Grab bag

Some helpful articles from the last couple of weeks: A long time ago I began recognizing a changing trend in counseling.  Women were battling with lust and pornography too, as Carolyn McCulley affirms in her recent post, “Lust:  Not for men only.”  She writes:  “We have a message of hope and redemption in the morass […]

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Grab bag

A few things spotted on the web that have caught my interest of late: I’ve been thinking more about the relationship between social justice and evangelism lately.  Here is a brief video interview with John Piper on the topic. The Gospel Coalition has several brief articles on the same topic of social justice and evangelism […]

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Book Review: Biblical Principles of Sex

Title:  Biblical Principles of Sex Author:  Bob Smith Publisher:  Timeless Texts, 2003; 51 pp. $8.00 Recommendation (4-star scale):  This week, in our daily Bible reading program, we’ve finished reading the Song of Solomon. Much has been written and preached about this book in recent years — with a new interpretation that is much more literal […]

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Sex and marriage

I have a book in my library that always makes a friend of mine laugh when he sees it on my shelf. The book is Lauren Winner’s recent release, Real Sex: the Naked Truth About Chastity. He laughs because the spine simply reads, “Real Sex Winner.” Yet (while I don’t agree with everything in the […]

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