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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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Staying Chaste in a Sex-Saturated World

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  • Richard D. Phillips

Christians are called to be sexually pure (chaste). Based on Ephesians 5, this article argues that sexual purity is to characterize single Christians and those who are dating. It shows how this is possible as those called to walk in the light.

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Slay the Serpent

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  • Steve Gallagher

Proverbs 5:1-3 offers the antidote against sexual temptation and pornography. It reveals the promise of the temptation, and the power of it to warn a godly man against this 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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      • Functions of the church - Service and Charity
      • Church membership
      • Church fellowship
      • Church government
      • Church discipline
      • Church federation
      • Reformation of the church
    • Sacraments
      • Sacraments (General)
      • Circumcision and baptism
      • Passover and Lord's supper
    • Kingdom of God
    • Last things (Future)
      • Expectation and return of Christ
      • Dispensationalism
      • Life after death (Intermediate state)
      • Signs of the times
      • Death and Resurrection of the body
      • Final Judgment
      • New Heaven and New Earth & Hell
  • Creeds & Confessions
    • Authority and binding to the Confessions
    • Character of the Confessions
    • Apostolic Creed
    • Belgic Confession
      • General
      • Article 1
      • Article 2
      • Article 3
      • Article 4
      • Article 5
      • Article 6
      • Article 7
      • Article 8
      • Article 9
      • Article 10
      • Article 11
      • Article 12
      • Article 13
      • Article 14
      • Article 15
      • Article 16
      • Article 17
      • Article 18
      • Article 19
      • Article 20
      • Article 21
      • Article 22
      • Article 23
      • Article 24
      • Article 25
      • Article 26
      • Article 27
      • Article 28
      • Article 29
      • Article 30
      • Article 31
      • Article 32
      • Article 33
      • Article 34
      • Article 35
      • Article 36
      • Article 37
    • Westminster Confession
      • General
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
      • Chapter 7
      • Chapter 8
      • Chapter 9
      • Chapter 10
      • Chapter 11
      • Chapter 12
      • Chapter 13
      • Chapter 14
      • Chapter 15
      • Chapter 16
      • Chapter 17
      • Chapter 18
      • Chapter 19
      • Chapter 20
      • Chapter 21
      • Chapter 22
      • Chapter 23
      • Chapter 24
      • Chapter 25
      • Chapter 26
      • Chapter 27
      • Chapter 28
      • Chapter 29
      • Chapter 30
      • Chapter 31
      • Chapter 32
      • Chapter 33
    • Canons of Dordt
      • General
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3/4
      • Chapter 5
    • Heidelberg Catechism
      • General
      • Lord's Day 1
      • Lord's Day 2
      • Lord's Day 3
      • Lord's Day 4
      • Lord's Day 5
      • Lord's Day 6
      • Lord's Day 7
      • Lord's Day 8
      • Lord's Day 9
      • Lord's Day 10
      • Lord's Day 11
      • Lord's Day 12
      • Lord's Day 13
      • Lord's Day 14
      • Lord's Day 15
      • Lord's Day 16
      • Lord's Day 17
      • Lord's Day 18
      • Lord's Day 19
      • Lord's Day 20
      • Lord's Day 21
      • Lord's Day 22
      • Lord's Day 23
      • Lord's Day 24
      • Lord's Day 25
      • Lord's Day 26
      • Lord's Day 27
      • Lord's Day 28
      • Lord's Day 29
      • Lord's Day 30
      • Lord's Day 31
      • Lord's Day 32
      • Lord's Day 33
      • Lord's Day 34
      • Lord's Day 35
      • Lord's Day 36
      • Lord's Day 37
      • Lord's Day 38
      • Lord's Day 39
      • Lord's Day 40
      • Lord's Day 41
      • Lord's Day 42
      • Lord's Day 43
      • Lord's Day 44
      • Lord's Day 45
      • Lord's Day 46
      • Lord's Day 47
      • Lord's Day 48
      • Lord's Day 49
      • Lord's Day 50
      • Lord's Day 51
      • Lord's Day 52
    • Thirty Nine Articles of Religion
    • Different Confessions
    • Preaching of the Confessions
  • Doctrine of life - Ethical principles
    • Christ and the Christian life
    • Purpose of Christian life
    • Discovering the will of God - General
    • Use of Scripture in ethics
    • Seeking the kingdom of heaven
    • Christian freedom
    • Discipleship
    • Following and Imitation of Christ
    • Old Testament Ethics
    • Ten Commandments
      • Ten Commandments (General)
      • First commandment
      • Second commandment
      • Third commandment
      • Fourth commandment
      • Fifth commandment
      • Sixth commandment
      • Seventh commandment
      • Eight commandment
      • Ninth commandment
      • Tenth commandment
    • Law
      • Law (General)
      • Fulfillment of the Law
      • Legalism
      • Law and Gospel
      • Theonomy
    • Case Laws
    • Natural Law
    • Creation order
    • Sermon on the Mount and Ethics
    • Guidance of the Spirit
    • Identity of God's people
    • Love and hate
    • Common good
    • Authority
    • Position of the Christian in this world
    • Christian mind
    • Conviction and tolerance
    • Discernment
    • Christian lifestyle
    • Responsibility & Collective Responsibility
    • Compromise
    • Conflicting obligation
    • Conscience
    • Impartiality
    • Justice
    • Tradition and accomodation
    • Wisdom and prudence
    • Ethics of Christian Community
    • Indifferent things (Adiaphora)
    • Submission
    • Self-denial and Hedonism
    • Temperance and Abstinence
    • Virtue
    • Worldview
    • Vocation
    • Truth and lying
  • Doctrine of life - Ethical themes
    • Gender - Role of manhood and womanhood
    • Sexual Ethics
      • Sexual Ethics - General
      • Homosexuality
      • Premarital Sex
      • Sex Education
      • Lustfulness and Chastity
      • Pornography
    • Dating and Singleness
    • Marriage and Family
      • Marriage (General)
      • Family (General)
      • Adoption
      • Procreation and Family Planning
      • Adultery
      • Celibacy
      • Childhood
      • Adolescence
      • Young Adulthood (Twenties and Thirties)
      • Middle-Age (Forties and Fifties)
    • Divorce and remarriage
    • Education (General)
      • Christian education
      • Purpose of Education
      • Discipline
      • The child
      • Child development
      • Theories of Education
      • History of Christian Education
    • Parenting
    • Schooling
      • Teaching and Learning (General)
      • The Christian school
      • Home schooling
      • Teaching methods
      • The Curriculum and Evaluation
      • The Teacher
      • The School Board
      • Parents and the School
      • Church and the School
      • Place of Government in Education
    • Friendship
    • Hospitality
    • Economics
      • Economics (General)
      • Code of ethics for economists
      • Economic Theories
      • Development
      • Income Distribution
      • Inequality
      • Scarcity
      • Sustainability
    • Work & Employment
    • Business Ethics
      • Trade Unions and Strikes
      • Wages and Salaries
      • Prices
      • Labour Standards
      • Minimum Wages
      • Business Ethics (General)
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Wealth & Poverty
      • Money and Possessions
      • Tithing
      • Generosity
      • Borrowing and Lending
      • Poverty
      • Consumerism
      • Taxes
      • Gambling
      • Prosperity gospel
    • Environmental Ethics
      • Environmental Ethics (General)
      • Energy and Energy Consumption
      • Global Warming
    • Public Ethics
      • Public Ethics (General)
      • Human Rights
      • Equality and Discrimination
      • Race and Racism
      • Nationalism and Patriotism
      • Judicial System
      • Crime and Punishment
      • Capital Punishment
      • Social welfare
      • Social gospel
    • Political Ethics
      • Government - Role and Responsibility
      • Democracy
      • Civil Disobedience and Revolution
      • State and Church Relationship
      • War and Peace
      • Terrorism
      • Genocide
      • Pacifism
      • Nuclear Weapons
      • Interrogation and Torture
      • Refugees and Genocide
      • Political involvement
    • Christ and Culture
    • Bioethics
      • Bioethics (General)
      • Genetic Engineering
      • Cloning
      • Reproductive Technologies
      • Prenatal Diagnosis
      • Contraception
      • Surrogate Father/Mother
    • Medical ethics
      • Medical Ethics (General)
      • Health
      • Illness
      • Disabilities
      • Health Care
      • Forgoing and Withdrawing Treatment
      • Organ Donation and Transplantation
      • Definition of Death
      • Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Letting Die
      • Abortion
      • Sterilization
      • Late Miscarriage & Stillbirth
      • Epidemics
    • Beauty and Arts (General)
    • Appearance
    • Visual Arts
    • Music
    • Drama and Cinema
    • Food and Food Consumption
    • Media and Censorship
    • Sabbath and Sunday
    • Recreation and entertainment
    • Speech and Communication
    • Sport
    • Time Consumption and Priorities
    • Other topics
  • Spirituality & Godliness
    • Fear of the Lord & Godliness
    • Spiritual exercises
    • Means of grace
    • Prayer
      • Prayer - General
      • Intercession
      • God answering prayers
      • Practice of prayer
      • Bodily posture in prayer
      • Private prayer
    • The Lord's Prayer
      • Lord's prayer - General
      • Beginning and Conclusion of Lord's prayer
      • First petition - Hallowed your Name
      • Second petition - Your Kingdom come
      • Third petition - Your will be done
      • Fourth petition - Give us today our daily bread
      • Fifth petition - Forgive us our debts
      • Sixth petition - And lead us not into temptation
    • Fasting
    • Meditation
    • Singing
    • Listening to sermons
    • Personal Devotions (General)
    • Reading of Spiritual Literature
    • Family worship
    • Preparation for home visitation
    • Christ and the new life
    • Personal relationship with God
    • Walking with God
    • Spiritual warfare & struggle against sin
      • Spiritual warfare (General)
      • Struggle against Temptation
      • Living with Hope
      • Desertion by God
      • Place of sin in the believer's life
      • Spiritual growth and backsliding
    • Sanctification of the whole life
    • Spirituality and experience
    • Gratitude
    • Blessedness
    • Different Fruit of the Holy Spirit
    • Different Fruit of the flesh
    • Heavenly mindedness
    • Joy in the Lord
    • History of Spirituality
  • Worship & Liturgy
    • Principles of Worship
      • Principles of Worship (General)
      • Worship as Communion with the Triune God
      • Worship as Communion with the People of God (General)
      • Worship as Gathering and Communion of the Local Church
      • Worship as Communion with Young and Old
      • Worship as Communion with the Church of all Ages and Places
    • Elements of the worship service
      • Liturgy - General
      • Call to worship and Salutation
      • Confessing of sin and assurance of pardon
      • Praise in music and song (General)
      • Public Prayer
      • Scripture reading
      • Preaching (place in worship service)
      • Gifts and offerings
      • Corporate confession of faith
      • The Amen
      • Sacraments in the worship service
      • Benediction
    • Different Liturgies
    • Church music
      • Musical instruments
      • Character and principles of church music
      • Musicians
      • Psalms as songs
      • Hymns
      • Church choir
      • History of church music
    • Liturgical year
      • Liturgical year (General)
      • Christmas
      • Good Friday
      • Easter Sunday
      • Ascension Day
      • Pentecost
    • Church architecture
  • Church Leadership and Offices
    • Church leadership (General)
    • Offices - General
    • Pastor/Preacher - General
    • Pastor/Preacher - Qualifications
    • Pastor/Preacher - Task
    • Pastor and his wife and family
    • Theological Training
    • Elder - General
    • Elder - Qualifications
    • Elder - Task
    • Deacon - General
    • Deacon - Qualifications
    • Deacon - Task
  • Preaching
    • Preaching (General)
      • Preaching, election and the free offer of the gospel
    • Principles of Preaching
    • Purpose and Function of Preaching
    • Types of Preaching
    • Preaching Method and Sermon Preparation Process
    • Sermon Evaluation
    • History of Preaching
    • Preaching style and delivery
    • Steps for making a sermon
  • Pastoral care
    • Principles of Pastorate
    • House Visitation
    • Confidentiality
    • Psychology
    • Care in Abuse and Neglect
      • Abuse - General
      • Spiritual Abuse
      • Sexual Abuse - General
      • Child Sexual Abuse
      • Clergy Sexual Abuse
      • Spousal Abuse
      • Elder Abuse
      • Emotional and Verbal Abuse
      • Ministry to Abusers
    • Care in Addictions
    • Care in Conflict and Bad Relations
    • Care in Depression
    • Care in Self-Esteem and Inferiority
    • Care in Anger
    • Care in Anxiety
    • Care in Crisis
    • Care in Psychological illnesses
    • Care in Autism
    • Care in Loneliness
    • Care in Aging
    • Care in the Dying Process
    • Care in Grief
    • Care in Burial Practices
    • Care with Last Will and Testament
    • Care in Honouring and Grieving the Dead
    • Care in Suicide
    • Other themes of Pastorate
  • Youth ministry and catechism
    • Principles of Youth ministry
    • Material for Youth ministry and catechism
      • In Thy Hands Children Material
        • In Thy Hands Part 1
        • In Thy Hands Part 2
    • Public profession of faith
  • Church Government
    • General Principles of Church government
    • Church Order
      • Purpose and observance of the Church order
      • Offices
      • Church Assemblies - General
      • Church Assemblies - Consistory
      • Oversight of doctrine and worship
      • Church Discipline
      • No Lording
    • Different systems of Church government
    • Church government and civil government
  • History & Church History
    • Church history - General
      • Historical writing
    • Church history - Early Church
      • Ignatius of Antioch
      • Constantine the Great
      • Council of Nicea
      • Cyprian
      • Cyril of Alexandria
      • Didache
      • Early Church (general)
      • Gregory of Nazianzus
      • Irenaeus of Lyons
      • Basil the Great
      • Jerome
      • John Chrysostom
      • John of Damascus
      • Justin Martyr
      • Marcion
      • Melito of Sardis
      • Clement of Alexandria
      • Augustine
      • Polycarp
      • Athanasius
      • Patrick of Ireland
      • Origen
      • Tertullian
    • Church history - Middle Ages
    • Church history - Reformation
      • Theodore Beza
      • Ulrich Zwingli
      • William Tyndale
      • Reformation in The Netherlands
      • Renaissance
      • Zacharius Ursinus
      • Reformation in Germany
      • Reformation in France
      • Reformation in England
      • Reformation in Eastern Europe
      • Reformation (General)
      • Philipp Melanchthon
      • Peter Vermigli
      • Martin Luther
      • John Knox
      • John Calvin
      • John a Lasco
      • Hugh Latimer
      • Heinrich Bullinger
      • Guido de Bres
    • Modern Church History
      • Church history - Asia
      • Church history - Europe
      • Church history - Africa
      • Church history - South America
      • Church history - North America
      • Church history - Oceania
    • Different theologies
      • Charismatic theology
      • Evangelical
      • Roman Catholic
      • Reformed
      • Five points of Calvinism
  • Defending the faith (Apologetics)
  • Mission & Evangelism
    • Biblical Basis of Missions
    • Missions and Evangelism
    • God as Missionary God
    • Missions as Work of God
    • Missions and the Glory of God
    • The Great Commission
    • Missions and local church
    • Missions and every believer
    • Church growth
    • The Missionary
    • The Mission Board
    • The Sending Church
    • Missions and Money
    • Short-term Missions
    • Mission Training
    • Missions to Children and Youth
    • Different Mission Approaches
    • Trends in Missions
    • History of Missions
    • Missionary and Culture
    • Missionary and Politics
    • Missions - Word and Deed
    • Missions and the Social Gospel
    • Mission, election and the free offer of the gospel
    • The Message in Missions
    • Mission and the Point of Contact
    • Prayer and Missions
    • The Mission Encounter
    • Boldness in Missions
    • Material to use in Missions
    • Missions and the New Convert
    • Worship in the Mission Field
  • Other religions
    • Relationship between Christianity and other religions
    • Islam
    • Cults
    • Judaism
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • New Age
    • African Traditional Religions
    • Atheism
    • Other religions (General)
    • Sects (General)
  • Faith & Science
    • Faith & Science (General)
    • Evolution
  • Philosophy & Culture
To believe means that man must not rely on what he is, or can be, or shall be, nor on what he does or can do, nor on what he feels or does not feel, but to rely solely on what Christ has done, is doing and shall yet do. Charles H. Spurgeon
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