11:20 a.m. PT: Sin’s earthly consequences can be debilitating, humiliating, and heartbreaking, but the eternal consequences are deadly. God calls his people to be holy, a tall order for fallen humans.
Reading about the struggles of fellow Christians is always heartening. No man is without sin, but it’s encouraging to know that one can overcome specific sins. I’m reading a book called Secret Sex Wars: A Battle Cry For Purity, a collection of essays written by black Christian men about sexual sin — how to break the chains, how to strive toward God’s requirement of holiness, etc.
I met one contributor at my sister’s church yesterday. (I’m in CA visiting sis for a couple of weeks.) Paul Felix co-wrote the introduction and penned an essay in the book titled “Living According to the Will of God.” Other essays include “Learning from Men Who Have Fallen,” “Putting Sin to Death,” and “Training Our Sons to Overcome Sexual Temptation.”
Secret Sex Wars was edited by Robert Scott, an instructor at the Los Angeles Bible Training School and a professor at Biola University (in La Mirada, CA), organizer and sponsor of the annual God Blog Conference.
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