This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our series on 1 Thessalonians entitled "Hope Rising: 1 Thessalonians for Today." This third week of the series I preached from 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 on how the sacred fire of holy hope shapes the way we live our everyday lives. You can find the message outline and video …
Preaching on Sexuality: A Theological Framework
Last week I had the privilege of joining Matt Woodley of Preaching Today to talk about "Preaching on Sexuality: A Theological Framework" as part of the Monday Morning Preacher podcast. We talked about the the challenges and opportunities of preaching on sexuality, gender, love, and the body. A good deal of the conversation is a reflection …
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Bibliography for Love-Sex-Body series
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 …
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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