Real Sex, Real Life
SEX: A DIVINE ENCOUNTER Before meeting my husband, I had bought into the media’s version of sex. I believed that it was just an act that I would have to perform to keep my husband satisfied so that he wouldn’t…
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Redemptive Love in Redding
FINDING FREEDOM FROM PAIN I was born to a single teen mom. My dad left three months into the pregnancy leaving my mom was devastated. She cried all the time and as a result, I felt abandoned by my father and…
Decisions For Tomorrow
QUICK FIX Single. Hurting. And independent. A great combination for masturbation. Or any sexual activity for that matter. Fortunately, my oath to singleness kept me from further sexual activity, but it’s all the same. A band aid applied to the…
Giving God Control
TRADING SHAME FOR JOY From an early age, sex became an interesting and a secret desire. It wasn’t until I was in middle school that it became a daily struggle in my life. I began masturbating every night and it…
It Happens Everywhere
TAKEN I can still remember the taste of bitter disbelief lingering in my mouth when I found out that stories like Taken [the movie] actually happen. I mean, I knew that girls in rural South-East Asia would be ‘bought’ off…
Fighting to Be a Man of Purity
GOING THROUGH SHAME TO GET TO GOD I remember the first time I masturbated. I was on a school trip to Germany, sharing a testosterone-charged room with my peers. We were all competing to prove that we were making it…
Embracing My Heart, My Feelings, My Desires
THE AUTHOR OF MY HEART Most of my life, I have attempted to control, stifle, and sometimes completely disown my desires. Unfortunately, when dealing with sexual desire and longing for intimacy, I was unaware that they could be expressed in…
Same Sex Attraction
A HISTORY OF THE SEXUAL WORLD The subject of gender identification has become a hot topic over the last 20 years or so. However, same gender sexual experiences have been around almost as long as humans have. Abraham’s nephew, Lot, was…
Communication Heals Relationships
I’M NOT PERFECT, BUT I’LL BE THE BEST ME I CAN BE In my first relationship, we were both young and had few tools for communicating our feelings and needs. I would make jokes with her like I would with…
Rebuilding a Relationship
PUTTING THINGS INTO REVERSE About three and a half years ago, a sequence of events began that would ultimately change my life forever. About that time, I was living with my girlfriend who, in all honesty, I hooked up with in…