This post is part of The Reformation Symposium A preacher once said, “Love is the most prostituted word in the English language.” What he was referring to was the overuse, misuse, and even abuse of the word. No matter what language we speak, our present use of the word “love” has been watered down in every culture. As we all know, “talk is cheap” and “actions speak louder than words”...

I recall a story about a lady who lived her life under severe stress due to her past sin. She was a young teenager who buckled under the pressure of sexual sin and lost her virginity at a very early age. She lived her entire life with a great feeling of uncleanness as a result of her sin. As a young adult twelve years after her sin, she was taking showers 3-4 times per day in order to escape the reality of her sin. The need to be...