In this episode Tony shares an intriguing story from I Samuel chapters 4 & 5 in the bible... and then applies that story to the topic of SEX!
In this story... the pagan Philistines defeated Israel in battle and captured the Ark of God. They brought the Ark into the temple of their pagan god... Dagon.
The next morning their huge statue of Dagon had fallen over and was laying on his face... before the Ark of God. So they stood him back up.
The next morning Dagon had fallen over again... and was laying on his face before the Ark of God... only this time his head was broken off... and his hands were broken off!
Then a great plague broke out against the people of that city... so they moved the Ark of God to another city.
When the plague broke out in that city... they moved the Ark of God. again... to a third city.
When the plague broke out in that city... they finally sent the Ark of God back to Israel!
What does this intriguing story in the bible teach us about SEX!
Well... if you listen to this episode you'll find out Tony's application.
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed. Luke 20:18
Episodes 153 & 154 of The Power of Purity Podcast were entitled... The Human Brain, Neuroplasticity & Porn Addiction.
In those 2 episodes Tony did his best to explain the connection between a man's struggle with porn... and his own brain.
As those episodes came to a close Tony promised to try to find a brain expert to interview further on this important subject... and todays episode... and the last... are the fulfillment of that promise.
Dr. Leonard Matheson is a neurorehabilitation psychologist who helps people recover from devastating trauma. He’s taught at major medical schools in North America and Europe – including 15 years as a professor and scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Missouri.
In addition... Dr. Matheson was most recently an adjunct professor of counseling at Covenant Theological Seminary.
Dr. Matheson has been a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, the Social Security Administration, the US Congress, and hundreds of rehabilitation centers and governmental agencies in the United States, Canada, and other countries.
Dr. Matheson’s has written more than 120 scientific papers… and textbook chapters in the American Medical Association’s definitive textbook entitled… Disability Evaluation... and he has written a book entitled… Your Faithful Brain.
In this fascinating interview Dr. Matheson helps us understand the powerful connection between porn addiction and the human brain... and the reality that when a man is struggling with porn... he's literally in the fight of his life... with his own brain!
In addition... Dr. Matheson helps us to understand how the Apostle Paul himself actually understood and taught the concept of neuroplasticity!
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
Your Faithful Brain - Dr. Leonard Matheson
Your Faithful Brain Ignited - Dondra Agovino and Gina Birkemeier
Episodes 153 & 154 of The Power of Purity Podcast were entitled... The Human Brain, Neuroplasticity & Porn Addiction.
In those 2 episodes Tony did his best to explain the connection between a man's struggle with porn... and his own brain.
As those episodes came to a close Tony promised to try to find a brain expert to interview further on this important subject... and todays episode... and the next... are the fulfillment of that promise.
Dr. Leonard Matheson is a neurorehabilitation psychologist who helps people recover from devastating trauma. He’s taught at major medical schools in North America and Europe – including 15 years as a professor and scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Missouri.
In addition... Dr. Matheson was most recently an adjunct professor of counseling at Covenant Theological Seminary.
Dr. Matheson has been a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, the Social Security Administration, the US Congress, and hundreds of rehabilitation centers and governmental agencies in the United States, Canada, and other countries.
Dr. Matheson’s has written more than 120 scientific papers… and textbook chapters in the American Medical Association’s definitive textbook entitled… Disability Evaluation... and he has written a book entitled… Your Faithful Brain.
In this fascinating interview Dr. Matheson helps us understand the powerful connection between porn addiction and the human brain... and the reality that when a man is struggling with porn... he's literally in the fight of his life... with his own brain!
In addition... Dr. Matheson helps us to understand how the Apostle Paul himself actually understood and taught the concept of neuroplasticity!
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
Your Faithful Brain - Dr. Leonard Matheson
Your Faithful Brain Ignited - Dondra Agovino and Gina Birkemeier
Belah Rose is a wife... a mom... an author... an intimacy coach... and the producer of the Delight Your Marriage Podcast!
Through the Delight Your Marriage Podcast... Blah interviews guests... and shares information and wisdom on a variety of topics including... relationships... marriage... intimacy... sensuality... sexuality... femininity... self-image... and self-improvement.
Belah's heart to help women in the areas that so many women struggle with... was born from the deepest hurt... pain... and failures of her own life.
* A first marriage that included emotional, physical, spiritual, and sexual abuse
* A divorce
* Doubts and disappointments in God
* A period of significant promiscuity
* An unexpected pregnancy out of wedlock
* A husband who wasn't interested in spiritual things
* Guilt
* Regret
* Loneliness
* Shame
Belah is an amazing example that reveals God's incredible ability to heal and redeem deeply broken people... and deeply broken marriages!
By God’s IMMENSE grace, I transformed my past and started teaching Christian women how they can do the same: I see them feel powerful and sexy and become fully whole in their marriage and honor their divinely feminine essence to witness their husband transform into the man they have wished and prayed that he would become. Belah Rose
In this episode... among other things... Tony and Belah talk about "Masculine Sex" and "Feminine Sex"... and how these two aspects of sex complete God's design for sex within marriage.
Belah Rose is a wife... a mom... an author... an intimacy coach... and the producer of the Delight Your Marriage Podcast!
Through the Delight Your Marriage Podcast... Blah interviews guests... and shares information and wisdom on a variety of topics including... relationships... marriage... intimacy... sensuality... sexuality... femininity... self-image... and self-improvement.
Belah's heart to help women in the areas that so many women struggle with... was born from the deepest hurt... pain... and failures of her own life.
* A first marriage that included emotional, physical, spiritual, and sexual abuse
* A divorce
* Doubts and disappointments in God
* A period of significant promiscuity
* An unexpected pregnancy out of wedlock
* A husband who wasn't interested in spiritual things
* Guilt
* Regret
* Loneliness
* Shame
Belah is an amazing example that reveals God's incredible ability to heal and redeem deeply broken people... and deeply broken marriages!
By God’s IMMENSE grace, I transformed my past and started teaching Christian women how they can do the same: I see them feel powerful and sexy and become fully whole in their marriage and honor their divinely feminine essence to witness their husband transform into the man they have wished and prayed that he would become. Belah Rose