As a parent, youth leader, or mentor, what is the key to helping your students walk in purity before God and others?

One word: grace. 

I can never say it enough times, so I don't stop. You'll see it over and over again in each and every blog that I write. Were it not for grace, I would cease to be. Were it not for grace, my lungs would collapse. And, were it not for Jesus, Paul's disdainful...

"The saying is trustworthy, for: 

My wife and I are leaders for the mid-and-high school group at our church. Lately, we've been going through a series on marriage with the rest of the congregation, and this last week, we discussed sexual assault, and the shame that sexual sin often causes the victim, or the remorseful perpetrator. Despite the fact that I have heard more heartbreaking stories of rape and assault over the course...

Is masturbation good or bad?

Yes!

Now, wasn't that helpful?

The truth is, masturbation is never mentioned in the Scriptures, regardless of how many horny men and women seeking to wish a simple "yes" or "no" into existence (and claim it to be God's irrefutable answer) throughout history wish it were.

To use classic XXXChurch language, "floggin' your dolphin" has been debated, ignored, and...

When I was eleven, I heard some kids at the skate park talk about "jacking off together" (which, now that I think about it, I hope just meant that they were talking about jacking off, together, and not jacking off together). Then later on a girl in fifth grade gave me a lap dance to Christina Aguilara’s "Genie In A Bottle" at our Christian school right before we lined up for Chapel, so you...

First of all, God designed sex. That is of fundamental importance.

 Unfortunately, "God" is a junk-drawer word in our culture, where "god" is probably more commonly a person's cat than the true God of the Bible. Therefore, while the true God who created sex is one with inexhaustible attributes, we must at least take note of a couple of them in relation to our topic: sex as God designed...

I'm thankful. (Might as well keep this seasonal, right?)

 I've thought about things that I'm thankful for a lot over this holiday, and I'm thankful for a lot of things. Right now, my family is sitting next to me in the living room of my mom's new house, watching a movie called Soul Surfer, about the chick inFlorida who got her arm bit off by a shark. I suppose it's appropriate to say that I'm...

I'm writing this blog because
I'm a young person who dated, and is now married (hence the title!) - newly married! However, most of me thinks
that, at least because of the "newly" part, I probably shouldn't be
the one writing this at all. What do I know after six months of marriage?! And
what do I know as a twenty-two year old?! So I come before you insecure, and
aware that pride is a snake with a...

"It's habit! I'm a creature of habit! It's just who I am…"

I could lie to all of you and tell you that I know who first perpetuated that wonderful excuse for doing anything and everything he wanted to do. I know that we're all little philosophers, to one degree or another, who build up our world views and decide what is what, and what is going to be, and what is. It's true, I think, that...