Results tagged “sexuality”
False Messages III: Desiring Him (11/11/09 - 18 Comments)
This is now the third (and final!) entry in this short series written by my wife, Aileen. In the last article she talked about rejection and how it effects both wives and husbands. The day before that she dealt with sexual desire, pointing out some of the differences between men and women. Today the series concludes. One thing I want to say. In this series she has been dealing predominantly with "average" marriages. It is...
False Messages II: The Heart of Rejection (11/10/09 - 23 Comments)
This short series, guest authored by my wife Aileen, began yesterday with False Messages I: What He Really Wants. Today Aileen picks up where she left off. ***** by Aileen Challies When you thought about getting married and when you anticipated having sex with your husband, did you ever think about how often you'd be saying "no" to him? I know of a few women who decided before they married that they would never refuse...
False Messages I: What He Really Wants (11/09/09 - 42 Comments)
For the next couple of days there will be a guest blogger on this site--none other than my wife, Aileen. She will be sharing a few articles directed specifically at women. Here is how this came about. Two weeks ago (yes, it was really that long ago) I posted a series called Sexual Detox. One of the unexpected results of the series was a large number of emails from women who read this blog. I...
Sexual Detox: The E-Book (11/07/09 - 13 Comments)
Last week's series on Sexual Detox was quite an experience for me. I figured it would garner a little bit of interest simply because it dealt with an universal issue (sex) and because it included several important peripheral issues (pornography, addiction, and so on). But even then the response surprised me, both in terms of the number of visitors who showed up to read the articles and the outpouring of comments and emails in response...
Sexual Detox: Recommended Resources (10/31/09 - 10 Comments)
Having wrapped up the Sexual Detox series, I thought it would be useful to provide a list of recommended resources for those who wish to do reading on a particular topic. Pretty much every author who has written more than, say, ten books has written one on the Lord's Prayer and one on either sex or marriage (or perhaps both). It seems to be some kind of rite of passage. I assume I'll get a...
Sexual Detox V: Freedom (10/30/09 - 20 Comments)
Note (11/08/09) - This complete series is now available for free download. Click here to learn more. This is the final entry in a series of articles about sex and, in particular, about sexual detoxification. First I wrote about Pornifying the Marriage Bed, then about Breaking Free and A Theology of Sex. The fourth article dealt with Detoxification. The series was written specifically to target young men--those who are newly married or nearly married or...
Sexual Detox IV: Detoxification (10/29/09 - 17 Comments)
Note (11/08/09) - This complete series is now available for free download. Click here to learn more. This is now the fourth entry in a series of articles about sex and, in particular, about sexual detoxification--about replacing lies with truth. First I wrote about Pornifying the Marriage Bed, then about Breaking Free and finally about A Theology of Sex. Today the series continues with Detoxification. The purpose of this series of articles is to lead...
Sexual Detox III: A Theology of Sex (10/28/09 - 31 Comments)
Note (11/08/09) - This complete series is now available for free download. Click here to learn more. This is the third article in a series targeted specifically at young men but applying, I am learning, to all of us. So far I have written about Pornifying the Marriage Bed and about Breaking Free. What did God create first: hunger or food? Did God make man hungry and then invent food to fill the need? Or...
Sexual Detox II: Breaking Free (10/27/09 - 23 Comments)
Note (11/08/09) - This complete series is now available for free download. Click here to learn more. This is the second entry in a series dealing with sex and, in particular, challenging young men with the notion that their consumption of pornography has so shaped their perception of sex that they need to detox if they are going to be suitable husbands to their wives. In the first part of the series I wrote about...
Sexual Detox I: Pornifying the Marriage Bed (10/26/09 - 65 Comments)
Note (11/08/09) - This complete series is now available for free download. Click here to learn more. This week I am going to devote most of the articles on this site to the topic of sex. I want to speak especially to young men, those who are teenagers or dating or engaged or newly married. However, I do hope that anyone can read and enjoy the series, even if the teen years are far behind...
The Puritans and Sex (09/06/09 - 7 Comments)
I have unashamedly stolen this quote from my friend David. He shared it at his blog earlier this week and it struck me how so much of what we are sure we know about history is wrong. In fact, so much of what we know about life is wrong. We hear things and assume after a while that they are true but do not investigate for ourselves. Ask the average person what they know of...
Undefiled (09/04/09 - 2 Comments)
The summer is drawing to a close. Though I love summer and will be sad to see the days grow shorter and the skies grow colder, fall does bring with it some great benefits, not the least of which is a long list of new books. For that reason I anticipate squeezing in a few more book reviews than usual over the next few weeks. I hope you don't mind! Very often when I do...
Book Review - Desire and Deceit (10/07/08 - 1 Comments)
Dr. Albert Mohler has released four books this year and they have had very different origins. Atheism Remix began as the W.H. Griffith Thomas Lectures Mohler delivered at Dallas Theological Seminary early in 2008; He Is Not Silent is an original work, written as a book; Culture Shift and his most recent work, Desire and Deceit, began as articles written over a period of years, most of which were posted at Mohler's blog. Each of...
The Burden of Perverse Assumptions (10/06/08 - 37 Comments)
Though this article discusses homosexuality, I do not intend for it to speak about the rightness or wrongness of such a lifestyle. I am sure my thoughts on whether homosexuality can be reconciled with the Bible hardly need explanation. Instead, today I want to look at one very interesting result, one very interesting development, that has come with the widespread acceptance of homosexuality. I have thought about this a little bit in the past but...
A Biblical Guide to Love, Sex and Marriage (07/12/08 - 4 Comments)
Though it has been thousands of years since it was written, and though countless people have made valiant attempts to decipher it, it seems as though we are no closer than ever to reaching a consensus regarding the Song of Solomon. Should it be read literally, as a poem that deals with love and sex? Or is this only a superficial meaning beneath which we will find a whole world of allegorical meaning pointing us...
Book Review - Prude (12/11/07 - 5 Comments)
I almost gave up reading Prude. I have read other books like this and have found they follow a fairly consistent pattern. The first few chapters are always the hardest to get through. Where my interest in this kind of book is in its cultural commentary and analysis, the initial chapters seem always to be filled with examples of sexual transgression. I suppose this is necessary to build the author’s case that “our sex-obsessed cultural...