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The Bible and Homosexuality

Last week, I gave a brief introduction to a Christian perspective on homosexuality with a focus on the fact that we are to show the love of Christ to homosexual people. This week and next I will briefly discuss some Scriptures that address homosexuality in some way. Some time ago I was looking on the website of a gay-friendly church.  This church hosted a seminar on how to deal with the Bible’s claims about homosexuality and introduced it with a quote in which a man from the church asked in essence: “How do we deal with what the Bible says…

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Christianity and Homosexuality

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”  (Mt 22:39) “Love does not delight itself in evil but rejoices in the truth.”  (I Cor 13:6) Praise you, Father that you give your people your love for all.  And praise You, Father, that you give your people a delight for righteousness and truth.  And praise you, Father, that love and righteousness go together. We’ve been discussing issues related to gender, marriage, and sexuality, and within contemporary culture that means that we have to say something about homosexuality.  You would have to be awfully ignorant of Western culture to fail to see that those who…

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Sex Within Marriage

God designed sex and marriage to go together.  Marriage is the union of two souls, and God made sex to be the union of two souls.  Sex communicates marriage and, thus, belongs in marriage.  Everything about sex points to marriage, so we now need to talk about sex within marriage.  I intend to briefly give some principles that apply to the sexual relationship within marriage.  No particular order, and these are not exhaustive.  1.  Sex within marriage is clean and encouraged.  Sometimes Christians bring into their marriage the notion that sexual activity is sinful or dirty.  This is because while…

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Marriage and Sex

SHE: “Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful . . . His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!  I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem . . . that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.” (Song of Solomon 1:17; 2:6-7) HE: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.” (Song of Solomon 2:13) Lord, You have blessed marriage with sex, and you have blessed sex with marriage.  Thank you for putting those blessings together and making our lives richer because of it.  If I am going to talk…

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The Marriage Dance

“Husbands, love your wives . . . (Eph 5:25) “Wives, submit to your husbands . . . (Eph 5:23) Father, let me lead Leanne in love, as Christ would lead His church. I need you for this. One of the biggest problems people have with the Biblical description of marital leadership is that they never consider what Scripture says about that leadership.  They have in mind their own notions of leadership, often from seeing sinful, abusive leaders, and they replace Biblical leadership with their own notions and then proceed to smack down Biblical leadership.  When they do their smack down,…

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