Our Culture is obsessed with sex and relationships…and rightly so! The sexual revolution over the last 60 years has brought about remarkable changes in attitudes, opinions and practices, and many of those changes are to be welcomed and championed. But has the revolution gone far enough? Has our culture been left ‘satisfied’ in terms of […]
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Dating, Sexual Boundaries & Jesus
A few months back someone in church who is dating asked me this question (I paraphrase): Okay Steve…so we’re not to have sex till marriage… but why… and what are the principles that underly our thinking on sexual boundaries whilst we date? I was so grateful for the candor and for the chance to chat […]
Sex & Relationships – A Better Story
Our Culture is obsessed with sex and relationships…and rightly so! The sexual revolution over the last 60 years has brought about remarkable changes in attitudes, opinions and practices, and many of those changes are to be welcomed and championed. But has the revolution gone far enough? Has our culture been left ‘satisfied’ in terms of […]
Why Bother With Marriage?
Over the last 30 years the institution of marriage has come under extreme pressure with divorce, cohabitation and sex outside marriage all on the rise… and increasingly so. People are marrying later and later, choosing not to marry at all and divorcing more quickly when marriage is tough. As a result, marriage is on the […]
God, Sex & Culture – The art of double listening
John Stott famously coined the phrase “double listening”. He says: “The phrase ‘double listening’ has always been significant for me. And it means that we’re called to listen both to the Word of God, and to today’s world, in order to relate the one to the other”. Over the next 8 weeks, as we consider one of the […]
Sex in the City – 8th Feb to 29th Mar
Over the next eight weeks we’re going to look at eight topics to do with sex in the city of Dublin. Primarily we are going to try and answer 2 questions: 1. What does our culture say?2. What does God say? The first two weeks (8th and 15th Feb) will be an introduction to the themes of […]