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
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
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
While it is true that the world gives us a terrible message regarding sex and sexuality, it is equally true that from within the religious establishment, and, by extension, from within many of our families, we also have a distorted message. The world tells us that we are sophisticated animals with no moral code who READ MORE
As awkward as it may sound, sex and sexuality are foundational for community, and vice versa. Not, of course, that the world gets to peer into the bedroom (though anymore it seems it could!). The idea is that sex and sexuality is not something found in isolation from the rest of the world. And the READ MORE
Let me be very clear: I’m weary of the world owning the conversation about sex and sexuality. It is time for the church to take over the conversation, not in the standard fundamentalist manner that calls for nothing other than prudish snickers and pounding judgment, but in an honest, clear, Word-centered way that not only READ MORE
