Muscle memory is so important is so many areas of life and especally in sports.
Dancing.
Bowling.
Golf.
Ping Pong.
Tennis.
Swimming.
To become really good at the game you're trying to master, you often need to develop "muscle memory" so you can repeat the proper motion over and over again.
The movement needs to become embedded in your body.
It needs to become instinct and intuition.
You need to be able to do what you need to do, over and over again, without even thinking about it, because if you have to think about it, you're already a step behind where you need to be.
And in much the same way, if we're ever going to be the men of purity that God is calling us to be, we need to develop the "muscle memory" necessary for sexual purity.
In this series Tony shares some important principles that will help you discover how to develop this "muscle memory".
If you practice over and over again, just like your dance steps. and just like your golf swing, the "muscle memory" of your sexual purity will become embedded to the place where you no longer have to even think about it, because you're just doing it without even realizing you're doing it.
Be encouraged.
Don't dive up.
Keep practicing, and you'll develop the "muscle memory" of purity!
Do you remember the movie, Castaway?
In the movie Tom Hanks plays a character named Chuck Noland, who works for Fed Ex.
As the story unfolds, he's involved in a plane crash and he's the sole survior.
He washes ashore on a deserted island and remains stranded there for over 4 years.
His only "companion" is a volleyball he names "Wilson", who he talks to on a regular basis.
He tries several times to escape the island but it's an exercise in futility because of the power of the crashing "waves" that are constatnly coming against him.
Eventually he devises a plan in his attempt to overcome the waves, and he's finally successful.
In much the same way, this story becomes a metaphor for many men who are trapped on the island of sexual compulsion and addiction.
It feels like we're trapped.
It feels like we're in a bondage that we can never escape.
It feels like the constant waves that are coming against us are insurmountable and impossible to overcome.
In this series Tony reflects on this metaphor and shares 11 of the "waves" crashing against men that make it seem like they can never get free from the "island" they've been trapped on.
But even more importantly, Tony shares God's remdey for each one of these waves, and reveals that in the end, just like Chuck Noland, we can escape the island we've been trapped on for years.
Have you been a Castaway?
May you be encouraged and inspired by this series toward the true freedom and rescue God has intended for you!
Do you remember the movie, Castaway?
In the movie Tom Hanks plays a character named Chuck Noland, who works for Fed Ex.
As the story unfolds, he's involved in a plane crash and he's the sole survior.
He washes ashore on a deserted island and remains stranded there for over 4 years.
His only "companion" is a volleyball he names "Wilson", who he talks to on a regular basis.
He tries several times to escape the island but it's an exercise in futility because of the power of the crashing "waves" that are constatnly coming against him.
Eventually he devises a plan in his attempt to overcome the waves, and he's finally successful.
In much the same way, this story becomes a metaphor for many men who are trapped on the island of sexual compulsion and addiction.
It feels like we're trapped.
It feels like we're in a bondage that we can never escape.
It feels like the constant waves that are coming against us are insurmountable and impossible to overcome.
In this series Tony reflects on this metaphor and shares 11 of the "waves" crashing against men that make it seem like they can never get free from the "island" they've been trapped on.
But even more importantly, Tony shares God's remdey for each one of these waves, and reveals that in the end, just like Chuck Noland, we can escape the island we've been trapped on for years.
Have you been a Castaway?
May you be encouraged and inspired by this series toward the true freedom and rescue God has intended for you!
Do you remember the movie, Castaway?
In the movie Tom Hanks plays a character named Chuck Noland, who works for Fed Ex.
As the story unfolds, he's involved in a plane crash and he's the sole survior.
He washes ashore on a deserted island and remains stranded there for over 4 years.
His only "companion" is a volleyball he names "Wilson", who he talks to on a regular basis.
He tries several times to escape the island but it's an exercise in futility because of the power of the crashing "waves" that are constatnly coming against him.
Eventually he devises a plan in his attempt to overcome the waves, and he's finally successful.
In much the same way, this story becomes a metaphor for many men who are trapped on the island of sexual compulsion and addiction.
It feels like we're trapped.
It feels like we're in a bondage that we can never escape.
It feels like the constant waves that are coming against us are insurmountable and impossible to overcome.
In this series Tony reflects on this metaphor and shares 11 of the "waves" crashing against men that make it seem like they can never get free from the "island" they've been trapped on.
But even more importantly, Tony shares God's remdey for each one of these waves, and reveals that in the end, just like Chuck Noland, we can escape the island we've been trapped on for years.
Have you been a Castaway?
May you be encouraged and inspired by this series toward the true freedom and rescue God has intended for you!
In this series of episodes Tony talks about why God invented sex.
God is brilliant.
God is a genius.
The wisdom and power of God are incomprehensible.
At some point in the flow of eternity God decides he's going to create the universe, and humanity.
And just think for a moment about how God could have created humanity if he wanted to.
If God wanted the human race he could have just created 8 billion people all at once, just like he created Adam and Eve.
But for some reason God comes up with this brilliant idea and he decides he's going to create the human race through the procreation of the human race.
So God creates Adam and Eve, and God creates sex.
He designs the male body with the right parts, and the right hormones, and the right nerves, and wires it all together with the male brain to create a sexual creature.
And he creates the femlae body witht he right parts, and the right hormones, and the right nerves, and wires it all together with the female brain to create a sexual creature.
And the male has the ability to become aroused and to become erect, and the female has the ability to become aroused and to lubricate.
And the female has the ability to ovulate and to become pregnant.
And the whole thing is absolutely amazing, and fascinatiing, and mysterious, and wonderful, and delicious.
In this series Tony reveals the 3 primary reasons that God invented sex.
As we gain a proper understanding of what sex is, and why God invented sex, it brings clarity to our hearts and minds and creates the frame of reference that allows us to both express and experinece our sexual gift in a way that's consistence with the very reasons God has given us this wonderful gift!