I’ve really grown in appreciation for Doug Wilson over the last few months. It all began Continue Reading »

“At every stage, Timothy’s career violates everything we think we know about the history of Christianity…” To see whole quote Continue Reading »

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:1-5

My motivation for writing this piece actually comes from a recent “Taste and See Article” written by John Piper called, Sexual Intimacy and the Rights Over a Spouse’s Body in Marriage, in which Piper offers excellent pastoral advice that he mistakenly reads right into the text.

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Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout & Holy Life.

I really struggle with small group Bible studies (an essential part of our Church’s weekly Home Groups), which is ironic since I was until recently “Home Group leader to the Home Group leaders” in our church. Continue Reading »