priorities. Of course, these priority differences are generalities. Every time we make a statement about men …
Christian Life, Sex
Last week’s blog post was about how men and women are different physically. Our physical differences are not the only distinctive. We also think and feel differently. This isn’t just popular opinion. It’s science. These differences in thought and feeling are related to and caused by our physical differences. Men and women’s brains are different, which causes many of the …
Christian Life, Sex, Theology
Can we just be real for a minute? Men and women are different. There are distinctive things that make someone a man or a women. Some of those things you can see, some you can’t, but there is a distinction between the two. Two Lies about Gender In our world, that’s a controversial thing to say. On the one hand, …
Recommended Books, Single Life
When I have a life problem, the first thing I do is find all the best books on the subject. Being single felt like a problem to me, so I read quite a few books on the topic of singleness, relationships, and dating. Not all of them were great. Actually, a few of them were pretty crappy. However, there are …
Single Life
Maybe the hardest part of singleness is not being able to pinpoint why you’re still single. You just want to know what it is that’s keeping you from entering relational bliss. If you knew that, you could fix it and move on with your life. It can be really easy to go down a blackhole of all the reasons you’re …
Single Life
When I was 25 I felt like an old maid. I realize now that I was being a bit overdramatic, but it felt terrible at the time. Partially, I think it was just that I was surrounded by people who were married. I felt like a left behind loser. The feeling made me more desperate to shed my single status. …
Christian Life, Single Life
In my humble opinion, February is the worst month (you can read more about my feelings here). You just want winter to be over, but it’s still in full force. If you’re single, February can be a terrible month for another reason: February means Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day means an awkward day where you don’t have any special someone to …
Christian Life
I recently came across this extremely thought provoking quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer about how what we do as individuals impacts the body of Christ (aka the church): “[T]here is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not inflict injury upon the whole fellowship. An element of sickness gets into the body; perhaps …