Do you want a purer, cleaner life before God?

Are you struggling with pornography or other sexual sin?

Do you want to learn more about how to overcome temptation?

Safe Families is offering a program called Toward Sexual Purity. The purpose of this group is to help participants experience freedom and healing in the realm of sexual behavior. Through teaching, prayer, and group interaction, the men will graduate having learned the basics of maintaining a lifestyle that promotes integrity, continued growth, and accountability, the goal being to decrease the likelihood of relapse or stagnation.

My Story

I don't really know when it began. Or even why.

I was brought up in a wonderful Christian home with two parents who fully imparted God's love to me, and nurtured in the faith by an excellent Bible-believing church. I came to know and love Jesus in a very authentic relationship in early childhood.

I didn't struggle with most of the temptations urban teenagers encounter: drugs, alcohol, cheating at school, fighting, stealing. I had a superego the size of a Wal-Mart. Yet, sexual fantasy was a challenge for me, a source of incredible guilt and torment. Fortunately, through high school, I had limited exposure to explicit material.

...AND I FOUND MYSELF...

Let the record show: I don't think that gospel music has gone too far. And there are plenty of contemporary Praise & Worship songs that I like. And I have no quarrel with Christian hip-hop. But I cut my spiritual eye teeth on hymns, the old traditional, multi-verse, theology-packed statements of faith with rhyming stanzas and one chord per note melodies. And today, these hymns remain a vital component of my spiritual diet.

There are three types of hymns: hymns I like, hymns I don't like, and hymns that make me cry. The other morning, I sat down to the piano with troubled heart and the hymnal decided to open to a category three selection.