Sex… A Theology of Sex: The Dehumanizing Power of Porn 20 Jun 20124 Jun 2014 All porn is violent! Young men often act like their pornography addiction is not that big a deal, especially if they have successfully kept it a secret. But that is…
Culture… A Theology of Sex: The Porn Problem 13 Jun 201214 Jun 2012 I have a growing fear that nearly all sex and sexuality are dominated by pornography. Whether in or outside of marriage I suspect that all sex and sexuality are viewed through…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 35): A Theology of Culture (Part 2) 7 Jun 20128 Jun 2012 Culture Defined The 19th century author Matthew Arnold defined culture as, “the pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern…
Culture… A Theology of Sex: Defining Lust 6 Jun 20127 Jun 2012 When Jesus told a crowd that if their eye caused them to sin they should cut it out I can't imagine what they thought. I know what I thought when…
Culture… A Theology of Sex: Defining Sexual Sin 5 Jun 20126 Jun 2012 What constitutes a sexual activity as a sin? Is there a line? How do we know? For the Christian these are not simply theoretical or academic questions, these are questions…
Books… Gospel-Centered Change: A Review of “Christ Formed In You” by Brian Hedges 21 May 201222 May 2012 How do people change? I talk to people on a regular basis who say they want to change, who have "tried everything," and yet remained unmoved. How do I change?…
Marriage… A Theology of Sex: The Marriage Bed (Part 2) 1 May 20122 May 2012 The marriage bed: if the phrase seems a bit arcane, the concept is still very important. Of course increasingly in our culture the concept too seems a bit outdated. The…
Biblical Theology… A Theology of Sex: Sex and the Marriage Bed (Part 1) 24 Apr 201225 Apr 2012 Sex and marriage: the two go together like…well, like sex and marriage. What analogy could be more clarifying? Of course, as we’ve intimated in other posts in this series, in…
Books… Theology Books for the Non-Theology Reader 19 Apr 201220 Apr 2012 I was asked a few months back by one of our young guys at church to recommend some resources on theology that are not really difficult and not really boring…
Biblical Theology… Themes in the Book of Jonah: The Sovereignty of God 17 Apr 201218 Apr 2012 Shamu answers to God! We see that clearly from the book of Jonah where God appoints a great fish to swallow up Jonah and then later to spit him out.…