Here is the resource bibliography that accompanied the development of the recent preaching series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality." I utilized many resources for specific messages within this series, and many, but not all, of those are included in this bibliography. Bibliography for "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality": Alberry, …
Restoration and Embodied Sexuality
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I concluded our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," focusing on the fourth chapter of God's Good Story: the Restoration of all things. I spent a lot of attention in this message on Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 15, which draw together Adam and fallen human bodies …
A Thanksgiving Prayer of Walter Rauschenbusch
O God, we thank you for this earth, our home; For the wide sky and the blessed sun, For the salt sea and the running water, For the everlasting hills And the never-resting winds, For trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses By which we hear the songs of birds, …
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Michelangelo, The Last Judgment
Asking Better Questions: Marva Dawn on a Sexual Ethics of Character
Here is Marva Dawn halfway through her marvelous book Sexual Character: Beyond Technique to Intimacy on the ways in which an ethics of character, or virtue ethics, aptly shapes our engagement with love, sexuality, and the body: The main task of ethics is to enable us to ask better questions about the issues of our day. An …
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