Purity helps us make wise choices, even in a tempting situation, but purity and self-control walk hand in hand.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

If you've got self-control, you'll find there are a whole lot of situations you never end up in.

Because you've made wise, restrained choices on the front end, with your tongue, with your eyes, with your spirit, with your physical touch.

It's Friday, June 9th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Yesterday. Yesterday, Nancy taught us about modesty from First Timothy. We saw that modesty and self-control complement one another.

Now, let's take a closer look at self-control, as Nancy continues in a series called The Attractive Christian Woman.

Somebody sent me an article a week or so ago from the New York Times called She's Got to Be a Macho Girl.

Let me read the first part of that article.

It says John Bernard is 16, strapping, handsome,

a hormonal hot pocket of a teenager. Guys like him were once every father's nightmare. No longer.

The girls are way more aggressive than the boys, John said during his 11 a.m. lunch period

last Monday at his high school as a half-dozen girls buzzed around him.

They have more attitude. They have more power. And they overpower guys more. I mean, it's scary.

It's a 16-year-old boy. Then the writer goes on to say, after a half century during which

generations of young women were advised to never even call a boy on the telephone, it's

now teenage girls who not only do the calling, but who often initiate romantic and even sexual

activity. Whether they are influenced by the trickle-down effects of feminism, which has taught

girls to be assertive in all areas of life, or have internalized the images of sexually powerful women

in popular culture, American girls are more daring than ever. The teenage boys I see often say

the girls push them for sex and expect them to ask them for sex and will bring it up if the

boys don't ask, said Tabby Upton, a counselor at the Johnson

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