Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Theology
I’ve received some great gifts over the years. When I turned six, I got a pair of pink roller blades, which I was super excited about. They came complete with a pink helmet and pink knee, elbow, and wrist pads. That was also the year I had my first sleepover birthday party, complete with pizza and ice cream cake, which …
Christian Life, Theology
I have a book on my shelf that I keep because I love the title and the cover. The book itself is not that well written (though at least it’s short), but the title and cover perfectly sum up another paradox of the Christian life. The book is entitled God Has a Wonderful Plan for your Life. The cover features …
Christian Life, Theology
One of my favorite things about studying the Bible and theology is that so often it helps us make sense of our lives. Let’s be real, knowing about the Bible and theology probably won’t make life any easier (actually the opposite is sometimes true). However, when we can look at our lives through a theological lens, often we can start …
Christian Life, Theology
Hi Friends! At long last, I am officially back. I did end up taking an extra two weeks because I didn’t accomplish what I thought I would by the of my originally slated end, mainly getting a little bit ahead. However, it was a good and helpful time and coming back later actually lines up well with what God taught …
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 …
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, …