How Addiction to Sex Can Be Overcome by Faith
When does healthy sexual fun become a harmful addiction? Consensual sex between two people who love each other is not only a good thing, but actually encouraged by the Bible for those who enjoy it. Although, the apostle Paul adds the disclaimer that for those seeking a higher spiritual experience celibacy is the better way to go, the vast majority of people would rather explore their sexuality than fine tune their devotion to God. Whichever route you choose is fine if it is right for you, but like all physical appetites, the desire for sex can grow out of control.
Drawn to the LightI have been asked, “How do you learn to love?” At first I was caught unawares, because I just thought everyone knew how to love.
Healing PowerWe each carry within us the power of healing, but many of us have closed our eyes to Creator’s transmuting light. Our lack of faith and compassion may have closed the doors to the healing power of Divine Love.
Christians Know People Hardly Learn From HistoryImmediately, Shade, a Christian, got to the campus and she led other girls to paste posters and distribute hand-bills all over the campus. They called Arowode the arrow head of rapists that invade female privacy. Instead of the blackmail to reduce Arowode to a laughing-stock it made him more popular. The whole university community wanted to know the secrets reposed in the Arch of the Queen of Sheba.
The Golden Spiral of Consciousness – Spiritual Inspiration and Enlightenment Through Art and ScienceThe golden ratio or spiral is a unique relation existing in the universe between the whole and the part and has been in our consciousness for over 4000 years. This simple fraction has been an inspiration to many of the artists, musicians, mathematicians and philosophers throughout our history. It is a ubiquity number widely accepted as divine proportion and spiritually regarded as the language of the Universe.
The Christians and The Unanswered PrayerThe other day I engaged a Christian sister’s attention with the question: “Should all Christians’ prayer be answered?” Her answer was undisguised. It was to the affirmative. “Oh yes, yes” she smiled. “How can we claim to be true Christians if our prayer isn’t being granted? she questioned. I heaved a deep sigh and embarked on a reel of reasons for her to pause and examine the contrary.
The Christians Must Face ChallengesYour name’s climbing and getting ensconced on the steep but glorious map of life is a function of the success you’ve recorded going by the number of challenges and battles you’ve overcome. This is no mince meat. It does not come based on your ingrained religious platitudes. Christians as well as others must know no less.
There Are Spiritual Consequences When Experience and Evidence Are Faithfully Married TogetherWhatever was he doing that remarkable morning some sixty years before putting it all down on paper? This man was a writer with amazing insight. John had evidence and a very real experience. We need both.
Cutting Through Crap – Spiritual Whack-A-MoleMaterial psychologists and self-help authors have long prospered in their profession by embedding their clients into the old game of ‘Whack-A-Mole’ whereby once one (costly) problem has been addressed and cured, another pops up (from the same mind). There is a better way.
The Logic of FaithWe live in a world that demands from us a constant definition of the self. A lack of understanding of our real mission on earth sometimes leads us into a lot of misconceptions and strains us in our conviction. What is it to have conviction? How can we have conviction? There are certain basic things we must learn. We must carry the ability to weigh things clearly and dispassionately.
The Ultimate Reality Synopsis – Why You Are the Only Expression of Universal TruthThe Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. But what? But what is the truth your perception or mine? And why does it even matter? Whose reality is the correct reality?
Crossroads BluesThe crossroads has always been a metaphor for a change in one’s life. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Less Traveled”, it stands for a choice of which road one will take in his life. In Robert Johnson’s song “Crossroads Blues” (later redone by Cream as “Crossroads”), the crossroads was where you met the devil to make a deal to realize your dreams. In either case, the crossroads was an important part of one’s life.