THE JOY OF THE GARDEN (30)
Scripture: Song of Songs 3:6-10, Song of Songs 4:1, Songs of Songs 4:2-16, Songs of Songs 5:1
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The Joy of the Garden (30)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Song of Songs 3:6-5:1
Introduction
It's no secret that our culture is obsessed with sex. Teresa and I often lament how you can hardly find T.V. shows without sexual references and characters who sleep with one another. I'm amazed how often we'll be in the checkout line at the grocery store and the cover of nearly every magazine has some reference not just to sex. Even news corporations get in on the action (no pun intended). I'll be scrolling through my Apple News feed or on the BBC and again, right next to the article on international tensions in Europe will be an article on 'How to Best Please Your Partner.' I remember when I was a teenager and young man there was a show on MTV but there was a show on there called Love Line, where viewers would call in to ask psychologists and sociologist (usually along with some random celebrity) questions about sex. I mean, everywhere you look the culture around us talks about sex and talks about what sex should be.
Now as we've mentioned before in recent weeks, as the church we often have the tendency to respond to the sex-crazed culture of ours by instead completely ignoring the subject matter: personally, with our kids, and with each other. As a result married couples can often struggle to navigate the waters of sexual intimacy with their spouse; they become rather sexually repressed only opening to door to marital troubles and the temptation to extra-marital affairs. Our young people, accordingly, have to ask friends or explore the Internet to find answers because their parents refuse to broach the topic. Christian men fail to hold each other accountable; Christian women fail to do the same. Frankly, we the church fail on every level and in every way when it comes to speaking biblically about sex, which is simply absurd considering Scripture tells us exactly what we are to believe, teach, and pract ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Song of Songs 3:6-5:1
Introduction
It's no secret that our culture is obsessed with sex. Teresa and I often lament how you can hardly find T.V. shows without sexual references and characters who sleep with one another. I'm amazed how often we'll be in the checkout line at the grocery store and the cover of nearly every magazine has some reference not just to sex. Even news corporations get in on the action (no pun intended). I'll be scrolling through my Apple News feed or on the BBC and again, right next to the article on international tensions in Europe will be an article on 'How to Best Please Your Partner.' I remember when I was a teenager and young man there was a show on MTV but there was a show on there called Love Line, where viewers would call in to ask psychologists and sociologist (usually along with some random celebrity) questions about sex. I mean, everywhere you look the culture around us talks about sex and talks about what sex should be.
Now as we've mentioned before in recent weeks, as the church we often have the tendency to respond to the sex-crazed culture of ours by instead completely ignoring the subject matter: personally, with our kids, and with each other. As a result married couples can often struggle to navigate the waters of sexual intimacy with their spouse; they become rather sexually repressed only opening to door to marital troubles and the temptation to extra-marital affairs. Our young people, accordingly, have to ask friends or explore the Internet to find answers because their parents refuse to broach the topic. Christian men fail to hold each other accountable; Christian women fail to do the same. Frankly, we the church fail on every level and in every way when it comes to speaking biblically about sex, which is simply absurd considering Scripture tells us exactly what we are to believe, teach, and pract ...
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