It never fails...

At least once per week, partially because I work with teenagers in the area of sexual/emotional/relational brokenness, I will hear an adult say, almost condescendingly so, "I don't know what's going on with these youth today."

Now, while I'm *hardly* youth, for some reason, again, partially because I work with teens, I find myself getting really irritated because being that...

Yeah. Well...

It's been interesting. The two *extremely different* things that have been sent to be over the course of just a few days.

First up: OK, I honestly don't know where I've been that I wasn't aware of the whole "Sugar Daddy/Sugar Baby" website, but when someone sent me the Huffington Post article/update on it last month (re: the colleges with the largest amount of "sugar babies" on...

I get a lot of emails...

A couple of weeks ago, I received one in particular from an old college peer of mine. The backdrop is that he's a Christian, an author (on relationships) and in a relationship with someone that he believes he will marry someday (it will be his second time). Here is an excerpt of what the email said:

"Take a little advice from me...at this point, make sure to continue...

So, earlier today...

I was reading an article on Salon.com entitled, "The Joy of Judgmental Christian Sex". Yeah. I know, right? HERE. WE. GO. AGAIN.

It was talking about two relatively new books, one that I actually think I've referenced in one of these blogs before: "Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse". Anyway, as I'm sure you can tell from the title of piece, it wasn't...

A good read, if you haven't checked it out...

Especially if you're in church leadership is "The Emotionally Healthy Church". And personally, the fact that the authors of this read know that this should be a *priority* in a/the Church is *highly-impressive* to me. The Church is often referred to as being a spiritual family and yes, for spiritual brothers and sisters to thrive, emotions do need...

OK...

Where have *I* been that I missed that the "Day of Purity" is on Valentine's Day (or as the website adds "or the previous weekday")? It was actually while doing my daily news perusing, that I happened upon the informaton while reading a story with the title, "The Purity Bear Will Cockblock You Until You're Married". Yeah. The title alone caused me for pause. (LOL)

Now let me start by...

Just a little while ago...

I was reading an article entitled, "8 Shocking Porn Confessions" on TheNest.com. Now, I'll be honest. Our "Confessions" section here on the site can blow a lot of the ones in that piece straight out of the water, but that's not really the point, is it? The Word, which is God (John 1:1), tells us that in confession, no matter how "light" or "heavy", there is *healing*...

I'll tell you what...

Between vampires/witches ("The Secret Circle", "The Vampire Diaries", "Being Human", the list goes on) and *porn*, I'm not sure who's "winning out" on the television programming tip. There seems to be an influx of all three!

And while the topic of media and porn is something that we definitely should touch on this month (mostly, are *we* doing enough to hold *it*...

So...

Monday, January 9, marks my five-year-no-sexual intercourse (or really anything else...haven't even been kissed in that time) anniversary.

Honestly, the first four years, I was *really excited* about it. This year, though, I'm more like...*amazed* (LOL). With no light at the end of the tunnel (i.e. relief via the help of a husband-Hebrews 13:5) in sight, I'm pleased to see grace in...

If you were following this blog last month...

One of the things that you may have noticed is that with a few of the women's testimonies/confessions, there was a running theme that they had an attraction to homosexual porn. I thought about my own porn journey and how my preference was often the same (lesbian porn) and/or F-M-F threesomes. Then, I thought about what Tiff said in the video blog...