In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the need to reclaim the conversation about sexuality, rather than treating it like a problem to be fixed. As we continue this discussion, Dr. Juli Slattery shares a key method she’s learned for how to take back this territory as Christians. Amanda: We’ve seen how it’s important for Christians…
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Is it sometimes confusing when you try to reconcile what the Bible says about sexuality with what you see going on in the world around you? Do you feel frustrated with knowing all the rules about sex in the Bible but seeing no power in that to change anyone’s life? Good news! We are starting a three…
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I was 11 years old when my curiosity first got the best of me, and I picked up a book that contained explicit sexual material. At that point, I didn’t even know what sex was, but I knew that reading it made me feel good. So I went back again. And again. It wasn’t long…
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You know better than to play with matches. You learned that early on, “Don’t play with matches. Leave them alone.” While the matches themselves don’t really hurt you, they can easily light and start a fire. Yes, the fire is pretty, and it is warm, but you can easily burn yourself, and if you are…
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It is so hard, I know. Those things that chase you around and run your life, the ones you want so badly to break free of. You ache for change. You pray for change. You cry because the fight is hard and the road is long. And here it all is again, the same thoughts,…
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This world is a really tough and hard place. When we are exposed to it, we find there is so much pain and suffering. We hear about all the people facing cancer and death, and all of the hungry and starving children of the world. We have to deal with rape, abuse, human trafficking, and…
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January 11th was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. On that day, everyone spoke out against the slavery that is oppressing millions of people today. But what about the day after the 11th? Or the week after? What are we going to be doing a month from now?? It is good to have special times set…
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Matthew 22:37-40: Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Jesus said that…
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Porn starts small, but it grows, and with it comes a self-centered and selfish lifestyle. It’s something we do completely for our own pleasure and satisfaction. We blind ourselves to how it hurts others, and we relish the feeling it feeds us. It taints our whole outlook on life. We become isolated from others and…
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A broken shard of glass, a hurting person who was hurting people; a mere lima bean, lost in the vastness of a fast paced world. This was me, I was a nobody, or so I thought. Often times I would hear people share these powerful “come to Jesus” testimonies and thought, “I am nothing, I…
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