Love vs. Sex
Week 4
October 8, 2023 • Bruce Miller
I’m grieved for our children and grandchildren. They are growing up in a culture drifting from biblical truth. They are watching churches not show grace to certain groups of people. And they see Christians attacking each other over current cultural issues. How sad. How confusing. Because we are so afraid or so confused, we leave our kids without spiritual guidance on current cultural issues around sexuality and gender. And yet, you can’t ignore it when your 6-year-old has a kid on their soccer team with two moms, when your 5th grader tells you that one of his friends says they are nonbinary, when your highschooler has good friends who identify in various ways other than straight, terms you may have never heard. And when you kid comes out to you as gay, bi-sexual, trans or nonbinary.
Week 3
October 1, 2023 • Bruce Miller
Sadly, I so often hear people tell me they are not happy. Single people wish they were married. Married people wish they could get out of their painful marriage. It’s hard to be married and it’s hard to be single. How sad to live resenting your situation, married or single. Married life can be joyful and so can single life. My prayer is for you to live joyfully content in Christ whether you are single or married.
Week 2
September 24, 2023 • Bruce Miller
Our culture is desperately confused about our bodies. We wildly swing from obsession over bodies to neglect of our bodies, from excessive dieting to obesity. Healthy appetites quickly degenerate into destructive addictions. Our bodily confusion leads to sexual distortion. None of you need me to explain the extent of sexual immorality in our world today. It affects our children at younger and younger ages. This topic exposes guilt and shame. Thankfully, God’s grace is amazing. Later, I will lead us in a time of confession and receiving all over again the healing grace of God that washes us clean.
Week 1
September 17, 2023 • Bruce Miller
God made sexuality, and everything he made is good. But we humans have made a mess of everything God gave us. I’m concerned for my gay and trans friends. In the last few years, two of them were kicked out of a church in the Dallas area, told they are not allowed back on church property nor in the home of any church member for a Bible study. Gay people are told you cannot be gay and Christian. How will LGBTQ people find and follow Christ if they are rejected or resisted by Christian people? I’m concerned for people I love.