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Daughter, let the King be enthralled by your beauty
For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.[b] A wedding song. 1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. 2 You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since…
You’ve gotten the sentence of death to trust the God who raises the dead
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely…
Stop thinking of ANR
My ANR desire has led me into faulty thinking which has in turn led to straying thoughts lately, so now I don’t think of it as much. I choose to focus on other important things, and so should you. There’s more to life than ANR. Obsession
Altruistic tenderness
Besides genuine faith in the risen Christ, if there’s one thing you seek in a woman, let it be altruistic tenderness. That’s your sure bet of finding an ANR-friendly wife.
Women’s heart of God
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit. 1 Peter 3:18 Women are often loyal to, suffer for and care about others more than themselves. They fiercely defend and protect the…
There is a Fountain Filled with Blood
Enjoy this Gospel classic from Norton Hall Band.
Repost: ANR outside marriage = adultery
Email I recently received: “I have met two Christian men on ANR dating sites and all of them are like myself, in that they were sexually active before they gave their life to Christ. And each of them has the same opinion on nursing vs sex. Each of them believed that nursing can be a permissible act…
Feminine side of God
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! Luke 13:34
Blood transfusion
How Christ’s blood was, spiritually speaking, transfused into sinful human veins, is modeled by the way a wife, as an image bearer of Christ, transfers her life- and health-giving milk into her husband’s digestive system. The medical field has many parallels to Christianity, and to ANR. Like Christ saved his Bride’s life eternally, she seriously…
God’s glory from creation: full, milky, dripping breasts
ANR-seeking woman: “I just like how it feels. And I like the idea of my breasts being full of milk.” K, ANR-seeking Christian woman: “[I’m 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…
God will pour His wrath on the sexually immoral
Months ago, I posted a piece on how women have historically breastfed sick adults to boost their immune systems. Unmarried readers, especially men, do not take this as a license to indulge in an ANR. The context is vastly different. God considers context and motive. A Chinese woman breastfeeding a deathly sick adult in public…
But God
“But I” –Luke 22:32
Live in purity because God is an avenger
Finally, then, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3…
Become a fool to be truly wise
1 Corinthians 3 New Living Translation 16 Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives inc you? 17 God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.18 Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by…
Not even a hint
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. –Ephesians 5:3
The Food of Christ Is to Give Eternal Life
Resource by John Piper. Scripture: John 4:27–42. Topic: The Person of Christ Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to…
Two become one flesh application: Who wrote the Bible?
Audio Transcript Very often, the best questions we get are very simple ones, like this one today from Maxine, a longtime listener to APJ. “Pastor John, hello and thank you for this podcast. Can you explain to me: Who wrote the Bible?” Well, let’s start at the top and work our way down to who held the…
2 Corinthians 4
The Light of the Gospel 1 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God,we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is…
God so loved…
See The tender heart of the Father Softness
Walk by faith, not sight/what is unseen, not seen
for we walk by faith, not by sight. — 2 Corinthians 5:7 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen…
‘Breast milk’ for adults could soon be a $1bn market
Studies suggest that a component of human milk could provide health benefits for grown-ups as well as babies, but some scientists remain sceptical Mother’s milk isn’t just for babies anymore. Global chemical giants DowDuPont and BASF are investing millions to ramp up production of an indigestible sugar found naturally in breast milk. Infant formula makers like Nestle…
A sinful woman forgiven by Christ
36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she…
Till Death do Us Part
Most beautiful maid, I see you as you wake up in the middle of the night filled with joy, taking pleasure in what your body does for us. I see how you sacrifice your time and comfort for me. You are the most beautiful of women. For my sake, you put your body through some…
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
If you struggle with intrusive mental images of ANRs, then “think often that Christ suffered agony for your purity. Fight image with image. Christ crying in agony.” Titus 2:14: Christ gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for…
More from husband-baby tandem breastfeeding couple
A woman who breastfeeds her baby and husband in tandem is a beautiful, powerful, empowered, multi-tasking, divine, blessed mama and wife. No, nursing doesn’t have to have any sexual connotations. Tandem breastfeeding of child and husband could simply be family time, because women can breastfeed their husbands without being sexually aroused. Notice the beginning of…
The straight-laced and the legalist
I once got into a debate with a legalistic Christian about exceeding speed limits. I have no qualms whatsoever about doing so because I know judges dismiss tickets earned for driving a few miles per hour above posted limits. He insisted I was sinning. He failed to see his flawed logic. If judges who uphold…
Skip the straight-laced vanilla
From conversations during dates, prod for signs of your prospective spouse being too vanilla and straight-laced. Skip those, and instead go for those who are open minded and adventurous. Kinky and sexually adventurous need not be mutually exclusive with godly or holy. What’s kinky vs. vanilla is defined subjectively and culturally. God’s word leaves room…
Don’t be blindsided by ANR
The more you desire an ANR, the less likely you are to notice that you’ve been blindsided by your desire, no matter how legitimate. You will be ensnared by a Satanic stronghold if you’re not careful. All things in moderation.
