Today’s post highlights the first sermon I ever preached on gender. I was taking our young church through the book of Ephesians, as pastors starting out often do, and we came to Ephesians 5.
I delivered these words in July of 2003, over twenty years ago, long before the U.S. Supreme Court declared via Obergefell vs. Hodges (2015) that gender doesn’t matter in marriage, long before the Western world took the steps of gender deconstruction that it has, and long before I had any idea of writing any book. These were the days just before the Federal Marriage Amendment broke on the scene, the valiant, far-seeing but ultimately failed attempt by attorney, Matt Daniels, to amend the U.S. constitution with a clear definition of marriage. I had no idea at the time how important these issues were to become, or how true it is that what the Bible emphasizes it does to make us well in relationship.
The recording begins capturing just the ending of the beautiful reading voice of Brita Rose, the last few verses of Ephesians 5:22-33.
Thankfully, I think the ideas herein still hold up. Though I might style it a little differently (it is pretty content-heavy), I still deeply hold to these ideas. What do you think?
As announced previously, you may also listen to this recording on YouTube. I am working on submitting it to Apple podcasts as well.
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