Check out this podcast of Pastor Matthew’s interview with the esteemed Kerby Anderson and the Point of View national radio audience, as Kerby and Matthew talk about Matthew’s book Crazy Sex: Embracing God’s Best in a World Gone Crazy. Order your copy today! READ MORE
Crazy Sex
Crazy Sex: Embracing God’s Best in a World Gone Crazy
Over the past couple of years since we at Bethel Church in Fargo, North Dakota, experienced a brief but important sermon series entitled, “Crazy Sex: Embracing God’s Best in a World Gone Crazy,” people have been asking if I might amplify that series in book form. Well . . . the answer is yes. Crazy READ MORE
Where We’re Going
Occasionally I’ll post an update on where we’re going at Bethel Church with our weekend messages. We’ve just finished a flurry of series, including this past spring’s Crazy Sex: Embracing God’s Best in a World Gone Crazy; this summer’s Old Guys Rule and Live, Love & Lead Like Christ; and our most recent series through the Book READ MORE
Redemption and Restoration: Sexual Healing
In attempting to find freedom from any sin and shame cycle, and particularly from sexual sin and shame, some strategic steps must be formulated and pursued, and a beginning point is this very critical truism: A Man or Woman Becomes What He or She Thinks About All Day Long. With this truism locked in our READ MORE
Judgmentalism, Sexuality and Sin
It is utterly fascinating to me that when sin is identified as the reality of someone’s life those who identify such are immediately castigated as judgmental, as if the very word “judgmental” should mitigate any conviction and invalidate the reasoning of whomever is doing the supposed judging. Of course, for the preacher concerned to communicate READ MORE
Dealing with Distortions: Sexuality and Settling for Less than God’s Best
Any discussion about sex and sexuality requires an honest evaluation of the distortions that rob us of God’s very best. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 and following allow for such an evaluation. Consider the passage: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to READ MORE