Sentences with phrase «sexual holiness»

Pure Desire is the answer to this desperate cry for help from men and women who have tried to build sexual holiness into their lives and failed... and failed... and failed.

Pure Desire is the answer to the desperate cry for help from men and women who have tried to build sexual holiness into their lives and failed... and failed... and failed.

Gregory Coles says the church should offer «breathing room» for gay Christians, like himself, who want to pursue sexual holiness.

The hard things in the doctrine of Jesus, including the hard things about marriage and sexual holiness, are already in the Gospels.

Perhaps if we approach purity more holistically, if we talk about the importance of restraint and self - control in other areas of life, our feet will become more accustomed to the paths of wisdom, and sexual holiness will just be another part of a lifelong journey.

What does sexual holiness look like long term?

Ironically, it is somewhat homophobic to think that gay people need a different rule from everyone else, as if we are less capable of sexual holiness than straight people.

There is a final way that the Church often fails gay people, and that is by watering down the biblical vision for sexual holiness and human fulfilment in a misguided attempt to be more welcoming.

Not exact matches

Even now, Holloway argues, growth in holiness and the «sedating» of sexual concupiscence can lead a couple to be able only to seek thesexual act when they are seeking it in its full meaning.

Sexual relationships between a husband and a wife can participate in the meaning of communion that reaches the edges of holiness and has something of the nature of a sacrament about it.

If we're looking for the way to get God to bless our sexual lives, the solution to the problem of what it means to be a sexual being, we're only going to come up with false rules and standards, ways of being that force some people out and others in, models of holiness that may work for one season of life but fall apart in another.

All human beings, irrespective of their sexual inclinations or «orientation,» have an intrinsic dignity, are loved by God, are offered God's mercy and grace, and can lead lives of holiness.

She was chosen by God due to her holiness and sexual purity.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

As the Evangelical writer Peter Ould has noted, the priority ought not to be changing one's «sexual orientation», something which has been shown to be of somewhat limited use, but changing the orientation of oneself towards prayer, holiness and godliness.

You know what orders we gave you, by the help of Jesus Christ: it is the will of God that you should be holy, that you should abstain from sexual immorality and learn, each of you, to keep his body in holiness and honor... not to overreach his fellow - Christian or to invade his rights... About family affection (within the Christian «family», the Church, he means) it is not necessary for me to write to you.

We solemnly vote about whether we stand with Leviticus, wherein holiness has to do with sexual regulation, or with Deuteronomy, wherein holiness has to do with concern for justice for widows, orphans and immigrants.

When «sexual relations» occur with others it defiles the pureness and holiness in a marriage between a husband and a wife who are biologically male and female.

If sexual sin is an area where you struggle — and for many of us that is the case — then don't open the door for your pursuit of holiness to be derailed by it.

His latest work, released in 2014 is God Loves Sex: An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness.