XXXChurch: SSA Blog

Playboy. I was probably 12 when I found my dad’s stash. Great. A confused girl meets seduction. “Why does my dad have this? Why am I looking at it? Why am I STILL looking at it”. Wow. I loved and hated it with equal measure.

It was as though a thousand thoughts were in the blender of my mind, and someone had hit frappe’. One thing for sure. I loved the thrill. Later, in my 20’s, I got...

It’s Quotes Month here at XXXchurch, and I have a doozy for ya:

“Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.”   -Rowan Williams

Ponder it a while and you’ll arrive at a huge implication at its core- Sex is not about you. Sex is about God....

QUOTE: “What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn’t sex but death." - Susan Sontag

How many of us have been misled into believing that the way we feel while watching pornography is equal to or better than the way we would feel if we were pleasing God instead of ourselves?

Honestly, it can’t even come close. I think deep down we know that. We know that our fake representation of sex...