Purity in an Age of Impurity
How to Not Have Sex before Marriage
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.
Ten Rules of Thumb
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Grounded in the Gospel
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: My Identity
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Grace of Godly Sorrow
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Putting Sin to Death
This article explains how John 8:36 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Through the Spirit, put sin to death.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Confess Your Sin
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Resting in Forgiveness
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Fleeing Temptation
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Spiritual Friendship
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Satisfied in Christ
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Joy of the Lord
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Trusting God’s Promises
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Humility
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Passion for the Word
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Committing to the Church
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Stewarding God’s Gift
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: God’s View of Women
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Rejoice in the Wife of Your Youth
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Radical Action
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Meaningful Work
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Throne of Grace
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: The Harlot’s House
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Restoration
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.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Trusting God with the Past
This article explains how Philippians 3:13-14 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. Entrust your past to God.
Thirty-One Days of Purity: Healing Our Wounds
This article explains how Psalm 147:3 can help in winning the battle for sexual purity. God has healed your wounds in Christ.
Positive Purity
How can you pursue sexual purity in our sexualized culture? This article explains that there are two ways: turning away and turning toward.
The Book of Proverbs and Repetition
Some things are worth repeating, that they might not be forgotten. The book of Proverbs uses repetition to teach us the importance of correction and hungering after wisdom, the danger of legalism, the value of Christian friendship, the need for sexual purity, and the reality of eternal life.