Singleness, whether a mere season in one’s life or a permanent calling, is a time ripe with tremendous opportunity but also grave temptation.  As others today have pointed out, singleness affords wonderful opportunities for ministry and missions that would be otherwise impossible while in a relationship.  It would be a mistake however, if we didn’t [...]

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. -The Song of Solomon 2:7

Temptation is remarkably tricky. By itself, removed from its own disastrous context, temptation looks amazing, it feels so alluring, and it offers so much promise. But that is not the full face of temptation. Context tells us the rest of the story.

Have you ever wondered why God commands us to be virgins until we are married?  Why is it so bad to have more than one sexual partner?  Why is premarital sex a sin?  In this article, Tyler Smith tackles these hard questions and then some.

Have you ever noticed that although our culture glorifies anonymous sex, casual sex, and sex without commitment we still believe sex is a really big deal. It is primarily on the college campus that people promote the lie that sex is not a big deal, but even on the campus it seems that we cannot [...]

At one time in my life I was guilty of preaching a gospel I did not fully understand.  As a young Christian who was on fire for God, like most new Christians, I had a great deal of zeal that coupled with very little biblical knowledge.

According to a poll taken by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007, “Over 12 million unmarried partners live together in 6,008,007 households.” The same poll indicated that the number of cohabiting unmarried partners increased by 88% between 1990 and 2007.[1] Other sources show that the majority of couples marrying today lived together before tying the knot.[2] Unless one has lived in a hole for the past hundred years, it is not difficult to observe the moral decline that seems to permeate the cultural horizon of America and the world. One thing is for sure: Cohabitating has become the norm for unmarried couples.

What is Great Commission Dating? Classic boy meets girl. Nobody escapes relations with the opposite sex, but strangely I don’t know many people who want to escape it. Rather, the thrill of love captivates every man and woman in the world. Here in the U.S., we start at an early age seeking that middle school [...]