Sentences with phrase «with homosexual desires»

You say that «the church has always embraced those who forsake sexual sin but who still struggle with homosexual desires.»

This discussion began with me commenting on the sense that there is something, I'm not sure what, problematic about the position that those with homosexual desires are not to practice, and that makes everything okay.

Many people will find it increasingly difficult to explain» and some courts will undoubtedly share the difficulty» why homosexual adults should not seek out adolescents and teenagers to help them «feel comfortable» with their homosexual desires.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Do that homosexual or heterosexual and you will find your desires aligning more with His desires day by day and you eventually will not even miss those sins you so loved before Christ came into your life.

At the same time, there are expressions of sympathy for priests who are acting out their homosexual desires and accounts of gays who claim to have had affairs with priests.

Those who struggle with homosexual feelings and desires are dealing with difficult problems.

(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.)

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

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.»

«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.»

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Like Hittman's filmmaking to some degree, the young actor manages to convey a lot about Frankie's anguished inner life through purely physical means: the tense way he carries himself around his male friends, as if afraid he'll betray hints of his inner homosexual desires, or the soft - spoken line readings which tremble with inarticulate internal tensions.

Walter Pfeiffer (b. 1946, Zurich, Switzerland) is a photographer whose subjects have included the non-conventional representation of the male body and of his sexuality, with a focus on homosexual desire and imagery.

They barely made it to the Abstract Expressionists, many of whom were homosexual and coded their work with complex references to desire for each other, before the clock ticked toward question - and - answer time.