I’ve had the privilege of living in different parts of the world, and visiting even more countries. Regardless of culture, one truth remains the same: humans love feasting. Feasts are the anchors for social gatherings everywhere. No party, get together, celebration, festival or social event is complete without food. Neither does any wedding, bridal shower,…
The spine of Rosaria Butterfield’s The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian world is the joyful, generous, simple, yet often excruciating call to open our lives in service to others. A repeated refrain is “strangers become neighbors, and neighbors become family.” The Christian call to love is a…
One major thing you could do to achieve this is breastfeed him, see Breast milk’s effects on a man’s heart. Husbands and Wives
Jesus prays to be glorified 17 After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed: ‘Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they…
Jesus anointed at Bethany 6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. 8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. ‘Why this waste?’ they asked. 9 ‘This perfume…
The fact that an ANR is barely mentioned in the Bible implicitly conveys that the mission of this blog never has been to reveal some central tenet of the Christian faith that has somehow been undiscovered for ages. This is only one man’s blog. It is not church, nor can it replace your daily Bible…
The only complete way to overcome the [body image] problem is to have our beliefs about body image transformed by the Holy Spirit. As Heather Davis Nelson says in the Journal of Biblical Counseling: In pursuing worldly beauty, we strive to become this elusive image in place of who we really are. You and I are created in…
Here’s the typical scenario I, and I imagine most men, would love during nursing: “What am I looking for? A man who comes home from a long day of work filled with stress and the worries and frustrations of the day and seeks my full, milky breasts to relax and unwind. A man who lays…
To minimize the shock and creep factor, I now think it’s wiser to stagger your disclosure. Consider breaking it into the following stages: Stage One: The homework/detective stage. Guys, seek the feminine, nurturing, affectionate type. Girls, look for a man who’s openminded and not too puritanical. Stage Two: The buildup/getting intimate stage. Build trust. Patience…
“5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by…
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her — Ephesians 5 Husbands and WivesSacrificeTotal sacrifice
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In Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and The Longings Of A Woman’s Heart, Christian authors Dannah Gresh and Dr. Juli Slattery argue that all women desire five basic things from men: To be cherished by a man To be protected by a strong man To rescue a man To be sexually alive, and To…
Every time you view strangers from an ANR perspective, you cheat on your Spouse. You and I gradually tear our families apart, not to mention that of the person we lust after. We are the reason God the Son was stripped, whipped, tortured and crucified. His blood is far too precious to spend ogling people…
Contemporary English Version “and you were far from God. But Christ offered his life’s blood as a sacrifice and brought you near God.” — Ephesians 2:13 Ephesians 2
The Cost of Discipleship 25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his…
Christ-centered ANR 