Articles Tagged 'Sexual'

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Is Anything Sacred?

Max Lucado talks about his experiences as a baseball catcher and how the dimensions of homeplate were immutable, sacred, and in a sense holy and compares that to certain things in life that God has called sacred and holy.

Like speedbumps and curbs, these acts of holiness are meant to slow us down and keep us on the road.

The Most Excellent Way

Phil Ware continues his series on how God values women and how precious they are to Him, His people, and the future of humankind, this week focusing on sexual intimacy and value.

Beyond sexual equality to the Jesus way of mutuality and sacrificial love.

Keep Singing the Song

Phillip Morrison brings Sara Barton's writings into the moments of our headlines of today with a story from long ago that reminds us that God's word still has the ultimate love song.

As followers of Jesus, isn't it time the world heard what we are for when it comes to sexuality?

Fifty Shades of Grace: Delight

Phil Ware continues his series of posts and articles called Fifty Shades of Grace and focuses on the gift of pleasure, delight, joy, fulfillment, and blessing in sexual intimacy for the Christian married couple.

So we are really supposed to delight in this?

A Grey Sponge or a Pure Heart

Teresa Bell Kindred compares seeing Fifty Shades of Grey to a dirty mop bucket and a sponge.

Do you really want to fill your sponge with grey water?

Fifty Shades of Grace: Submission

Phil Ware continues his series called 50 shades of grace that focuses on the intimacy between a husband and wife in marriage.

The power of grace, the gift of life in marriage.

What a Bunch of Suckers

Rubel Shelly talks about the way Satan dupes into buying the lie about holiness and goodness and gets us to buy the sins of self-destruction.

Why do we but the lie? Maybe because it is sold so well!

Fifty Shades of Grace: Intimacy

Phil Ware continues his series on fifty shades of grace and what God has in mind for us in marriage with sexual and physical and spiritual and emotional intimacy.

What does God really want for us in intimacy

Fifty Shades of Grace:Exchanging Gods

Phil Ware begins a seven week series of posts called Fifty Shades of Grace and will focus on Scripture and the Bible and God and the holy plan for fulfillment and sexuality in Scripture.

What do we say and do in today's charged climate of expectation and demand?

Fifty Shades?

Patrick Odum writes about 50 Shades of Grey and reminds us to think carefully about our participation and expectation of the movie and our sexuality.

Is it Grey or Gray?

The Swirly Cycle of Destruction

Phil Ware continues his journey through The Story focusing this week on the Judges, especially the cycle of destruction that was leading them to catastrophe and the ways we can escape the cycle.

Which way does your toilet flush?

Moments of Decision

Phil Ware continues his series connected to The Story, this week from Chapter 3, focusing on Joseph and his temptation with Potiphar's wife.

What will we do when the choice is ours and the moment comes?

Motel 6

Thom Lemmons tells us a story that gets to the heart of danger in sexual temptation and lust and a need for a friend.

When is a cup of coffee a whole lot more?

Driven by Delight

Phil Ware shares his second message in the Holy Passion series about delight in sexual intimacy being one of God's primary purposes.

Here's one secret that needs to get out!

Holy Passion: Sacred Sexuality

Phil Ware shares about the sacredness of our sexual relationship as husbands and wives and calls us to follow Jesus in how we deal with this issue.

What, talk about sex and God in the same sentence?

Love Path 911: What is Biblically Appropriate?

Joe Beam addresses what is Biblically appropriate and not appropriate for Christians in their sexual relationships.

So what does the Bible say about all of this?

Love Path 911: Heart Attack & Intimacy

Joe Beam answers a question about low sexual desire after a heart attack and what a wife should do in this situation.

Should this interfere with us being intimate?

Love Path: FAQ

Joe Beam's weekly questions and answers on marriage and love.

So what are your questions?

Jockeying To Be Shocking

Shock jocks have tried to out do each other in shocking, crude, and obscene remarks on radio, TV, and interviews and they have crossed the line and we are the only ones who can do something about it.

Aren't we way past too far?

Feeding the Monster

The leader of the Girls Gone Wild empire and smut king is facing charges and problems, but the real problem is the sexual addiction that pornography causes in the lives of men and women.

Are you feeding this monster?

Inviting Darkness Home

If we don't wall pornography off at the source in our lives, then we end up just inviting it home.

Who would want to invite this mess home?

Flee!

God's word is clear: stay away from sexual immorality.

Some things you just need to run from!

Motel 6

Can a man be expected to resist when things are so easy?

Is she offering more than just conversation over a cup of coffee?

Balancing a Tilting Boat

Our world is out of balance in our sexually charged atmosphere and Christians aren't doing much to help, but we must!

What can we do to restore sanity and balance in our sexually charged world?