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HE IS RISEN INDEED!

  The Resurrection 24  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.   2  And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,   3  but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.   4  While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.   5  And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?   6  He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,   7  that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”   8  And they remembered his words, 9  and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10  Now it was Mary ...
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By Faith On Sex, Gender, God’s Glory, & Hope

  Continuing our series.   8. God uses our sex and gender struggles for His glory and our good. We must understand that our experience of sex and gender is not always as God originally intended. All of us live with broken and misplaced desires. While these are difficult and sometimes strong, we are to endeavor to glorify God and experience the fullness of our humanity by living out biblical faithfulness in all areas of our lives, including sex and gender.    True! However, the Bible in Romans 1 is very clear that the human body is not the epistemic warrant for worship & sexual ethics.       How so?    The natural teleological use of the Creation is to know & understand that God Himself is the only properly non-arbitrary epistemic warrant for faith & practice, life & living.  Romans 1:19–20 (ESV): For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namel...
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By Faith On Marriage & Sex/Gender

Continuing from our previous entry:    6. God’s design for sex and marriage is clear God has established marriage to be a covenantal, lifelong, monogamous, one-flesh, heterosexual union between one man and one woman.  According to Genesis, God established marriage to be a lifelong, monogamous, one flesh union.    Genesis 1 & 2 are insufficient to deduce that marriage is a heterosexuals only affair, insofar as the only road to that conclusion runs through conflating God’s decretal will & God’s moral will.    In Reformed Theology deducing what God did from what God did & what God commands of us are not always the same.    For example, God creates our souls ex nihlio (Zechariah 12:1), & does so in the image of Adam, who is our federal representative in the Fall.     Yeshua, having no human father is excepted, insofar as He was unable to sin, therefore created Established & Confirmed in Righteousness. ...
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By Faith On Sex & Gender

  Continuing from our last article..  4. Human sin has corrupted everything, including sex and gender. Because of humankind’s rebellion against God and fall into sin, everything and everyone is broken. The disobedience of our first parents in the Garden of Eden has corrupted human nature; hence, our default setting is to rebel against God in our thoughts, words, and actions (Romans 3:10, 23; Romans 5:12, 18-19). Just as he did with our first parents in the Garden of Eden, the wrecker of this world (Satan) comes to us, hoping to deceive us, lead us away from God’s good intention, and enlist us in his efforts to destroy God’s good design. On gender, sex and everything else, Satan continues to pose this doubt-inducing question: “Did God really say . . . ?” On the face of it, this is true. At issue is how we are to think God’s thoughts after him. Do we look to God’s moral will, or will we look to God’s decretal will & reason from there, as if God’s decretal will is both nece...
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Sex Education in the PCA

By Faith Magazine has published an edition that includes a number of articles on Human Sexuality.  It’s worth a read, if only to read representatives of the PCA in their own words.  The article on teaching teenagers about sex presents 10 Principles that ought to be taught to teenagers & young adults. After noting… “ Satan continues to undo God’s order and design, urging us to choose our plan for sex and gender rather than God’s, thereby fueling our doubt of God’s Word, continually asking: “Did God really say . . . ?” In a First Things article, “Reflections on the Revolution,” Deborah Savage, a child of the 60’s and the sexual revolution, offers this truth: “Human sexuality is at the core of man’s essence, which is why the serpent never tires of meddling in it, the author lists and briefly elucidates upon ten principles.  The first two are, in order, 1. God is our loving authority on sex and gender The Bible is the Christian’s authority. The cultural mantras “you do...
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