When We Understand The Text
Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God, He created him; male and female he created them.” There are only two genders, or sexes if you will. Male and female. That’s it. Science affirms what the Bible says—a male is born with XY chromosomes and a …
You know the story of David and Bathsheba, right? David took a walk on his roof one afternoon, and saw Bathsheba bathing. So he had her brought to him and spent the night with her. Bathsheba sent word to David that she was pregnant. So to cover the affair, David had her husband Uriah …
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 says, “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated …
Would you stand at someone’s window and watch them have sex? Whoa, pretty shocking question, right? That probably took you by surprise. Yet it didn’t bother you last night when you were watching Game of Thrones, or anything else with a gratuitous sexual scene. Watching that is the same as if you were to …
JD Greear (quoting Jen Wilkin): “‘We ought to whisper about what the Bible whispers about, and we ought to shout about what it shouts about.’ And the Bible appears more to whisper when it comes to sexual sin compared to its shouts about materialism and religious pride.” It’s religious pride to preach the Bible …
At a Las Vegas concert, Lady Gaga ripped on Vice President Mike Pence because his wife works at a Christian school that does not allow gay students and requires employees to affirm a biblical view of marriage. Imagine! A Christian school that teaches what the Bible says. Yet Lady Gaga said, “You are the …
Burning Man is an annual week-long festival held in the middle of a dessert, and gets its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy. When you go to the Burning Man website, it says, “Burning Man is not a festival.” Oh, my bad. It must have been the costumes, live music, …
In John 8:1-11, we read the story of a woman caught in the act of adultery, and she was brought before Jesus teaching in the temple. The Pharisees said, “Teacher, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him. If He said, “Let her go,” he’d …
Matthew Vines is the founder of The Reformation Project, which has nothing to do with the protestant reformation. It’s an attempt to “reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity.” Vines authored a book entitled God and the Gay Christian in which he attempts to argue that God is actually for homosexuality. In …
If you watch porn, and know you need to stop looking at nude people and masturbating to them, there’s a simple solution for ending this lurid obsession with the flesh. You won’t have to take notes or remember some cutesy acronym. Here it is: Stop looking at porn. It’s that simple, and you know …
The Bible says those who practice sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God, but will be cast into eternal fire. “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, …
Jesus never said anything condemning homosexuality, so that must mean it’s okay, right? Well, based on that argument, you could also say that Jesus never condoned it either, so that must mean it’s wrong. There are actually a lot of things Jesus didn’t say. (He also didn’t say pedophilia is wrong, but surely you …