Keeping It Real

Stepping into the Surf for the Fifth Year

Passionate tsunami surfers! I’m just keeping it real in this post. How, you may ask? Let me describe three different ways: the content of the blog; the blog’s trajectory; and changes with the comment section. Here we go!

Content Will Continue

Yes, it’s an anniversary! Next month I begin my fifth year of blogging about the Sexual Tsunami. I’ve been told many times there are few others out there writing about such stuff. That’s not quite true, but I know my angle on the topic is a bit niche.

Every time I’ve thought of ceasing this effort and moving on to other things, I’m reminded of an astounding sign from God in the fall of 2020. I had already been contemplating a new blogging effort, and BOOM, God gave me an undeniably clear sign. (Not going to tell you unless you ask. Just ask me in the comments section and I’ll leave a long detailed description.)

There are many varieties of sexual brokenness. As some of you know, I felt prompted by God to write Breaking the Bonds of BDSM: A Manual for Pastors and Counselors ($12 plus shipping—just ask). That may seem more than just a bit niche. Some of that content found its way into articles in Tsunami Surfing, which puzzled some of you (Those can be found here, here, and here). The reason for that effort? There was a void. I could find absolutely no resources online to help with understanding a Christian perspective on the practice of BDSM nor practical guidance on doing any type of inner healing ministry. But if you are helping the sexually broken, you are absolutely going to come across sadomasochism.

Such research needs to continue and this blog is my place to test drive some of that content.

Not only that, there is still much damage from the current Sexual Tsunami and the wreckage continues to pile higher on our shores. The internet provides easy access for children and teens, their eyes ever taking in debauched porn. Even with states passing ID laws for online minors, having a VPN slips right around that barrier. As long as there is an internet with the freedom to post ever more depraved practices, there will be a need to prepare an army.

So the blog content with all its eccentricities will continue. I promise. Perhaps it will become stranger still, given the bizarre flotsam from the Sexual Tsunami.

Trajectory Will Not Waver

If you were listening carefully, you could hear a collective sigh of relief within our culture when Elon Musk purchased Twitter. The thought police were being rounded up and free speech seemed to be making a comeback. And now, with the election of a populist president, it feels as though one can speak their mind about what is true and real. No, men cannot get pregnant and chest feed. Biological men should not be competing against women. Drag Queen story time is not good for kids—or adults! While opposing same-sex marriage still feels like one is spitting into the wind , there seems to be no present danger of being canceled or demonetized for doing so.

Have the thought police actually been handcuffed? Maybe for now, but it won’t last. Here’s why.

The very first official article for Tsunami Surfing was one of my favorites. There I described the prayer request of Pope Benedict XVI given to the worldwide church in his very first homily: “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”

When asked later by his biographer if he was referring to the Vatileaks scandal that had surfaced right before he became pope, he said the following:

The true threat for the church, and thus for the Petrine service, does not come from this sort of episode: it comes instead from the universal dictatorship of apparently humanistic ideologies. Anyone who contradicts this dictatorship is excluded from the basic consensus of society. One hundred years ago, anyone would have thought it absurd to speak of homosexual matrimony. Today those who oppose it are socially excommunicated. The same holds true for abortion and the production of human beings in the laboratory. Modern society intends to formulate an anti-Christian creed: whoever contests it is punished with social excommunication. Being afraid of this spiritual power of the Antichrist is all too natural, and what is truly needed is that the prayers of entire dioceses and of the world church come to the rescue to resist it.¹

If the culture war over gender and sexuality has truly entered a ceasefire, this is not a time for business as usual. Pope Benedict XVI was right: The flag of the AntiChrist includes the counterfeit rainbow which is popping up around the world.

(Pride flags almost always have six or eight colors. The rainbows created by God have seven. Just ask ROY G. BIV.)²

And while many assert the ideological pendulum has finally swung in the direction of truth, I absolutely believe it will swing back with a fury. Those who view sexuality through woke lenses have captured elite universities. They may lay low for now, but they will re-emerge. Count on it.

If anything, now is perhaps the most urgent time to be speaking up to your church leadership about the importance of addressing sexual topics with our teens and equipping people to minister to the sexually broken. Continued vigilance is very much warranted. And so our trajectory must remain.

Leaving Comments

I’ve recently decided to open up the comment section to all subscribers, whether paid or not. Initially I feared internet trolls would leave obscene or hostile comments. Realistically, that’s not going to happen. We have fewer than 550 subscribers. This blog is not much of a target.

God’s people need to discuss issues within a safe community. I believe our comment section can be such a forum.

I may not always respond to all comments, so I trust you will play nice. But genuine engagement with the topics is encouraged.

Peace to you all as we enter Year Five of surfing this Tsunami!

On a side note . . .

The blogposts will continue, but behind the scenes I am doing far less counseling and more writing and training. Currently, I am working on a thirteen week curriculum called The Nehemiah Project. It will facilitate inner healing prayer in the local church for all issues of brokenness, not just sexual issues. If you would like to receive training to offer this curriculum in your local church or if you simply have questions about it, leave a comment or send me an email.

1. Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, “Benedict XVI and the New Totalitarianism” November 18, 2020.

2. The way to remember the colors of the rainbow: ROYGBIV. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.