Window on the World - Cybersin

Excerpt: 'Every year in February I like to open a window on the world of love and romance. This year I want to speak with you about the single greatest threat to romantic love in America today, and possibly in human history. I refer, of course, to the ready availability of internet pornography.

...Unless this sin is mortified—that is to say, unless it is put to death (see Gal. 5:24; Col. 3:5)—it will only intensify. Pornography makes greater and greater demands until finally it becomes a life-dominating sin. As one of the Puritans said, sexual pictures secretly convey poison to the soul. Now they are only a mouse click away—a click that may eventually lead a man or a woman straight to hell.

What is God's plan for putting pornography to death?'

The Window on the World is our weekly opportunity to examine our culture from the vantage point of biblical Christianity.

Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.

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