We all like sugar. Cake, brownies, ice cream, pie, candy, lemonade, soda (a.k.a. “pop” for those from Michigan). We like it in our coffee and tea and sprinkled over our cereal. So if you like sugar, I have a challenge for you. Go find a 20oz cylinder of sugar (pictured, about the size of jumbo […]
The Key to Being Thankful
If you’ve ever prayed, “God, give me what I deserve,” take time today to thank him for not answering that prayer! Often our times of prayer, and our lives in general, are fixated on what we want from God and specifically, on the things we feel we have earned or deserve. These are often legitimate […]
Mow Your Marriage: The Fine Print on Opting for the Resort
I recently wrote about the need to mow your marriage. The grass is greener on the other side because you don’t have to mow it. Marriages are high maintenance. Lust, affairs, crushes, flirtations, and fantasies are not. So here’s a question: would you rather live in your house or in an all-inclusive resort?
Mow Your Marriage
The grass is greener where you water it. The grass looks greener on the other side because you don’t have to mow it. In my last two posts about Kate Upton and about the key to sexual purity, I mentioned how the appeal of lust is that our spouses become too human, whereas lust operates […]
Methods of Retraining Your Sexually-Damaged Heart & Mind Part 2
I want to focus some blog posts on the ways I have reconditioned my mind to leave the world of fantasy that our sex-saturated world creates and to train it to embrace reality instead. (Check out Method #1, “It’s Not Real”) Method #2, “It’s Not Important”… When you get married, everyone else around you doesn’t […]
Methods of Retraining Your Sexually-Damaged Heart and Mind
I want to focus some blog posts on the ways I have reconditioned my mind to leave the world of fantasy that our sex-saturated world creates and to train it to embrace reality instead. This is a long and comprehensive process so each of these posts will hit on one tool in the toolbox. (Read […]