"Whatever you do, never step past that line." One of my friends told me before he taught me how to use a handgun at the shooting range yesterday, "Even if you drop your gun, don't go get it. Just leave it there."
I understood the reason why instinctively: doing so would get me seriously injured or killed.
A gun is a powerful tool which can either be used for good (hunting for food and self-defense) or evil (murdering innocent people). Likewise, sex is a powerful tool, which can either be used for good (forming a lifelong friendship with your wife/husband, and, even better, experiencing the joy of raising children) or evil (crushing other people's hearts for your own personal gain, or worse, torturing people through unwanted, violent attacks). Like a shooting range, when it comes to our sexuality, there is a certain line we
should never cross. That line is a Christ-centered marriage to a loyal,
God-fearing, opposite-gender spouse. If you stay on the right side of that line (within marriage), you get the excitement and thrill of training with one of the most powerful tools God has given you. If you step "out onto the range" (i.e. outside of marriage, and this includes premarital "banging", pun intended), then you risk getting your head blown off. Most of us know instinctively that this will happen, but we temporarily "lose our crap" when we run into either:
A) A stacked 18-year-old babe with a "badonkadonk."
B) A ripped 27-year-old stud with the full "package" deal
Then we cross the line at the sexual shooting range, anyway, and become the headless horseman's long lost sibling.
The scariest part is that, with a gun, the consequences are immediate (you die). With sex, that's not necessarily the case: medical technology may prevent baby mama drama and biological MMA fighters known as "STDs" opening a can of whoop-tushy on your genitalia. But it will not prevent:
1) Divorce
2) Psycho exes
3) Jail time if your young hottie turns out to be a psycho and nails you with a phony rape charge, hoping to get Big Bubba to do her dirty work for her.
4) PTSD if your handsome, older crush gets mad that you won't do "those things" he has seen in hardcore porn and makes you do them anyway by raping you.
5) Spouses with guns if you are the "other man/woman"
Do not get riddled with the bullets of drama at the sexual shooting range! Stay on the right side of the line, and enjoy a lifetime of safe thrills by banging your lifelong best friend: your spouse!
"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." (Hebrews 13:4)
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
My Prayer For San Bernardino
Dear Heavenly Father,
Yesterday, an inexplicably evil attack was carried out at the Inland Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino, California. Fourteen people were killed and seventeen wounded by two cowardly psychopaths. I do not know whether or not this was a terrorist attack, Heavenly Father. However, in light of a similar attack in Paris (combined with the fact that, according to the LA Times, two armed suspects in the slaughter are named "Syed Farook" and "Tashfeen Malik"), this is serious cause for concern. At the same time, if this is proven to be an act of terror, I pray that You give us the wisdom to remember that not everyone who shares the heritage of those who carry out acts such as this condones them, or subscribes to the ideology that drives them.
Please forgive those of us who have attacked Your Character with bitter phrases such as "God Isn't Fixing This." I do not know whether or not this tragedy was permitted as divine judgment for our current state of moral decay or is simply a painful reminder of how evil the world that we live in truly is. I do acknowledge, on behalf of my country, the possibility that, in spiritually deporting You from our society, we may have forfeited Your protection from our enemies (which we have taken for granted for so long). In addition to comfort and healing for the victims, and justice to those who planned out this horrific crime, I pray that you soften the hearts of my fellow Americans so that they can hear the gospel and repent, so that they can spend eternity in heaven through faith in Jesus Christ. I also pray that you forgive Christians such as myself who have repeatedly failed to stand up for and live out the gospel, and strengthen us (as well as those who have faithfully served you) to tell our countrymen about the only One who can truly save and protect them: Jesus Christ, the Messiah!
I pray this in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, Amen!
Yesterday, an inexplicably evil attack was carried out at the Inland Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino, California. Fourteen people were killed and seventeen wounded by two cowardly psychopaths. I do not know whether or not this was a terrorist attack, Heavenly Father. However, in light of a similar attack in Paris (combined with the fact that, according to the LA Times, two armed suspects in the slaughter are named "Syed Farook" and "Tashfeen Malik"), this is serious cause for concern. At the same time, if this is proven to be an act of terror, I pray that You give us the wisdom to remember that not everyone who shares the heritage of those who carry out acts such as this condones them, or subscribes to the ideology that drives them.
Please forgive those of us who have attacked Your Character with bitter phrases such as "God Isn't Fixing This." I do not know whether or not this tragedy was permitted as divine judgment for our current state of moral decay or is simply a painful reminder of how evil the world that we live in truly is. I do acknowledge, on behalf of my country, the possibility that, in spiritually deporting You from our society, we may have forfeited Your protection from our enemies (which we have taken for granted for so long). In addition to comfort and healing for the victims, and justice to those who planned out this horrific crime, I pray that you soften the hearts of my fellow Americans so that they can hear the gospel and repent, so that they can spend eternity in heaven through faith in Jesus Christ. I also pray that you forgive Christians such as myself who have repeatedly failed to stand up for and live out the gospel, and strengthen us (as well as those who have faithfully served you) to tell our countrymen about the only One who can truly save and protect them: Jesus Christ, the Messiah!
I pray this in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, Amen!
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Anderson Cooper Prayer Project Complete! December Project: Myself!
It took several catch-up sessions, but I completed all of my November prayers for Anderson Cooper's salvation. On top of that, I finished the rest of my novel for NaNoWritMo (excluding some blanks for when I didn't have a Naming Book handy for new characters). That being said, I have decided to make this month's prayer project about me, so that I can finally defeat my Achilles' Heel, which I have nicknamed "Bane", after the supervillain who broke Batman's back.
Even after we are saved, Christians still have certain sins that constantly trip them up. Now don't panic: I am still a virgin, and am determined to maintain my Chastity Wrestlemania "Streak" intact until my wedding night. That being said, my spiritual "Bane" (which will be revealed in a future memoir called "That Was Then, This Is Now"), is kicking my butt, and has since I started fighting it nine years ago. For that reason, I am praying for fifteen minutes a day that Jesus Christ strengthens me so that I can crush my spiritual "Bane" once and for all, and so my life can finally be rid of all things that destroy my ability to be an effective witness for him.
Even after we are saved, Christians still have certain sins that constantly trip them up. Now don't panic: I am still a virgin, and am determined to maintain my Chastity Wrestlemania "Streak" intact until my wedding night. That being said, my spiritual "Bane" (which will be revealed in a future memoir called "That Was Then, This Is Now"), is kicking my butt, and has since I started fighting it nine years ago. For that reason, I am praying for fifteen minutes a day that Jesus Christ strengthens me so that I can crush my spiritual "Bane" once and for all, and so my life can finally be rid of all things that destroy my ability to be an effective witness for him.
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