Keeping the Inside Clean as the Outside

When we were first married, we had a dusty old vacuum cleaner—nothing like the modern HEPA filter vacuum cleaners you can get today.  With that cleaner, every time you vacuumed the house you’d find that you could hardly breathe.  And taking in that much dust—it can’t be good for you. It reminds me a lot [...]

We Have it Backwards!

Our culture amazes me sometimes.  A century or so ago, even the scandalous shows on the wrong side of town that were designed to tantalize men and were considered to be incredibly immodest featured women dressed much more modestly than many women today dress in public. Men used to have to pay money just to see [...]

The Purity of Your Motive Does Not Negate the Effects Of Your Actions

One of the highest forms of pride is the idea that I need only be concerned about myself and that I need not worry about those around me or how my actions will affect them.  We see this in young children all the time—they want what they want when they want it, and if they [...]

Purity vs. Puritanism

Purity, I fear, has gotten mixed up in people’s minds with the caricature of Puritanism, which, in the popular imagination, is a dour, brittle revolt against all the pleasures of the flesh. Puritans were in fact very earthy people, robust in their affirmation of life, not by any means ‘Victorian’ (another word grossly misunderstood today [...]

More Than Just Clothing

We spend so much time on this site talking about clothing that I think that it’s important to remember that modesty is more than just clothing.  It’s an external expression of an internal state.  It’s a desire to show who we are instead of what we are—and who we are should be something pure! I [...]

Are You Pure?

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Guard Your Heart

  Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23 I don’t think we realize just how important  it is to guard our hearts. I believe it is so important to understand this at as young an age as possible. Guarding our hearts protects us from heartache, regret, and [...]

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