Ken Roach, Stuart Hall, Dave Lee Travis and many other celebrities from the 60s, 70s and 80s are all in the news for the wrong reasons just now. Following on from the Jimmy Saville scandal a string of well known public faces have been found to have found their past exposed for all to see. Sexual abuse, under age sex and indecent assault are among the offenses that have been said to have taken place and in some cases admitted.
All those named above are men, but lust and sexual desire isn't just a guy problem — it's a human problem. And we don't need to have committed a crime to know that our desires are all too often outside God's design. Sexual intimacy needs to be rescued from lust so we can experience it as God intended.
Joshua Harris says our generation is one bombarded by images of sexual sin. In his book Sex is not the Problem (Lust is) he shares his own struggles and suggests ways to fight back against lust with your own personal plan.
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Dean is the Sales Manager at The Good Book Company. He engages with churches, organizations and individuals to provide them with useful resources for their varying ministries. Dean attends St John's Church in Woking, where he lives with his family.
