SEX LOVE MARRIAGE
Divorce and Remarriage, Legalism and Grace
If you want to explore a topic that is controversial on many levels within the Christian church, just bring up the topic of divorce and remarriage in the bible and what God allows and doesn't allow. Having been through this experience firsthand, I will tell you that I've studied the [...]
SEX LOVE MARRIAGE, Thoughts
Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage and Ministry
If you’ve made it to this post, there is a good chance you got here by way of a blog I used to do a long time ago over at BlogSpot.com, where I dealt with the theological pretzel of marriage, divorce and remarriage. I was dealing specifically with the topic [...]
FAITH INSPIRATION, Reviews, SEX LOVE MARRIAGE
Book Review – Divorce And The Bible – Colin Hamer
I want first to say that Colin Hamer`s book, “Divorce and the Bible” is a book I highly recommend, even though I don`t agree with all of the conclusions in the book. It’s not the first time I’ve recommended books I don’t agree with completely. It seems that a book can be [...]
SEX LOVE MARRIAGE, Sexuality
Gender Identity And Redemption
I don’t identify in any way as homosexual, trans-sexual, gender-fluid or any other thing than heterosexual. I’m happily married. And I can be honest enough to admit I don’t understand much, either of the identity or of the issues that go along with the trans-sexual- or homosexual-identifying members of our [...]
SEX LOVE MARRIAGE, Thoughts
For Those Who Think Divorce Is Only For Adultery
Most evangelical Christians today think that divorce and remarriage are allowed for adultery and desertion of the marriage by the unbeliever, and not for any other reason, such as abuse. There are many different positions on divorce and remarriage in the church, though the one mentioned above is certainly the most prominent one. [...]
Analysis, SEX LOVE MARRIAGE
A Curious Dance – Gay Rights And Islam
I read an interesting blog a while back – it is was little blurb written by a conservative Christian blogger out of Australia by the name of David Frangiosa. I’d not read a lot of his posts, and I discovered recently that his blog is no longer available. One of his [...]
SEX LOVE MARRIAGE, Sexuality
Normalizing Every Sexual Taste Is Not Normal
Jonathan Merritt is an eloquent writer, to be sure. He has written for many sites, including USA Today, The Atlantic, and National Journal. His arguments tend to be persuasive. But what is troubling in his criticism of much of the evangelical church on this sticky issue of the normalization of”gay marriage” is [...]
Inspiration, SEX LOVE MARRIAGE
Jonathan Welton’s Open Letter To Bree Olson
Francis Frangipane, in his book, “The Three Battlegrounds,” says, “the devil traffics in unconfessed sin.” This is so true. We will sometimes carry things for years as our own struggles, living forever in cycles of guilt, shame, confession, forgiveness, stumbling, guilt, shame… and yet, until we are brutally honest about [...]