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Topics: Tithing, Separation, Secrets, Alcoholics
Hosts: Steve Arterburn, Dr. Dave Stoop, Dr. Sheri Denham
Caller Questions:
- Will God honor my small tithe? My husband is not a Christian.
- I have been separated from my “perfect” husband for 2 years; is there hope?
- Should I keep a secret about myself?
- My husband stopped being social when he quit drinking.
Suggested Resources:
Healing Is a Choice
Forgiving the Unforgivable
Life Recovery Bible
Link to New Life Live: January 24, 2012
January 24, 2012 at 1:48 pm
I really appreciated the comments you made on the Jan 24 broadcast re:secrets.
My very first sexual feelings and experience were initiated by a neighbor boy. I was 11, I think,, and he was a couple years older. I am a middle aged man now and have felt gender confusion and shame because I enjoyed the feelings. After the first time I allowed again and, on some level, I encouraged it. It went on for about a year. After a few encounters, I had my first climax in this environment and felt immediate and confusing loss of interest. Not too long after that I stopped contact with him. But those first experiences set me up, I believe, for a life of sexual struggle and confusion about my own manhood.Thank you for bringing up the guilt over “enjoying” the experience we really didn’t understand.
January 25, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I really hope the caller who is separated from her husband finds the courage in Christ to put an end to the current interaction with him. It will be so freeing for her and for him as well. I also pray that she can then give that hope to other women who find themselves in similar self-degrading situations. I for one can see some of myself in her, although I’ve never experienced it, I have put up with things out of fear of being alone.
You have my prayers.