Sex & Relationships
Sex and relationships can take up a lot of our thought time and emotional energy. Within the following blog posts we attempt to look at these topics from a fresh perspective seeking to understand not only how God desires us to live, but to also find out what our sexuality tells us about God and ourselves.
Monday, 21 June 2010 12:33 | and posted in Sex & Relationships
One of the most exciting things about being a Christian is love. We have access to a God who loves us deeply and unconditionally. God is love. And his love is absolutely crazy – it’s what led Jesus, the Son of God, to lay down his life and die for people who rejected him, hated him and put him on the cross. We are called to this same radical love – not to love only ‘nice’ people who are nice back to us – but to keep loving even when we are rejected – or when it requires sacrifice.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:20 | and posted in Sex & Relationships
I had a moment. I was fixing my hair and I smiled because I liked what I saw in the mirror. A beautiful women, happy and at ease with herself stared back at me. I am celebrating this moment because in it I realised how much God has been restoring me.
For large sections of my 30 years of life I have hated the way I look. I believed I was ugly and unattractive and when I looked in the mirror I was unhappy with what I saw. I destroyed or deleted any photo of myself I remotely didn’t like – I didn’t leave many!
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:06 | and posted in Sex & Relationships
Girl meets boy; she gives up her dreams to be with him, while the boy keeps doing and going the same as before she arrived on the scene.
Does this sound familiar? I see or hear of this kind of thing regularly. The girl nearly always seems to lay down her dreams first and make the biggest sacrifices in order to make the relationship work. Why is this?
I think it’s a form of submission. A weird, twisted, holyfied vision of how women should submit to men.*
Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:26 | and posted in Sex & Relationships
After re-entry to the Garden of Eden becomes impossible, the first thing Adam and Eve do is to have sex.* Since that day sex has been used and abused to selfishly try and grasp at the connection that has been lost with our creator or to simply gratify a need in us.
But this is not the way sex was created to be.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:58 | and posted in Sex & Relationships
The NIV Bible translation has a very subtle way of talking about two people having sex: they use the word 'lay'.* Adam lay with his wife Eve... Cain lay with his wife... Adam lay with his wife again... (and just so you know it wasn't just the first humans doing this) Elkannah lay with Hannah his wife.**
Each time, perhaps in case you're confused about what is really happening, a child results from this "lay" activity.
