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Old Hugh Latimer preached before Henry VIII. It was the custom of the court preacher to present the king with something on his birthday, and Latimer presented Henry VIII with a pocket handkerchief with this text in the corner: “God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers” (Heb 13:4)—a very…

Christians have been fighting pornography for a long time. Many times they have been ridiculed for their beliefs that pornography is evil. Now, non-Christians are discovering the harm it causes. Gail Dines is a self-described radical feminist who wants pornography stopped. She speaks with the fervor…

In some places, men are becoming more open about viewing highly explicit material in public. On buses, trains, subways, just about anywhere men are opening their cellphones and watching hard-core pornography. In England, a parliamentary committee recently concluded that porn is as damaging to society…

Dayton Moore is the general manager of the Kansas City Royals. He is battling to educate his young players on the harm pornography does both to the players themselves and to the women they love. Surprisingly he is getting pushback, not from the team but from people in the porn industry, some sports journalists,…

In the movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings there is a classic scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Aragorn, and Gandalf the wizard are traveling through the Mines of Moria when they are suddenly attacked by a giant and maleficent beast known as a Balrag.…

In “A Life of Purity,” Dallas Bivins writes, “Jesus attacked the lustful thoughts of the head and heart, not the actions of the hand. The head and heart is where we begin to dehumanize another person into an object of sin. Whereas love accepts, heals, and respects, lust demands and controls. Lust is…

How often have you been fooled into thinking that sin will make you satisfied? That whatever consequences come, they can’t compare to the happiness that sin promises. We become blinded in our sin sometimes, don’t we? There’s a scene in the book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” where Edmund has…

Broken cisterns are idols, God-substitutes. They are the spiritual hot dogs we ingest on the way to God’s banquet. They dull and eventually kill our appetite for the deep and nourishing richness of his holy fare. Like the Turkish delight the witch gives to Edmund in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch,…

Donna Rice was the woman involved in the 1987 scandal that ended the presidential hopes of Gary Hart. Her testimony is one of biblical proportions. Growing up as a Christian, serving as a summer missionary, Donna admits that late in her college career she began to make little wrong turns and ended up…

Technology has its good and bad sides. Technology has placed pornography at the fingertips of the young and old alike. On the other hand, some people are making good use of modern technology for spreading the Word of God and some humanitarian purposes. How it is used, is a matter of choice. --http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wardx278/1301_03/2008/09/technology_good_or_bad_by_nick.html…

A couple was celebrating a very special occasion, not only were they both celebrating their 60th birthday but they were also celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. As they were spending a quiet night together, a fairy came to visit them. The fairy said, “Since you have been such good and loving…

In their book, Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith: An Evangelism Crash Course, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort write, “We all know that it's wise to keep a check on our flesh for skin cancer. What may look small on the surface may be a network of death beneath the skin. The same applies spiritually. One…

Tony Woodlief, writing in World Magazine explains what is wrong with pornography and why we need to be protecting our young sons from its perversity. “I remember discovering my stepfather’s stash of pornography as a child, and the heart-thumping realization that here was something secret and forbidden.…

During his courtship with Sarah. "When I am violently beset with temptation or cannot rid myself of evil thoughts, I do sum in arithmetic or geometry or some other study, which necessarily engages all my thoughts and unavoidably keeps them from wandering." Source: /God Entranced Vision of All Things,…

Just what is so awful about pornography? After all, it is just pictures on a page, or images on a screen that don’t hurt anybody. According to Tony Woodlief the entire purpose of porn, whether it is the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or something more intense, “is to cast images that are unforgettable.”…

A young woman is visiting her parents. While helping her mother fix dinner, she opens the refrigerator. On the inside of the door, she sees a spicy picture of a lovely, slender, perfectly built young woman. "What's this about, Mom?" she asks. "Oh, I put that up there to remind me not to overeat," the…

Greed is the logical result of the belief that there is no life after death. We grab what we can while we can however we can and then hold on to it hard.—Sir Fred Catherwood, British politician Famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote a story about a successful peasant farmer who was not satisfied…

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple does not allow any applications that show explicit material to run on either the iPhone or the iPad. Jobs stand, while drawing fire from some quarters is simple. The Company has a "moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone." Recently Jobs has found support from his biggest…

At one time a computer virus was designed to cause trouble for unknowing computer users, and perhaps give the creator a reason to brag about their accomplishments. Newer viruses and malware have moved toward benefiting their creators by stealing valuable identity information, such as credit card numbers…

Hand sanitizing is in these days. Brookstone now offers a hand sanitizer dispenser that is so efficient you don’t even have to touch it for your little dab of sanitizer or soap. It is a hands-free dispenser. --USA Today December 7, 2009 p. 6D Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell USA Today…

PORNOGRAPHY Steve Fetrow, a respected spiritual leader, resigned his position as a youth pastor in 1997 due in part to his use of pornography. Fetrow isn't alone. According to a recent study commissioned by Focus on the Family, there is no statistical difference between the number of Christians and the…

Gone Fishin' I quit golfing a few years ago when I discovered a way to go broke without humiliating myself at the same time. Fishing suits me much better. Golfers consider it cheating to improve their lies, we fishermen don't, any help we can get lying about our catches is fine with us. After all, if…

Definition on Desire The World’s Perspective Is…Desirable First. John cautioned that the world system is desirable. The word lust (used in 1 John 2:16) literally means “desire.” When we hear the word lust today, we usually think of its sexual implications, but this word in the Greek New Testament isn’t…

Survey Results from 12/04/06 Over 500 pastors took last week’s SermonCentral Newsletter survey. Here are the results. Charts wouldn't copy. See My documents, sermons, illustrations

But if you are a poor creature—poisoned by a wretched upbringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels—saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion—nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends—do not…