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Lustfulness and Chastity

Flirting with the Law

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  • Edward T. Welch

Is it possible to have your internet history reveal legalism in you? This article considers how we can adopt an attitude of works-righteousness in how we regard our time spent on the internet.

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It's All about Me: The Problem with Masturbation

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  • Winston T. Smith

In this article, Smith explains that sexual fantasies and masturbation harm people and their ability to have healthy relationships. These escapes are ways of playing god with others. Smith shares practical ways for building a new inner world founded on Christ’s sweet love that liberates and satisfies. The counsel in this article will help those who struggle with sexual sin to grow in their ability to have loving relationships.

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Restoring Love

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  • W. Duncan Rankin

The article deals with what kind of attitude believers in the church should have toward sexual sins. It also touches on the importance of bringing those who have been caught in such sins to repentance and restoration in Christ.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Fleeing Temptation

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 2 Timothy 2:22 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Learn to run from sexual sin and do not be ashamed to do so.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: An Eternal Perspective

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  • Tim Challies

This article considers how 2 Corinthians 4:18 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls you to have an eternal perspective.

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Purity

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  • Garry Eriks

Purity is a rare word in our sexualized culture. What does it mean to be pure? This article defines true biblical purity and examines the standard for purity. The author then applies the concept of purity to different areas of life through the perspective of Matthew 5:8. Purity is firstly a matter of the heart.

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Sex & Self-Control

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  • W. Robert Godfrey

This article on sex and self-control also discusses celibacy and the struggle against sexual sins.

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An Open Letter to Those Debilitated by Their Sexual Sin

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  • David Powlison

What do you do if you have a continuous struggle with sexual sin? This article discusses how the unending love and mercy of Christ can serve as great encouragement for growth in holiness and the resistance of sexual temptation.

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How to Not Have Sex before Marriage

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  • William Boekestein

How can single Christians practice purity and chastity to the glory of God? This article considers the question, addressing the issue of the threat of sexual sin, including sex before marriage. The author calls for coming to terms with who you are in Christ, and taking responsibility for your sexual purity.

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A Note to Christian Men

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  • Matthew Holst

This article reminds men of the power of lust and the desire for self-gratification, even through brief visual stimulation. It offers four thoughts on how men can reorder their thinking in this regard so that they think with Christ-like minds.

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What's a Hurting Wife to Do?

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  • Barry York

How should a Christian wife respond in the context of sexual immorality or facing abuse in marriage? Is divorce allowed? These questions are what this article addresses

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Love, Sex, and Romance: Sexual Purity for Every Woman

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  • Jean Williams

This article addresses the matter of sexual sin among women. It deals with why women don't talk about it, how to bring about change in behaviour, and concludes with a word to men about supporting our Christian sisters in their fight for purity.

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Jesus and the Lustful Eye – Glancing at Matthew 5:28

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  • Kent E. Brower

Does Jesus teach in Matthew 5:28 that sexual attraction should be viewed as sinful? This article takes a closer look at the immediate context of Matthew 5:28. The context indicates that Jesus is intensifying the application of the Torah. He does not, however, add restrictions on women's clothing. Jesus is holding men rather than women responsible for possible lust.

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Ten Rules of Thumb

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  • P. Niemeijer

How can you keep sexual purity during courtship? Sexual longings tend to increase during courtship. The desire to be closer to one another can threaten. This article offers ten rules for maintaining sexual purity during courtship.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Grounded in the Gospel

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. The way to win the battle is by being grounded in the gospel.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: My Identity

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Seek your identity not in sexual performance but in who you are in Christ.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Grace of Godly Sorrow

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 2 Corinthians 7:10 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls for godly grief that leads to repentance.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Putting Sin to Death

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  • Joel R. Beeke

This article explains how John 8:36 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Through the Spirit, put sin to death.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Confess Your Sin

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how Psalm 32:1-5 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls us to confess sin honestly, humbly, and thoroughly.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Resting in Forgiveness

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Colossians 2:13-14 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. The passage counsels us to trust God's forgiveness and rest in it.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Spiritual Friendship

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how Hebrews 10:24-25 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls us to seek the company of godly friends.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Satisfied in Christ

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Jeremiah 2:12-13 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls you to seek satisfaction in Christ, not in sexual impurity.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Freedom in Christ

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how John 8:36 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. In Christ you have been set free from the enslaving power of sin.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Joy of the Lord

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  • David P. Murray

This article explains how Nehemiah 8:9 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Pursue the joy of holiness, for it is joy that strengthens us.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Trusting God’s Promises

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 1 Corinthians 10:13 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It is a call to trust the promises of God.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Humility

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 1 Peter 5:5 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls us to be humble, to confess our weakness to God.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Passion for the Word

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Psalm 1:1-2 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Learn to delight in God by delighting in his word.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Committing to the Church

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how Hebrews 10:24-25 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. You have the church to fight together with you.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Stewarding God’s Gift

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. God wants to be glorified through your body.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: God’s View of Women

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how 1 Timothy 5:1-2 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity, as it reveals God's view of women.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Rejoice in the Wife of Your Youth

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  • Dave Harvey

This article explains how 1 Corinthians 7:2 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Learn to enjoy and find satisfaction in your wife. If you are not married, remember that God has provided what you need for life and godliness.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Radical Action

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how Matthew 5:27-30 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. You may have to gouge some things out if you are to win this battle.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Meaningful Work

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how 1 Samuel 11:2 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. There is a link between boredom, inactivity, and sin.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Throne of Grace

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how Hebrews 4:15-16 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Learn what it means that Jesus is our High Priest.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Harlot’s House

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how Proverbs 5:7-14 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. We need to stay far away from any area of temptation.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Restoration

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Joel 2:25 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Christ came not only to conquer sin, but also to restore.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Trusting God with the Past

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Philippians 3:13-14 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Entrust your past to God.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Healing Our Wounds

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Psalm 147:3 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. God has healed your wounds in Christ.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Forgive Others

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  • Mike Leake

This article explains how Ephesians 4:32, which issues the call to forgive others, can help in winning the battle for sexual purity.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Joy of Salvation

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  • Timothy Paul Jones

This article explains how Psalm 51:12 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. It calls you to realize that the gift of joy in salvation is greater than any pleasure.

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Thirty-One Days of Purity: Victories of Grace

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  • Tim Challies

This article explains how 2 Corinthians 5:17 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. The victory of grace is certain.

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God Hates Sexual Immorality

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  • Tim Challies

Sexual immorality evokes the hatred of God. This article explains how.

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Purity Matters

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  • Richard D. Phillips

The call to live a sexually pure life is fundamental to the life of a Christian. This article shows why God abhors sexual immorality, and discusses why Christians fall into this sin. A call is extended to Christian men to take the lead in maintaining purity in the dating relationship.

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The Seven Deadly Sins in a Digital Age: Lust

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  • Bradford W. Littlejohn

This article looks at the seven deadly sins in the context of our digital age. The author shows how easy it is to fall into the sin of lust. Using pornography as an example, the author discusses the link between curiosity and lust.

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Guarding Our Eyes

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  • Remy Wilkins

This article explains that part of the problem we have with lust is that we learn to take a very passive view toward our thoughts. It shows how one's sexual identity should be a collaborative process with one's spouse.

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Disciplines of a Godly Man – Discipline of Purity

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  • R. Kent Hughes

In Chapter 2 Hughes considers how spiritual discipline helps to keep men sexually pure. A text he discusses is 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8.

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Sexual Sanity for Men – Life in the Wasteland

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  • David White

This volume wants to help men with their daily battle against sexual sins and immorality. Chapter 1 describes the situation men are left in after sexual sin as a “wasteland.” Sexual sin results in desolation. It cannot make good on its promises of excitement and pleasure. It delivers discontent and insatiable craving.

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