tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685982922560807823.post8010634085668860829..comments2019-09-25T18:05:48.776-04:00Comments on In A Moment: Sitting in the Kitchen: HomosexualityMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01069876206965495249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685982922560807823.post-75856792012455588152008-04-26T13:11:00.000-04:002008-04-26T13:11:00.000-04:00Greetings Mark. And may the Lord's peace and bles...Greetings Mark. And may the Lord's peace and blessings be with you this beautiful spring day. Thank you again, for bringing prayerful perspective to modern issues. It is doubly challenging to address the hard questions of daily life in the midst of an election year. Your last recent sermon on "Sitting in the Kitchen: (with) Homosexuality" raises the rustle-in-the-pew factor for all of us. Why? Because the imprint of a good throwing-stone is often still in our palm from a quick judgment on many social issues, before we knew what took hold of us. By shining scriptural light on the "elephant in the living room (kitchen)" you shine it upon ourselves. When Jesus knelt down and paused with the punishing crowd, He didn't draw a line in the sand, but a circle. As He did time after time, His actions welcomed and included all for forgiveness. Many times it needs to generate from within our own hearts, much like the very first greening rustle of a new spring.<BR/> Blessings, Stephen UzzellBardgeisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03167969964517710732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685982922560807823.post-48378104206197746292008-04-24T14:37:00.000-04:002008-04-24T14:37:00.000-04:00My response to this question comes back to my poin...My response to this question comes back to my point that Scripture's voice indicates that homosexual behavior is a sin. I do not know enough about the science either way to talk knowingly about the idea of whether or not one is born with homosexual desires. However, if this is the case, I would say that one can also be born with heterosexual desires. The question becomes how one acts on those desires. There are proper ways to act on these desires and there are improper ways that allow these desires to take me down a path God does not intend. I think that the issue returns to Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane - "Not my will, but thine be done." I know what my will, left to my own desires and intentions, might be. However, I am called to bring my will into line with the expressed will of God.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01069876206965495249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685982922560807823.post-21582321510127051752008-04-23T07:16:00.000-04:002008-04-23T07:16:00.000-04:00Good sermon - but what of the struggle about the c...Good sermon - but what of the struggle about the cause of homosexuality? If, as many argue, it is at birth, does that make a difference?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com