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Sexual temptation

It’s Chemistry! Practical Advice for Protecting Your Marriage from an Affair

By Le Ann Trees / August 16, 2024

When an extramarital affair starts, it’s likely that sexual chemistry ignited the fuse. Here’s some practical advice for protecting your marriage—and the marriages of others—from an affair.

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Is It True That You Can’t Help Falling in Love with Someone?

By Campbell Markham / March 6, 2024

The idea that we are helpless victims of love is a very ancient one. How should we respond when our passions, desires, and instincts urge us to have sexual intimacy with someone if the Bible forbids it?

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17 Custom-Made Temptations Crafted Just for You

By Derek J. Brown / October 25, 2023

It is vital, a matter of life and death, to understand the ways Satan will tempt us to sin. Be on guard against these 17 custom-made temptations—crafted just for you.

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The Forbidden Woman: Some Thoughts on Love, Marriage, and Adultery

By Chris Gordon / July 11, 2023

Adultery is the ultimate act of betrayal in the great design of marriage that intends for us to love the spouse that we are joined to by God himself. Proverbs 5 provides us with great insight into the pathway of adultery.

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Is the Attractiveness of Sin Enticing You Right Now?

By Le Ann Trees / August 7, 2020

We may pursue people and things that seem attractive or beneficial in some way at the start, downplaying in our minds and hearts the potential for harm.

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All Sins Are Not Alike: Sexual Immorality, Chastity, and Wisdom

By R. Scott Clark / July 25, 2018

Because of the sexual revolution, we hardly know what chastity is any more. In some circles it has become axiomatic that sexual sins are no worse and no different from any other sins. What are the two classes of sin, and why is it important for Christians to recognize the difference?

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Pastors, the Graham Rule, and Wisdom

By R. Scott Clark / July 10, 2018

It was recently announced that another pastor was removed from ministry because of sexual immorality. What are some of the objections people have to the Graham Rule (also known as the Pence Rule), and, when it comes to pastoral ministry in particular, are these objections valid?

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