Taking off false identities part 1 (godly identity)
We forget that doing flows from being and not the other way round: What I do flows from who I am.
Principle #4: Nothing is impossible (teach your children godly sexuality part 15)
Today we blog the last of our four principles from our basic course of "teach your children godly sexuality". We have already covered that we need to communicate that sexuality is good and that it is holy. Then we looked at how we communicate these two messages in a...
Principle #3: As you walk along (teach your children godly sexuality part 14)
In our last post we began to look at the how of communicating the goodness and holiness of our sexuality. We saw that it's not “the talk” but lots of “talks” in the messiness of everyday life as it comes up. We're now going to tease this out a little bit in three...
Principle #3 As you walk along (teach your children godly sexuality part 13)
We have now seen that when teaching sexuality we should ensure that our answers walk the line between declaring it's goodness and also it's holiness. The third principle looks at the how we communicate these truths. The first problem we have is that in our culture we...
Principle #2: Holy (Teach your children godly sexuality part 12)
So far in this course we have looked at how two principles: our sexuality is both good and holy. We're now going to apply both of these principles to two of the four broad areas that arise with children aged 2-11: Exploration/questions about their bodies Questions...
Principle #2: Holy (Teach your children godly sexuality part 11)
We have seen in the previous three posts that sexual intercourse is holy as it reflects the oneness and intimacy in the trinity, it is the seal of the marriage covenant and it points to the ecstasy of our future union with Christ. Since our sexual intimacy is Holy it...
Our marriage to Christ (Teach your children godly sexuality part 10)
We saw in our previous post that marriage is an exclusive covenant relationship between a man and a woman which reflects the intimate relationship between the father and the son. However, it is also a prophetic declaration of the relationship that Jesus wants to have...