Session Notes

Mental Foreplay – Eight Mental Aphrodisiacs

A mental aphrodisiac is anything that captures your imagination and connects you to your sexual feelings.  That’s why certain movies, songs, or books make such great mental aphrodisiacs.

Mental Foreplay – The Mental Foreplay Experience

Modesty can be delightful. But in bed, inhibitions hold no appeal. When you are in love, but don’t often feel like making love, inhibitions may be the invisible cloud that’s blocking your feelings

The CD has some great reflections on beautiful sexual experiences.

How a Husband Should Handle His Wife’s Submission

Submitting is a voluntary action. That means it is something we ourselves do. It’s not something we make someone else do. Just as we can’t force another person to love us, we can’t force someone to submit to us either. Of course we can make that person do what we want. But then that’s not true submission.

Submission is a choice we make. It’s something each one of us must decide to do. And this decision happens first in the heart. If we don’t decide in our hearts that we are going to willingly submit to whomever it is we need to be submitted to, then we are not truly submitting.

This may be shocking news to you, but an overwhelming majority of wives in my survey said they want to submit to their husbands. They want their husbands to be the head of the home, and they have no desire to usurp that God-given position of leadership. They know what the Bible says on the subject, and discerning wives want to do what God wants because they understand that God’s ways work best.

Husbands and Wives: Gender Gap?

or a woman, they are her lifeblood. Her confidence, her sexual response and her zest for living are often directly related to those tender moments when she feels deeply loved and appreciated by her man.

That is why flowers and candy and cards are more meaningful to her than to him. This is why she is continually trying to pull him out of the television set or the newspaper, and not vice versa. This is why the anniversary is critically important to her and why she never forgets it. That is why he had better not forget it! This need for romantic love is not some quirk or peculiarity of his wife, as some may think. This is the way women are made.

TrueU.org | Men’s Hall: Welcome to the Men’s Hall: Sacred Masculinity

Given that I believe that men and women were created the way they are on purpose, I would say that we need to start with the Creator, the God revealed in the Bible. I know this seems oversimplified, but many times, our descriptions of God suffer from the same shortcomings as our descriptions of “real men”; that is, it is easy to see the qualities that we like most about ourselves as the primary qualities of God. To try and correct this, we need to be careful to listen to the way that God speaks of Himself. If we use our individual experiences to begin our discussions, we will fall into the trap of standardizing our lives.

PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF MY VIRGINITY

Instead of asking, “How far can we go without crossing the line?” a real man of God seeks to be uncompromising in his attitude toward sin. He flees from anything that’s questionable. Above all, choosing to remain pure isn’t a matter of simply holding to technical virginity: “Hey, we didn’t have intercourse, so it’s not really sex — or sin.”I like what a friend of mine once said: “God’s concern for virginity is not a matter of anatomy but of privacy. He wants us to reserve our ‘private parts’ for the privacy of marriage.”So, where should Christians draw the line sexually? Flip through the Bible and you’ll uncover the standards God wants us to follow:• “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18).• “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).

Stuff and Nonsense: Stuff and Nonsense

But to give up Christmas gift giving altogether would be nonsense. Here’s why: Gift giving can help my children capture the essence of God’s extravagant love for us. The planning, the decorations, the music, the wonder of Christmas — including the unwrapping of gifts — show my children about abundant generosity. As a family we can celebrate the goodness of God — the pinnacle good being the giving of the Christ child. If approached with the right attitude, Christmas American-style can still be holy.

Having “the right attitude” is the tricky part, but we’re working on it.

Taylor’s list has exactly five items on it, all of which are electronics I have banned and refuse to purchase. This makes me sad for two reasons: First, he will probably be disappointed with what I buy. But maybe that’s okay, because ultimately all material things will disappoint him — and the sooner he learns to seek after the true Gift of God, the better.

Have a Razzle-Dazzle Christmas on a Rinky-Dink Budget

String white lights around the house and light candles; dim your overhead lights to create a cozy feel.

Nurturing Your Child’s Spirit: Talking to God

hrough prayer we can place our cares in God’s hands before going to sleep. It is also a great opportunity to snuggle with the kids and comfort them before retiring for the night.

Nurturing Your Child’s Spirit: Build a Foundation

As they take in the world around them, they learn that bad things happen to good people and wonder why. Why does grandmother have cancer? Why did my neighbor get into a car crash? Why do people in faraway places not have enough food to eat? They wonder how they can make things better. They have an abundance of “childlike faith,” so they believe they can. If the concept of God is introduced properly by loving parents, they don’t need to know all about who God is or where He’s from. They simply trust that He is there, aware, and cares. Pointing in the Right Direction There will come a time when your child’s faith will become personal.