Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 12023 The sin of pornography is the one I am asked about most often in private and preached about least often in public, and that imbalance tells you something. It is in our congregations. It is among our leaders. It is not a marginal problem affecting a few unusually weak people, and pretending otherwise…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11006. Christian dating is a phrase the Bible never uses, and that alone should shape how confidently we answer this question. Courtship as we practise it is a modern arrangement, and anyone who claims chapter and verse for a particular method is stretching the text. What Scripture does give us is a settled understanding…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6072. Lust and attraction are not the same thing, and a great many sincere Christians have been tormented by the assumption that they are. Noticing that someone is beautiful is not adultery. Jesus never said it was. The difference between lust and attraction is one of those distinctions that sounds academic until you meet…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6071. Scripture defines sexual sin with considerable care, and masturbation is never named among the things it defines. That silence is the first fact any honest answer has to reckon with. This is a question people are ashamed to ask and desperate to have answered, so I want to be careful and direct. What…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6032. The sin of lust is one of the areas where believers most often feel defeated, and part of the defeat is caused by a misunderstanding. A great many Christians are confessing as lust something that Scripture does not call lust at all. So let me try to define it accurately first, because a…