An occasional failure doesn’t nullify the Lord's work in your life. True failure is when you quit moving forward in your walk with the Lord.
This episode: Steve Gallagher and the leadership of Pure Life Ministries will answer your questions in our Men's Sexual Sin Q&A Part 2.
This episode: When we put our trust in God and allow Him to do a work in us through our trials, we become a vessel of blessing for others.
This interview: When we put our trust in God and allow Him to do a work in us through our trials, we become a vessel of blessing for others.
An occasional failure doesn’t nullify the Lord's work in your life. True failure is when you quit moving forward in your walk with the Lord.
The tyrant of Self is a most relentless foe that does not die off easily.
Living by faith means that despite your circumstances or how you feel, you can choose by an act of your will to trust and obey the Lord.
Don't continue to allow your desires to take you in a direction that brings forth death. God wants to give you life!
If someone is practicing sexual immorality on a regular basis and thinks that they are doing okay, they are deceived.
You are either moving closer to God or further away from Him. There is no middle ground. You must keep on fighting.
People of the world are driven through life by their lust for sinful pleasures, but believers are called to live at a higher standard.
Instead of asking the question, "What's wrong with what I am doing?", we should ask the question, "Is this right and does it glorify God?"
Wisdom from God helps us to see the long-term consequences of our decisions.
One of the keys in coming out of the downward spiral of sin is to give thanks to the Lord for all that He has done.
Only Jesus has the power to truly transform us, and He does it through the power of repentance and the power of the Holy Spirit.
As we stand firm, we will find that He who is within us is greater than he that is in the world.
If you want to find freedom from sexual sin then you are going to have to take radical steps to remove worldly influences from your life.
It's only by experiencing a very real breaking away from the spirit of Babylon that we are able to walk closely with God.
In Scripture, God warns His people to not love the world because there is a very real danger of their doing so.
The Lord is adamantly opposed to the things of this world because they are not of Him and they separate us from Him.
Social media is a distraction which the enemy uses to push us further away from Jesus.
A mind set on the pleasures of this life shuts God out from our inside world and separates us from His eternal life.
Spirit filled believers will be characterized by love, joy and peace - even in a world of endless activity and motion.
The more you wait on the Lord in stillness, the more you will experience His goodness and come to find that He is all that you need.
Every single day we can make choices that either allow us to participate in the life of God or create a barrier in our hearts toward Him.
Our motivation and purpose for godly living in America has become enmeshed with the desire to preserve our American way of life.
Satan’s plan for every human being is to bring them into willing rebellion against God, through the pursuit of their own sinful desires.
Jesus is our model. In the same way that He laid down His life wives are to lay down their lives for their husbands.
False teachings have been able to flourish in the American church because it has become more of an enterprise system.
We need daily bread from the Word and daily guidance from the Lord in order to allow Him to shepherd us in the way we should go.
The American culture holds more sway in the average Christian’s life and heart than the word of God.
A loving and patient wife is a source of great help and encouragement for a man learning to walk rightly before God.
While pride and selfishness are celebrated in much of American culture, the Lord tells us in His Word that they will lead to destruction.
Mankind is growing in rebellion against the Lord to serve a god of their own choosing.
Whatever IT was that happened, it’s now a mountain between you and God. If He ever loved you, it seems impossible to believe He could now.
The Lord desires to wake us up from our apathetic lifestyle so that we'll put forth the effort to seek Him and know Him more.
We want real victory in our lives, not just an artificial state of purity that’s based on our circumstances.
Sin is not easily eradicated from our hearts and is always waiting for its chance to reveal itself.
Christians have to be very careful to limit how much they subject themselves to the ungodly influences of television and movies.
Satan has constructed a world-system that feeds a lifestyle of pride and self-centeredness, that mocks at God’s rule and authority.
As Christians, we are growing up into Christ, into the full measure and full stature of who He is. He is the model.
While it’s true that our desires can influence us, only our will can make the decision to act upon those desires.
When we learn to consistently treasure the Lord instead of our sinful desires, we begin to look more like Him and less like the world.
Morality is not a line. It's a direction.
If we do not learn to submit to what the Lord has placed before us, we are hardening our hearts.
Satan uses man’s natural propensity toward sin to lead him down a path of destruction.
Most people live their lives pursuing pleasure, little realizing that the spirit of Babylon is leading them to their destruction.
When we taste and see that the Lord is good, He begins to be the one we are fighting for.
Evil can lie dormant in the heart of man for years and suddenly come to life when the circumstances call it forth.
When Christians give their undivided attention to the system of this world, their hearts and minds are not where they’re supposed to be.
The world’s system is constantly seeking to squeeze the minds of believers into its attitudes, values and opinions.
If you are immersed and influenced by the system of this world, it will blind you to your true spiritual condition.
The Lord is adamantly opposed to the things in our lives that are not of Him.
Can a marriage survive when the husband no longer finds his wife physically attractive and yet still loves her?
Pursuing our desires, in opposition to God’s will, leads to spiritual exile from His presence and drives us into spiritual darkness.
To break free from sexual sin, you have to first break free from the hold the world has on your heart.
In today’s church culture there is no reaction to hearing the truth and oftentimes, real truth is not even preached.
I can’t tell you how many times this question has come up as I counsel couples that are dealing with the aftermath of sexual sin.
Today, mankind is unifying under a rebellious doctrine which deceives us into believing we can determine what is right and what is wrong.
When it comes to the concept of truth and deception, you cannot divorce the reality of what you want in life from how you perceive truth.
This interview reveals the inner dynamics that lead people to hide their sexual sin and create a false life with two very different sides.
We cannot serve two masters; we will hate one and love the other. We must choose between loving God or loving the world.
If your drive in life is to truly love others and pursue righteousness, the Lord will provide the strength and grace for you to do it.
Christianity is built on trusting in God’s character. We can't afford to allow cynicism to creep into our attitudes about spiritual matters.
What does it mean to be “unequally yoked”?
The Spiral of Degradation is a spiritual process that will lead someone to become the kind of person that God destroyed in the flood.
The enemy may take us down a long twisted pathway, but the Lord can lead us all the way back out of it.
The Spirit of God in a real believer, is opposed to the spirit of this world.
If a man could stay sexually pure by using psychotropic drugs to curb his sex drive, should he do it?
Babylon represents the forces of darkness that are bent on luring people into a unified mindset against the Most High God.
The Spirit of this World blinds us to the consequences of our actions.
Can Christians build their lives around pursuing pleasure? Ed Buch evaluates this common lifestyle with guidance from the Bible.
In the face of betrayal, there is an impulse for a wife to try to protect or heal herself by bolstering her self esteem.
Although my husband and I are satisfied sexually with each other, I am inclined more sexually. What can I do?
It is vital for husbands and wives to stand against a worldly spirit in the home.
Rose Colón explains what an engaged couple should do if sexual sin comes to light before the marriage.
This week our staff reflect on the "Vision of Jesus" podcast series and how it has impacted them.
As we humble ourselves and embrace life’s trials, we enter into fellowship with Jesus and can count on Him to exalt us at the right time.
Repentance is more than confessing to the Lord with an apology. And it entails more than just a feeling of sorrow for what we have done.
Jesus wants our inner being to be void of distractions and noise, so that it can be a peaceful quiet place where His presence can dwell.
We need to learn how to embrace the humbling situations that God allows in our lives as a chance to get a sight of our need for Jesus.
Dig down far enough and you will find that the real root of our behavior revolves around our relationship to and beliefs about God.
To get our attention, sometimes Jesus has to put us through things that are not as comfortable as hearing Him in a still small voice.
Having the mind of Christ is ultimately going to lead us to death to self and an understanding of what it means to carry our cross.
When I first started fighting for a daily prayer life, I had no idea that within a couple of months I couldn’t imagine life without it.
Jesus's love is a refining fire, and it will bring us to a crossroads where we must decide if we will choose to follow Him.
Humility and faith meet when we are living our lives before the Lord and we are seeking to honor Him alone.
Grace and truth are not miles apart. They go together and God wants to give us both.
The first thing we get a sight of when we encounter the cross is our sinful condition and our need for what He did.
The Internet makes people invisible and anonymous, and thus holds out a formidable temptation for everyone to live as they please.
A prideful man is primarily concerned with protecting himself and exalting himself.
The only genuine proof of our holiness is how humble we are before God and man.
Wives often can't help but ask these 3 questions in light of their husband's sexual sin.
Repentance and confession go hand in hand. There is no victory outside of repentance and there is no repentance outside of confession.
God wants to develop humility in me through my daily experiences so that He can have His way in me and through me.
Each time we come into contact with wickedness, it leaves its nasty fingerprints upon our souls.
Sin thrives in the dark. If it is not brought into the light, it's going to continue and it's going to grow.
In this latest Purity for Life video segment, we discuss 5 action steps that can lead those hopelessly stuck in sexual sin into freedom.
The lives of Jesus’ disciples provide a mirror for us to examine our own lives and learn, just as they did, how to walk in true humility.
A Christian who lives his life in pursuit of worldly pleasure is setting himself up for compromise, temptation, and failure.
What does a wife do if she is struggling to forgive her husband for his sexual sin? Kathy Gallagher addresses this and more.
Issues like self-pity, self-righteousness, and living by feelings must be dealt with if one is to find true freedom from sexual addiction.
Every temptation will undoubtedly have these same three components: the tempter, the bait and the accompanying lies.
Jordan Yoshimine exposes a myth that many Christians believe, that you can have the Lord and still have your own life in this world.