Ephesians 5:3–21 How should we live in a world obsessed with sex? What should church look like? The key to answering these questions lies in answering ‘who are you’.
Ephesians 5:3–21 How should we live in a world obsessed with sex? What should church look like? The key to answering these questions lies in answering ‘who are you’.
The Love of God is so much better than anything this world has to offer. Feeling the reality of this helps our longings, and entire lives, to be transformed.
The Christian journey is one of increasing intimacy with God.
In this dream, the man seeks intimacy with his bride, but she delays. By the time she readies herself, he has departed, and she runs through the streets to find him. They are then reunited.
Love in a fallen world leads us to the arms of God
The woman and her beloved consummate their relationship.
The beauty and freedom of God’s design for sex shows us the wonder of the gospel and Christs love for us.
The woman is sought by her beloved with cries to come away with him, but ‘do not awaken!’
The woman dreams that she must go about the city to find her beloved. We see the power and pain of love and sex, and why we need pointing to God and the final marriage.
God’s design for sex, relationships, and marriage combats the ways in which the world says we are lacking
Song of Solomon 1:1–4 God’s design for sex and relationships and marriage is fundamentally positive. Our longings however are not, they are broken, we need God’s redeeming love.
Genesis 2:18-25 What is true of consumer products is true of life – we do well to read the manual. The Bible is our maker’s manual, telling us how life works. One of the many areas of life about which he gives operating instructions is relationships and marriage. This passage is an at-a-glance guide to marriage and how it works.
Genesis 2:18-25 Do you ever read the manual when you buy a new gadget or appliance? Most don’t, and then end up calling the helpline to complain that it doesn’t work! The Bible is the manual God has given us for life. In this talk we look at his instructions for marriage – and discover not just how to make it work, but also that it has profound spiritual lessons to teach all of us, whether married or single.