A4P Guest: “I’m 22 years old and my boyfriend is 27 years old. We’ve been dating now for a year. We both are born-again Christians and involved in our church youth ministry. We embrace the teaching of biblical abstinence and we also teach teenagers in our church about abstinence (refraining from sex before marriage). Even if at times it is tough to control ourselves, we’ve never had sex before and we don’t have a plan to do so before marriage. However we both came to the Appeal for Purity Facebook page recently and became convicted of the fact that we have been engaged in what you call “mini-sex” since day one. We always kiss and touch each other’s body whenever we see each other. We both talked about this thing and decided to stop it but the harder we try; the harder it gets for us to stop. What do you advise us to do to stop this mini-sex addiction which eventually leads us into a full blow sex?” Continue reading Mini-sex before Marriage
Day of Rest!
Whenever I think of a Sunday morning, I think of what we all will do in heaven.
All our days in heaven are going to be Sabbath Days! Can you comprehend that? I can’t but I love to think about it! Just seeing Jesus face to face and worshiping Him from eternity to eternity! Wow!
The Bible says, “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.” Hebrews 4:9
Rest means for us, being accepted by God through Christ to be with Him from eternity to eternity. And when He keeps us next to Him, how can we just stand before Him without giving Him all the worship He deserves to receive? Continue reading Day of Rest!
These two girls need your vote!
Guys, we need your vote! These two girls worked very hard to get to this point!
I kindly ask all of you to take part in this. Take few minutes and vote! The winner will take $500 and the runner up will take $100. Make one of these gorgeous girls “Queen of Modesty!” We are waiting for all of you to cast your vote!
Let us all bring back Modesty to our local churches!
Vote for the Modesty Queen of the “The Ester’s Kind of Modesty Competition”
Please follow these 3 simple steps to vote:
1. Click the link here http://appealforpurity.businesscatalyst.com/index.html
2. Watch the video
3. Vote
We will make known the final result on May 23.
All praises, honors and glories be to our Lord Jesus Christ! ///
Don’t forget to vote!
Voting starts at mid-night (May 1st) and ends on May 22 mid-night. The voting system is very friendly, means when you click it, you will automatically know what do!
Remember, your participation makes modesty famous in our Christian community! ///
Dating and Marriage
A4P Guest: I’m a 36 year-old woman and I’ve been dating a man (38 years old) for a couple years now. We both are born again Christians. This year, I was expecting him to propose to me but he doesn’t even talk about marriage at all. I told him in several occasions how much I desire to get married. But he usually changes the subject and avoids it totally. What do you advise me to do?
A4P: I have few questions for you before I jump into answering your questions. So, what do you mean when you say you are dating a man? How do you define dating? How does dating look like in your relationship?
A4P Guest: I mean, just dating, nothing else. We see each other almost every day and we speak on the phone almost every night before we go to bed. Continue reading Dating and Marriage
Oh, Denver, I love Your Mountains!
It is always good to be back to Maryland to be with my Berhan and kids. Continue reading Oh, Denver, I love Your Mountains!
The Denver Program Detail
For those of you who are planning to come to the Denver program I’m going to have this weekend, here is the flyer the church has prepared.
If you have a teenager, please send them over for the Saturday whole day program. We are going out of the city for the whole day! It is going to be a fun time!
If you are married, don’t miss the Sunday afternoon program. Your marriage won’t be the same again because I saw it many times for me to conclude that God loves to invite Himself in all marriage conferences. He will touch you and your marriage. ///
The best and the most effective way – – –
– – – to deal with the evil spirit when he strikes is by running to the True Shepherd of our soul, Jesus Christ; by seeking Him day and night as a deer pants, desires and seeks for the water! (Psalm 42:1; James 4:8)
After all, Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life! He is the Bread of Life! (John 14:6a, John 6:35 & 48) Without Him, there is no eternal life because He said, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6b ///
Those who are in Christ will rise first!
As you all might have already heard, there is a mourning vigilant across Ethiopia for three days starting today to remember the Ethiopian Christian martyrs who had fallen in the hands of ISIS. So, today, Tuesday, April 21, 2015, I and all the A4P ministers want to dedicate the Appeal for Purity Ministry Facebook page for that purpose only.
Not to mourn, which we all are doing right now, but also to celebrate the lives of our brothers who courageously stood on their faith and laid their lives down. We all are sad to see them depart from this life like this, at this age but God is in control of everything; and we know that the Bible says: “Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13) We don’t grieve like the world because WE HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST JESUS! Continue reading Those who are in Christ will rise first!