AffirmingGender Sermons

2 propositions: Marriage is predicated on gender difference. Marriage is a place to understand your identity. Because  gender is about relationship w/the other.

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

Often an intergendered relationship deals the compassion vs. competence spectrum. Our partners help show us our strength and challenge our weakness.

Periodically we must lubricate intergendered love with forgiveness. Christ (using Daniel 9) gives us the way to, going way beyond tips to manage anger.

I find, particularly this passage, Proverbs 30:18-20, awe-inspiring on this topic. Its profundity touches on so much of our experience with this gift.

Gender expresses something fundamental w/in God, however differently the antecedent exists in that unapproachable light, helping us enjoy our union's glory.

Part 1 of the ideas of my exegesis of the 1Corinthians 11 head-covering passage, Paul’s foundational treatment of gender through his reading of Moses

The Bible exalts both marriage and singleness. Both are important life phase so we need to prepare for both and we need inspiration for both.

Crucial to what makes marriage work is resolutely offering grace to our spouses. We need tremendous spiritual power for this. The secret is in being forgiven.

God will do what He will do to save us. So we do well to, w/Doula Mary, in contrast to Priest Zechariah, believe what He says through Gabriel & not resist Him.

A different perspective on the Christmas story--Luke 1 (interpreted through the OT anticipation of Mary in Judges 5). Mary had a marshal mindset in her mission.

For souls gipped by sexual temptation, the apostle's exhortations in 1Corinthians 6 hold great power.

Some lines of the universe you cannot color outside of, but realizing your gender quickens you, and the beauty of the dance overshadows both man & woman.

It was May, 2004. Trans was on the rise in Greenwich Village. Confronted by Deuteronomy 22:5, I had to understand why God feels so strongly re cross-dressing.

We must squarely face the perennial obstacle of intergendered unions: anger. In our marriages, Jesus brings us to deep repentance and so deep redemption.

You could hear a pin drop after reading this passage, what my wife calls a pew-gripper. We were going through Deuteronomy...

In marital covenant lovemaking, we imitate, in a toy way, divine intimacy. God does not have a body as we do, but we're God’s image splayed out in space & time

Over twenty years ago, the ideas of gender preached in New York City.

Yes, there are just seven days to the release of Across the Kitchen Table: Talking about Trans with Your Teen. A video tells where it all began….

In conversation with Enoch, young man at large, the college senior has seen many relationship crashes and misfires. The topic turned to gender...

Despite the accumulated social science data on its disastrous consequences, the number of cohabitating couples continues to rise.

Watch as my dating son asks what is really on his mind.