Sex

Why Marry & Why Wait?

Nov 10 2017

Why Marry & Why Wait?

(audio sermon by Gary Sampson)

Many people now days are questioning the institution of marriage and questioning if waiting till one’s wedding day for sex is really helpful. This sermon attempts to answer both questions.

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Marriage, Divorce, Celibacy and Virginity

May 6 2016

Marriage, Divorce, Celibacy and Virginity

1 Corinthians Series Chapter 7 (Audio Sermon)

While addressing a crisis in Corinth, Paul tells the married believers to be sexually active, the believers with unbelieving partners to allow them to leave, the virgins that burn with passion to be quick to marry, and those that don’t burn to remain celibate. This sermon discusses why these things are still relevant today. Click the arrow to play –

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Sexual Purity in the Church

Apr 20 2016

Sexual Purity in the Church

1 Corinthians Series – Chapters 5-6

I was fortunate to travel to Europe with my parents as a teenager. On arrival in Amsterdam my father told me we had to see the red light district. This is the center of the city’s sex trade. Obviously my father did not want me to do any business there, he just wanted me to see what a strange phenomenon it was. Well, nothing could prepare me for what I saw. Prostitutes sat in shop windows advertising themselves like live dummies. You could window shop up and down the streets to find the one you fancied. I had never seen anything like it. Some people may view the red light district of Amsterdam as a place of sexual freedom, but I think most Christians would see it as a place of sexual bondage.

Ancient Corinth was a similar type of place. It had a roaring sex trade driven by the worship of Aphrodite; the goddess of love. Men worshiped Aphrodite by having sex with one of the 1000 temple prostitutes. More