This is the final installment in this 9 part series responding to a (typical) evangelical sermon on homosexuality. If you would like to listen to the actual 58 minute sermon, feel free to email me through the staff page on the website and I’ll send you the link. My purpose with this post was not…
This series is already pretty long – but just in case you haven’t read it (and you happen to be fighting insomnia) you can start with first post here. The third exhortation for sexual minority folks in this evangelical sermon on homosexuality was, “Jesus is enough for you.” Of course. God’s grace is sufficient for…
I know, I know. This blog series is long. Just be glad my colleagues talked me out of posting it as one long piece 🙂 Again, if you’re new: I’m responding, from a hopefully generously spacious posture, to a 58 minute evangelical sermon about homosexuality that I think covers a lot of the typical points…
After 5 posts responding to four theological propositions presented in an evangelical sermon on homosexuality, I now turn to the three exhortations given in the same sermon to sexual minority folks. If you need to catch up, check here. The preacher’s first exhortation was to “accept our apology for treating this as a super sin.” …
This blog series is going through a particular, yet typical, evangelical sermon on homosexuality. If you haven’t read the other parts, you may want to begin here. This post responds to the last of four theological propositions that the preacher beings his sermon with. These propositions may well be things that you have heard in…
I’m in a multi-part series responding to a very familiar series of points and sub-points consistent in many evangelical sermons. If you haven’t read the early posts – going and doing so will probably make today’s post make a lot more sense. At the beginning of the sermon, the preacher indicated that he would offer…
Welcome to a series in which I give my responses, from the perspective of generous spaciousness, to a sermon given in an evangelical mega-church. Another pastor in the area asked me to respond to this particular sermon – and because it seemed like so many typical evangelical sermons that I hear seeking to address homosexuality,…
Just like the insanely popular podcast “Serial”, this post is part of a series. If you haven’t read the first post – this one will probably make a whole lot more sense if you take a few minutes to read Part 1. The first theological proposition stated that because the Bible contains the exact words…
A pastor emailed me the other day. A sermon had been preached in his home town by the influential preacher at the mega-church in the area. It seems the online recording was making its rounds by the word of mouth encouragement to listen. When this pastor listened, explaining that he had recently read “Torn” by…
The ministry of New Direction has positioned itself in the midst of the unenviable reality of differing Scriptural interpretations on the question of what faithful discipleship ought to look like for LGBTQ+ followers of Jesus. The truth is, of course, that no one can be neutral in these conversations at the intersection of faith and…