Brenda Rodgers

Category: Purity

  • FREEDOM: For When You Awaken Love Too Early

    “I am guilty. Ashamed of what I’ve done, what I’ve become. These hands are dirty. I dare not lift them up to the Holy one. You plead my cause. You right my wrongs. You break my chains. You overcome. You gave Your life. To give me mine. You say that I am free – how can it be? How can it be?

    I’ve been hiding. Afraid I’ve let you down, inside I doubt that You still love me, but in Your eyes there’s only grace now.”

    The lyrics above are from a beautiful song by artist Lauren Daigle titled ‘How Can It Be’. Have you ever said those words?

    Have you ever felt so guilty that God couldn’t love you?
    Have you ever felt so dirty that you couldn’t worship our Savior?

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  • Can You Accept “Purity” as a Part of Your Name?

    My name is not an exciting conversation starter. It’s not linked to another name. There is no family history revealing quirky or interesting facts about how my parents came to name me. The name “Katie”, however, is a variant of Katherine. I learned very quickly that it means “pure”.

    For a long time I didn’t quite get the meaning of pure. I used to pride myself on being a good person. To me, “good” was close enough to pure. I knew that I sinned, but I never sinned “badly”, in my eyes. I rarely made my parents angry when I was younger. I was quiet, timid, shy and out of everyone’s hair. To me, that was important.

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  • Pulling Back the Shades {Combatting Fifty Shades of Grey} :: A Book Review

    It’s been two years since I wrote the post How to Talk about Fifty Shades of Grey and then the follow-up post about a reader’s experience – Fifty Shades of Grey – A True Story. Without being able to verbalize the theology or biology behind our sexuality and how it is affected by books like this, I knew Fifty Shades of Grey was destructive. All you have to do is read the words of the woman who wrote me right after my first post published. She knows firsthand.

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  • How to Talk about Fifty Shades of Grey

    ** Since the time Fifty Shades of Grey was published, Dannah Gresh and Dr. Julie Flattery wrote a book called Pulling Back the Shades which explains in detail the harmful effects of erotica. Read my review here.

    A blogger friend wrote a much needed post last week entitled Fifty Shades of Grey: the Phenon, the Invasion, and the Preparation. My post today comes as a response to her post.

    Before I even begin I will say that I have not read this book, and this is not a book I would ever read. Mainly because it is a form of pornography, but also because I’ve never been much into pop culture – even as a teenager. I haven’t read the Twilight series, and I don’t know about the Hunger Games. And it’s not a Christian thing either. Pop culture’s just not something I’ve ever been into.  Weird, right? I’m just not cool like that.

    But I have heard here and there about this new book sweeping through the minds of women across the country. Or should I say burying in the minds of women across the country? Because that is what is actually happening.

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