Nikolay – preacher, teens ministry, single Jimmy – father, husband to 4, serial entrepreneur Cory – entrepreneur, married, father of 2 & Cory (IG Live) Andy – married, father of 1, entrepreneur Mateo – youth leader, single Hunter – husband, pastor, manager And comment below for points!

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We all reach a certain age of awareness. There is no particular set age for it. Sometimes, it comes unbeckoned in many different cases. It won't be the elephant in the room type experience. It is like age itself. It sneaks up on you over time. We go through a continuous cycle of change—some for the good and some for the bad. The first awareness comes when we are young and still brand new. We quickly discover that to get attention, a good old-fashioned temper tantrum renders impressive results. We find that screaming like a wounded animal always gets the quickest response. We all have our personal and unique delivery system as we blurt out gibberish. It is a baby's brand and style of speaking in tongues. It must be somewhat spiritual since we always say "Hallelujah" or Thank you, God" when the screaming stops. We claim our independence and our rage in different ways. For example, the true mark of a child's rebellion is telling our parents "no." We cannot ponder the consequences of doing such a thing, so we do it. It is that urgency to tell someone off regardless of their position of authority or the pecking order of controlled chaos. But we outgrow all of that, don't we? The short answer is no, we don't. We still take temper tantrums. When is the last time you cursed or threw something across the room? We have given these emotional outbursts names and placed them in categories. Road rage, a middle finger salute, cussing someone until they are black and blue. The categories of expression are endless. However, do not worry; man has created a pill to help us suppress those things. Things have changed over the years. Webster would have non-stop anxiety attacks if you could see how we have twisted words and their definitions. The phrase I just mentioned is a good example. People used to have "nervous breakdowns". We must have cured that one since you never hear that expression nowadays. Now we have panic or anxiety attacks. When I was a kid, you used to ask your grandparents, "How are you feeling today"? Their typical response, if they were feeling well, would be, "I feel rather gay today, and you?" Or if they saw you do something less than intelligent, they would often remark, "That boy has lost his ball in some high weeds."The whole point is that we are children growing old, as I pointed out some time ago in a poem I wrote called "Tears". May your later years be greater than your former! Whatever your dreams are, it’s not too late. Keep pursuing them with great zeal and anticipation. J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan includes the quote, "Even though you want to try to, never grow up".

According to my knowledge of the Word of God, lust is a sin in the simplest way of understanding what it is according to the Word of God. It's part of the Sin Nature or the Old man's ways because it's ungodly and sinful to lust after a woman or women in your heart. But it can be worse than that it can lead to several ways of undressing women in your mind. For instance, if a man is over-fantasizing, dreaming, reminiscing, and many other things to please his sexual craving for sex. Lust can lead to just more than having these things in the mind but also seeking to fulfill them by finding and sleeping with women or watching these things. Watching or having anything outside of marriage is lust and is a sin. You’re not supposed to marry just to do that because it's seeking fulfillment of desire and marrying what you're idolizing. You marry them with the idea that your cravings will be met timely and often as needed. That is an abomination in the sight of God. You can not live in sin and be comfortable living in sexual immorality. Do not misunderstand that sex is a sin, but having sex in your heart or with someone outside of marriage is a sin. Sex is only for a man and a woman who are evenly yoked as believers under a covenant with God. This is how we know sex is a gift or a blessing from God and is pleasing in His sight. Salsanblues a Reddit user stated: "Feeling attraction is not sinful. Feeling sexual desire is not sinful... None of these things are sinful on their own, they are part of God's design. Lust, in its most basic, is the objectification of another person for your selfish pleasure. It's a one-sided sexual act/fantasy that you CHOOSE, which is outside of the consent of the other party. They keep teaching men that they are no better than animals and that acknowledging attraction or sexual interest is lust. It's not. Then they tell women that it's their responsibility to prevent the men around them from lusting and that their bodies insight lust. (My comment "A woman is responsible for her appearance aka modesty and speaks.) Which is reducing women to the sum of their body parts instead of seeing them as whole people, worthy of respect and sisters in Christ. When you see a super attractive woman in the street, or on the bus, just living life, it's fine to acknowledge that she's attractive. But lust is when you stop caring about her as a person, see her body as something to consume, and use her for your pleasure regardless of her consent.

Guys - I want to get to know you more, serve you better. Will be doing a workshop next 📆 Friday afternoon or Saturday AM. 💬 What topic would most benefit you? 1. Renewing the mind 2. building healthy friendships 3. figuring out root cause of lust 4. Time management 5. Sleep, dopamine, food - how it all works. 6. Comment below any other topic you’d like to discuss! Most commented topic, or liked topic wins… 👌🏻