Tag: Gay Marriage

The Early Bird Gets The Link 

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5 Distinguishing Marks of a Fruitful Church
How do you measure this? How do you know if a church is focused on the glory of Jesus Christ? Well, I think you start with the most visible communications. In sermon and song, is Jesus the focal point?

3 Church Methods That Need to Change

In light of modern cultural realities, here are three methodological shifts churches should consider to more effectively make disciples and reach our communities.

Should I Attend a Homosexual Wedding If the Service Is Completely Secular?

Kevin DeYoung provides some helpful wisdom when dealing with this question. 

5 Ways to Read the Bible for Personal Application

Here is a very helpful Gospel lifehack. 

“The Bible was written to others—but speaks to you. The Bible is about God—but draws you in. Your challenge is always to reapply Scripture afresh, because God’s purpose is always to rescript your life.

When we reapply Scripture to our own lives, the Holy Spirit is rescripting our lives so that we may become more like Jesus.”
Good Parents Connect, Not Just Correct

Christian childrearing is not mainly about disciplining the devil out of our children, but joining with God by nourishing his creative and redemptive good at work in our children, and then graciously correcting the incursions of the world, the flesh, and the devil against their growth. And does it ever require self-sacrificial initiative and energy.

Signposts: How Should You Talk to Your Children About Transgender Issues?

In this podcast Dr. Moore provides some helpful guidance and advice when talking to your children about the transgender issue. 

The NBA, Sterling, Race and Gay Marriage?

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Yesterday NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver delivered a much needed decision against LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling for racial comments he made. I whole heartedly agree with this decision, there is no room for racism in our communities, churches, states or nation. Furthermore, we should not tolerate it in the public square and although the comments were made in private, it is foolish to think his beliefs and views don’t seep into his public life.

With that being said, as I was listening to the decision come across the air waves I immediately thought “could this happen to an owner who is a proponent of traditional marriage?” Now if an owner made bigoted and hateful remarks about the LGBT community like Sterling did with race then yes. But if an owner treats all people with respect, but because of his Christian faith is proponent of traditional marriage and therefore against gay marriage, would that be enough to strip an owner of his team? Furthermore should holding to a Biblical view of marriage be considered on the same level as Sterling’s comments?

Why even bring this up? Dr. Russell Moore makes a great point in his article Same-Sex Marriage and the Future,

Above all, we must prepare people for what the future holds, when Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality aren’t part of the cultural consensus but are seen to be strange and freakish and even subversive

As Christians we need to be prepared to answer these sort of questions not because they are coming, but because they are here now.

As this topic marinated in my mind for the rest of the afternoon and again this morning. I was reminded as I was listening to the sports radio show “The Herd” hosted by Colin Cowherd that such an owner does exist. Rich DeVos, owner of the Orlando Magic is a Christian and a proponent of traditional marriage. As Colin pointed out, it well be interesting to see how far the NBA will go with this. I too think it will be interesting how something like this plays out. The culture and society we live in, is increasingly pushing for the acceptance of gay marriage. We have already seen Mozilla let go of their CEO for supporting traditional marriage, could the same happen to an owner of a sports franchise? What do you think?