Sentences with phrase «homosexual desires in»

What she does in Straight to Jesus is to add necessary dimensions to our understanding of those struggling with homosexual desire in the context of Christian discipleship.

Her other books had used crime as a sublimation of homosexual desire in her characters.»

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He describes the pain and embarrassment he experienced in his struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality; his determination, once his desires became undeniable, to remain celibate in accordance with his faith; the explosive mix of joy and confusion he experienced when he had his first homosexual experience at age twenty - three.

The homosexual person may initially recoil at the perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» - in his case, the powerful desire to engage in sexual activity with another male.

She had apparently got to the point where she honestly did not know that a child is the natural fruit of a union between a man and a woman: in her understanding «sex» is something done for pleasure, according to one's desires, whether lesbian or homosexual or whatever, and procreation an entirely different matter connected with options presented at various times, possibly involving in - vitro fertilization and test - tubes.

David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of sexual feelings and desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.

I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.

This becomes thornier yet for those who discern in themselves a «homosexual orientation,» as they adopt an identity distinguished essentially by a set of genital sexual desires that can not morally be fulfilled.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

In February's Public Square (While We're At It), Richard John Neuhaus responds to a Christianity Today article by a married ELCA parish council member and youth group leader who discussed his desire to be able to share with his church his struggle with a homosexual inclination.

(NB: In this context, «homosexual» means someone with dominantly same - sex desires, while «gay» refers to a person whose self - identity is determined by such desires.)

In which I tell you the truth about telling the truth:: I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinfuIn which I tell you the truth about telling the truth:: I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinfuin the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.

Even though my writing these words — homosexual conduct is sinful, and homosexual desires are objectively disordered — makes it very nearly impossible for me to be employed by a Fortune 500 company, become a professor at a major university, get appointed to government office, or in any way receive preferment in establishment institutions in America.

Since both homosexual desires and actions are condemned in the Bible, it is clear that homosexuals «marrying» is not God's will, and would be, in fact, sinful.

I agree with what you have written from the biblical perspective and would like to take it further in the sense that that we are all sinners whether fornicators liars homosexuals the difference is that if we decide to follow Jesus we not only repent of our sin but we turn away from continuing to sin Remenber the woman caught in adultery Jesus said go and sin no more that applys to all of us that have accepted Jesus.But unless we die to our desires we cant live for him.brentnz

It can provide guidance for both heterosexual and homosexual Christians in choosing faithful expressions of sexual desire.

But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians think about same - sex sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»

«I often wonder if coming to understand and believe that God does, indeed desire us,» he writes, «and that we are invited to return his desire might be the «remedy» in some ultimate sense, for the loneliness and craving for love that I and other homosexual Christians experience on a regular basis.

«Perhaps one of the main challenges of living faithfully before God as a gay Christian is to believe, really believe, that God in Christ can make up for our sacrifice of homosexual partnership not simply with his own desire and yearning for us but with his desire and yearning mediated to us through the human faces and arms of those who are our fellow believers.»

The films are Christine Vachon's «A Man In Your Room» (1984), about a priest haunted by his desire for an impish young man and Haynes» first film «Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud» (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlaw.

Crystal Bridges founding curator Chris Crosman's description of the painting is not coy about its homoerotic allure: the painting, he writes, «reveals Hartley's full - blown embrace of homosexual desires that up to this point had remained hidden in stylized imagery, encoded in mystical symbols, or subsumed in representations of nature's heaving rhythms.»