A short YouTube video that looks at the attitude to sex in the world and in the church. An good introduction to a sermon on sex.
A short YouTube video that looks at the attitude to sex in the world and in the church. An good introduction to a sermon on sex.
In a recent Daily Mail interview the aging legend David Bowie conceded; “If there is one thing I could say to 13 and 14 year old’s it’s this; ‘Take care with your sexual choices because never before have sex and death been so powerfully linked.'”.
Soul Survivor Magazine Aug 1997 p3 – Duncan Banks
Delegates and experts at the last World AIDS Conference in the USA were asked two simple questions. Firstly, would you use a condom to guarantee protection from both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases? The unanimous answer was NO.
The second was to ask what they would do. The reply was fascinating. They suggested sticking with one partner for life. Wow! This came as a shocking revelation to the world press even though God’s word has always seggested this as the best way to live (Matt 19:4-6)
Soul Survivor Magazine Aug 1997, p3 – Duncan Banks
I did some schools work in Kent recently and met a young christian girl who had decided that “virgin” wasn’t a dirty word and that she was going to stay that way until her wedding day. However, the pressure was on. She was often made the butt end of jokes and had to listen to her classmates’ stories of their sexual conquests. In the end she got a “holy strop” on and said to them, “You don’t understand do you? I can be like you whenever I want, but you can never be like me!” It’s more of that crusading spirit we need to stand strong!
Soul Survivor Magazine Aug 1997 – Duncan Banks, p3
Mrs. Johnson the Christian school math teacher was having children do problems on the blackboard. She was constantly trying to incorporate Christian themes in the classroom, but was having trouble making it work for math until she got some unexpected help from a student.
“Who would like to do the first problem, addition?”
No one raised their hand. She called on Tommy, and with some help he finally got it right.
“Who would like to do the second problem, subtraction?”
Students hid their faces. She called on Mark, who got the problem but there was some suspicion his girlfriend Lisa whispered it to him.
“Who would like to do the third problem, division?”
Now a low collective groan could be heard as everyone looked at nothing in particular. The teacher called on Suzy, who got it right
“Who would like to do the last problem, multiplication?”
Johnny’s hand enthusiastically shot up. It surprised everyone in the room because he had previously been avoiding participation. The teachers finally gained her composure in the stunned silence.
“Why the enthusiasm, Johnny?” He said, “The Bible says to go forth and multiply!”
An affluent, aristocratic woman reviews resumes from potential chauffeurs to drive her Rolls Royce. She narrows the applicants to three men and invites them to her palatial home. She escorts each one individually to her driveway and the brick wall beside it. Then she asks, “If you were driving my Rolls, how close do you think you could come to that brick wall without scratching my car?”
The first applicant says, “I can drive within a foot of that wall and not damage your Rolls.”
She brings out the second applicant and asks “If you were driving my Rolls, how close do you think you could come to that brick wall without scratching my car?”
He scratches his head and says, “I can drive within six inches of that wall and not damage your car.”
She invites the third applicant and asks, “If you were driving my Rolls, how close do you think you could come to that brick wall without scratching my car?”
He does not hesitate: “Ma’am, I do not know how close I could come to the wall without damaging your car, but if I was driving your car, I would stay as far away as possible from the wall so as not to damage your car.”
Guess who got the job?
When addressing sexual temptation, the point is not how close one can get to the temptation without getting “scratched,” but staying as far away as possible.
Tim Wilkins’ Cross Ministry