1. Watchman Nee, The Life That Wins (New York: Christian Fellowship Publishers, 1986), 7.
2. Mark Driscoll, Porn-Again Christian (Seattle, Washington: Mars Hill Church, 2011), 28.
3. Watchman Nee, The Life That Wins, 32-33.
1. “In his book, The Sexual Man, Dr. Archibald Hart revealed the results of a survey of some 600 Christian men on the topic of masturbation: 61% of married Christian men masturbate; 82% of these have self sex on an average of once a week; 10% have sex with self 5-10 times per month, 6% more than 15 times per month, and 1% more than 20 times a month. [Thirteen percent] of Christian married men said they felt it was normal.” Passage quoted from: Mike Genung, “Statistics and information on pornography in the USA,” Blazing Grace, 2005, http://www.blazinggrace.org/cms/bg/pornstats (accessed March 14, 2011).
2. “SeXXX Business Statistics,” Cross Cultural Connections, http://crossculturalconnections.org/documents/sex_stats.pdf (accessed March 14, 2011).
3. “Pastors and Adultery,” Gay Christian Movement Watch, http://www.gcmwatch.com/4752/pastors-and-adultery (accessed March 14, 2011).
4. Thomas F. Fischer, “The Affair-Proof Pastorate,” http://www.ministryhealth.net/mh_articles/294_affair_proof_pastorate.html (accessed March 14, 2011).
5. For more on deliverance, I highly recommend reading Victory Over the Darkness by Neil T. Anderson.
6. I have found Wellspring Ministries in Anchorage, Alaska to be a tremendous ministry for inner healing.
1. “The Twelve Steps,” Sex Addicts Anonymous, http://saa-recovery.org/OurProgram/TheTwelveSteps/ (accessed December 29, 2011).
2. Blue Letter Bible, “Dictionary and Word Search for Midyan (Strong’s 4080),” Blue Letter Bible (1996-2011) http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4080&t=KJV <http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4080&t=KJV> (accessed December 29, 2011).
3. Danny Silk, Loving Our Kids on Purpose (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2008), 46.
4. “Corrie Ten Boom Story on Forgiving,” Family Life Education Institute, http://www.familylifeeducation.org/gilliland/procgroup/CorrieTenBoom.htm, (accessed July 26, 2011).
5. Rocky Balboa, screenplay by Sylvester Stallone; film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, and Rogue Marble, released in 2006.
6. Uri Paz, “Victor Frankl’s Forgiveness,” http://www.mediate.com/articles/omedia1.cfm, (accessed July 26, 2011).
7. Danny Silk, “Communication Dance,” Defining the Relationship (DVD); available at http://www.dtr.lovingonpurpose.com/.
8. There are certain connections that we must be protected from. We will discuss that in the next chapter in the section on Healthy Boundaries.
9. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985), s.v. “sumphoneo” (NT 4857).
10. Merriam-Webster Online, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 2011, s.v. “symphony,” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/symphony (accessed December 29, 2011).
1. Ryan Blue, “Saving Private Ryan—The Value of 1 Person Compared to 8,” movie review, Faith and Film: Mosaic Movie Connect Group (February 22, 2008); http://mosaicmovieconnectgroup.blogspot.com/2008/02/saving-private-ryan-value-of-1-person.html (accessed July 26, 2011).
2. Danny Silk, Loving Our Kids on Purpose (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2008), 93.
3. For more about knowing God’s secrets read the chapter entitled, “Entrusted With Secrets,” from my book, The School of the Seers (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, 2009).
1. Neil T. Anderson and Robert L. Saucy, The Common Made Holy (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1997), 87.
2. Rocky Balboa, screenplay by Sylvester Stallone; film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, and Rogue Marble, released in 2006.
3. Danny Silk, Culture of Honor (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2009), 173.
1. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (New York: Random House, 2000), 123 (emphasis added).
2. Author’s note: Theologian Gordon Fee affirms this point of view by pointing out that the Holy Spirit is not mentioned in the inner struggle explained in Romans 7:14-24. Regarding Gordon Fee’s input, see page 22-23 of Power, Holiness, and Evangelism, compiled by Randy Clark.
3. Author’s note: I have been asked many times about Romans 8:1 which says in the King James Version: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” This verse seems to state that there are two classes of Christians, those who walk after the flesh, which are condemned and those who walk after the Spirit and are not condemned.
Unfortunately, this verse has been mistranslated from the original manuscripts. A simple check of any Interlinear Greek/English Bible (for example: http://biblos.com/romans/8-1.htm; or Karl Ellinger and Wilhelm Rudolph, Adrian Schenker eds., Interlinear Transliterated Bible, Fifth Revised Edition, (Biblesoft Inc., 1994, 2003, 2006).) These show that the original manuscripts only say, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” There are not two classes of Christian; the KJV translators added to this verse, whereas most modern translations remove the second half of the sentence because it has no basis in the original manuscript.
4. B.A. Robinson, “Glossary of Religious and Spiritual Terms,” Religious Tolerance, May 20, 2007, http://www.religioustolerance.org/gl_j.htm (accessed August 19, 2011).
5. Thayer and Smith, New Testament Greek Lexicon, Study Light, s.v. “Enduo”; http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1746 (accessed March 14, 2011).
1. For more information about meditation on God’s Word, see the “Biblical Meditation” chapter in School of the Seers (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, 2009).
1. For more information about legalism and how to be free of it, read the chapter, “A Slave of Freedom” from my book, Normal Christianity (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2011).
1. Kenneth Wuest comments that peirazo “referred first to the action of putting someone to the test to see what good or evil is in the one tested, and second, because so many broke down under the test and committed sin, the word came to mean a ‘solicitation to do evil.’ Both meanings are in view here. Our Lord in His incarnation as the Last Adam, was put to the test and was also solicited to do evil (Mt 4:1-11 ‘Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.’)” Kenneth Wuest, Wuest’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980). “Whether the tests become a proof of righteousness or an inducement to evil depends on our response. If we resist in God’s power, the tests becomes a test that proves our faithfulness. If we do not resist in His power (or try to resist in our own power), the test becomes a solicitation to sin. The Bible uses peirazo in both ways.” Quoted from: Precept Austin, “Hebrews 2:18,” http://www.preceptaustin.org/hebrews_218.htm (accessed May 8, 2011).
2. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, (Thomas Nelson, 1985) s.v. “tempt.”
3. The phrase against sin indicates that sin is “personified as an adversary.” The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary; Hebrews 12:4; as quoted by Biblios, http://biblecommenter.com/hebrews/12-4.htm (accessed May 8, 2011).
4. ‘Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.’ The general sense of this passage is, ‘you have not yet been called in your Christian struggles to the highest kind of sufferings and sacrifices. Great as your trials may seem to have been, yet your faith has not yet been put to the severest test. And since this is so, you ought not to yield in the conflict with evil, but manfully resist it.’ In the language used here, there is undoubtedly a continuance of the allusion to the agonistic games—the strugglings and wrestlings for mastery there. In those games, the boxers were accustomed to arm themselves for the fight with the caestus. This at first consisted of strong leathern thongs wound around the hands, and extending only to the wrist, to give greater solidity to the fist. Afterward these were made to extend to the elbow, and then to the shoulder, and finally, they sewed pieces of lead or iron in them that they might strike a heavier and more destructive blow. The consequence was, that those who were engaged in the fight were often covered with blood, and that resistance “unto blood” showed a determined courage, and a purpose not to yield. But though the language here may be taken from this custom, the fact to which the apostle alludes, it seems to me, is the struggling of the Saviour in the Garden of Gethsemane, when his conflict was so severe that, great drops of blood fell down to the ground[—]see the notes on Matthew 26:36-44. It is, indeed, commonly understood to mean that they had not yet been called to shed their blood as martyrs in the cause of religion….” Quoted from Biblios, http://biblecommenter.com/hebrews/12-4.htm (accessed May 8, 2011).
1. It is important to state that I am not teaching Universalism, which claims that God will eventually bring to Heaven those who are in hell. While all sin has been forgiven, hell will be filled with those who chose to reject forgiveness rather than receive forgiveness by faith and repentance. Forgiveness is a gift, and many people choose not to receive this gift.
2. Merriam-Webster Online, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 2011, s.v. “condemn,” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condemn (accessed December 30, 2011).
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., s.v. “conviction,” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conviction (accessed December 30, 2011).
1. Neil Anderson, Victory Over the Darkness (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2000), 42.
1. Pastor Harvey Carey shared this at Niagara Conference 2003.
2. Charisma Magazine (December 2010), 60.
3. Ibid., 50.
4. Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, and Mike Yorkey, Every Man’s Battle (Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, 2000), 62.
5. Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth (Shelley Lubben Communications, 2010), 7.
1. Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth (Shelley Lubben Communications, 2010), 10, quoting April Garris, “Myth 2 Exposed,” The Porn Effect Blog, http://www.whodoesithurt.com/april-garris/177-april-garris.
2. Very Young Girls, directed by David Shisgall and Nina Alvarez, produced by Swinging T Productions, 2007.
3. Constance Bernard et al., (Old Dominion University Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice), “Exotic Dancers: Gender Differences in Societal Reaction, Subcultural Ties, and Conventional Support,” http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol10is1/bernard.pdf (accessed April 18, 2011).
4. Susan K. Flinn, “Child Sexual Abuse I: An Overview,” Advocates for Youth, January, 1995, http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=410&Itemid=336 (accessed July 27, 2011).
5. “Who Are the Victims?” Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims (accessed July 27, 2011).
6. “SeXXX Business Statistics,” Cross Cultural Connections, http://crossculturalconnections.org/documents/sex_stats.pdf (accessed March 27, 2011).
7. Jonathan Welton, Normal Christianity (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2011), 12.