By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read Emmanuel “O come, O come, Emmanuel / and ransom captive Israel.” This is such a striking line from my favorite Christmas carol. (I really like this version by MercyMe.) I love singing and reflecting on these beautiful, poignant words that capture so well our need for a…
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Discipleship, Sexual Integrity, and Awareness
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read Growing Together Earlier this year, I was thinking about ways I want to grow. Something I often came back to was the word confidence. Over the past months, a friend of mine helped me to see how vital it is for me to know who God made…
Discipleship, Sexual Integrity, and Community
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Community Grounds Us Last month, my husband and I went to four weddings. And though these weddings involved masks and social distancing, it was beautiful to see friends and family surrounding each of the couples on their special day. Community looks pretty darn different this year than…
Discipleship, Sexual Integrity, and Exhortation
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Exhortation – a High Call I love the challenge that the author of Hebrews gives to his readers (and to us today). Hebrews 10:24 tells us, “and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds.” The word that this short verse brings to my mind…
Jesus, Discipleship, and Sexual Integrity
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Jesus and Sex Jesus and His twelve disciples spent a whole lot of time walking together. As they moved across Israel preaching, teaching, and healing from city to city, I’m sure they all wore through some sandals. I love the image of Jesus walking, something so normal,…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Fight Against Pornography
Joseph Gordon-Levitt By: Shane James O’Neill Your Value? In talking about the way our culture lives, Joseph Gordon-Levitt remarks that we’re actually objectifying ourselves. This strikes me as insightful, because I’m so often told that pornography objectifies other people. I don’t often consider that treating other people as objects, means I’m treating myself as an object, as…
Assess Your Sexual Purity: Free Purity Quiz!
By: Shane James O’Neill Proven Men has created a purity quiz to show you where you are on a scale of sexual purity. We run churches and schools through this assessment and it can be used in small groups, among friends and family, and in other areas of discipleship. We want to give it to…
Assess Your Sexual Purity
By: Shane James O’Neill Proven Men has created a purity quiz to show you where you are on a scale of sexual purity. We run churches and schools through this assessment, but we want to give it to you for free. So here you go! Before The Assessment, a quick disclaimer Purity works on…