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IF SEX IS GOOD, WHY IS IT "NU GBEGBLI": A BAD THING? A CSBM Guide to Sacrificial LOVE, Mutual Pleasure, Healing, and Hope in Christian Marriage Many Christians were taught to associate sex with shame, silence, or something corrupt. Yet GOD created the human body, marriage, and marital intimacy before sin entered the world. This biblically grounded and research-informed eBook helps Christian adults and married couples examine intimacy through truth, mutual consent, mutual pleasure, sacrificial LOVE, healing, and hope through CHRIST JESUS. EPUB eBook Price: $9.99 USD ISBN: 979-8-9994004-9-9 After payment is confirmed, the EPUB eBook will be delivered electronically by Biblical Health Center Inc. The downloaded eBook belongs to the reader permanently. This purchase does not include a printed book or shipping! Buy eBook for $9.99 About the Author Messenger K. Hezekiah Scipio-Akpabla, Ph.D., M.S., is a Christian author,...

HEARING GOD IN THE SILENCE OF APHASIA: Spirituality, Aphasia, and Person-Centered Rehabilitation speaks to people whose words have been changed by stroke or another brain injury, and to the families, caregivers, ministers, and health professionals who walk beside them. Aphasia may disrupt speaking, understanding, reading, or writing. It does not erase intelligence, identity, spirituality, dignity, memory, purpose, or the capacity to LOVE and be loved. “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.” Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV) Aphasia Is a Language Disorder Aphasia is an acquired language disorder, commonly caused by stroke. A person may know what they want to say but struggle to retrieve or arrange the words. Speech may become slow, incomplete, or different from what the person intended. Reading and writing may also require more time. Communication difficulty must never be mistaken for lack of intelligence, faith, awareness, or humanity. Patient listeners...

Biblical Health Monthly is a free, accessible publication of Biblical Health Center Inc. Nonprofit. It brings together CHRIST JESUS-centered biblical reflection, responsible scholarship, lived experience, health education, and compassionate service. The publication is designed for readers in homes, churches, hospitals, rehabilitation settings, nursing homes, assisted-living communities, group homes, classrooms, correctional settings, and communities around the world. Digital distribution makes each issue available beyond geographic and physical boundaries. What Readers Can Expect CHRIST JESUS-centered biblical reflection CSBM Lifestyle Formation Sacrificial LOVE, sacrificial LOVING, and forgivingness Christian hope and responsible health stewardship Aging, healthspan, aphasia, disability, and accessibility Mental-health education and appropriate crisis referral Caregiving, compassionate support, and Kingdom service Carefully reviewed books, articles, and research-related...

Aging, disability, and aphasia do not erase a person’s dignity, calling, intelligence, or capacity for meaningful service. Christian hope does not deny loss. It faces suffering truthfully while trusting that a person’s life remains precious before GOD through every season. “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13 (NKJV) Life After the Stroke In 2018, the stroke resulted in aphasia. Aphasia can affect speaking, understanding, reading, or writing, but it does not make the person less human or automatically remove intelligence. Communication may become slower, especially under stress. Words may be difficult to retrieve even when meaning remains alive within the person. My own journey after the stroke continued through education, ministry, scholarship, and writing. In May 2026, at age 86, I earned a PhD in Counseling and Psychological Studies from Regent University. I do not present this accomp...

Sacrificial LOVE and forgivingness belong near the heart of Christian living because CHRIST JESUS did not present LOVE as a private feeling. HE commanded HIS followers to embody LOVE in relationship, service, truth, mercy, and costly faithfulness. “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12 (NKJV) Sacrificial LOVE and Sacrificial LOVING The two expressions are closely related, but they emphasize different dimensions. Sacrificial LOVE names the enduring divine principle, disposition, and gift: LOVE that seeks another person’s true good even when faithfulness carries a cost. Sacrificial LOVING names the continuing practice of that LOVE: listening, serving, telling the truth with compassion, keeping appropriate commitments, protecting the vulnerable, and choosing mercy rather than vengeance. Sacrifice does not mean surrendering truth, accepting abuse, or remaining in danger. Christian LOVE can require firm boundaries, accountability, pro...

Contemplative Systematic Biblical Meditation (CSBM) Lifestyle Formation is a CHRIST JESUS-centered framework for translating sustained meditation upon Scripture into faithful daily living. It invites people not merely to read a biblical passage, but to remain with it prayerfully, understand it responsibly, and allow its truth to shape attitudes, relationships, habits, service, and hope. Why “Lifestyle Formation”? CSBM is concerned with the whole pattern of life. The goal is not a momentary emotional experience or a promise of instant change. The goal is continuing formation under the authority of GOD through CHRIST JESUS. Biblical meditation becomes visible when Scripture influences how we LOVE, forgive, speak, respond to stress, care for the body, serve neighbors, and wait faithfully. “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night.” Joshua 1:8 (NKJV) The Meaning of the Name Contemplative describes attentive, prayerful ref...