- The key to living out healthy sexuality is context. What does your life look like as a whole? That question will determine your success no matter how good your intentions are. Is sexual desire just another substance for addiction, looked toward in order to fill an emptyness, or do you have a full, well-rounded … Continue reading Even More Thoughts About Sex
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Approaches to Purity
I write this as a dating adult, not under the restraints of parental rules. That is my disclaimer here. These are not one-size-fits-all strategies, but these principles are what worked for my wife and I leading up to our marriage. These are insights gained from personal experience. -Rely on the grace of God. I do … Continue reading Approaches to Purity
Someone Who Won’t Lead You Astray
What makes someone a good potential mate? The thought I arrived at recently was, 'someone who won't lead you astray'. The idea is that she is someone who, by engaging together, will cause you to be a truer version of yourself, and conversely, you will cause her to be a truer version of herself. She … Continue reading Someone Who Won’t Lead You Astray
More Thoughts About Sex
Just brainstorming some practical considerations. - Both of these things are true: 1.) There is way more to life than sex. 2.) Sex is very important. - Just how important it is, especially to a male, particularly to his emotional well-being, is a question that could use some illumination. I say this as a Christian … Continue reading More Thoughts About Sex
Unfulfilled
If I feel alone and unworthy as a single person, it may be as much a product of my internal emotional realities as it is my external relationship status, which is a caution about the possibility of those same feelings persisting even after the relationship status has changed, which of course is a call to … Continue reading Unfulfilled
Sex and the Spirit
I have a file where I draft blog post ideas. A couple of days ago I was digging deep into it, looking at things I had shelved or never finished, and against my better judgement, I decided to edit (only slightly) and revive this. For context, it may be helpful to read Sex Being single, … Continue reading Sex and the Spirit
Eternity Felt
When you pursue things other than God's design for your life, those things render their own judgement. Those things become hell when they are placed on the throne of infinity. Infinity, eternity: that is a interesting concept. Eternity, as far as I have felt it, is a condition of the human heart. If you have … Continue reading Eternity Felt
Sex
Not so long ago, I read Dale Carnegie’s book "How to Win Friends and Influence People". In one of the marriage chapters, he advised that you should "read a good book on the sexual side of marriage." I was taken aback by by an author from eighty years ago making frank statements about the importance … Continue reading Sex
Andrew K. Banks 