Midtown Podcast | Final Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Timestamps:

1:28 - How do you parent a child with gender identity questions or who experiences SSA?

16:58 - Are you living in sin if you don’t have sex as an older married couple?

19:44 - Why do people elevate sexual desires above all else? What desires should we have?

23:20 - Would you officiate a LGBTQIA+ wedding?

30:15 - How do we think through when churches deny a biblical sexual ethic?

37:13 - Are people who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community and saved Christians still a child of God?

41:18 - My workplace encourages using pronouns to introduce ourselves. As a Christian, how should I think about this?

46:44 - What do we mean when we refer to “culture”?

51:10 - If you were born to a single-parent does that mean you were born into sin and less worth saving?

Resources

BOOKS:

• The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Favale

• 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin

• Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage by Ed Wheat M.D. and Gaye Wheat 

• The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

• Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• American Experience: Kinsey (2005) 

• Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? 21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View by Preston Sprinkle

• A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World by John Stonestreet and Brett Knuckle

• The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Tim Keller

SERMONS:

• “Incarnation/Agape” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

• “Theology of Sex” sermon series by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

• “Mountains, Molehills, and Which Ones to Die On” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

• “Q+A” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective

Midtown Podcast | Marriage Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Timestamps:

0:27 - When did it become a sin in the Bible to have multiple wives?

6:42 - Why does Paul say it’s better to be single if God says it’s not good to be alone?

13:02 - Where’s the hope for Christian singles?

21:10 - Is God’s design for marriage intended to be for one man and one woman?

Resources

• “Union” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

• “Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs” by Tim Keller

• When the Church was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community by Joseph Hellerman

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective

Midtown Podcast | Gender Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Timestamps:

4:40 - Does God have a gender?

10:05 - What does it look like for women to depend on men outside of marriage? 

17:35 - How do we address the wage gap?

22:36 - What does the Bible have to say about those who are intersex?

25:58 - If someone is on their death bed and accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior does it make a difference? What if they don’t believe their sexuality was a sin worth repenting of?

Resources

• “Ish and Ishah” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

• The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Favale

• When the Church was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community by Joseph Hellerman

• “Mountains, Molehills, and Which Ones to Die On” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective