Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Sex, Single Life
Can we just be real for a second? Modern romance is hard, especially if you are a Christian trying to live in a way that’s honoring to God. I think (and there are researchers and several books that agree with me) that dating and finding a marriage partner is more difficult now in some ways than it’s ever been. All …
Married Life, Sex
In God’s eyes, sex is only supposed to happen within marriage. We talked a little bit about this in last week’s post, but I wanted to go a little deeper. Not only is sex only supposed to happen only in marriage, but it’s big part of marriage. Let’s be clear, sex is not the most important part of marriage, but …
Sex
The church isn’t always completely honest about sex. Neither is the world. So what is the truth about sex? It would be super helpful to know what God himself, the person who created sex, said about it. That’s what this post would like to focus on. The Bible actually has a lot to say about sex. Below are a few …
Sex
If we’re honest, the church hasn’t always been the most honest when it comes to sex. There are a few lies that have been told or truths that just weren’t shared. You can read about some of those lies here. However, the church isn’t the only place lying about sex. Movies and TV shows lie about sex. Magazines lie. Social …
Sex
Last month, I really dove into the purity movement in my blog posts. This month, I’m going the complete opposite direction (in some ways). Let’s talk about sex. My husband and I went through a marriage enrichment program at our church a few months ago. One of the weeks, the leaders invited a couple who run a non-profit for those …
Christian Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
The last four weeks we’ve looked at the purity movement: what it is, the things it was right about and the two posts on what it was wrong about (which you can find here and here). You may be thinking, so what? What does a movement in the late 90’s early 2000’s have to do with life today? As I’ve …
Christian Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
Last week’s blog post listed four of the 8 major flaws that the purity movement had. While these weren’t things the purity movement set out to do, they were unintended consequences of its main messages about purity, sexuality, etc. We left off with problem number four last week, so we’ll pick up with number five this week. 5. Unhealthy obsession …
Christian Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
Last week on the blog, we looked at some things that the purity movement got right. There were some good things about the movement, things that we need to remember and embrace. However, there were many ways that the purity movement, though it had a good goal, went a little wonky. I’ve come up with eight ways that the purity …
Christian Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
Last week, my blog post looked at basics of the purity movement of the 1990’s and early 2000’s. You can go back to read the full post here, but here’s the Reader’s Digest version: It was a movement within the church to encourage Christian young people to stay sexually pure until marriage. The purity movement still matters today because we …
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 …