Hot Buttons: Week Three "Being Human" A Sermon on Sexuality
In the first installment of the sermon series that I am currently preaching, entitled " Hot Button : Grace-Filled Responses To the Things That Divide Us," I preached on Abortion. I was fairly certain that it was the most difficult and challenging sermon that I had ever preached. Until this one. The official title of this sermon is: "Being Human: A Grace-Filled Response to Issues of Sexuality ." I should have renamed it: "What the (Bleep) was I Thinking?" Seriously. Who preaches on sexuality? Willingly. Christians usually don't talk about these issues on Sunday morning---or at all. Unless, of course, they are condemning someone for sexual sin or protesting too much over their proclivity of choice so that no one will ever wonder whether they themselves are sinning up a storm. We need to talk about sexuality, though. And we need to do it in church regardless of how difficult it is to do so. You see, if we can't learn to find grace-...