Lately, I’ve been reading a fair amount of poetry. Seamus Heaney, D.A. Carson, Wendell Berry, and others. I find myself returning again and again to poems for spiritual nourishment. I like Eugene Peterson’s idea that when we read a poem, we don’t receive more information, we receive more experience. I benefit, and we all benefit …
For nearly fourteen years I followed Jesus—clueless that my struggles with lust, masturbation, and porn were symptoms of much deeper issues which explained why I couldn’t “just say no.” Jesus taught that adultery and sexual immorality come out of the heart (Matt. 15:19). But what does this mean? In his classic book Inside Out, Larry …
If you were to ask a random man on the street to name his most important sex organ, the answer would be predictable. But sexual desire and arousal do not begin in the genitals. A man’s most important sex organ is his brain. When changes occur in parts of the brain related to sex, it …
