When is the last time that you were really tempted to sin? Did it feel like gravity was pulling you toward doing something that we wrong? Did it feel like Paul’s words in Romans 7:15-20: For I do not ...

My question is about concupiscence. I was just recently listening to Jimmy Akin and Jordan Cooper, the Lutheran. I come from a conversion of evangelical, worked to my way up studying others than just ...

Well, it depends on what you mean by desire and what you are desiring. The fact that one is attracted to a sexual act that is sinful (and both adultery and sodomy are sinful) is not itself a sin, ...

Concupiscence is one of those words which derives its meaning from the context—specifically the object toward which it is directed. At its core, concupiscence is desire or coveting (epithymia). The ...

A couple weeks ago I gave a paper at the Evangelical Theological Society’s Annual meeting. The paper was part of a seminar on sexual orientation and the topic was: “Is Same-Sex Attraction Sinful?” Two ...

To wish or long for the possession or enjoyment of something that a person's appetite does not presently have. Desires are natural if they proceed from man's inborn lack of what he needs; they are ...